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It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, And if you dare to dream of meeting Your heart’s longing. - from The Invitation by Oriah Mountain Dreamer Short inspirational poems like this one can really make you think. You have probably seen this one before. Really, the only reason it’s short is that I decided to excerpt just the first verse. I love this verse because it throws down the gauntlet. How willing are you to dream of meeting your heart’s longing? Is it something you gave up in childhood? Do you even remember what you dreamt of then? If... (Read More ...)

Looking for new ways to manifest money? With her husband in danger of losing his job, Rose is anxious. She and her husband are scrambling for new ways to bring in income. Looking around her community and online, she sees a number of opportunities worth looking into: • A friend has invited her to a weekend currency trading seminar. • Her husband has suggested they get involved with a network marketing company. • She could check out part-time teaching openings at local universities. • And… there’s a casino in town with a tantalizing array of winning opportunities…. Rose realizes that... (Read More ...)

Oscar Wilde once said of writer’s block, “I don’t believe in it… Plumbers don’t get plumber’s block, and doctors don’t get doctor’s block; why should writers be the only profession that gives a special name to the difficulty of working, and then expects sympathy for it?” But he also said this, in the space where you see the three dots: “All writing is difficult. The most you can hope for is a day when it goes reasonably easily.” Whether he was right about plumbers or not, I imagine doctors do sometimes find themselves stumped as to how to help a patient. I suspect... (Read More ...)

Before she got wise and self-published her book, Geri fell into doubting she would ever be a published author. With no word from her agent for months on end, her prospects looked slim and dim. Why were none of the publishers her agent had called “likely prospects” showing any interest? True, she wasn’t a “big name.” And her agent had told her that few publishers these days were anxious to step out on a limb. Still… not even one? As the months wore on, her spirits sagged. She fell into a funk. All that time she’d invested in creating her system for teaching music … all the... (Read More ...)

When Erica started writing her book, she thought she had a pretty good idea of where she was headed with it. As a pediatrician, she concerned herself in her practice with the physical health of children. With her book, she wanted to broaden that focus. She wanted to highlight was the dysfunction created in the family when parents depend on the eldest child to carry the burden of parenting. Born into a family of working parents whose four children had often been left to their own resources, Erica had suffered the pain of being the eldest. Charged more often than not with her three sisters’ welfare... (Read More ...)