It’s easier for people to take what they don’t like about themselves and find the same weaknesses or flaws in another person and be vocal about it. It temporarily relieves the uncomfortable feelings they have about themselves. For example, Mary cheated on her history exam. She discovers that John did, too, and she criticizes John for doing the same thing. Mary is taking her own feelings about her own actions and focusing her energy on

In a previous post I talked about the entire process of becoming. From a seed in its natural form, evolving in the dirt, in darkness, where no one can see what’s happening. Yet underneath the surface, the seed is transforming into something the world has yet to see. For people who don’t understand growth, it would look like the world is ending, yet it is really just beginning. It is in our darkest periods that

When you decide to act on seeking revenge on someone, you inevitably end up poisoning your own mind because you are so fixated on harming someone who has harmed you. Once that seed takes root in your mind and you choose to take action, you go down a path that you can’t come back from. Movie and television plots are laden with the theme of revenge…and we can’t stop watching them. It’s what drives the

in·tu·i·tion – the ability to understand something immediately, without the need for conscious reasoning. Our gut or intuition is our immediate understanding of something. We can’t really explain why we understand something a certain way, we just do. It is an inescapable, strong feeling of what we know in our heart is right – even if it doesn’t seem to make sense logically or there is evidence to the contrary. I am a strong believer

People often confuse fear with danger. Danger is very real, but fear is an emotional response to something that may or may not be real. Let’s take a look at their specific definitions. Danger: The possibility of suffering harm or injury. A person or thing that is likely to cause harm or injury. Fear: A strong, uncontrollable, unpleasant emotion caused by actual or perceived danger or threat. Notice that danger is an action – something

It’s easy for us to look at someone else and judge what they are doing. But we are merely looking at a snapshot of their actions. We aren’t seeing what may have happened before or what they are feeling, or many other variables that led them to where they are or what they did. When we make judgments about people, it says more about who we are than who they are. Many people feel more

Last month I talked about how “someday” is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you. We believe that we will have “someday” to do the things we really want to do. And maybe someday will actually come for us. But what if it doesn’t? And what we really should be asking ourselves is why are our dreams so unimportant that we put it off until some undefined date? Our dreams

Last month I talked about how people can say all the right things, but at the end of the day, how they choose to treat someone else through their actions says it all. Actions will always speak louder than words. And when you don’t back up your words with your actions, your words become meaningless. There is a difference between knowing the path and walking it. It is easy to know the path and talk