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The simplistic answer to the Sandy Hook massacre is obvious: Just make all guns illegal. But is any law 100% effective?
Criminals don't obey the law. The UK experience from banning guns - the UK is now the violent crime capital of Europe according to the European Commission (see previous ... Views: 1570
According to Google, every day around 13,600,000 people search for hope on the web. People are desperate for hope. They think hope is somewhere out there, and they need to acquire it to get what they want from life.
People spend hard-earned money on get-rich-quick schemes that promise ... Views: 1570
What is the Difference Between Involvement and Commitment?
This is by no means a trick question. When it comes to your Success in life are you Involved or are you committed? Many people get frustrated with life; they get ticked off when they think of their current situations or place in ... Views: 1565
Having chosen your most important question, see the previous articles in this series, there are some crucial related questions for you to answer.
Actions have Consequences
Are you prepared to pay the price? Your actions will provide the answer in due course, yet to ensure your future has ... Views: 1565
How can you improve at following through on your commitments?
Explore your Chances of Success
Look at the commitments you've made in your life. What percentage were completed by the deadline - write down your answer between 0% and 100%.
If it's not 100%, then what's the difference ... Views: 1562
The most common word I have heard people use to describe the work that we do is "practical." This is truly what sets our work (and others trained by the Americana Leadership College) apart from everything else out there in the world of spiritual growth and development. It is very practical tools ... Views: 1554
Are you internally motivated? The Cherokee Indians say that everybody is, not just the self-motivated! They know that you have both a black wolf and a white wolf giving you internal motivation.
Are you Self-Motivated?
The self-motivated decide on their own goals and then pursue them. They ... Views: 1549
You saw that there are four important questions which you can ask yourself as you make a decision. Those questions, from the first in this Most Important Question series, are:
Do I feel like doing it?
Do I want to do it?
Is it me?
Do I want the results that doing it will bring?
Which ... Views: 1549
Use your passion to simplify your life. Knowing what you want out of life and intending your success in achieving it is the best way to simplify your life. Follow your passion every day. By first identifying that which you are passionate about, you will be able to categorize the other items ... Views: 1547
So far we've covered several crucial secrets in this article series on the secret of success, now let's look at another.
Your Three Aspects
You have three aspects to your being. Intellectuality, emotionality, and your sensuality. Reason is your intellectual capacity, thinking, your head. ... Views: 1546
Article Title: What Did Jesus Really Mean?
from http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/what-did-jesus-really-mean-0
and http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/what-did-jesus-really-mean
Shared by: Craig Lock
Category (key words): Spiritual Growth, Faith, Christianity, Jesus, Jesus Christ, ... Views: 1544
Are you an avid goal setter? What do they do? You set long-term and short-term goals, and you go about to do things and make the goals happen, right?
Right. Now that life is so simple. What’s left for us to do? More goals? Or nothing else to do? How about we practice meditation?
Now go ahead ... Views: 1543
See a far more comprehensive introduction to the motivations behind this subject in part 1 and part 2 of this series.
Does President Obama really want Peace?
There are plenty of issues that President Obama could spend his time on which would improve America and give you a better quality of ... Views: 1534
Before a recent massage session, my massage therapist (Mary Rose Lam) told me how she made a horrible mess that morning.
She accidentally spilled her blueberry smoothie all over her gray carpet. That left a big green stain. She was frustrated but told the story with a smile. I hadn't been ... Views: 1530
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Addicted to Violence; Why Do We Continue the Cycle? – October 3, 2011
-Author Aleasa M. Word
He says, “When we love, we ... Views: 1530
Many times in our lives we are asked to let go, and often it doesn't come easy.
I wrote this poem from a mother's heart, but I believe that no matter where we are in life the principle of letting go applies to all of us. Ultimately it's the key to liberating us to move through growing ... Views: 1522
Many times in our lives we are asked to let go, and often it doesn't come easy.
I wrote this poem from a mother's heart, but I believe that no matter where we are in life the principle of letting go applies to all of us. Ultimately it's the key to liberating us to move through growing ... Views: 1522
Most of the time, we are busy trying to categorize what we do either as right or wrong. We often tend to glorify the good and shun the bad and whomever that practices it. So where does the “TRUTH” come in?
