At the wide-eyed age of twenty, well before the Internet and armed with a only telephone book and a rotary phone, I purchased my first airline ticket to fly across the country to begin interviewing for jobs after college.
Never having bought a plane ticket, I wrote down everything I thought I could possibly say or [...]
Archive for the ‘happiness’ Category
26 May
Live by a Greater How!
7 May
The Frequency of Love
While waiting for a friend in the arrival area of the Tom Bradley International Terminal at LAX, I noticed a young Korean woman pulling a large cart of luggage. As she passed customs, she found an empty seat right across from me.
Just before she was about to sit, she pulled out from one of her [...]
19 Mar
See the Fundamental Similarities in All of Us
While stopped at a traffic light at a busy intersection in the city of Los Angeles on a late Saturday night, a young bearded man wearing a blue flannel shirt walked between the stopped cars holding a sign that read, “Please help me.” Walking up to the right side of my car, I rolled [...]
5 Mar
Your life may be fuller than you’ll ever know!
Every summer as a child, my father would take the whole family to my Aunt’s house in the country for an all-day bar-b-que. I remember those days like they were yesterday, not because of the wonderful times we had there, which we did, but rather because of the stomachaches I always got from eating way [...]
5 Nov
If I were Love…Imagine, Ask and Be
Searching for my keys as I was running late for a red-eye flight home to see my mother before her surgery, I did something I had never done before. Instead of panicking and asking, “Where are my keys?” over and over again until I turned my home upside down, I closed my eyes, took a [...]
5 Aug
Go for the Gold – “Love Yourself”
One of the most remarkable characteristics of gold is its ability to be forged into almost anything without breaking. Applying this same principle to The Golden Rule, “Do unto others as you would want done unto you,” I created a few new rules from the same vein.
The first two, and my favorite, are The Golden [...]
12 May
Perspective – Seeing Through the Eyes of a Child
While assisting a local preschool program for children in an economically challenged area, I had the rare opportunity to see through eyes of a child that had so little but saw so much.
It happened on their lunch break. That day, I was in charge of handing out small, brown-bag lunches to ensure they would each [...]
8 May
Awaken Your Inspiration!
Within all of us lies something quite magical, loving and uniquely our own, we need merely to awaken it!
About five years ago, I picked up a magazine featuring a series of articles on some of the world’s most creative minds. Just as I was finishing the last article, it occurred to me. All [...]
23 Apr
Run Barefoot on the Grass!
If I were to ask you to finish the statement, “The grass is always greener,” you would mostly likely answer “on the other side of the fence.” Am I right?
Now, how did I know that? Could it be that I, like you, have accepted this seemingly harmless idiom as true, made it [...]
19 Mar
You Were Whole All Along!
“You were whole all along
How could you be not?
You are nothing but love.
You just simply forgot.”*
At the moment you arrived into this world, you were whole. So much so, you had to expel fluid from your lungs just to take your first breath.
You were whole. Take a moment and let that [...]
10 Jan
Listen and You Shall Hear
While waiting in line at a local coffee shop, I overheard the young woman in front of me order “a medium coffee with room for cream.” The barista, not listening, quickly handed her a medium coffee filled to the rim.
Seeing the full cup, she replied, “Excuse me, but I asked for room for [...]
17 Dec
Assistapants Unite! – We First Technology
At the end of a workshop I recently attended, one of the instructors expressed her sincerest thanks to the assistants that were occasionally asked to participate in some of the lessons, by whimsically saying, “I would also like to thank our lovely assistapants for all their wonderful assistance and participation. Thank you.”
While I realize [...]
10 Oct
End Rejection Now!
“Life is a Selection Process, not a Rejection Process.” – Gruberism
When you woke up today, did you think to yourself, “I’m going to reject my way to what I want?” At the restaurant you last ate at, did you purposely reject everything on the menu before you chose what you wanted? Of course not, that’s [...]
20 Aug
Let Go to Grow
On one of the few days it rained in LA, I decided to take the Number 2 bus to meet a friend. By the time the bus came, I was completely soaked. The newspaper over my head and the palm tree above were no match for mother nature.
As I stepped into the [...]
31 Jul
Harness the Power of Questions!
I am often asked, “What do you think?” I often reply, “You’re asking the wrong person.”
Did you know you can begin to live the life you want by asking yourself questions?
Try this technique I call “A Book of Questions.”
A Book of Questions is a series of questions created by you [...]
23 Jul
It’s a Wonder-full Life!
It’s official, there are 7 New Wonders of the world. It’s all over the news.
So I wondered…Why only seven and what was wrong with the old ones? Did they lose their wonder? Who got to decide and why wasn’t I asked?
In all this wondering, I came to the conclusion that there are an [...]
13 Jul
Live a Catch-and-Release Life!
On a recent trip home to Ohio, I had the rare opportunity to go fishing with five of my nephews, ranging in age from 4 to 10, and my father, who shall remain ageless.
As we pulled up to the pond and parked the car, the boys got out and ran ahead with their gear. [...]
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