I can still remember a pattern I saw over and over when I went through group therapy. Someone in the group would really be bugging me. I would speak up and say something like, “You know what your problem is? It’s that you always (fill in the issue).”...
We talked recently about fitting in, and the subconscious way we can hold ourselves back from personal growth to do that. It’s an insidious disease; one I was victim to for a long time. So what do you do about it? I’m afraid I made it sound...
Why are so many people sick, depressed and broke? Because on a subconscious level-they don't believe they are worthy. Their church, temple or synagogue programmed them that they were a worm by the time they were eight years old. Their parents got divorced...
The note was scrawled across the back of a flyer for the chaplain program. It was written by a parishioner, right after a Sunday service I had given at my own church. “I hadn’t realized until you pointed it out that it’s the rich people who...
We boarded a bus to take us from the jet to the terminal at Charles de Gaulle airport. It pulled up to the terminal and everyone got off and stopped in front of an automatic door. Which automatically stayed closed. People started to pile up. They started to...
How do you achieve self-mastery? Mastery comes from confidence. Confidence comes from experience. Experience comes from practice. Practice comes from commitment. And commitment comes from vision. Please read that last paragraph again. Then do the...
"To say 'I love you,' one must first know how to say the word 'I.'" –Ayn Rand, "The Fountainhead" You know that to love anyone else, you must first love yourself. But are you really aware of what that means on a practical...
Ok I admit it. I have a charmed life. Everything I touch turns to gold. Or platinum. Or Prada. I’m healthy, happy and successful. My worst nightmare day is a lot of people’s dreams come true. Now it wasn’t always this way . . . ...
