Christmas Traditions What were the Special things your family did at Christmas time?  When I was a child my family always went to a candlelight Midnight service.  I thought that it was so beautiful and special.  Later when our kids were young my darling wife had our family all sleeping  next to the Christmas tree on...

Spaghetti Thinking?? Do you suffer from Spaghetti thinking?  Most of us do.  Let me explain.  My daughter was about 5 when she got the flu.  It was a regular flu but it changed her life.  The reason it changed her life is that this flu hit right after dinner when she had just finished a big plate of spaghetti.  She spent...

Success What is the Key to success?  Let me ask you one question;  Have you ever Failed at anything?  I hope so.  “Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.”  Dale Carnegie Nothing like a good failure to teach us the lessons we need...

Good Marriage – Good Health Good Marriage Good Health but a Bad Marriage is Worse than staying Single.  Contemporary studies have shown that married people are less likely to get pneumonia, have surgery, develop cancer or have heart attacks.  A study of two dozen causes of death in the Netherlands found that in virtually every...

Past Isn’t Past The PAST is closer than you think.  Your brain is designed to remember all of your experiences and filter all of your decisions through those experiences.  This is how we learn.  It is good to remember that you will get burned if you touch a hot stove.  It is not so good if you filter all of your current...

Life’s Like a Poker Game I am not a big poker player but have you ever noticed that the cards you get are not dealt fairly? I don’t mean people cheat, but we get the cards we get, and others get better, or worse, cards;  Just like Life.  We all were “dealt” different talents and experiences.  We do however have...

Bad Programing? The Brain is still the most amazing computer on earth; roughly 100 trillion calculations per second.  Studies show that our brains record everything that ever happened to us.  I can’t retrieve them all but the brain still accesses those memories to make decisions.  This makes your past, good or bad,...