Inspirational Awakening

1. Journals You Can Keep By Doreene Clement
   Besides your daily feelings, thoughts, and experiences journal, there are many ideas for journals or diaries that you can keep, some are suggested below. Buy a blank book or a notebook with a particular journal topic in mind and keep this book for only that topic. You may decide to keep several kinds of journals at the same time, so remember that you do not have to journal every day.1. Family Journal - Journal about yourself and your family, …



2. Need a Lift? Try a Balloon! By Charles Kassotis
   Have you given much thought to how a balloon can lighten or brighten your day? Balloons are so jolly that anyone will smile after taking a glance at some of the outrageous, tender, or humorous designs on the market today. Whether you’re decorating for a baby shower, celebrating a preteen’s birthday, or surprising your spouse for a 25th anniversary celebration, balloons add an element of innocent pleasure shaped in odd forms and quickened with b…



3. Quest for Freedom--A Story Of Pure Courage By Saleem Rana
   The Nazis stormed into the house of Stanislavsky Lech, who was Jewish, herded the entire family out at gunpoint, packed them into an overcrowded train, filled with the stench of death and despair, and sent them to Krakow.Then, before his eyes, Lech saw his entire family shot. Somehow, he managed to live from one day to the next, in a numb, oblivious, zombie-like state. Impatiently, he awaited his own death. But one day, he realized, that his…



4. I Wonder Where the Wonder Went By Kevin Eikenberry
   I was a fifth grader the first time I flew on a commercial flight. I remember being amazed that I could get all the soft drinks I wanted for free. I remember the wonder of looking out at the clouds and the topography far below. I remember watching us land. The entire thing was a great adventure and I was full of wonder.In college, as I flew once in awhile, I always got a window seat - I wanted to be able to watch the ground pass below me. The w…



5. How to Conquer Fears and Worries By Dayo Olomu
   "More than any other time in history, mankind face a crossroad. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, and the other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly." - Woody Allen (Side Effect)Is it possible to live a fear-free and worry-free life with what is happening around us? That is the one million-dollar question I have often found people asking me. We all face so much fear in life, both the poor and …



6. Imagine How Different The World Would Look Just By Knowing What Type of Learner You Are By Catherine Franz
   Are you a listener or a writer type of learner?President John Kennedy was a reader and writer. President Lyndon Johnson was a listener. President Johnson didn't do well as he could in the White House because he thought he had to follow Kennedy’s way of learning and absorb everything through writing. As well written as those reports were, he couldn't comprehend them as well as Kennedy. It wasn't until many years after the White House that Jo…



7. Are You Tired of Being Stuck? By Joanne Victoria
   All you want is a little more.More money, more love, more fun, more friends.So what happens when we don’t get what we want, when the flow slows down or even stops?You get mad, sad and unhappy.You blame the president, the country, the war, your mother, father, husband, wife, child, co-worker, Anyone we can think of, even the driver of that car who passed you on the freeway.You find yourself stuck.Stuck in the anger, stuck in the resentment, s…



8. Order and Law By Vivian Gordon
   When disorder comes into our lives, we obviously aren't paying any attention to God's laws for us. You may think the 10 Commandments are not for today, but think again. When God gave these commandments to Moses He never intended that they would go out of style. God is the same today, yesterday and tomorrow. Once God says something, it becomes law.When Christ came on the scene, He did away with the old way of doing things. He became the n…



9. How a Disabled Man Started Building a Successful Business Online By Michael Peters
   It was back in 1994 that I was a strong 17 year old boy who had the world in the palm of my hands!In other words...I was the most successful running-back on any high school football team in my home countyI was a center-fielder for one of the Baltimore Orioles' semi-pro baseball teamsI played baseball for the Babe Ruth LeagueI ran trackI wrestledI also played basketball for my high schoolIt was in the middle of June in 1994 that I had been summo…



10. Create Your Own Self Esteem - Part 1 By Nick Arrizza, M.D.
    Self-esteem is something that we all wish we had more of. Some of us go through our entire life feeling "self-esteem deficient". The constraints placed on us by low self esteem can feel so impenetrable that we find ourselves shrinking back from our dreams and accepting something less than desirable. This often results in feelings of emptiness, sadness, deprivation and a life not fully lived.Although a great deal has been written about the probl…



