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- Life: Your Highest Performance of Function - by Submitted on Nov 08, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge “Life” charges around your body every second of every day until your last breath on Earth. Your red blood cells race through thousands of miles of arteries, capillaries and veins. Everything about you thrives toward performance and function. Blood feeds your ...
Views: 719(1 vote) - Always Sit Down Wind of Flowers - by Submitted on Nov 04, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge Susan Schutz said, “Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair.” (Stopping to inhale the fragrances of flowers along your journey.) Years ago, I backpacked in Nepal, Tibet and other parts of Asia. I distinctly remember the peace and quietude of ...
Views: 1298(1 vote) - Coming Through the Fire: Your Road Less Traveled - by Submitted on Oct 27, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeBy the time you reach your senior year in high school, it dawns on you that this life offers no easy path. You discovered the only way to succeed academically or athletically: study your butt off and/or practice your sport until your body felt like a speed-bag in a boxing gym. You learned that ...
Views: 845(1 vote) - Live Happily Ever After—Day to Day - by Submitted on Oct 07, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge Snow White discovered her prince, embraced him and kissed him. Prince Charming swept her off her feet and carried the young maiden to the castle to live happily ever after. John Wayne, Clint Eastwood and Steve McQueen captured the desperadoes before riding into the ...
Views: 907(1 vote) - Bird Tracker on Bicycle: Dorian Anderson - by Submitted on Oct 07, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge “Have you ever observed a humming-bird moving about in an aerial dance among the flowers - a living prismatic gem.... it is a creature of such fairy-like loveliness as to mock all description.” ~W.H. Hudson, Green Mansions Individual passions glide on America’s ...
Views: 1099(1 vote) - Gossip: the devil’s radio - by Submitted on Oct 07, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge Gossip remains the mainstay of social media, sewing clubs and emails worldwide. Humans love talking about someone else more than the weather. They choose rumor, tattle-tales, speculation and allegation over facts, truth and reality. Gossip may be called “The ...
Views: 760(1 vote) - Learn how to dribble a football: life calls you - by Submitted on Oct 07, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge The famous automobile maker Henry Ford said, “If you think you can or can’t, you’re right.” Almost everything in your life boils down to how you think, speak and act. High thinking creates high vibrations in your mind and body. Such “thinking” loads the body with ...
Views: 667(1 vote) - Walking Across America for Little Children: Anna Harrington - by Submitted on Jun 25, 2014 from Frosty Wooldridge“For Jane Austen and the readers of Pride and Prejudice, solitary walks express the independence that literally takes the heroine out of the social sphere of the houses and their inhabitants, into a larger, lonelier world where she is free to think: walking articulates both physical and mental ...
Views: 761(1 vote) - You Always Command Choice in Your Life - by Submitted on Jun 23, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge Many people drag the past back into the present. Others make excuses for poor choices. Still others wave personal responsibility onto circumstances. Others abandon themselves in favor of the modus operandi of their “shadow” side. When arrested for drugs in her ...
Views: 559(1 vote) - Salvaging Our Plastic Oceans: Angela Haseltine Pozzi - by Submitted on Jun 18, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge “Cultures have long heard wisdom in non-human voices: Apollo, god of music, medicine and knowledge, came to Delphi in the form of a dolphin. But dolphins, which fill the oceans with blipping and chirping, and whales, which mew and caw in ultramarine jazz - a true rhapsody ...
Views: 1636(1 vote) - Fleeting Pleasures: Manufactured Happiness - by Submitted on Jun 18, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge Today, you may take a trip to Disney World for the ride of a lifetime. A quick excursion on a Caribbean cruise promises to whisk you away from the world’s troubles. Drug stores offer pills to cure your headaches, insomnia and sexual dysfunction. A gleaming car races ...
Views: 1000(1 vote) - A Bursting Heart: Dynamic Infusion of Intentions - by Submitted on Jun 11, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge Most teens exit high school without a clue as to what path they might follow on their life journey. Most grab a job. Many get married with over half divorcing within ten years. Others rocket into college with their parents’ wallets by their sides. (Maggie Doyne ...
