Today, Father Jacob, one of the priests in our parish, gave an exceptional homily (sermon). Father Jacob is from India and I usually can’t understand his accent so I tend to check out a bit, but today was different. Today, the message was very clear. He talked...
My family calls it “stupid money.” Stupid money means we have so much money we could just do stupid things. Buying planes, boats and major remodeling on the house tend to fall on this list. According to Joseph Murphy, author of The Power of Your...
The vast majority of your mental life is subconscious; your subconscious processes are always trying to help preserve you from harm (Murphy 97). Your subconscious builds your body and maintains all of it’s vital functions; your subconscious is on the job 24/7...
There was a time I was haunted by demons in the night. It usually occurred somewhere between 1 and 4 am. These were not the kinds of demons that possessed Regan in The Exorcist nor were they the kind that populated the Paranormal Activity movies. Or maybe they were....
One of the things I’ve consistently noted over my life is that thoughts, whether they are good or bad, that I hold in my mind tend to generally come true. Even while I have taught more goal-setting workshops to more students than I can count, some of my own...
Growing up as an only child I was frequently told that talking to yourself was the sign of a lunatic. I kind of figured that internal talk was okay but actually talking out loud was a little nuts. Years later when I watched Bob Dole run for President I figured that if...