“Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.” ~Mark Twain Forgiving can be hard. Our trust may have been broken, hearts crushed, feelings hurt, ruined opportunities, and more. But if we don’t forgive a partner, friend, family member, colleague or whoever has wronged us, we may be living […]
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Do You Have A Compelling Vision?
“Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life, because you become what you believe.” ~Oprah Winfrey The moment we commit to a worthy goal like losing 10 lbs., writing a book, switching careers, finding a partner, we may become anxious and overwhelmed at the thought of what it takes to achieve this goal. We […]
Faith, Hope and Love in Times of Tragedy
On Friday, December 14th, unspeakable violence took place at an Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. A 20 year-old gunman killed twenty children and six women. This horrendous tragedy has left the families and friends of the victims, the community, the state, and the world broken-hearted beyond words. How can we cope with this magnitude of […]
4 Lessons in Courage from Skydiver Felix Baumgartner
“True courage is being afraid and going ahead and doing your job anyhow.” ~General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, Commander, Operation Desert Storm Standing on the ledge of a pressurized 6-foot diameter capsule suspended by a 55-story ultra-thin helium balloon with only a space suit on, Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner is about to freefall 128,100 feet or […]
10 Great Life Lessons from Albert Einstein
A brilliant man who was passionately curious about the mysteries of science, Albert Einstein changed the world as the most influential physicist of the 20th century. He developed the general theory of relativity (e = mc2), now considered the cornerstone of modern physics. Einstein received the Nobel Prize in Physics “for his services to theoretical […]