The #1 reason people leave a job is their boss. But now that the national unemployment rate has climbed above 10%, most experts are advising employees to hang on to their jobs for as long as possible. So what do you do if you hate your boss and aren’t in a good position right now [...]

It’s easy to criticize ourselves in any situation for not doing enough, not saying the right thing, not making the right choices, and so forth. It’s easy to forget that we showed courage just by showing up.
There’s courage in just showing up for the medical or dental appointment that you really don’t want to attend.
There’s [...]

Turbulent times can be unnerving to an entrepreneur who is just starting out. However, veteran entrepreneurs assure that obstacles are stepping stones to opportunities. For example, Henry Ford wrote, “Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.”
If you are feeling [...]

On the 40th anniversary of the moon landing, MSNBC played a clip from a recent interview with an astronaut (I believe it was Alan Bean, the fourth man to walk on the moon), and I was particularly struck by his comment about how he and the other pioneering astronauts dealt with fear while in space. [...]

In Native Wisdom for White Minds, a Maori writer expresses confusion about people from the West: “Why do they whisper; why are they so afraid?” Ayn Rand made a similar observation in Atlas Shrugged, noting that people no longer race around because they have a purpose, but because they are afraid. In contrast, she added [...]

My 96-year-old grandmother is a vibrant, sharp-minded woman who spent most of her life gardening in her large backyard in Massachusetts, and her significant contributions to the American Hosta Society have earned her over 2,500 results if you Google her name.
Many spiritual teachings tell us that we can learn all we need to know just [...]