Tips and Tools

Practical Tips and tools to help you in your spiritual and personal growth journey.

Know that You Don’t Know: Letting Go of the Need to Be Right and In Control

By Dr. Toni LaMotta How do you know what you know in life? What is your criterion for saying something is TRUE? Is it: I heard a teacher say it last week, my mother or father told me when I…

7 Tips to Overcome Procrastination

By Rebecca A. Watson “Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.”—Jim Rohn When I recently told an acquaintance I worked at home full-time, she commented how difficult that would be for her. “I’d never have the kind of discipline…

Who Needs Need: The Fifth Pathway

By Gregg Sanderson “Two Roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.”—Robert Frost There are few roads less traveled today than the Fifth Pathway from Ken…

When Life Hands You a Lemon Make Lemonade

By Marcia Bender Most of our lives contain difficult periods that seem almost unbearable. As humans, we go through many changes in a lifetime, and some of these transformations are more profound than others. Indeed, change is never easy, and…

It’s All a Matter of Perception

By Kathy “Katica” Rivera Wallace “A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world.”—Ken Keyes, Jr., Handbook to Higher Consciosness One word says it all: Perception. By changing your mind, you can change…

The Seven Day Media Cleanse

By Joran Slane Oppelt “Everyone can perform magic, everyone can reach his goals, if he is able to think, if he is able to wait, if he is able to fast.” —Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha It wasn’t even my idea. It was…

How to Overcome Perfectionism

By Rebecca A. Watson Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.—Harriet Braiker My neighbor came to my door while I was baking my first loaf of gluten-free bread. She said she admired my diet and told me…

Who Needs Need? The Fourth Pathway

By Gregg Sanderson “I always remember that I have everything I need to enjoy my here and now, unless I am letting my consciousness be dominated by demands and expectations based on the dead past or the imagined future.” Gurus…

Removing “The Box”: Learning to Think Like a Child

By Darcey Pollard We all know that “thinking outside the box” means to find another option or solution. At times this can be challenging, whether we are searching for a solution to a new problem at work, moving through a…

Creating the Life of Your Dreams: The “Now” vs. the Law of Attraction

By Natalie Rivera The teachings of “living in the Now” and the “Law of Attraction” are two sides of the same coin; the lesson is one of releasing resistance. Eckhart Tolle, one of my favorite teachers, tells us that freedom…