The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react. — George Bernard Shaw
Carry this thought with you all day today and do your best to not let anger, fear, jealousy or anxiety control your actions or cause…
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Dogging Self-Control
In a recent issue of Psychological Science, researchers find that man’s best friend reacts just like we do when posed with a challenge of self-control:…
What Works: Talking with God
Monica Rozenfeld just posted in her blog here in Busted Halo about finding a new way to pray conversationally with God, thanks to the an idea from the book Eat, Pray, Love. It reminded me of an experience I had years ago. I had always been fine with the “God is everything” and “There is that of God in each of us” kinds of conceptions of God, but I was finding it hard to turn my will and my life over to a concept or The Universe; and I was being told that it would really help if I could learn to relate to God in a more personal way. I’d always struggled with the idea of a God personal to me. I’d always rejected anthropomorphizations as childish.
What Works: HALT — Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired
Ever want to bite someone’s head off just because they had the misfortune to cross your path when you hadn’t eaten lunch? Or hadn’t gotten…
