We all know that it is better to give than receive; what we may not really understand is why this is the case. It’s simple, really – the more you give of yourself, the more you will receive. When you give freely and unconditionally, success and abundance will be your reward.

Unconditional givers give because they want to, not because they feel obligated to.

When you give of your time, energy, resources, knowledge, skills, and/or talents, with no strings attached, you instantaneously set the Law of Giving and Receiving in motion. You become a magnet, attracting success and abundance.

There are both scientific and spiritual bases for the universal law of giving. Read more »

If you’ve ever found yourself expecting the worst without clear reasons why, you were probably the victim of a negative-thinking habit.  Rampant pessimism can be annoying at the least and chronically destructive at worst.  It can take over your mood, mind-set, career, relationships – and life in general – making it impossible to hope for anything good.

The good news is that pessimism for most people is nothing more than a habit – a habit that can be broken with a little conscious effort.

Below you’ll find 3 simple suggestions for turning pessimism into optimism:

Challenge the doom predictions.

When your mind is ruled by a pessimistic outlook, you automatically imagine the worst possible outcome and hold it as your expectation.  Even worse, you usually have no “evidence” to support your belief that things will go wrong, you are just choosing to think they will. Read more »

Relationship Help – 3 Keys To True Love

True love is what everybody wants in their relationship. We all have intimacy needs and we all want true love. We hope for it and work hard to find the right relationship so we can have it.

Then, when we get into a relationship, it feels great at first. We often feel some stirrings of true love. But over time, the longer we are together, it seems like true love starts to slip away some. The person who felt so right in the beginning can start to feel less right after a while.

Finding true love usually ends up being easier than keeping true love. If it was easy to keep it, we’d all still be with our first high school crush. How then do you keep true love from slipping away? There are some key factors. Read more »

by Wendy Betterini

Years ago when I rented my first apartment and moved out on my own, my mother bought me a “bluebird of happiness” glass figurine which has held a place of honor in every home I’ve had since.

Over the years, this little glass bird has become a sort of talisman for me. A mere glance at it sparkling in the sunlight on my windowsill reminds me of the journey I’ve taken in claiming my right to be truly happy.

When my mother first gave me the bird, I wasn’t happy. I was excited about living on my own and eager for some new adventures, but I hadn’t a clue what true happiness was.

For more than ten years, this little glass bird sat silently and watched as I struggled to grow into myself, understand my purpose for being, and find the happiness I was meant to know. It witnessed numerous broken hearts, disappointments, loneliness, and despair I seemed determined to repeat over and over again.

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