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We frequently hear about the rising divorce rate, and unhappy marriages, but people still want familes. There is nothing wrong with this, but these stories can be quite discouraging. The hope of marriage lasting seems all but gone. Does this mean that there is nothing we could do to make a marriage more likely to last? Not at all.

In my story, I make it clear that it was the idea of kids like me that really motivated me to delve into self improvement. One of the factors that I really wanted to take care of was a happy marriage. Its not fun or wholesome to grow up in a family where the mother and father do not get along, and if there is no example of what proper love is for a child growing up what standard will they have to measure love by when they are adults? So I started asking anyone who I saw that appeared to have a happy marriage, and I still read everything I can find on relationships and marriage. This is what I’ve found so far. (more…)

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“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society”~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

Soon we will all be going home to see our family members. We are going to sit eat and be merry. Until of course the topic changes to certain subjects. Politics, religion, money, and sexuality, you know the things that are intimately part of our lives. As soon as these topics are brought up there can be a number of reactions. Sometimes we just shy away from them. Sometimes we find the person who brought them up to be rude. Sometimes we participate in the discussion and get very upset.  Isn’t it curious though? The things that we most avoid talking about are often the things that effect our lives most directly. They are very personal, and very important, but we don’t talk about them.

Maybe its time to challenge this. (more…)

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When I started my path for self-improvement the first thing I focused on was finances. I understood from experience that wanting money is not a point of greed. If you don’t have enough money to get by then you will not be able to see your family, and then you work and work and work, for the sake of people who you never get a chance to get to know. I wanted to make sure that I wouldn’t make this same mistake. Not that working for others is bad, nor is there anything wrong with hard work, but you should also be able to enjoy some fruits of your labor without feeling desparate.

Every media outlet we turn on now a days will tell us how bad the economy is, and how tight finances are in the entire world. I’d like to put some perspective on this. (more…)