Inspirational Awakening

461. Get Out Of Your Own Way By Julie Plenty
     One of the biggest obstacles to our self growth and personal development is.................ourselves!No, make that THE biggest obstacle.When we say that we want to make changes, but develop resistance and fear and in doing so an internal battle follows.It's natural to feel scared and apprehensive when venturing into the unknown, but ultimately living within your comfort zone is all very safe, but not very life enhancing.Taking risks can bring …



462. The Most Important Investment You Can Make For Your Old Age - And No, It's Not Money! By Royane Real
     When I was twenty-two, I was befriended by a woman named Doris who was thirty years older than I was. Although Doris was then a fifty-two year old woman, she did not feel it was inappropriate to befriend me. She did not operate with the social belief that she should choose her friends only from people her own age. We became very close friends and remained so until her death at the age of eight-two.When Doris turned seventy-five, she was alre…



463. Tomorrow May be Too Late By Audrina J. Bunton
     A high school senior, looking forward to going to college, inspiring to become a doctor kisses her parents and dashes out the door to go to school, smiling, and waving goodbye -- never realizing that before day's end, she would meet the fate of a deadly bullet.A husband and wife have a lover's quarrel, laying back to back in bed -- he, thinking about apologizing, she, thinking about talking tomorrow. They fall asleep, never realizing that befor…



464. Do We Really Want to Be There Yet By Roy Klienwachter
     The beauty in creation is in the process, in every single step along the way.A lot of attention is given a thing that is under construction or in the building stages. The activity around the construction of a new high-rise, an ocean liner or dam is immense. Volumes of energy and thought are concentrated on the process of building something physical from only a thought.A picture of the finished project is in the minds of the workers and it is in…



465. Nine Lives By Wayne Mitchell
     Direct Answers - Column for the week of September 2, 2002My husband of four years has been arrested for the fourth time for hurting me. This time he strangled me. I always go back with him. He is in jail now with no money to post for his own bail.I thought I loved him, but lately I can't stand his behind. He is unemployed and so possessive it's hard for me to breathe sometimes. He follows me from room to room and, if I'm on the phone, mutes the…



466. Maintaining Honesty and Integrity By Jim Rohn
     (Excerpted From Cultivating An Unshakable Character)For a leader, honesty and integrity are absolutely essential to survival. A lot of business people don't realize how closely they're being watched by their subordinates. Remember when you were a kid in grammar school, how you used to sit there staring at your teacher all day? By the end of the school year, you could do a perfect imitation of all your teacher's mannerisms. You were aware of the…



467. Your Turn On The Holodeck By Roy Klienwachter
     Good morning Roy, good morning Joseth.Roy… You have in your world’s history a wonderful example of what life is all about in the physical world and what it is that you are doing here.Gene Rodenberry lived on your planet in the last century and was a soul with a higher awareness of how life works. He was an accomplished film producer and dealt with complicated human issues that your world was facing in his time. His Star Trek series was known wo…



468. Switch to a Better Channel! By Keith Varnum
     Peril, catastrophe and disaster.These are our friends, allies and mentors.Appearing as enemies on the surface, these seeming threats are our most helpful teachers on our Earth adventure. These apparent foes repeatedly demonstrate how we humans have awesome power over our fate and circumstances in life.When faced with an expected outcome we don't like, we have an option. We can open to an alternative scenario, another framework, a different set …



469. In Tall Grass By Wayne Mitchell
     My best friend, Ryan, told me last night he got his girlfriend, Rebecca, pregnant. He is 22 and she is 20. He told me he was probably going to marry her "because that is what I should do." Let me give you a little background.Ryan knew this girl back in high school and met up with her again four months ago. She had just gotten out of a year-long relationship a week before. Despite that fact, they promptly started sleeping together. Within …



470. Unintended Consequences By Wayne Mitchell
     Direct Answers - Column for the week of May 26, 2003My sister is celebrating her tenth anniversary this summer, and I'm concerned she is letting her relationship go. Her husband refuses to acknowledge any problems and doesn't believe in counseling.At the time my sister married, she was a successful businesswoman with a promising career. She worked through the birth of her second child, putting her husband through school, buying his first dent…



