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The bible says that humility and the fear of the Lord leads to wealth and life and honour. Now riches is more than just money: it involves high quality relationships, positive impact, high self confidence, meaning,...

I learned this week that goodness has healing properties: I was in a group counselling seminar and giving advice to two depressed people who were struggling with their issues and I realized that as I activated my parietal...

To me humility is about being excellent in service and private social performance and not about being excellent in results or reputation because Jesus said your reputation can change and so can your results but your...

A Harvard Educated Angela Duckworth said the greatest determinant in your ability to succeed is your grit which is your ability to persevere and conquer and trouble shoot difficult and challenging situations but I believe...

I am reading a book right now and they discussed how one city had an unusually higher number of people who had lived past 100 years. The researcher spent tons of money researching their diet and their lifestyle and their...

Since I love rap and haven't written a take featuring some new German rap songs, here you go. Most of these songs have foreign languages mixed in, but each song includes German bits, so I hope you enjoy my compilation....

After realising that my life would soon change completely, I reached out to my therapist and my ex, mainly because those were the most important people in my life at one point. Why my ex? I had high expectations with my...

The woman’s initials are R.V. And she wrote a book called “Finding the woman of valour,” which is the Jewish translation of a word that in English is substituted with the term, “Godly.” In this book she talks about how...

Today, during my weekly creative writers group, we were asked to write about a hero in our lives and even though I usually have no difficulty with prompts, I realized I could not find somebody in my past or current life...

1. Maybe he wanted something natural and not cosmetically constructed: When your making millions and everybody is trying to win your approval and tell you what you want to hear, the one who resists your will and tells you...

Jesus said you cannot serve both money and God and gave a story about the rich man who lived comfortably and beautifully and than died while the wounded victim at his gate died and received everlasting peace. But Abraham...

I’ve read over 54 books in the last 40 weeks on positive psychology and I also read 2-4 journal articles on physical and mental and interpersonal health each day and these are some of the things I learned through my...

Jesus said in Matthew 5 that you are the salt of the earth and salt is good but if a salt losses it’s saltiness, how can it’s saltiness be restored? It is good neither for the soil, nor for the manure pile, it is good...