Here’s an example:
Let’s say you watch the following example on a show or something ... Views: 1522
FIT FOR A KING
Fit for an Emperor, Fit for a King, Fit for a Queen, Fit for a Princess, Fit for a Prince are all expressions that mean that you are making something so good that a member of the royal family would appreciate. Emperors and Kings are associated with the richest, most opulent ... Views: 1521
For most of us our goal in life is to be comfortable. For instance, we want just enough money to be able to live a “comfortable life”.
We don’t necessarily seek the passion of fulfilling great visions, or the other extreme of apathy and despair. For many of us our lives are focused on ... Views: 1519
We are all every day Guru’s because every day we ALL learn a little bit more about ourselves and the world we live in. There are no experts and I would challenge anyone to stand up and say they “know it all”. What we know is what is contained in our world and at any moment our reality could be ... Views: 1515
Are you truly compatible with your partner? If you are thinking of getting into a serious relationship you need to know if that person is worth investing a lot of your time and love into.
Whether you are married to yours, living with them or contemplating spending a lot of time with them ... Views: 1514
Sandy Hook was a Gun Free Zone
Despite Connecticut's gun carry laws at the time, there was nobody armed at Sandy Hook to protect the slaughtered children and teachers. In practice, Sandy Hook was a gun free zone.
So was the 2012 Batman movie mass slaughter which killed 12 and injured 58 in ... Views: 1514
Do you ever find yourself wondering: why did I do that? Something which produced such an unfavorable outcome that you feel a bit stupid? Why do we do such things?
Are your thought processes so confused that you can't tell good consequences from bad ones? Or don't you know how to think things ... Views: 1511
In the world of academia, it is a given fact that MLA (Modern Language Association) writing style is one of the most typically utilized along with APA (American Psychological Association), Chicago, Turabian and many more for writing scholarly documents especially when it comes to citations and ... Views: 1510
Living Calmness
In Seishindo we believe.....
Each person is very much like a snowflake.
Unique,
Never to be duplicated,
And with a life that’s over all too quickly.
One of our key tasks in life is learning how to appreciate our uniqueness rather than comparing our self to others, ... Views: 1508
You want success in whatever you choose to do, and the secret of success is to adopt principles which enable you to be successful.
The old adage says that all roads lead to Rome, and it's indeed true. But it's generally not explained that some roads are more direct than others, they'll get ... Views: 1507
The only thing that stops a spree shooter is a bullet. The sooner he gets that bullet, the less innocents and vulnerable children he gets to slaughter.
How long does Emergency Response Take?
The police do a difficult job, often in very difficult circumstances. David Thweatt, Superintendent ... Views: 1504
"There is a tide in the affairs of men which when taken at its peak leads on to great success, but missed, leads to failure." William Shakespeare.
“The time for unity is now Dear Ones! There is no time to delay activating your mission on the planet! We angels are witnessing the Law of Cycles ... Views: 1501
"Everyone in this world shares the same innate source of wisdom, but it is hidden by the tangle of our own misguided thoughts." - Sydney Banks
One of the coolest things about Transformative Coaching is that it encourages us peek behind the façade of our own story telling. That is, when we are ... Views: 1500
The call begins when we work in the illusion of the material world. There is a nagging voice in the back of our mind that whispers constantly that we are destined for something more compassionate and meaningful in our lives. The work we are doing becomes boring, inconsequential, and unimportant. ... Views: 1497
The present moment is here. It's what is. You may like it or you may hate it, but it is reality right now.
There's nothing you can do this moment to change it, things are exactly the way they are. Which is not to say your response can't change things in the next second, or day, or next ... Views: 1496
Conventional Knowledge
The previous articles in this Personal Power series discussed some differences between the logic of the outer world and the intuition of the inner world. You've seen how something can be both right as well as wrong, rather than either right or wrong.
This resembles the ... Views: 1495
You always have a choice, they say. And they are right, you do have a choice, always! But not the one you think you have.
Some people look at their possible responses, asking themselves how to react in the situation; should they do this, or that, or the other? Do you ever wonder how it will ... Views: 1495
Do Only What Works
To achieve the results you want, you need to do what works and not to do what doesn't work. And it's your job to ascertain which is which! Once you know the difference you'll be more effective in achieving your goals.