Views: 778(2 votes) - Chad Pregracke: Cleaning up the Mississippi River one piece at a time - by Submitted on Jun 11, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge The Mississippi River sweeps millions of bottles, cans, tires, oil, plastic bags and containers, along with junk of every description, and chemicals into the Gulf of Mexico 24/7. From Minnesota where it starts as a six foot wide, 15 inches deep stream, it travels 2,552 ...
Views: 994(2 votes) - The Elusive Happiness Factor: How to discover it - by Submitted on Jun 02, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge If you look around your community whether you share a schoolroom, workout class or meeting place—someone laughs a lot, smiles and expresses their happiness. (Two happy guys on a bicycle tour. What makes them happy? They love to pedal their bicycles over long ...
Views: 620(1 vote) - Your Dream of Giving Two Weeks Notice - by Submitted on May 19, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge Do you like your work? Do you get a kick out of reaching the “office” daily as a park ranger, chef, teacher, truck driver, fireman, manager, waitress or hairdresser? Note this fact: what you do daily in your life affects your mind, body and spirit. If you love your ...
Views: 1960(1 vote) - Life Choices: Confidence versus Insecurity - by Submitted on May 14, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this trauma. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” ...
Views: 1068(1 vote) - Life Choices: Optimism vs. Pessimism - by Submitted on May 14, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge “To think well of yourself and to proclaim this fact to the world, not in loud words, but great deeds. To live in faith that the whole world is on your side so long as you are true to the best that is in you.” Christian D. Larson (Life can be an uplifting ...
Views: 988(1 vote) - Hold the Sky: What You Can Do About Personal Grief - by Submitted on May 14, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge During your journey on Earth, you face incredible moments of joy, challenge and discomfort. You never know where those “moments” may originate or for how long. In your life, you may face an accident, loss of a loved one, disintegration of a friendship or disease. A ...
Views: 1141(1 vote) - Tyranny of resistance: cubicle poster to real life - by Submitted on May 01, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeIn this high-speed society we created for ourselves, Americans live in traffic-congested cities with skyscrapers ejaculating into the sky. On the ground floor, humans race to catch crowded busses, packed subways and Yellow Cabs. With expressways gridlocked from dawn to dusk, people ...
Views: 890(1 vote) - How to Handle Discouragement - by Submitted on May 01, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeAt some moments in our lives, we feel depressed or “low” from something that happened to us. We might suffer a defeat on the sporting field. We may lose a friend or spouse. At some juncture, we may grieve our circumstance in a hopeless job or situation. When the world contrives against ...
Views: 974(1 vote) - Invisible world of caring: discover your destiny - by Submitted on May 01, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeMuch of life in every civilization revolves around money, power and status. Some youngsters enjoy instant success from their parents while others begin in poverty. Everyone learns the ways of the world by the time they reach 18. They understand the inequities, discriminations and biases. ...
Views: 535(1 vote) - Co-create your life journey - by Submitted on May 01, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeMost people stumble through their teens, stagger through their twenties and meander into their thirties. By forty, they suffer a mid-life crisis before bumping into the Big “5” “0”. From 50, they face the last third of their lives with a sense of a downhill slide. Most never lived any ...
Views: 773(1 vote) - Change your life with P.A.C.E. - by Submitted on May 01, 2014 from Frosty Wooldridge“How you doin’ Jack (or Jill)?” I asked a recreation-center friend last week. “Same ole, same ole,” he said. “Come on man,” I said. “We’ve got ski season in full swing. That’s got to put a spring in your step.” “Probably so,” he said. “But I need something new to fire me up.” He ...
Views: 699(1 vote) - Three methods to stop worrying - by Submitted on Apr 15, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge Your mother worried if you didn’t come home on time. She fretted about the house “worried sick” that something happened to you. When you popped into the door, she said, “Where were you? I was worried to death that something happened to you.” “Hi mom,” you said. “I ...
Views: 794(1 vote) - Creating solitude for your spiritual bliss - by Submitted on Apr 15, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge Americans living in big cities race through their days with gridlocked traffic, honking horns, cheeky taxi drivers, police sirens and jostling pedestrians racing toward their destinations. At work, they juggle temperamental co-employees, deadlines and ashes-in-the-mouth ...
Views: 744(1 vote) - Safeguarding friendships-a way to care for you and your friend - by Submitted on Apr 15, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge It’s been said that a “best friend” constitutes a miracle of the universe. (Sharing a campfire creates magical times for friends. It adds harmony, nature and fellowship with the bonding of the flames.) During your lifetime, you attach to certain individuals who ...
