Category Archives: attitude

Today’s Economy DEMANDS A Critical Skill: Optimism

Global warming. Water shortages. Terrorism. Failing health care system. Wars around the globe. Gas prices. Severe economic downturn. Look at the headlines and it’s enough to make you stay in bed.
But wait! There is hope.

Everything Is Possible - How Humans Can Excel (Video)

Do you sometimes watch people in different fields - musicians, runners, dancers, gymnasts, singers, jumpers… basically, anything - and marvel how good they are at their art?
I often do, and this video clip gives us some snippets of what human beings are capable of.

The Boy Who Cannot Count Apples (Story)

I just read this story today. Very simple, yet with a profound meaning behind it.
I’m telling a shortened version of it, in my own words.

Getting Back Up After a Fall (Video)

Watch this extremely inspiring video clip about a young man who refused to let the seemingly poor hand dealt to him by Life deter him or hold him back, and instead turn it into a beautiful and important ministry.
Warning: This is a tear jerker!

Liberate Yourself From Self-Limiting Thoughts and Feelings

Self-limiting and self-defeating thoughts and feelings hold us back from fulfilling our true potential and achieving the happiness which we crave and deserve. But how do we overcome them?
Here is a good article by Guy Finley, giving us a suggestion on how to stop allowing discouragement and discouraging feelings from being a source of self-limitation [...]

The Retiring Carpenter (Story)

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An elderly carpenter was ready to retire. He told his employer-contractor of his plans to leave the house-building business and live a more leisurely life with his wife enjoying his extended family. He would miss the paycheck, but he needed to retire. They could get by.
The contractor was sorry to see his good worker [...]