Category Soul

I was reading a story recently of a woman who was basically an invalid until the Pearl Harbor strike. It took that horrific event for her to get out of her bed and stop wasting her life. Up until that day she had spent more than a year in bed with a “bad heart.” She spent 22 out of every 24 hours in bed and claims, “I would never have really lived again if the Japanese had not struck Pearl Harbor and jarred me out of my complacency.”

The part that really disturbs me is when she says, “The attack on Pearl Harbor was one of the greatest tragedies in American history, but as far as I was concerned, it was one of the best things that ever happened to me.”

One of the best things that ever happened to her? Really?

I can understand her comment only in the sense that it changed her life for ...

How to Stop Worrying About Everything

Compulsively worrying about every little thing can really take a toll on a person. I can tell you from experience. Worry nearly took me out! The solution? How to stop worrying about everything even when it seems you have no other choice?

Live In Day Tight Compartments

What does that mean? To live in day-tight compartments. It means to only be concerned with (concerned with not worrying mind you, there is a difference) with the goings-on from sunrise to sundown.

This doesn’t mean you don’t plan for the future, you can certainly take actions that day that will be FOR your future. But you don’t spend your day WORRYING about the future. And you certainly don’t spend your time worrying about the past.

The past should be for one thing (ma...