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The Elusive Happiness Factor: How To Discover It
By: Frosty Wooldridge
October 3, 2014 | Comments Off on The Elusive Happiness Factor: How To Discover It
If you look around your community whether you share a schoolroom, workout class or meeting place—someone laughs a lot, smiles and expresses their happiness.
How come some people express happiness while others slog through their days? What [...]
Live Happily Ever After—Day To Day
Snow White discovered her prince, embraced him and kissed him.
Prince Charming swept her off her feet and carried the young maiden to the castle to live happily ever after. John Wayne, Clint Eastwood and Steve McQueen captured the desperadoes [...]
Bird Tracker On Bicycle: Dorian Anderson
Individual passions glide on America’s highways in different forms. Some folks pursue their quests of visiting all National Parks within a summer.
Others carry kayaks to challenge rivers from Maine to Oregon. Still others climb mountains in [...]
Gossip: The Devil’s Radio
Gossip remains the mainstay of social media, sewing clubs and emails worldwide.
Humans love talking about someone else more than the weather. They choose rumor, tattle-tales, speculation and allegation over facts, truth and reality.
Gossip may [...]
Learn How To Dribble A Football: Life Calls You
By: Frosty Wooldridge
September 25, 2014 | Comments Off on Learn How To Dribble A Football: Life Calls You
The famous automobile maker Henry Ford said, “If you think you can or can’t, you’re right.”
Almost everything in your life boils down to how you think, speak and act. High thinking creates high vibrations in your mind and body. Such [...]
Chad Pregracke: Cleaning Up Old Man River
By: Frosty Wooldridge
September 22, 2014 | Comments Off on Chad Pregracke: Cleaning Up Old Man River
The Mississippi River sweeps millions of bottles, cans, tires, oil, plastic bags and containers, along with junk of every description, and chemicals into the Gulf of Mexico 24/7.
From Minnesota where it starts as a six foot wide, 15 inches deep [...]
Extricating Yourself From The Dark Night Of The Soul
In today’s world, you face enormous challenges of time, work, family and friends.
You face many toils along with trials that rise up in front of you like a blazing attack of dragons.
While you endured cliques, politics and different kinds [...]
Your Dream Of Giving Two Weeks Notice
Do you like your work? Do you get a kick out of reaching the “office” daily as a park ranger, chef, teacher, truck driver, fireman, manager, waitress or hairdresser?
Note this fact: what you do daily in your life affects your mind, body [...]
Judgment: Higher Frequencies Of Human Consciousness
Make your life like a mighty river of love flowing out of your heart.
Such consciousness will return with a flood of friends, joy and happiness.
While in high school, most of us made judgments of other students. Guys and gals always talked about [...]
Walking Across America for Little Children: Anna Harrington
By: Frosty Wooldridge
July 24, 2014 | Comments Off on Walking Across America for Little Children: Anna Harrington
“For Jane Austen and the readers of Pride and Prejudice, solitary walks express the independence that literally takes the heroine out of the social sphere of the houses and their inhabitants, into a larger, lonelier world where she is free [...]
People You Hang With, Teach You
In high school, I played three sports.
I hung with the football jocks, basketball hoopsters and in the spring, track runners.
Later in college, I played tennis, racquetball and learned how to scuba dive.
Each sport featured different kinds of [...]
You Always Command Choice In Your Life
Many people drag the past back into the present.
Others make excuses for poor choices. Still others wave personal responsibility onto circumstances. Others abandon themselves in favor of the modus operandi of their “shadow” side.
When arrested [...]
Chad Pregracke: Cleaning Up The Mississippi River One Piece At A Time
By: Frosty Wooldridge
July 8, 2014 | Comments Off on Chad Pregracke: Cleaning Up The Mississippi River One Piece At A Time
The Mississippi River sweeps millions of bottles, cans, tires, oil, plastic bags and containers, along with junk of every description, and chemicals into the Gulf of Mexico 24/7.
From Minnesota where it starts as a six foot wide, 15 inches deep [...]
Fleeting Pleasures: Manufactured Happiness
Today, you may take a trip to Disney World for the ride of a lifetime.
A quick excursion on a Caribbean cruise promises to whisk you away from the world’s troubles. Drug stores offer pills to cure your headaches, insomnia and sexual dysfunction. [...]
A Bursting Heart: Dynamic Infusion Of Intentions
By: Frosty Wooldridge
June 26, 2014 | Comments Off on A Bursting Heart: Dynamic Infusion Of Intentions
Most teens exit high school without a clue as to what path they might follow on their life journey.
Most grab a job. Many get married with over half divorcing within ten years. Others rocket into college with their parents’ wallets by their [...]
Life Choices: Optimism Vs. Pessimism
“To think well of yourself and to proclaim this fact to the world, not in loud words, but great deeds.