11. Are You Fully Present, In Every Moment? By Penny Phang
    In various situations this month I found myself explaining the important state of "being in the moment." This means choosing to be completely conscious of every breathing second, being mindfully aware of what is going on right here and now, in your experience—and this includes any thinking you do about the past or future. Being fully aware of this moment, right here, may remind you that your experiences do not always have this quality…



12. No Problem! By Nisandeh Neta
    Thanks to Walt Disney's "The Lion King", children the world over know the Swahili expression "Hakuna Matata". It means "No Problem" and we grown-ups should use it more often.I used to come home and my wife would say, "We have a crisis!" I would immediately think that our daughter was in a hospital, the car broke down, or her mother was coming to stay with us. But it was usually just that the washing machine was broken, or she couldn't get a bab…



13. Inspirations: Even More Things I've Noticed Along the Way So Far By Jeff Herring
    Some people live in and talk about the past so much it’s as if they are “planning for the past.”The “I’m an adult victim/survivor of (fill in the blank)” culture does a great disservice to the possibility of change. There comes a time when you have to give up the identity of victim/survivor and decide who you will be now and in the future.Here are 5 emotional states that can change your life: disgust, commitment, desire, decision and resolve.…



14. Super Mom, Wonder Woman, Energizer Mommy or Just Mom By Michaele McMillan
    Have you ever sat down to watch the evening news and flashes a News Report about a woman that died with 100 cats, house full of trash and stacks of newspapers to fill 100 dump trucks? In my single days, I use to live by a lady like this. The entire neighborhood would talk about her but none of us ever went over there to see if she needed anything or if I could help her clean her house. We just talked about how could she let her house go that wa…



15. Inspiring Values of Unforgettable Teachers By Steve Brunkhorst
    All of us recall special teachers — people who not only taught us but inspired us in ways that changed our lives. William Arthur Ward once said, "The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires." Here are five life-changing values inspired by unforgettable teachers.The Teachers I Will Always Remember...... Taught the Value of Learning and KnowledgeThey were enthusiastic about …



16. Quitting Before It Even Starts By Sukhbir Singh
    Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touch down. --Ross PerotThere is one tendency that can be regarded as the most unfortunate tendency in the world: That is to quit, when the starting gets tough. I know the saying is: “When the going gets tough, the tough get going!” However, what happens with the majority who ac…



17. On Track By Wayne Mitchell
    Direct Answers - Column for the week of January 27, 2003I have been involved with a married man for a little while. I am married myself, but it was an arranged marriage and I am very unhappy. I stay with my husband because of culture and my small children.Because I was miserable I was elated to fall in love with a guy I met. I never asked him for anything. I wanted to be able to have a friend in him. I know he will never leave his wife and…



18. Once in a Lifetime By Chris Widener
    A subscriber recently wrote to me and asked me to consider this common phrase – Once in a lifetime.“Isn’t every moment of our lives, once in a lifetime?” he asked. Touché! Indeed, he is correct. Every moment of our lives is the last chance we get to live that moment.What happens though is that we figure we will be able to live another moment in the same way we are passing on right now. Time becomes a commodity that we trade… and the riskiest c…



19. The Seasons Of Life, Part 4 of 5 By Jim Rohn
    This week is Part Four of our five part series on The Season's of Life.In Part One of the series we discussed:a) That life is about constant, predictable patterns of change.b) For all of us, the only constant factor is our feelings and attitudes toward life.c) We as human beings have the power of attitude and that attitude determines choice, and choice determines results.In Part Two of our series we discussed:a) Life and business are like t…



20. Balance: A Mystic Ideal By Edwin Spina
    Last week, a friend of mine gave me a best-selling business book that forecast the rise of the right brain thinker and the demise of the left-brain thinker. Scientists have identified the right brain as the emotional, empathic, artistic side and the left-brain as the side of logic, intellect and language. The essence of the author's argument is that we are moving from the age of information, which was dominated by computer programmers, MBAs and…



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