Picture this - you’re sitting on your front porch at 75, watching the sunset adorn the sky in orange and gold. Your back is straight, your joints move freely and you’re not counting pills or scheduling doctor visits. That Vision? It starts with…

Children learn much more from watching you then from listening to you talk. They see everything you do-how you act when things go wrong. How you treat other people, and whether you keep…

Life truly is for the living, no matter where we came from, what we have or don’t have, what we’ve done or have not done, who we are versus who we would like to be. None of that really matters if we are determined to live the life we have been given until they throw…

Want to find more joy? Find a way to bring joy to someone else and you will find joy.
The curious thing about Joy is that you can’t get it unless you give it away. You may ask “how can I give it away if I don’t have it?” You may just begin by pretending you’re the kind of person…

So many of us misunderstand the power our choices have. It’s your power of choice that has you listening to this meditation. Your power of choice is what made your last personal accomplishment a success. It was also your personal choice that got you into…

Sexual intercourse: Here’s some cold, hard truth for today’s muse. Relationships based on a strong friendship can last a lifetime, while relationships based primarily on sex…

Last time, we talked about parenting leadership, and the concept of respect in your own home. Now, as promised, let’s delve into the concept of leverage. Most of us understand a lever as something that helps us…

Few things get under my skin more than learning that a parent or parents are being abused by their child. The abuse I hear of most often is not physical but attitudinal-talking back or noncompliance with reasonable parental requests. Let me state at the outset that parenting is…

Are you a procrastinator with big written goals? Are you a procrastinator with small written goals? Are you a procrastinator with no written goals? Procrastination is one…

At this time of year when so many are enjoying commencement exercises as they graduate college and move to the next phase of their lives, here are a few thoughts about setting goals. First of all, let’s be clear about what a goals are. Goals are…

There’s an old saying that talk is cheap. I tend to disagree with that saying. I think there’s a high cost for talking; that it is not cheap. Even when taken at its usual meaning, that anybody can just talk, I still say, rather than cheap…

You and I have a job to do. It’s an inside job, but it’s your job. No, it’s not self improvement. No, it’s not working on your self-esteem. The job I am speaking of is bigger than both of those. In fact, if you do…

The art of meeting people easily is certainly tied to how much interest we take in others. Beyond that, there is something else at play that is equally if not more important. How we see…

Would you like to be a more interesting person than you are today? Do you enjoy talking with interesting people? There are several different ways you might…

We’ve all seen or heard children exchanging heated words with their parents, that say loud and clear that “I don’t respect you.” When parents who don’t allow that kind of disrespect from their children, hear those types of exchanges, they feel…

Where have all the independent thinkers gone? This may just be the musing of an old man, thinking that in the past, people were not as quick to jump on a bandwagon as they are today. I do remember a time when…

There are many highways we can take with our lives. There are super highways, there are freeways and boulevards. There are streets. There are drives. There are alleys. There are dirt roads with potholes. Which ones have…

There are many highways we can take with our lives. There are super highways, there are freeways and boulevards. There are streets. There are drives. There are alleys. There are dirt roads with potholes. Which ones have…

Attempting to run the lives of grown children can lead to ruining their lives. If you are the type of parent that has micromanaged your child's life in a vain attempt to prevent them making any mistakes or suffering any harm, there comes a time when…

Knowledge for the sake of knowledge is a worthwhile pursuit. I'm sure some of us know people whose heads are full of knowledge. They know lots of stuff about lots of stuff, and that's…