Anxiety is the body’s reaction to stress or tension. Stress is not the problem with most people; the accompanying anxiety is. Tension cannot always be anticipated or managed. However, our anxiety, or reaction to pressures, can be controlled using various techniques as we understand exactly what is happening. Using stress as a positive tool helps [...]

Taking control over your life is a conscious decision that can be made at any time. It doesn’t matter what has happened in your past. You can control what the future holds. Determine that the role of victim is not going to continue. Think of your life as a part in a play. Visualize yourself [...]

I noticed a strange thing recently – if you ask someone the time, they whip out their cell phone and tell you. No one wears watches any more. What is going to happen to the industry that makes watches? I know that they exist. I see watches for sale in stores, but if you look [...]

The granddaddy of all lottery games began on January 24, 1848, when James W. Marshall found a deposit of gold near Sutter’s Mill in Coloma, CA. Test results showed that it was of very fine quality. As news of the discovery spread locally, all able-bodied men left their jobs and headed for the streams hoping [...]

Environmental education involves changing the way people think about taking care of the Earth. This enables them to start changing the way they live their lives. They then pass those changes along to their children and grandchildren. It multiplies and grows with each generation. Every person can contribute to the benefit of the whole. Our [...]

We’ve all seen them; people who seem to have enough energy and vitality for three or four persons. How do they get that way? Were they born with it? Did they work on getting it? Someone bursting with energy must have some secret. But what is it? Part of it is just simply the metabolism [...]

In our age of instant everything, it is good to pause now and then to remember how things used to be in just as little as 150 years ago; a mere speck in the eyes of Earth’s time. Travel in those days required planning and patience. Familiar modes of transportation were on horseback, in a [...]

Everyone has a story. Many people have thought about self-publishing and then thought it was too difficult and time consuming. However, with today’s internet usage, publishing a book yourself is easier and provides markets to a larger audience. The growth of eBook publishers has exploded into a profitable business as more and more people are [...]

The title sort of says it all. Writing about the internet is a pletora of variables that to state as fact something very well will leave out one of the variables. So by no means take what I am writing as the end all or be all of the internet. It is just my own [...]

Lately I have taken to pondering.  I ponder the many things that are going on in my life and have discovered just how many answers it is that I do not have.  Answers that I am not even sure if I ever will have. Unlike a child that wonders why the shy is blue, why [...]