The family was in town from Kansas City and Denver for the bi-annual family reunion. So, I decided before everyone came to Utah that I was going to spend the time thinking of nothing else but my family and that I was going to be fully present and enjoy every moment we had together. I…
Personally I think the catch-all diagnoses of ADD and ADHD are over-rated. Now hang on before you toss out your Ritalin! Our modern-day theme for handling our issues seems to be based on being diagnosed with some condition, then being assigned to it entirely and then adding that you were born with it. I mean after all I…
We’re all familiar with cause and effect, right? If you introduce a certain cause then you get a certain effect. If you mix two parts hydrogen with one part oxygen you get water, over and over and over again. But, what if the cause isn’t related to the effect? What if what you think is…
There’s a great epidemic that takes place in the world today! It is not technically a disease, though it behaves like one. It is not in the category of a plague, but tends to plague good folks on a regular basis. It is extremely common, normal and ordinary, yet in reality should be uncommon, abnormal…
As it turns out, my wife and I have successfully implanted a real zest for living life to the fullest into our children. Not too long ago we had one of those famous, intense, passionate Washington discussions about that very subject! During these heated debates it is not uncommon for the discussion to go on…
I bet when you read the title about “Mind Control” it made you flinch a little right? Do you remember in the 70’s when people were all concerned about “brainwashing?” The basic idea was that when you got into some group (i.e. cult) the members would feed your mind certain thoughts and inundate you with…
Have you ever felt like your mind was running all over the place? You know what I mean, right? It’s those times when your brain is filled with so many thoughts; many of them anxious thoughts and you can’t seem to get things settled down. Have you lost your marbles? Why does that happen to…
Have you ever wondered how you can tell if you are doing things for the right reasons? Well, the easy answer is found in how you feel while you are doing what you are doing. Actions that we take for the right reasons always leave us feeling satisfied, encouraged, and blessed. Actions that we take…
Have you ever taken the time to consider what “life” is all about? So many opinions; a multitude of competing views; every kind of theory, idea, philosophy, tenet, and cliché all offering advice on what our lives should be and could be. Thoughts range from the biological existence camp; those who have “scientifically” concluded that…
“There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is without signification,” (I Corinthians 14:10) says the Good Book, but perhaps none so important as the one that speaks softly within your own mind. The words that you say to yourself, those words that no-one else can…