Category Archives: Intention
Grampa’s Business Rules
The Rules for Success Are Not New
You know, business doesn’t have to be a complex, Harvard-B-school kind of thing, all complicated and hard for ordinary mortals to understand. Much of it CAN be boiled down to some pretty simple stuff.
My paternal grandfather didn’t have a degree in business. In fact, he never got past the third or fourth grade, but that didn’t stop him from running several successful businesses and owning a significant part of the small north-Georgia town where he lived.
Taking Permanent Control of Your Moods
Your Mental State Is in Your Hands
I sure do hope you’re not typical … because the typical person has little control over how they’ll feel when they get up tomorrow.
Most days, they feel like a pinball. They crawl out of bed expecting that — again today — they’re going to be bounced from one obstacle to another, pushed this way and that, and rolled helplessly into an unending stream of unexpected experiences.
Getting Your Confidence Back
When Confidence Deserts You
How many different ways have you heard it said?
- “I can’t get my golf swing (free throw; tennis serve; pitching) back on track”
- “All these hours of practice are only making things worse”
- “I wonder why I ever thought I could be an athlete”
- “Others might succeed, but I guess I’ll never make it.”
Ever been there?
I have. And so have most people … if they’ll tell you the truth.
The Most Unpopular Secret of Personal Power
HELEN KELLER SAID, “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.”
So you hate the hard times you’ve passed through? Maybe you need to think again.
Easy times never stretch us, never enlarge our strengths, never give us a new, expanded grasp of our capabilities.
Your Affirmations vs. Your Results
Getting What You Expect out of Life?
If not, how do you behave when you’re disappointed?
My wife and I last year moved back to Japan after living six years in Thailand. Now, I’ve eaten and enjoyed Thai food for years, but being in the source-country of all that goodness did bring me a few surprises. Take milk for example.
A Better Neighborhood
Protection or Prevention?
Let’s talk about this idea of projecting a circle or a sphere of protection around ourselves to keep ourselves safe.
Most spiritual instructors teach that we absolutely need some kind of protection to keep us from being dangerously exposed and helpless. And in many ways they’re absolutely right. The everyday world we live in actually is teeming with hazards and negative influences, and under those circumstances, it only makes sense to wrap ourselves in a glowing aura of positivity.
Balking at Self-Change
Still Fighting the Changes You Really Want?
Most of us want things to be better in our lives. But then, when the opportunity for change comes, we may fight against the very things we say we want.
My friend Joanne had decided to have a large storage shed built in her back yard. She had even hired the contractor and paid him a sizeable deposit. The problem started when he asked where, exactly, did she want it located.
Determined to Be Unhappy
Happiness Is an Inside Job
Abraham Lincoln, a man well acquainted with the disappointments and sorrows of life, once said: “Folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
What he meant was, if you are truly determined to be happy, it’s well within your power to make it happen … regardless of what the people around you are doing to you, saying against you, thinking about you, or withholding from you. In other words, your mental state is your own doing.
As a corollary to that, your UNhappiness is also your own doing.
