Month: December 2009

Be spiritually informed

December 9, 2009 | 8 comments

Thought for the day… What we see and hear does not affect what we think. What we think forms our response to what we see and hear. For instance, a heavily invested stock trader might watch the Dow Jones average

Keep going anyway…

December 8, 2009 | 1 comment

“People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered; Forgive them anyway.   If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives; Be kind anyway.   If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true

Making better choices

December 7, 2009 | 2 comments

I watched a one-minute lesson on the Tennis Channel last night delivered by a sports psychologist. He was pointing out the importance of not letting negative emotions take over one’s thinking while playing tennis. As he noted, if you hit

An instrument in tune

December 4, 2009 | 5 comments

Two weeks ago, I got to play the pipe organ in the original Mother Church edifice in Boston. What a treat! If you are unaware, I have a pipe organ background, going back to my days at Stanford University. While

What matters most

December 3, 2009 | 3 comments

Life is so much easier when we remember that the most important gain is always spiritual. How often have you agonized, feared, fretted, and even got sick over worrying about finances, human relationships, position, status, politics or the economy because