471. Look Out Any Window By Drew Vics
     Over my extended Thanksgiving weekend I took some time to look through my telescope at the moon. I saw the full moon rising in the east- northeast and thought it would be a good night for a look, so I set up my Meade reflecting telescope in the kitchen and aimed it toward the window.The moon had risen higher and the sky was darkening. The darker it became the more detail I was able to see.There I was, a Saturday night, standing in my kitche…



472. Some More Random Musings and Observations on Life By Jeff Herring
     Constant affirmation without accountability is a sure-fire way to cripple a child. In other words, belief in yourself without responsibility leads to a sense of entitlement.Raise your hand if you've ever been rejected for anything, anytime, anywhere. We all have. How would you like to have a nice little four-letter word for the next time you're rejected? It's: NEXT. Next sale, next job, next date, next whatever.Beware of people who use their ow…



473. Stay Inspired By Jay Monteer
     Two years ago I was in a wheelchair and told I would be paralyzed for life. Today I can jog on a treadmill. How did this happen?Well, I can’t tell you how it happened exactly. My recovery truly was a miracle. But what I can tell you is how important it was for me to stay focused and inspired throughout my recovery.People tell me my story has inspired them. Let me tell you how to find this inspiration within your own lives.(1) Believe anything i…



474. What is Important in Life? By David Snape
     When we are healthy, we seldom think about what it feels like to be sick. But when we are really and truly sick, all we can think about is being healthy again.No matter how much wealth we manage to accumulate in this world, it is virtually useless without good health. This is tied closely to the knowledge of our own mortality. Deep down, we all know that we only have a handful of decades on Earth and then it's over.In light of that, what becom…



475. Random Musings on Life By Jeff Herring
     Couples who get married thinking that marriage is a 50/50 proposition have a lot to learn about marriage AND math.Folks who brag about being brutally honest seem to enjoy the brutality more than the honesty.I don’t trust parenting experts who hold up their own family, not just as an example of their own at home laboratory, but as the perfect ideal.No matter how good things get, I can always find a way to mess it up.Two quick and fairly accurate…



476. Escape into Reality and Find Love By Steve Brunkhorst
     The early months of this year brought major challenges, as well as blessings, for many folks. They certainly brought many unique challenges and blessings for me.We live through series of highs and lows. We need the good times, but with them come challenges that teach and build faith.People talk about escaping from reality when times get tough, but how about turning that around? Why not "escape into reality" instead? By escaping into reality, we…



477. Top Ten Ways to Retire Retirement By Marika Stone
     1. Retire the word "retirement" from your vocabulary. Look it up: it means to "withdraw" or "retreat." Words can shape reality, and it's time for this one to go. Doesn't "renaissance" or "graduation" better describe your post-career life?2. Realize that retirement is a relatively new concept in human evolution. A few generations ago, before social security and full-time leisure became culturally embedded as the "norm," elders remained prod…



478. A New Strategy By Wayne Mitchell
     Direct Answers - Column for the week of November 3, 2003My mother-in-law drives me crazy! She is an antisocial, critical, know-it-all who can't find anything decent to say about anyone but herself. Every time she comes to visit it puts such a damper on my relationship with my wife, it takes us days to recover.We have never really gotten along, but lately it has gotten much worse. She left yesterday after a week's visit, and my wife and I did…



479. Why You Sometimes Act Wrong By Abraham Thomas
     Everybody did it. Acted impulsively and then regretted it later. While we can be grateful that such events were not all that frequent, life was all about making such choices. From the time we woke up, till we dropped off to sleep, we repeatedly chose to act on a single option out of thousands. Each choice led to an action. Even for the simplest action, when you reached out to shut off the morning alarm, there was massive complexity underneat…



480. A Brick Wall By Wayne Mitchell
     Direct Answers - Column for the week of August 18, 2003Two years ago I divorced, and there is still a lot of hostility.My former husband has been served with contempt papers for not paying child support. He says I am sending him to the poorhouse, but I have no recourse but to contact the court when the payments stop. He continues to blame me, even though two judges have explained it is the court which determines when contempt charges are file…



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