May the rainbow always touch your shoulder

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Enjoy life’s journey but leave no tracks. May the warm winds of heaven blow softly upon your house. May the Great Spirit bless all who enter there. May your moccasins make happy tracks in many snows, and may the rainbow always touch your shoulder. Enjoy this poem on video…

7 Steps To The Art Of Being Happy

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According to my brilliant author friend, Lisa McCourt, your desires are the truest indicator of who you authentically ARE …ignoring or denying those desires is denying YOU. In this very moment, what do you WANT? Where in your life are you on autopilot? Follow Lisa’s 7 STEPS to the art of being happy.

Remember! It’s Your Baby (About Motivation)

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Remember! It’s Your Baby, article by Alan Cohen [with permission]. It speaks to you in your quiet moments and stirs you when you think about it. You are hungrier for it than safety, comfort, or the status quo. That’s the depth of cry of your baby that will drive you to fetch it. Enjoy the article!

Getting Unstuck And Back Into Momentum

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Get yourself unstuck and back in momentum. Many times we are too close to something and have past-based thoughts tied in with a current scenario. Find a way to take yourself away from that kind of mind-play and allow yourself to be ruthlessly honest about what your next step needs to be.

Feelings Buried Alive Never Die

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Reminding me of the Feelings Buried Alive Never Die book is this piece of advice that we see around the place, the one which says that when you like or dislike something about another person, it is usually a reflection of an attribute that you like or dislike about yourself, simply being mirrored back to you.

Good Habits Are The Key To All Success

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Habits are the key to all success. In the words of Warren Buffet, “Bad habits are like chains that are too light to feel until they are too heavy to carry”. Habits influence how we work, eat, play, live, spend & communicate. See this video titled How to break habits (from The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg).

24 Abundance Blocks Holding You Back

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Abundance blocks are subconscious obstacles that hold you back from success in many areas of life. Ever felt stuck or unsatisfied with your finances? Your career? Your life? There’s a high chance you’re suffering from one of 24 abundance blocks or maybe more! Everyone is affected by at least some.

Inspiring Dr Suess Quotes With Life Lessons

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Inspiring Dr Suess quotes from “Oh, The Places You’ll Go!” This book has wonderful life lessons… Watch the fun video story as well! You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. March 2nd is Dr. Suess’ birthday (born 1904). Enjoy the gifts.

Advice For Teens (Charles J. Sykes’ 50 Rules)

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A list from Charles J. Sykes, providing perfect advice for teens. This list of 50 is actually a list of chapter headings for 50 Rules Kids Won’t Learn in School. I’ll let you decide what’s still appropriate and relevant today. Parts of his book contains some quite old fashioned and outdated advice for teens. 🙂

Do You Need To Solve A Debt Problem?

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I am not at all certain about how many of you might be in the situation where you need to solve a debt problem, however I came across what seemed a great resource for anyone who is grappling with financial issues that interfere with the more fun and exciting plans that you have for your life.

Finding More Time With 501 Tips And Ideas

Here are 501 tips & ideas for finding more time. What would you do with an extra day in your week, extra weeks in your year? Probably, doing things you love doing! If you save 10 minutes here, 20 minutes there and 30 minutes someplace else, you’ve found an entire extra hour to spend however you wish.

Stress Is A Choice: 10 Tips To Ease Tension

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If stress is a choice, then we can choose not to have stress. If you feel like your stress levels are off the charts, author David Zerfoss has a new perspective for you that can change your life. Stress is a Choice provides ten rules that provide an inspired road map to simplify life and to choose less stress.

National Thank You Month Is January

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For National Thank You Month enjoy a gratitude poem and video by Louie Schwartzberg, accompanied by powerful words from Benedictine monk Brother David Steindl-Rast. If you can read this, you’re more blessed than over 2 billion people who cannot read anything at all.

Start Your Own Online Business

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Ever wanted to start your own online business? Many people are looking for personal, financial freedom by way of an internet business. This blog post should help you a great deal if you are in a place of considering an internet presence for yourself and have NO IDEA WHERE BEST TO START!

