Since the future is not written in stone, and you can’t know with 100% certainty what will happen, don’t ponder over the bad. Instead of dwelling on all that could go wrong, why not choose to think instead on what could go right? When you relax and just take a breath, it slows the negativity. […]

World War II had ended. After all the treaties had been signed, Winston Churchill was being interviewed by a large gathering of journalists from around the world. Of the many questions he was asked, one was why did the Allied powers win the war? Mr. Churchill discussed strategy, weapons, troops, and dozens of facets of […]

Do you have something currently going on that’s bothering you? Perhaps a problem that is causing worry or stress? I’d like you to shift perspectives for just a moment. Imagine that instead of that being your challenge—it’s someone else dealing with it. When you step back from your situation and look at it as an […]

The other night my family had another family over for dinner. After dinner we were playing a game called “Imagine If….” Very fun (check it out—it’s great for all ages.) The question was, “Imagine if…Sydney (my daughter) was a sweater, what kind of sweater would she be?” Varsity, Holiday, Cardigan, Cashmere, Ratty or Fuzzy were […]

This Scenario comes from Starwars—“The Empire Strikes Back”. The scene is when Luke Skywalker’s spaceship has sunk into the Dagoba Swamp. Yoda told him to mentally levitate it out of the swamp. Luke says: We’ll never get it out now! Yoda: So certain are you. Always with you, it cannot be done. Hear you nothing […]

A foreign student attending college in America, asked his grandfather from Eastern Europe to come and visit him. When grandfather arrived, the two spent the next few days seeing the town and touring the campus. On the day before his grandfather was to leave, the student asked his grandfather to meet him at the cafeteria […]