God has placed his goodness in created things that’s why we get attracted to them. “God saw all that he had made, and it was very good.” (Genesis 1:31) There are many desirable qualities in these things that God created or many good stuffs in them that delights us. Seas,
January 18, 2025
This is a book published back in 1996 but its ideas are still much relevant. Steve Chandler’s “100 Ways to Motivate Yourself: Change Your Life Forever” is a must read because of the numerous different motivating tips it contains. Here are some of his significant ones: Meditate on Your Mortality
January 10, 2025
When you were a kid did you not cheat (during games, schoolwork, etc.)? Dr. Peter Kreeft would say, “Not to admit cheating during your childhood is equivalent to saying infants don’t cry”. Especially when playing childhood games, we would rather be bad winners than good losers. We don’t want to
January 7, 2025
Tony Robbins is the leader in self-help business in the U.S. and his book, “Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial Destiny” is a testament to his being ahead of the pack. Here are the main points of his book. (Sentences
December 30, 2024
Do you have a goal this year that you have not fulfilled and must have concluded “I’m lousy at fulfilling goals, I have given up making them”? That goal might be to exercise more, spend more time with your family, take up a new hobby, save more money or read
December 21, 2024
In the Book of Kings, we read the story of Elijah who was told by God to leave his place because it was experiencing a season of drought. God was helping Elijah solve his problem of lack of food and water by sending him to a widow in Zarephath. “Then
December 20, 2024
The author an Olympic gold medalist in rifle shooting does not claim his expertise in writing this book, “With Winning in Mind: The Mental Management System”, from psychology but from his gold medals and medals of his students. Lanny Basham simply says that this is not theory but proven practice
December 19, 2024
Ultimately it boils down to certain beliefs that we stick to and those beliefs are very much tied to our self-identity. So much so that if some truth is presented to us that requires us to make some change in behavior, even we know that it is the right thing
December 17, 2024
It’s an interesting title to a book “When”. It talks about when to do things or timing it perfectly that will get us an optimum output in our work and life in general. Daniel Pink, the author of this best-selling book, is on a roll of writing best-sellers. The previous
December 12, 2024
Bishop Robert Barron would say that original sin is like a kid being raised in a dysfunctional family. The child would be prone to committing many wrongdoings because of his upbringing. Human nature being wounded by original sin makes us easily fall into sin. G.K. Chesterton says, if you want
December 6, 2024
This is from a TED talk given by Bethany Butzer. Bethany is a very accomplished individual since primary school up until she acquired her doctorate. She would always push herself very hard to accomplish her goals such as getting honors in high school, college and graduate studies but would end
December 3, 2024
According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church original sin is, “Yielding to the tempter (the devil), Adam and Eve committed a personal sin, but this sin affected the human nature that they would then transmit in a fallen state. It is a sin which will be transmitted by propagation
November 28, 2024