When you have experience in a field, it's natural to ... Views: 1489
On a Saturday night at home while relaxing with friends, things turned interesting quickly. A dog showed up at the house. In an attempt to find the rightful owner and return the dog, we knocked on the door of the rightful owner and a naked man opened the door. This was the start of an ... Views: 1489
Many times I hear people state that they are “blocked”. They often apply this term to the fact that they are not getting what they want. They are “blocked” from financial abundance. They are “blocked” from true love. They are “blocked” from healing a physical, emotional, mental or spiritual ... Views: 1487
The Obvious But Most Misunderstood Quality Behind Success
By
Bill Cottringer
“I look for a role that hopefully I feel empathy with and that I can understand and love, but also that has that challenge for me to play - a different kind of role, a different type of character, a different time ... Views: 1485
In the article, Guns, Mental Illness and Newtown, the Wall Street Journal* reports there were 18 random mass shootings in the 1980s, 54 in the 1990s, and 87 random mass shootings in the 2000s. In 2012, just one year not a whole decade, the Washington Post lists 14 cases of mass shootings. Are ... Views: 1481
Your angels will help you in all areas of your life, but I find that my guides particularly help me with my business! Part of my life path is being an entrepreneur (sounds so much better than self-employed, don’t you think?) and I’ve attracted a team of helpers this lifetime that really support ... Views: 1480
I had an experience with another driver in Atlanta, Ga. The driver had tailgated me for miles, and then passed me on the right of a four lane local road and cut me off at an intersection. I blared my horn at him to let him know how much I did not appreciate his aggressive driving. He got out of ... Views: 1478
Americans are understandably determined that massacres such as the one at Sandy Hook school in Newtown, Connecticut, never happen again. But how? Some demand ever stricter control of firearms. Many others advocate more effective treatment of mentally ill people and understand that so-called ... Views: 1478
Whenever I am feeling a little out of sorts or a little frustrated in life, I turn to any book written by Alan Watts and I find that it inevitably cheers me up. He had an eloquent means of bringing to the fore the simplest explanations for the most complicated questions in life. Today I happened ... Views: 1477
The key to real success, as we saw in the previous article in this series, is neither what you have, nor what you do. So what is it? How much time have you invested in contemplating this crucial question?
First Reflect on Your Answer
If you haven't already come up with your answer then ... Views: 1477
When I was a boy we would play baseball in the park. The problem was that it was surrounded by bushes. Our balls kept getting vanishing in the bushes.
After about 2 years I learned how I should find them.
I would look at the bush and think of exactly how it should bounce and then look in ... Views: 1476
I noticed on Facebook that someone posted a statement that “it is okay not to be perfect.” I responded by saying that everyone is perfect, for which I was told “that is your ego talking.” To me, this is a fundamental misconception that guarantees suffering for anyone that believes that we are ... Views: 1474
The citizens of the USA - and of every country - need the Second Amendment's rights to protect themselves from rape and pillage by both government agents and common criminals. But who do you need more protection against? Which can inflict the most damage? Lone individuals or an out-of-control ... Views: 1470
You want what you want, which you get by using the three tools of creation: Thought, Word and Deed (action). The more power in each one, the more it helps you achieve your goals. The more you desire, the more you need your Word to contribute to its achievement.
So increase the power of your ... Views: 1470
Children sure know how to have fun! They look at life whimsically and use their imagination to create the most amazing scenarios. I was recently thinking how much I needed to keep that inner child engaged in my daily life. This approach to life is beneficial for self-preservation as life is ... Views: 1467
The Problem of Prescriptive Solutions
Management theory is clear, prescriptive solutions do not work. Why not? A solution imposed from outside stops you creating your own solution tailored to your circumstances. Since you are unique, different to everybody else, how can one size fit you and ... Views: 1465
On a Saturday night at home while relaxing with friends, things turned interesting quickly. A dog showed up at the house. In an attempt to find the rightful owner and return the dog, we knocked on the door of the rightful owner and a naked man opened the door. This was the start of an ... Views: 1464