If By Rudyard Kipling Written Around 1895

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“If” is a poem by English Nobel laureate Rudyard Kipling, written around 1895, as a tribute to Leander Starr Jameson. The poem, first published in Rewards and Fairies (1910), is written in the form of paternal advice to the poet’s son, John. “If” first appeared in a chapter of the “Brother Square Toes”.

What Coffee Can Teach Us About Life!

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A simple thing like our everyday cup of coffee can teach us about life! Here are 2 examples. There are so many circumstances that can throw us from the paths that we intended to take. Consider these when you’re ever feeling a little overwhelmed. Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly.

How To Live On 24 Hours A Day

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In How To Live On 24 Hours A Day, Arnold Bennett has some great insights about using time wisely and puts forward proposals for getting more out of our time each day. It is an old book and some examples may not apply to you, its philosophy definitely applies to everyone in the present day.

85 Quotes About Success To Ponder

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Enjoy this collection & presentation titled Success Is Not An Accident: Quotes About Success. Get your free PDF of the Quotes About Success too. Success is not so much what we have as it is what we are. Use these quotes about success to inspire you to greater heights & to reflect on your own journey.

60 Quotes From Socrates (Greek Philosopher)

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Socrates did not write down any of his teachings, secondary sources provide the only information on his life and thought. Plato and Xenophon’s dialogues provide the main source of information on Socrates’s life and thought. Enjoy this collection of 60 quotes from Socrates, as well as the free download.

Awareness Is Just That …Awareness!

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Awareness is just that, “awareness”. Nothing more, nothing less. It is simply the open door. Sometimes it can present a brief glimpse of where we could go to work. Other times, becoming aware of something can occur like a bolt of lightning which really jolts us into making a monumental decision.

Dayenu It Would Have Been Enough For Us

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I came across the word Dayenu in an article about Stephen Hawking at Big Think. Dayenu is a song, over 1000 years old, that is part of the Jewish holiday of Passover. The word “Dayenu” means, approximately, “it would have been enough for us”, “it would have been sufficient” or “it would have sufficed”.

22 Tools To Transform Fear

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22 Tools To Transform Fear is a free ebook gift for you from Forward Steps. Scroll down the page to download it for yourself, free. Fear is undoubtedly one of the strongest, most influential emotional responses we have, and it can act as both a protective and destructive force depending on the situation.

50 Life Power Questions Video Text For You

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50 Life Power Questions Video text for you by Thea at Forward Steps. Questions are the gateway to getting unstuck! Reframing disempowering thoughts as questions is an excellent way to change how we feel. The right questions will put you back in the driver’s seat, directing your focus on solutions.

The Science of Getting Rich Hypnosis Gift

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John Vincent’s The Science of Getting Rich Hypnosis is setting new standards for wealth creation teaching, a way of not only learning the science of getting rich but also setting the ground work for you to start to live the science of getting rich and become truly wealthy. See it and a gratitude video, here.

Inspiring Story Of Lena And 49 Questions

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Read this inspiring story of Lena and her experience with the 49 Questions To Inspire Change. She’s a lady in her mid-fifties and has a very common story. This happy sounding lady had not been asleep since Friday as she worked through the questions one by one. She felt so empowered!

Maintain Powerful Positive Emotions (video)

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See this free video about 9 Manifesting Secrets and Tools for your success. Christopher’s free video tells how you can… mold universal intelligent substance, harness the power of the unseen, crystalize your vision with details, maintain powerful positive emotions, convert things into events, and more…

Spiritual Conspiracy (Creating A New World)

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Spiritual Conspiracy by Brian Piergrossi from the book The Big Glow. Love is the new religion, embracing the miracle of this moment. You could pass by one of us on the street and not even notice
. We are slowly creating a new world with the power of our minds and hearts. Be the change you want to see.

10 Ways To Stop Procrastination Habits

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These are 10 ways to stop procrastination and kick the procrastination habit! Procrastination so easily turns into an insidious habit that stops us from leading more fulfilling lives. Be on your way towards kicking the procrastination habit. Remember that life itself has, built into it, the biggest deadline of all!

Appreciation Is A Way Of Life

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Appreciation is a way of life. The experience of being human is truly one of the rarest in the living universe & if we appreciated that, our unity & diversity each day, what a wonderful world it would be. Deal more kindly with one another, preserve & cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.

