In his 1952 short story A Sound of Thunder, Ray Bradbury wrote about a futuristic time machine company that took hunters back to prehistoric days to hunt...
3 Ways That You Can Change the World
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Motivation
Embrace Positive Thinking
Recently, someone wrote in and asked me the following questions regarding positive thinking. I thought they were great questions, so I thought I'd share my...
My Left Arm Has It Easier: Knowing What You Can Accomplish
I love to lift weights. I’m right handed, so if I do exercises that call for me to use one arm at a time, I start with my right arm. And it hit me one day...
You’re Not Out of Gas: Remain Hopeful for Unexpected Solutions
In 1922 there were 7 million cars in the United States, and the United States Geological Survey estimated that the country would run out of oil by 1942. But...
Burn Your Bridges: When Success is the Only Option
Way back in ancient times, there was a general who led his men a super far distance to the outskirts of a neighboring kingdom. Right when they were across from their enemy’s kingdom, the general had his army build a bridge to the other side. Once his entire army...
Beware A Lean Advisor: Should You Take Advice From Desperate People?
A lion once tried to convince a mountain goat to come down off the barren crags and enjoy the sweet, fertile life of the green pastures. The mountain goat, however, was not easily convinced. In fact, according to the fifth century poet Avianus, the goat merely shook...
From Rigel, Orion Doesn’t Exist: A New Perspecive on Your Problems
We admire the constellation Orion. Honored in mythology as a demi-god, Orion is said to have been able to easily conquer the wild world around him. “So great were his achievements and so loyal was he to Artemis, that he was placed among the stars upon his death.” From...
The Enormity of it All: Keeping Your Perspectives In Check
There could be more than 100 billion galaxies in the universe. Each galaxy can contain 100 billion stars or more. Of those stars, imagine how many more have habitable planets. We sometimes believe that when we are “stuck in line” at a grocery store or at a bank or in...
How Are You With You?
This has been going on through the ages. They criticize the silent ones. They criticize the talkative ones. They criticize the moderate ones. There is not one in the world who escapes criticism. There never was and never will be, Nor is there now, The wholly...