Views: 828(2 votes) - Judgment: Higher Frequencies of Human Consciousness - by Submitted on Apr 14, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge Make your life like a mighty river of love flowing out of your heart. Such consciousness will return with a flood of friends, joy and happiness. (This metal horse represents the intricacies of life interwoven into every work of art, every human being and every ...
Views: 824(1 vote) - Extricating yourself from the dark night of the soul - by Submitted on Apr 10, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge In today’s world, you face enormous challenges of time, work, family and friends. You face many toils along with trials that rise up in front of you like a blazing attack of dragons. While you endured cliques, politics and different kinds of instability during your ...
Views: 644(1 vote) - The celestial magic of a campfire and friends - by Submitted on Apr 03, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge To sit around a campfire with a stick while you poke the glowing embers before you, may be one of the most tangible of all visible mysteries of the universe. You stare into pulsing energy that feeds your soul. Warmth comforts your sense of belonging to the wilderness. ...
Views: 664(1 vote) - How to handle anyone who drives you nuts - by Submitted on Apr 03, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge If you work in a school, company, fast food joint, office or any other organization that forces you into contact with other people—you must deal with one or two characters that drive you nuts. They may be arrogant, rude, aggressive or impudent. They offer you ...
Views: 706(1 vote) - Cloud talk—sitting on a cloud after you passed away - by Submitted on Apr 03, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge A few weeks ago, a preacher spoke about a new term that I never heard before: “Cloud talk—when you die, you elevate to heaven where you sit on a cloud. You may look down on the planet to see where you lived. You may contemplate what you did with your time on Earth. How ...
Views: 753(1 vote) - Forks in the road, stop signs, cul de sacs and dead ends on the highway of life - by Submitted on Mar 31, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge While taking a hike down a country road near dusk in my teens, an old farmer, plodding along with his walking stick, abruptly stopped me. His wrinkled-weathered skin did not diminish the energy in his clear blue eyes. Silver locks flowed from his wide-brimmed hat while ...
Views: 653(1 vote) - What Dream Has Your Name on It - by Submitted on Mar 26, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeMost people stumble through their teens, stagger through their twenties and meander into their thirties. By forty, they suffer a mid-life crisis before bumping into the Big “5” “0”. From 50, they face the last third of their lives with a sense of a downhill slide. Most never lived any ...
Views: 577(1 vote) - Oracle of the soul: discovering gems of understanding - by Submitted on Mar 26, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeAs you grew up, you experienced different lessons along your life-path. You discovered a hot stove hurt when you touched it. A candle flame caused pain when you passed your finger over it. A rosebush thorn made your finger bleed. A bee sting caused you terrible agony. From those ...
Views: 1325(1 vote) - Planting A Garden In Your Mind - by Submitted on Mar 22, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge The words you use define your mental acuity. The thoughts you think plant seeds that grow in your mind. By engaging positive words and thriving thoughts—you propel your mind toward a bountiful harvest of daily living. Plant these ideas into your mind for a renewal of ...
Views: 653(1 vote) - The Journey Back: I Choose Me - by Submitted on Mar 22, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge My friend Fred sat down in the booth at Woody’s Pizza in downtown Golden, Colorado last fall. He represented sartorial splendor in that he wore a suit and tie with Italian shoes. I slid into the booth opposite him. (Sometimes, life chases you. You want to give up ...
Views: 533(1 vote) - Three profound secrets to a happy life - by Submitted on Mar 19, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge Thomas Jefferson said, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” Through all of human ...
Views: 823(1 vote) - No ordinary moments: your epic life - by Submitted on Mar 19, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge Every week in America, you read stories of amazing moments where ordinary people triumphed over failure. You may watch the “Biggest Loser” where a man or woman cut 150 pounds off his or her body to walk on stage looking fantastic in a suit or dress. Most suffered ...
Views: 784(1 vote) - The Race of Life: the happiness factor - by Submitted on Mar 19, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge Bhutan in Asia sets the benchmark for living a “happy” life. Its culture mandates that “happiness” holds the highest distinction in the realm of daily living. Those citizens living in that country enjoy a much slower and quieter living pace. They maintain a spiritual ...
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