It will take just 37 seconds to read this and change your thinking.




Two men, both seriously ill, occupied the same hospital room.






One man was allowed to sit up in his bed for an hour each afternoon to help drain the fluid from his lungs.



His bed was next to the room's only window.








The other man had to spend all his time flat on his back.








The men talked for hours on end.



They spoke of their wives and families, their homes, their jobs, their involvement in the milit… Continue

People were brought up in social protocols that we do not know why we follow. We have learned to classify people with what material things they have. Poor people have less assets or none at all. Rich people have so much stuff, even the unimaginable, they possess.

Who invented the classification of societal levels, anyway? Think about it.

Poverty, for me, is a state of mind. Thus, extravagance or richness is a force that you have attracted to yourself. Poor people thinks they are poor most of t… Continue

Happiness: 3 amazing tips from the world's oldest case study user
by Yeah Dave (David Romanelli), on Tue Jun 23, 2009

We’ve all heard countless studies, articles and TV interviews on happiness. But the other day I stumbled upon something that is just now being revealed to the media for the first time.* It's a 72 year old study that began all the way back in 1937 when 268 Harvard University sophomores were asked to participate in a study measuring “a formula-some mix of love, work, and adaptatio… Continue

I was thinking about the hard times and struggles many folks are facing today and was reminded of a talk I attended a few months back. It was by Dr. Fred Luskin, who is world reknown for his incredible research and publications on the power of forgiveness, but on this particular day, he spoke about this idea of sharing what we have. As I look around our world today, I see the focus shifted so heavily on the lack that people are at a loss for hope and new possibility. By opening ourselves up and… Continue

Stone Soup
There are many variations on the story of stone soup, but they all involve a traveler coming into a town beset by famine. The inhabitants try to discourage the traveler from staying, fearing he wants them to give him food. They tell him in no uncertain terms that there’s no food anywhere to be found. The traveler explains that he doesn’t need any food and that, in fact, he was planning to make a soup to share with all of them. The villagers watch suspiciously as he builds a fire and f… Continue