Top 5 Tips for 2014
With a new year comes new hopes and new objectives, but what derails many is that they lose that initial gusto because their goals become unrealistic and unattainable. Here are 5 tips to get 2014 starting off on the right foot.
Beginning Anew
As we get ready to embark on 2014 many people will make resolutions of various forms regarding what they hope to accomplish in the new year. Some of these will be typical such as losing weight, speaking to friends and family more, and starting a new hobby. Others will be more radical and require serious …
Ask BrotherWord – What Do The Lonely Do at Christmas?
Hi BrotherWord, I read your Tips to Cure the Holiday Blues, but I’m still stuck. As good as the suggestions were, I find myself still alone and very much lost. I volunteered, I talked to friends, and I realize and accept that I need help, but now what? At the end of the day, it …
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Motivational Monday
Going into the holiday season, there are many things that can provide inspiration, but there is nothing that motivates more than listening to our elder statesman. A constant source of knowledge and wisdom, it is our elders who have blazed the trails we now travel. You want to find motivation, ask your grandparents what they …
Unlikely Sources
Sometimes it’s the most unlikely of sources that can inspire and uplift. When we take the time to engage others, show genuine and sincere concern, and treat them equally and compassionate, what pours out is nothing short of miraculous. No matter the situation or the circumstances, everyone has something to offer and the more we …
Thankful Thursdays!
Reason For the Season
5 Tips to Cure the Holiday Blues
The holiday season is one of the most joyous and cheerful times of year. Along with all the reveling, parties, caroling, and shopping, there are also many who suffer from loneliness and sadness. Faced with the overwhelming magnitude and pressure to be “merry” or happy, many sink deeper into depression and spiral further out of …
Motivational Monday
Miracles happen everyday and oftentimes you really have to pay attention or you’ll miss it. But sometimes, the miracle is so profound that it will find you. Wrecked and stranded in the Nevada mountains in below zero temperatures, Christina McIntee, James Glanton, and the four kids accompanying them, received their Christmas Miracle well before anyone …
Motivational Monday
Life is a constant test that will pull you in directions you never intended to go, that will challenge you beyond anything you ever thought you were capable of enduring, and will break you down and build you up all at the same time. Life is the ultimate test, a test full of irony and …
Thankful Thursdays!
Today, I am extremely thankful for the life and legacy of Nelson Mandela. A man of reverence and righteousness, Mandela, or “Madiba” (the Thembu clan Mandela belonged to) as he was affectionately referred to by his countrymen, traversed the path destined for him, never once altering his route, succumbing to circumstances, or allowing others to …