12 Steps to Create a Life You’ll Love to Live. Step 5.


I don’t know about you but I think human beings tend to be somewhat crisis oriented. We don’t really reach down into ourselves for answers until everything we’ve tried to do to control the world around us fails. As long as you have the familiar sights around you – things that you think you know – there is a sense of security. But when you leave the place that you know, and things aren’t working (e.g. Thomas Edison’s 1,000 unsuccessful attempts at a...

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12 Steps to Create a Life You’ll Love to Live. Step 4.


A number of years ago, when I first began studying aikido, I had a habit of falling incorrectly and, more often than not,  hurting myself. I was very frustrated and though I thought I understood what the right way was, I could not get it right. One night at the end of class, the instructor noticed my disappointment, leaned over to me and said very quietly, “It’s difficult to be a beginner.” That phrase didn’t comfort me much at the time, but it has rung through my ears many...

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