Inspirational Awakening

101. Worship and Football: Let's Take Another Look By Steve Singleton
     At a recent seminar we were asked to imagine if some football commentators were giving advice to churches about how to increase their attendance. They might suggest the following: Charge people $5 to $20 for admission. Replace padded pews with hard, backless benches. Take off the roof and make the people endure the elements—cold, wind, heat, rain, whatever. Make the service last more than 3 hours. Require that they scream and shout every fe…



102. Searching for the Meaning of Life! By Garry Munro
     Are you looking for the meaning of life?You work all day long, doing the right thing, caring for others, never breaking the law and generally being a pretty decent person.At the same time everything seems to go wrong, relationships just don’t go the way you had planned, the boss has a nasty streak, petrol prices go up, you have an accident, the landlord tells you he wants you to move for no real good reason, yes, it goes on & on!How do you turn…



103. Your World Your Way - Trusting Yourself In Business By Ann Kelly
     “It doesn't interest me who you are, or how you came to be here. I want to know if you will stand in the centre of the fire with me and not shrink back.”Oriah Mountain DreamerYou cannot have peace of mind or have a healthy business if you don’t trust yourself.Trusting yourself is having a true sense of who you are, clarity about what you want and the presence of mind to honour yourself.At times the pressure from being in business and just livin…



104. Does Introspection Assist in Self Progression? By Brian Maloney
     Why would we need to examine our lives? What benefit does it yield? Isn’t it just rehashing the past?All of these questions have merit and I will examine each in this article.Self progression has a strong tie to one’s willingness to be able to reflect on pertinent decisions. Moreover, this task, if done daily and immediately after an action or decision, can bear much fruit.Have you ever sat and stared out at something beautiful like a glassy la…



105. What is My Life Purpose? By Jo Ball
     Why am I here?If you haven’t already asked this question, I’m sure you will. Sooner or later most of us do.It’s not an easy question to answer. It’s broad in terms of possibility.Right now you might be a go-getter in the city; but you could just as easily be a procrastinator in a suburb. Same question, different perception.But whatever we’re searching for in life, be it a bigger home, a wonderful relationship, a new car, top job with a superb s…



106. A Child's Plight By Barbara Hidalgo
     In the streets of Bogotá, a child - named Simon* - wanders amidst the crowd. He is a lonely soul, lost in the multitude, forgotten by humanity, rejected by his society.He looks like any other child. His eyes are full of dreams and hope. Yet, at the tender age of 10, he knows of hunger and distress. He knows of violence, terror and cold, but most of all . . . he knows of loneliness.He is “nobody” to many, and only “someone” to himself. He has no…



107. How to Guarantee a GREAT Day Every Day! By Chris Widener
     I have a standing interview every Monday morning on a radio station in the southeast that I enjoy very much. You can imagine though that it can become routine. So to make it a little more fun, the host nowadays doesn't even tell me the topic before we go live on the air - that puts some excitement into it!This past week he asked me the following question cold at the beginning of the show: How can a person guarantee that they will have a great d…



108. Conscious Living By Diana Kennedy
     Earlier this year, following an intention to live more consciously, I deemed it the Year of Awakening. For me, I envision a lifetime of conscious living as I more fully awaken to the spiritual being that I truly am. As a part of my spiritual journey, I love to look up the meanings of things to gain an even deeper understanding. This is what Webster’s Dictionary had to say about the word conscious: in the “moment”, in waking awareness, mentally …



109. Resistance to Change By Roy Klienwachter
     All of us are resistant to change, whether it's in using a different tool, a technique a choice in partners, or lifestyle.The ones that resist the most have big labels like, orthodox, traditionalist, extremist. They are the defenders of the faith, of the known, and of the accepted.Some of the rest of us are followers, disciples, and supporters; we are the middleman, the ones that support the orthodox, the traditionalist and the extremist becaus…



110. Encouraging Blossoms of Achievement By Steve Brunkhorst
     The tiny dogwood sapling was only a twig when my mother planted it years ago. At age four, with a red wagon and bucket, I was happy to carry water to anything that grew, even to the full grown flowering apple trees in my grandfather's orchard.Thrilled with the promise of a flowering dogwood, I happily nourished the new sapling with both water and anticipation. Yet weeks later, to my naive impatience, there were no flowers.Greek philosopher Epic…