Inspiring Videos To Share From Forward Steps

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These inspiring videos will help get you motivated or see life in a different way. A brand new new perspective on an “old problem” could open up a brand new sequence of possibilities. You really won’t know the difference you could make to someone’s day by sharing one of these positive video messages.

Unlocking The Law Of Attraction Video

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Enjoy the Unlocking The Law Of Attraction video and collect my free 30-page ebook Unlocking The Law Of Attraction, for you to keep and share. Below the video, I have listed the text that I used, for your personal reference. Have absolute faith that you will be able to produce change in your life.

Dream Beyond Common Order Of Things

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I heard that line, dream beyond the common order of things, in an advertisement for tea, of all places. Yet the words jumped out at me like a vivid memory. I know that I have had many times in my life when I have created things bigger than I thought I knew how to achieve, and personally produced results.

Healing the Hearts of Humanity Together!

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Enjoy this Healing The Hearts Of Humanity video. By valuing the Integrity of our fellow man, we can renew the Human Species. We can invest in the Value of Souls; rescuing not only Mother Nature, but also the Natural State of Being. Embrace a revolutionary concept: The Integrity of Human Nature.

Everybody’s Free To Feel Good

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Everybody’s Free to Wear Sunscreen By Mary Schmich – Wear Sunscreen or the Sunscreen Speech are the common names of an essay actually called “Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young” written by Mary Schmich and published in the Chicago Tribune as a column in 1997.

Incremental Forward Steps For Big Results

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Even small, incremental forward steps will contribute immensely to the whole journey toward a desired end result. Forward Steps is all about providing you with small snippets that act as a catalyst for your next idea or action. Watch this video read the short story and instantly put aside any procrastination.

The Man Who Planted Trees

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The Man Who Planted Trees tells the story of a solitary shepherd who patiently plants and nurtures a forest of thousands of trees, single-handedly transforming his arid surroundings into a thriving oasis. Undeterred by two World Wars, and without any thought of personal reward.

The Crazy Ones (Who See Things Differently)

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Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. They have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. The only thing you can’t do is…

16 Mark Twain Quotes With Life Lessons

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16 Mark Twain quotes that I’ve collected for you. Following each quote, I’ve written a brief life lesson that could be learned from each one. For example, I can teach anybody how to get, what they want out of life, he problem is that I can’t find anybody who can tell me what they want. Watch the video too.

Seven Principles For A Graceful World

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Do you feel something stirring in your soul, calling you to live in new ways? Are you experiencing a growing sense of a the interconnectedness of life? Pledge to follow these Seven Principles for a graceful world. By examining why we believe what we do, we can make conscious, more life-affirming choices.

The Flapping Of A Single Butterfly’s Wing

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The flapping of a single butterfly’s wing produces a tiny change in the state of the atmosphere. What the atmosphere actually does diverges from what it would have done. So, in time, a tornado that would have devastated the coast doesn’t happen. Or maybe one that wasn’t going to happen, does.

Labelling Emotions Reduces Their Impact

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Labelling emotions reduces their impact. Learning to manage your emotions is an important skill to learn. Mood affects our judgment and changes how we process decisions. Positive feelings open up possibilities, raise our sense of hope and increase our ability to keep stepping forward.

Two Frogs With 2 Encouraging Lessons

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A group of frogs were traveling through the woods, when they saw that two frogs fell into a deep pit. It is sometimes hard to understand that an encouraging word can go such a long way. This is a great short story about taking precaution with the advice that you give or that you receive.

Benefits of Meditation Based On Science

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There have been many scientific studies on the benefits of meditation. For example, it improves your health, benefits your social life, changes your brain (in a good way), increases your productivity and boosts your happiness, just the mention a few. Experience all the benefits of meditation for yourself!

To Bee Or Not To Bee by John Penberthy

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John Penberthy’s inspirational To Be book, To Bee or Not to Bee, is clever and spiritually sophisticated. To Bee or Not to Bee is laced with wit and humor. It demonstrates the paradoxes that life is too important to be taken so seriously, that the only way out is in and that life is a journey from I to we.