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“What is happiness?” a young child asked. For a moment I was a bit taken aback. Then I thought, ‘Happiness’ is a really complicated sensory thing - a bit like an onion. As you peel away the outer layers, according to your experience, you expose the deeper, more intimate layers, one by one, until you get to the core - inner peace and contentment, which is the essence of happiness.

Happiness has been described as beatitude, blessedness, bliss, cheerfulness, child-like innocent contentment, delight, ecstasy, felicity, being light-hearted, feeling carefree, good-humoured, fun-loving, being joyful, rapturous, merriment, tranquillity, or enjoying inner peace. I know that inner peace is a necessary prerequisite of happiness.

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Einstein challenged and broke the scientific paradigms of the day. Always a rule breaker, Einstein questioned the mentality behind, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” “Everyone knows that!” and “But that’s the way we’ve always done it.”

The problem with most corporate thinking is that when we accept a rule, we don’t even bother to look past it. We become so narrow focussed we’re like a horse, half-blinded by blinders. We can’t see the world of opportunity beyond our narrowed vision.

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Preparing a funeral - Many people who have suffered a traumatic loss, would you believe are totally oblivious to what is involved when wanting to give their loved one a good send off - so as to speak? Preparing for a funeral is not a topic that we like to speak of, however, regardless of likes or not, it is an important matter that needs to be addressed sooner than later.

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It’s not unusual for people to come back from an inspiring personal development seminar, or after having read a potentially life changing book on goals and ready to take action, only to be faced with indifference and sometimes downright hostility from loved ones. Why is this the case and what can you do if it happens to you?

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“Inside of a ring or out, there ain’t nothing wrong with going down. It’s staying down that’s wrong.” - Muhammad Ali

If you followed the Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, you may have noticed that the motto was ‘Passion Lives Here’. What better slogan to reflect the determination that was etched on the faces of those competitors? If you’re looking for inspiration, you’ll find it there.

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Did you know that we experience more change in one year than our grandparents experienced in their entire lifetimes? With information doubling every year, businesses downsizing personnel and change almost being a warp speed phenomenon, no wonder time management is a growing concern for business owners and professionals.

A recent search on Google for time management showed over 1.14 billion hits with time management training accounting for almost one third of those hits. This suggests that time management is on a lot of people’s minds.

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Death is a natural occurrence, a passageway. When we can accept human death as another cycle of life, we can enjoy our daily lives more because we won’t be in fear. Then we can also gracefully release others who are dying.

I often hear people say that they lost their mother, father, or another person in their lives. I can feel their pain when they express the transition in that way. I have compassion for their feelings. To assist them to feel better, I suggest that they just state what happened. For example, “My mother passed away last month.” I also encourage them to close their eyes and speak to them. They are often pleased and comforted when they receive an intuitive response.

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You have 24 hours in a day and a list of things to accomplish that seems overwhelming. Sound familiar? Join the club; we all are trying to fit 30 hours worth of work into 24 hours. Maybe you’ve found it doesn’t work. We can’t manage time any more than we can manage the weather. We can’t save it for a ‘rainy day’, to pull out and come back to when… we have more time!

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There are many people that will try to teach you how to build your self esteem. But not everyone knows how to really build self esteem. When a person has great self esteem, he is able to participate more actively in life. His life becomes richer, and he will find his relationships with the people he loves will improve. Here are some tangible ways that you can use to build
your self esteem:

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Procrastination is a powerful force. It undoes the greatest of thoughts. It can undermine the most powerful will. It is what sets apart the success stories from the would be champions. But procrastination like anything else can be overcome. Through practice and patience procrastination can be relegated to non-existence.

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