111. Turning Your Life Over To God and Trusting Him To Lead You Is Like . . . . . By Sandi Moses
     . . . . . riding a roller coaster for the very first time. You’ve heard things about roller coaster rides, but what you heard depended on who was doing the telling. From some people (usually kids, or chronological adults who remained kids at heart and kept their iron stomachs) you heard glorious stories about the thrilling climbs and descents, about the twists and turns and maybe even roll-overs. Their words and facial expressions and body …



112. The Great Challenge of Life By Jim Rohn
     Here's the great challenge of life - You can have more than you've got because you can become more than you are.I have found that income seldom will exceed your own personal development. Once in a while income takes a lucky jump, but unless you grow out to where it is it will go back to where you are. Somebody once said if you took all the money in the world and divided it among everyone equally, it would soon be back in the same pockets.Howeve…



113. Words Of Wisdom By Carlos Gonzalez
     Carlos’ Words of Wisdom1. Today is your day to exceed, so why live in yesterday.2. You’re way beyond your expectation: so why not go a little further?3. Walk with no fear through the darkness because soon you will see your horizon.4. It’s not how immense your problems are: it’s how immense they appear to be in your eyes.5. Endurance is the key to overcoming all barriers: they cave in after awhile.6. You are more than your present status qu…



114. Learn to Deal in Challenges By Jim Rohn
     (Excerpted from the 2004 Jim Rohn Weekend Leadership Event)To really help people in extraordinary ways, learn to deal in challenges. That is what sports is all about, challenges. That is what music is all about. The challenge to play so well, someone is inspired. The challenge to say it so well someone gets it. The challenge to be so gifted in language that someone sees it. Insight is unbelievable, only human beings can do this.The man closes h…



115. 20 Ways To Improve Your Life By Saleem Rana
     People often ask me how they can improve their lives.I always give them very specific advice on simple things they can do to create a radical shift in their experience of life.Here are 20 ways to improve your life. I challenge you to act on each one. Adopt one a day. You will be done with the list in 20 days, but in 3 months time, your life will have changed beyond recognition!1. Make a definite plan for success. Fix a time limit to this pl…



116. Surrender, Complete Healing, and the Garden of Eden By Julia Rogers Hamrick
     In 1982, I found myself in Eden. What I found out from my brief visit there is that the Garden of Eden is not a piece of real estate, but a state of being—the reality matrix in which human beings were designed to thrive. While such forays into extraordinary states is the goal of spiritual aspirants, I did not gain entrance to the Garden via a conscious desire to—nor through discipline, self-sacrifice, meditation or fasting—I reached it because …



117. Anam Chara - Healing the Heart Matters By Tony Cuckson
     Are you prepared to make your heart matter? Are you prepared to feel whole, happy and healed of any heartache?It does not surprise me our hearts are not whole (the root meaning of the word “heal”). We are taught throughout our unbalanced educational system to avoid our feeling centre. We avoid our true “knowing” in favour of the development of the rational mind.We make the rational mind the font of all knowledge and we bury any real emotiona…



118. Change is the Only Constant By Steve Singleton
     The physics professor with the unruly shock of white hair strolls up to the blackboard, picks up the chalk, and writes a big tilde, then below it an equally large equal sign—thus creating the symbol for "approximately equals."Turning to the amphitheater full of eager students and pointing to the board, he smiles, "Ladies and gentlemen, there is only one ting dot is certain in zee known universe. Und do you know vot it is?”He waits as he scans f…



119. Fail Your Way To The Top By John Assaraf
     Have you had a challenging day or week? Feel a little tired or discouraged with a current situation? Ready to throw in the towel and quit something?Don’t worry. It’s very normal to go through times of feeling that something in life stinks and all there is to see and feel is the current mess.Here is something neat to ponder during those times, though. When doing battle with discouraged feelings, take a look at this report and reflect on this man…



120. Dreams Do Come True By Usiere Uko
     Experience has made a lot of folks to consider dreams to be fantasies, unattainable, galaxies away from reality.Some folks believe dreams do come true.Dreams do actually come true, if you believe they do. It is a self-fulfilling prophecy.However, in this group are those that believe that their dreams will come true somehow, some day. Tomorrow takes on a magical quality. A day where all your troubles will be over, all your prayers answered. They…



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