What We Focus On Affects Our Results In Life!

At any given second, there are two million bits of information bombarding us. While it is impossible to consciously be aware of everything, our mind tends to filter all this stimuli and focus on a few chunks of information at a time. Similarly, when we think of something in the past or something in the future, we tend to focus on certain aspects of the experience. And to us what we choose to focus on becomes most real in our minds. Some people have a pattern of focusing on pictures, sounds and feelings... Read more »

Why I Avoid Negative People Like The Plague

If you’re trying to make any sort of change in your life, to take your self or your business to a higher level, there’s a certain kind of person that you should avoid like the plague. They’re the pessimists, the negative people who see life through glasses coloured with their own limiting beliefs and low self-esteem. These are people who can never see the good side of things, who insist that someone or something is out to get them. Who have so much self-loathing, that the only way... Read more »

Are You Sabotaging Your Happiness?

In todays world, it often seems unhappiness is all around us. Hatred, terrorism, war, violence, bigotry and job insecurity are part of our everyday lives. Depression affects millions of adults in America each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. People everywhere are resorting to prescription medicines, street drugs and alcoholism in order to combat feelings of depression, anxiety, restlessness and stress. However, antidepressants work for only 30 percent of the population... Read more »

I Fear A Broken Heart

Dear DavidPaul, I am in the process of getting divorced and have met a very wonderful man who touches my soul. I am scared of a relationship because of a fear of not being perfect, and my main fear is that of a broken heart. I am wondering how this relationship will work out and how I should handle it so that no feelings will be hurt. I want to be with this man. Will I be? Will it be a forever relationship? Thank you. Maggie “Greetings and blessings to you precious one. You ask how to have... Read more »

Help Me Overcome My Addictions

Dear DavidPaul, I am having trouble letting go of an over the counter addiction and smoking. I really need God to guide me and strengthen me so I can overcome these things. Shari “Greetings and blessings to you precious one. To want to give up the addictions you are speaking of is, of course, the first and biggest step. To know that there are things that you are doing that are not serving you is the most important awareness that can happen to shift addictions. At the same time it creates pain... Read more »

Should I Leave My Partner Or Should I Stick It Out?

Dear DavidPaul, My fiance and I just broke up, and I need to know if this was the right thing to do or not. I love him more than anything else in the whole world. We were planning on being married in April. I just felt like he put himself above me in his priorities. He would make plans with me and then go play golf instead, or he would simply forget to call because something more important came up. I love him and miss him very much, but I feel like maybe it’s best for us to be apart until he... Read more »

Take a Vacation Every Day

Is modern-day society leading to the extinction of free time? It seems that the days of having plenty of time to accomplish all of the normal day-to-day responsibilities and having a bit of free time are virtually gone. How did this happen? All of the new technological advances should be providing an abundance of free time. Nearly everything has been automated in some way. There are fast cars to transport us quickly to our destination, dishwashers and robotic vacuum cleaners to take care of household... Read more »

Help Me Find a Life Partner

Dear DavidPaul, I’m 35 years old and ready to open my heart to a true partner. I have honored myself in the past by leaving relationships that weren’t right, yet I wonder if my idea of how I think it is supposed to be is preventing me from creating what I truly want. I don’t want to settle. I met a man recently and was very excited after our first date, but on our 2nd date, he seemed more excited about the possibility of sex than having a relationship. Do you have any insight that... Read more »

I Have a Secret to Share

Dear DavidPaul, I have been through a lot over the last 3 years. I have divorced, suffered from cancer, and started a new relationship with someone I care a great deal about. One of my problems is that I have been trained professionally to be a very secretive person. I have kept things and told lies to this person because of my secretiveness. Needless to say, it has created problems in this relationship. I know that this is wrong, but when you are trained this way, it is a hard habit to break. Please... Read more »

Effective Time Management For Freelance Workers

One of the advantages of being a freelance worker is being able to manage your own time and set your own work hours but this can be a bit of a problem if you do not know how to manage your time effectively. There are a couple of basic rules of effective time management that you should know as a freelance worker that will help you to function optimally and get the work done that you need to more efficiently. Effective Time Management begins with knowing what you want to achieve The first rule of effective... Read more »