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The ONE Next Step - - Jeanna Gabellini
If you’d like to get a big juicy project moving forward and have a great time doing it, today is your lucky day. Your first step is to bring to mind that project that sits incomplete but nagging the corners of your mind daily. Or maybe it’s the project you know you should begin but... Submitted 1 day 9 hours ago.

Get Out of Your Box to Attract Ideal Customers - - Jeanna Gabellini
If you’re a business growth junkie, you’ve heard a million times that you have to know your target market . Most companies can spit out a profile of their ideal customer but nothing about it feels personal. General knowledge of your market isn’t enough. You’ve got to... Submitted 16 days 7 hours ago.

The One Percent Rule That Can Make or Break Your Entire Business Model - - Jeanna Gabellini
Business owners have three modes they gravitate toward: A. Creative Maniac B. Implementing the cool new strategy C. Overwhelm (which can manifest as stress, denial, checking out, boredom) Sure, there are some other modes, but these are where you’ll tend to play the most. No mode is... Submitted 9 days 6 hours ago.

Flaming Hot, Flaming Out or Flaming Over the Long Term - Christofer French
We have all been bemused by those initial feelings, those in between states, and the longer term inner bewildering biochemical stages. And “Lust” has beguiled us all in various ways at various times in our lives. Using ourselves as neuroscientific experiments, we can all look back at... Submitted 122 days 13 hours ago.

Accessing the Energy of Angels - Seeing Yourself in the Miraculous Drama - Christofer French
Sagittarius has just begun. To help us understand what is in store for us this month let us consider how Sagittarius energy manifests itself in the personality traits of someone born under its influence. When people begin to contemplate how energies from above influence we little stars on this... Submitted 176 days ago.

Size Doesn’t Matter - Carol Hess
My birthday was perfect except for one thing. The lobster roll sucked. Now that may not seem like a big deal to you, but I can tell you it was a very big deal to me. Here’s why. I had been thinking about that lobster roll all week. Every time I thought about how old I was turning, I... Submitted 1 year 66 days ago.

The Wrong Bus Syndrome - Wrong Driver, Wrong Direction, Wrong Mindset - Yangki Christine Akiteng
The "Wrong Bus Syndrome" is commonly associated with Wangari Maathai Wangari, 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Winner. She used this analogy to draw attention to how too often we head in the wrong direction or travel on the wrong path, allow others (often people we perceive to have authority on a subject)... Submitted 2 years 298 days ago.

Why I Write - Ken McCreless
Greetings Fellow Travelers... To the dismay of just about every teacher that instructed me from elementary school through college, I have an insatiable need to know why. To me, why a person does something is as important, and sometimes more important, than what they are doing. So the quest began.... Submitted 4 years 25 days ago.

Fast Action - Strike While the Iron is Hot - Seize the Day - Christofer French
In an uncertain world, in which people observe the calamities of inaction, we have developed over the centuries common universal advisories: We will discuss these aphorisms and then make a dual observation that we should act more quickly and profoundly, and at the same time we should not be... Submitted 129 days 20 hours ago.

A Correction, A Reversal of Thought, an Apology, and a New Path - - Ken McCreless
Greetings Fellow Travelers … The Correction ... No, I don't think I'm always right- never have. I'm just not real big on being wrong! Still, there are many times—on a daily basis, actually-- when I find myself being roughed up by God's sandpaper working to polish me for His... Submitted 325 days 1 hour ago.

The Genie Gains his Genes, and then he Dons his Jeans! - Christofer French
The Genie Gains his Genes, and then he Dons His Jeans Deep in a strangely vast cave in the northern Canadian Rockies, three Mountaineers are returning with a local guide, a Canadian with Native American blood. One year ago, they had happened into the Cave and surprised a sleeping Creature... Submitted 330 days 22 hours ago.

Mentor and Mentee: Four Simple Analogies of a Mentoring Relationship - Mogama
The dictionary defines the noun "mentor" as "a wise and trusted counselor or teacher." The verb "mentor" means "to serve as a trusted counselor or teacher to (another person)." Due to the popularity of mentoring a relatively new word, "mentee", has entered the English lexicon. (My word... Submitted 339 days ago.

