What’s Wrong With Being Afraid?

Wealth Beyond Reason - Bob Doyle\'s course on The Law of Attraction

The End of Fear? Is there anything good about fear?

Look at new age, spiritual, and self-improvement blogs, books, CDs, and seminars. Fear is bad for your health, your relationships, your personal growth, and your spiritual development.

Fear tells us to avoid and hide from every difficulty in our lives. [...]

Why I Want to Be a Hero


The Fantasy of the Hero

For as long as I can remember I’ve wanted to be a hero. I’ve loved myths, legends, science fiction, and comic books my whole life.

Sounds childish, right? It’s easy to psychoanalyze a love of heroes, and dismiss it as a childish or neurotic [...]

Why We Need Blogs that Make Us Think and Feel


Thinking Bloggers Award

Ejcooksey was kind enough to send a thinking bloggers award in my direction, and I’m proud to accept it.

The award is meant to publicize blogs that help us think in new directions. These blogs introduce us to new ways to look at some aspect of our personal or professional lives.

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Waiting for Perfection


Waiting

It seems like I’m always waiting.

Waiting for tomorrow, next week, next year. Waiting for the perfect moment to do what my heart aches to do. Waiting to be the person that I want to be. Waiting to be given the power, to find the power, or to acquire the means to act [...]

War, Part 3: At War with Others


Mirrors To me, the world is a magical place, full of wonder. It’s not a belief, exactly. It’s a feeling.

Certain objects seem more wondrous than others, and show up frequently in stories about magical worlds.

Take mirrors, for example. It’s strange to see yourself from the outside in. One of the reasons that [...]

War, Part 2: The Story of You and the Lies You Tell


The Meaning of Stories and Lies In Part 1, At War With Myself, we heard that a person pretends to be of one mind and one heart, while the truth is that each of us is full of contradictions. We’re full of warring personalities and beliefs.

Where did these contradictory, and often limiting beliefs [...]

Imagination: Doorway, Fantasy, or Future?


What do you think of when someone says the word “imagination”?

Creativity If you’re an artist, writer, sculptor, musician, photographer you might think of imagination as a place. A place deep inside where you search for something new. Somehow yours, and yet not yours.

In Greek Mythology, the sources of inspiration were creatures called Muses. [...]