Richard and Maurice were running a barbeque restaurant in Los Angeles, but it wasn’t doing very well. So they took a brief break to decide what to do. They audited their sales receipts to see which products were selling more. Once they […]
Maxwell Maltz was a plastic surgeon in the 1950s. He made a scintillating discovery in a new scientific field of his day — cybernetics. He wrote in the book Psycho-Cybernetics that our “subconscious mind” is not just a mind but a goal-striving servo-mechanism. He […]
This new age that we live in provides us with medicines, mobile phones, streaming services and much more. But with all these advances in technology can come a whole range of problems — and problems mean frustrations. Modern life is frustrating, and […]
This week I turned sixty. While there weren’t many options to celebrate amongst the six-week-long lockdown where I live, there was plenty of time to reflect on the six decades that I have spent on this planet. While God’s Human Creation department […]
Removing little frustrations can lead to big gains We all cope with many little frustrations every day. The fridge needs cleaning. “I will do it when I have a bit of time,” you tell yourself. Days pass by, and you don’t get around […]
In 2009, Bronnie Ware, an Australian palliative care nurse wrote the second article for her newly formed blog, Inspiration and Chai. The article was called Regrets of the Dying. After too many years of unfulfilling work, Bronnie Ware began searching for a […]