God is Talking to Us - - Marijo Phelps
Nope, this isn’t some science fiction fantasy piece. It is about hearing the voice of God, the very God who created the universe and set those stars in place. It still boggles my mind that He would desire a relationship with us as individuals, but He really does. He has expressed this in... Submitted 1 year 7 days ago.

The Days of Watching the Radio - - Donovan Baldwin
I was talking to a young friend of mine the other day. We had been talking about things from the past, and I'm afraid I began to do the "old guy" thing and tell him about a string of things from way before his time. I talked about the days before cell phones and HDTV. Heck, the days before TV... Submitted 1 year 198 days ago.

Thoughts on The Intrinsic Value of Precious Things - - Donovan Baldwin
I heard a discussion the other day about the value of gold, and it worked its way around to the intrinsic value of things in general. As usual, my mind took some of the info, played with it a while, and the following thoughts emerged. Food has one form of value because it can be "traded" to... Submitted 1 year 208 days ago.

Is It Just Me, or Are We Both Nuts? - - Donovan Baldwin
So, it was another Sunday, and, as usual, I am driving my mother to Mass. A lovely Fall day in Stone Mountain, driving through a pretty residential area. Lots of trees, lots of leaves, and lots of squirrels. A few yards ahead of the car, a squirrel started across the road from the right... Submitted 1 year 219 days ago.

Too Old to Dream New Dreams? - - Donovan Baldwin
I work puzzles. I buy puzzle books, most commonly the Dell Crossword Special, and work my way through them. I work crosswords, Sudoku, logic puzzles, anacrostics, and, when I'm almost through with the book and keep forgetting to buy a new one, I work some puzzles called "figgerits". These are... Submitted 1 year 223 days ago.

Free, An Endless Journey Just For The Asking: Not A Scam, But Filled With Surprises - Fran Larson
I recently took a trip that was so delightful. It was filled with new experiences, new scenery and different weather patterns that I was not accustomed to. Perhaps it was the newness and uniqueness that caused me to think of it as a "journey," instead of a trip. (A journey has an element of the... Submitted 1 year 229 days ago.

It's All About The Journey - Lynnette Vetsch
" The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination. " Don Williams Jr. One thing that I hold very close to me is that life is full of lessons. Yes, I know, it isn't anything new and utterly amazing, but when... Submitted 2 years 25 days ago.

Lord, Make Me a Trout! - Ken McCreless
Greetings Fellow Travelers ... Question: Are you a jellyfish or a trout? Picture if you will the cabbage head jellyfish. It's a creature that wants to go places. This gelatinous and see-through animal thrashes itself in motions that give the appearance of determination and direction. ... Submitted 2 years 114 days ago.

How a Self-Healed Psychiatric Patient Optimized His Human Experience to the Benefit of Others - Jeff Brown
OK, I was never in therapy. Well, okay, kind of. But she was a psychologist, and I only saw her three times. What's interesting is that those three short visits, some twenty-two years ago, set me on a path of healing and recovery that has been my life's calling that which has culminated in... Submitted 2 years 172 days ago.

Promises: Made and Kept but No One Said It Would be Easy - Avis Ward
"Live in My sunshine and My Love. Know your lives are full of glad promise." -GOD There are times when I want to feel sorry for myself. I know when that happens it's because I'm filled to the brim and overflowing with "Avis" and not God, the Word made flesh. I sit and dine at the table... Submitted 2 years 221 days ago.

The Golden Rule is for Children - - James Bond
Treat others how you would like to be treated. Sounds simple enough doesn't it, and without serious inspection it would even seem like common sense. When applied to children in grade school it works out nicely, they learn to share and not hit utilizing this principle. However as we mature it is... Submitted 2 years 320 days ago.

Take Your Hands Off the Wheel, Stupid - God Does Not Need Your Help! - - Yangki Christine Akiteng
"But Mma, you don't understand. I've done everything I can and nothing works. I am just so frustrated". "Have you done this?" "Yes". "What about that?" "Yes. I am telling you I've done everything. I've read books. I've talked to people who have done it successfully. I've tried their ideas. I've... Submitted 3 years 46 days ago.

An Image In Mind - Sara O'Rourke
It's not every day I want to learn what colour lipgloss suits my skintone, who was caught wearing a tracksuit in the postoffice, how to lose 10lbs in a week. Sometimes, just every now and then, I'd like to learn something with a little more substance. As you walk by the reams of glossy... Submitted 3 years 161 days ago.