To live in faith that the whole world is on your side so long as you are true to the best that is in you.” Christian D. Larson
Clearly, [...]
Cloud Talk—Sitting On A Cloud After You Passed Away
A few weeks ago, a preacher spoke about a new term that I never heard before: “Cloud talk—when you die, you elevate to heaven where you sit on a cloud.
You may look down on the planet to see where you lived. You may contemplate what you [...]
Forks In The Road, Stop Signs, Cul De Sacs And Dead Ends On The Highway Of Life
While taking a hike down a country road near dusk in my teens, an old farmer, plodding along with his walking stick, abruptly stopped me.
His wrinkled-weathered skin did not diminish the energy in his clear blue eyes. Silver locks flowed from [...]
Three Profound Secrets To A Happy Life
Thomas Jefferson said,
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
Through [...]
Oracle Of The Soul: Discovering Gems Of Understanding
As you grew up, you experienced different lessons along your life-path.
You discovered a hot stove hurt when you touched it. A candle flame caused pain when you passed your finger over it. A rosebush thorn made your finger bleed. A bee sting [...]
Your Life: One Step At A Time
The energy of life on this planet strives to organize into relationships.
As with water, you watch it thrive in many forms such as snow, rain, ice and vapor. It gathers as clouds in the sky, which eventually, falls as rain or snow. It drains [...]
No Ordinary Moments: Your Epic Life
Every week in America, you read stories of amazing moments where ordinary people triumphed over failure.
You may watch the “Biggest Loser” where a man or woman cut 150 pounds off his or her body to walk on stage looking fantastic in a suit [...]
Are You Living a Life Worth Remembering?
Totally blind in his teens, American Erik Weihenmayer became the first sightless person to climb Mount Everest.
He continued until he climbed the highest peaks on all seven continents. Bob Wieland lost his legs to a bomb blast in Vietnam, but [...]
The Race of Life: The Happiness Factor
Bhutan in Asia sets the benchmark for living a “happy” life. Its culture mandates that “happiness” holds the highest distinction in the realm of daily living.
Those citizens living in that country enjoy a much slower and quieter living [...]
How To Handle Discouragement
At some moments in our lives, we feel depressed or “low” from something that happened to us.
We might suffer a defeat on the sporting field. We may lose a friend or spouse. At some juncture, we may grieve our circumstance in a hopeless job [...]
Planting A Garden In Your Mind
In America today, you notice an endless stream of teens, college kids and employees looking down into their Smart phones.
At bars, women line the dance floor with a white light shining up into their faces from their phones as they stare into [...]
How To Live Life On Your Own Terms
In this high-speed society we created for ourselves, Americans live in traffic-congested cities with skyscrapers piercing the sky.
On the ground floor, humans race to catch crowded buses, packed subways and Yellow Cabs. With expressways gridlocked [...]
Colossal Dreams Take Colossal Actions
While moving through childhood, oftentimes, parents ask their kids, “What are you going to be when you grow up?”
Like most children, you didn’t possess a clue. You didn’t know what you faced when you grew up let alone what you might [...]
Spirit Of Adventure: The High Drama Of Self-Discovery
When coyotes howl outside your tent, that may be adventure.
While you trudge through the wilderness with a 40-pound pack, that could be deemed “adventure.” While sweating like a horse as you pedal over a 12,000-foot pass, you might be living [...]
Igniting The Creative Dynamo In You
Six decades ago, a Swiss hiker named George de Mestral hiked through autumn colors with his dog.
He crossed fields covered in milkweed, purple thistles, burrs, thorny branches and floating dandelion parachutes.
In the autumn, all plants release [...]
Invisible World Of Caring: Discover Your Destiny
Much of life in every civilization revolves around money, power and status.
Some youngsters enjoy instant success from their parents while others begin in poverty.
Everyone learns the ways of the world by the time they reach 18.
They understand [...]
Make A Stand In Your Mind: Hope
Passion drove such men as Leonardo da Vinci to paint the Mona Lisa.
That same desire compelled men like the Wright brothers to create an airplane so they could fly.
Passion drove Susan B. Anthony to organize the suffragettes to bring voting [...]
Change Your Life With “Positive Attitude Changes Everything”
“How you doin’ Jack (or Jill)?” I asked a recreation-center friend last week.
“Same ole, same ole,” he said.
“Come on man,” I said. “We’ve got the ski season coming up and Christmas around the corner. That’s got to put [...]
Discovering Life’s Phone Number
Most people talk to God, pray to God or communicate in various ways to the creator of the universe—hoping that such a greater power exists to listen to them.
Some beg God to save them or help them at some point in their lives. Others beseech [...]
What Dream Has Your Name On It?
Most people stumble through their teens, stagger through their twenties and meander into their thirties.
By forty, they suffer a mid-life crisis before bumping into the Big “5” “0”.
From 50, they face the last third of their lives [...]
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