Copyright (c) 2010 Willie Horton If you've read pretty much anything at all on the subject of personal development or self improvement then you will have some appreciation of the importance placed by many experts on the important of being focused in the present moment.

Being a romantic, I love thinking about idealistic terms. What is intimacy, and what is solitude, and why in the world would I pair them together in a short blog post?

Copyright (c) 2009 Lin Schreiber Okay. You're not as young as you used to be. The job market is shrinking along with your 401k. You need to keep working. If you've been downsized (or if you know deep in your soul that you just can't keep doing what you're doing), does the prospect of looking for a job make you want to run screaming from the room?

Do you live in the past or the future? I have not mentioned the present did you notice that? No, it's not a riddle. My point is that many people waste large chunks of their lives living in the past or future.

We all understand how we get a healthy body, don't we? We know we need to make sure to eat healthily, exercise regularly and cut down on bad habits such as drinking and smoking; however, building a healthy mind is less understood.

I have noticed so many times that people are only rewarded their dreams after they have gone through one of these huge plunges. I believe these huge failures and plunges are a life's way of testing our level of commitment.

The movie,The Secret, told you that you could have anything you focused your mind on. You gave it a try, and guess what, it worked! Now you have the life of your dreams, only it isn't enough.

Larry thought he was a great listener. That morning while drinking his coffee, his wife was complaining about the kids. "They never pay attention to anything I say." She went on to list all the mundane mishaps of each child.

Two of the newest, and perhaps most prolific, electronic devices of the last 10 years are the ipod and iphone. The ipod and the iphone provide users with thousands of songs at the touch of a bottom in a device that can conveniently fit in your pocket.

Copyright (c) 2010 Fia Crandall The logical mind thinks in terms of the known, the visible, what can be confirmed. The Universe thinks in terms of possibility. The deeper part of you is connected to a greater wisdom and knows that all is possible and what you see around you is changeable.