Daily rituals can loosen anxiety’s grip on our lives.
The cardinal by my window knows it.
Every summer morning, cardinals sing a melody before starting the day.
What a great ritual for good mental health!
See how three rituals bring peace to every day.
Continue Reading “3 Daily Rituals That Reduce Anxiety and Restore Peace” Recently, I spoke at Highland Park Presbyterian Church on how to live through a desert season of life without the desert living inside of you.
Why this subject now? Because lots of folks are stuck in deserts.
A famous king from the 10th century has advice for all of that.
He was a literary, musical, military, and organizational genius.
The king who united Israel into the reputation it has today as a worldwide leading fighting force is David.
But first, he had to survive a long desert season of life.
Desert seasons often magnify our fear.
And David’s advice for thriving without succumbing to desert terrain is golden.
Continue Reading “How to survive the desert without the desert living in you” A new way of rethinking your purpose could be the boost needed for a rich and long life.
That’s what Gordon Christensen taught as a Harvard professor.
He knew that money and acclaim were not the most important metrics for success in life even though he was named the world’s most influential business thinker in 2011 by Thinkers50.
Continue Reading “How Purpose Is Your Secret Key to Living Rich and Long” Robert Fulghum may have found peace and purpose for us all when he posed a question to Alexander Papaderos, PhD Philosophy, during a lecture at the site of a Nazi massacre in Crete during WWII.
“What is the meaning of life?”
Fulghum queried Papaderos, the founder of a peace institute built on the site.
Alexander Papaderos was taking questions after his lecture attended by Fulghum.
The famous author, like the rest of the crowd, was horrified after hearing how the Nazis . . .
And now he stands before this crowd, calmly lecturing and taking questions about this unspeakable murder.
As Fulghum asks about the purpose of life, nervous laughter engulfs the daring question.
But Papaderos willingly answered Fulghum.
Continue Reading “Discover peace and purpose in the middle of your brokenness” What does living your best life really mean?
Pleasure? Success? Money? Purpose? Faith?
Oscar Wilde, Aristotle, Buddha and Jesus offered radically different answers.
It’s a question people have wrestled with for centuries.
The most popular humanities course at Yale University explores this in a class entitled, “Life Worth Living.” Multiple professors teach it.
They compare how the great philosophies answer these questions.
How you answer may determine whether you look back on life with satisfaction or regret.
But first, there’s another question.
Continue Reading “How Do You Know You’re Living Your Best Life?”