Nourishing Nibbles
#NourishingNibbles centers on getting back in touch with your oldest friend – YOU! This offering features a mix of intimate views from the lives of people who are thriving, expanding boundaries, and exploring the power of gratitude and appreciation.
Richard Bach, Running from Safety: An Adventure of the Spirit
"Never had I understood that I command, with absolute authority, the ship of my life! I decide its mission and rules and discipline, at my word waits every tool and sail, every cannon, the strength of every soul on board. I’m master of a team of passionate skills to...
A Dad Strikes Out
Contributed by Michael Levin, BusinessGhost I took my twin ten-year-old sons to a couple of Angels games this week, and I was shocked-shocked!-to discover just how little they knew about baseball. I don't mean to criticize my sons. They know an awful lot about things...
Stephen R. Covey
“Independent will is our capacity to act. It gives us the power to transcend our paradigms, to swim upstream, to rewrite our scripts, to act based on principle rather than reacting based on emotion or circumstance.”
Friday’s Culture Casserole: Leap Into Life
Contributed by Mike Di Paola mdipaola@nyc.rr.comtweeting from @M_DiPaola Source: U.S. Air Force One surprising thing about leaping out of an airplane in a tandem jump: there’s no last-second opportunity to chicken out. I would not have objected to a moment to...
Katharine Hepburn
"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get only what you are expecting to give which is everything. What you will receive in return varies. But it really has no connection with what you give. You give because you love and cannot help giving."
Thursday’s Nourishing Nibbles: The Friend We Want To Be – Evaluating Our Relationships
Source: DailyOm by Madisyn Taylor Be the friend to others that you wish them to be to you. There comes a time in all our lives when we may need to evaluate our relationships, making sure that they are having a positive effect on us, rather than dragging us...
Unknown
"We might feel a little bit robbed when our expectations aren’t met. But, sometimes, our expectations sell us short. Sometimes, the expected simply pales in comparison to the unexpected."
Wednesday’s Spicy Morsels: Reaching Orgasm
Contributed by Cecelia R. A lot of women have difficulty achieving orgasm from intercourse alone and this is not necessarily related to any medical problems. We tend to think something must be wrong with us, but there are some reasons you may not have considered. Here...
Native American Proverb
"An elder Cherokee Native American was teaching his grandchildren about life. He said to them, 'A fight is going on inside me. It is a terrible fight, and it is between two wolves. One wolf represents fear, anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity,...
Tuesday’s Wellness Tonic: Water Does Your Body Good
Contributed to Ralph J. The rule of thumb when it comes to water consumption is that we should all drink about 64 ounces of water a day. However, the right amount can vary. For example, if you are pregnant or if it’s hot and humid, you will need to drink more. Here...
Stephen R. Covey
“Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.”
Monday’s Financial Feast: Budget Basics in 1–2–3
Contributed by Tanya Schiavone Budget is such a nasty word. It conjures up all sorts of negative thoughts and feelings of restriction, deprivation and inadequacy. But why do we consider looking at how we use our money as negative? In truth, taking control of our...
Frederick Douglass
"I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence."
Scenterprises: The Expression of A Lifelong Romance
Contributed by Sue Phillips - Scenterprises, Ltd. I am a South African born singer/actress who moved to the States in 1978 years ago and, from an early age I had a passionate love affair with scents. Today, when I encounter a strange yet familiar fragrance I am...
Louie Zamperini
"That’s the hardest thing in life … to forgive. Hate is self-destructive. If you hate someone, you’re not hurting the person you hate you’re hurting yourself. That’s a healing, actually that’s a real healing … forgiveness!"
Carl R. Rogers
"One of the most satisfying experiences I know is fully to appreciate an individual in the same way I appreciate a sunset. When I look at a sunset...I don't find myself saying, 'Soften the orange a little more on the right hand corner, and put a bit more purple along...
Paulo Coehlo
"We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path."
Friday’s Culture Casserole: Wishcraft: How To Get What You Really Want
Contributed by Thomas D. We all have dreams of what we want to be when we grow up. Even at the age of 55 we can still dream of another life for ourselves. But, alongside that part of ourselves that dreams is another part—the one that tells us we cannot have this...
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