Steve Goodier Wisdom: A Beautiful Heart

In this inspirational article, master storyteller, Steve Goodier, shares a key piece of life wisdom . Enjoy!

One grandfather quipped about his grandchildren: “My grandkids are four and six. The Pulitzer Prize winner is four and the brain surgeon is six.”

Parents and grandparents are understandably proud of the quick minds and impressive talents of their little ones. But let me tell you about another quality, perhaps even more important, found in a little girl named Skylar. Read more

A realistic vision for world peace (inspirational video)

From the TED.com YouTube.com site: Nobel Peace laureate Jody Williams brings tough love to the dream of world peace, with her razor-sharp take on what “peace” really means, and a set of profound stories that zero in on the creative struggle — and sacrifice — of those who work for it.

Get comfortable with being uncomfortable

From the TED.com YouTube channel: Luvvie Ajayi isn’t afraid to speak her mind or to be the one dissenting voice in a crowd, and neither should you. “Your silence serves no one,” says the writer, activist and self-proclaimed professional troublemaker. In this bright, uplifting talk, Ajayi shares three questions to ask yourself if you’re teetering on the edge of speaking up or quieting down — and encourages all of us to get a little more comfortable with being uncomfortable.
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Steve Goodier Wisdom: When Love is For Real

In this inspirational article, master storyteller, Steve Goodier, shares a key piece of life wisdom . Enjoy!

Two lovers were talking and she said to him, “I don’t have a lot of money. I don’t have a brand new sports car and a yacht like Lisa Turner, but I love you with all my heart.”

He said to her, “I love you, too. But tell me more about Lisa Turner.” Tennessee Williams might have said that he had “all the sincerity of a bird-hunter’s whis¬tle.” Read more

In Honor of The International Day of Peace September 21

The United Nations International Day of Peace was established by the UN in 1981 and will be celebrated this year on Friday, September 21. In honor, we feature Our World at Peace, a video created by 10 Million Clicks For Peace co-founder, Rick Beneteau who created the storyboard, and member extraordinaire, Paul Sutherland who crafted the video.
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Steve Goodier Wisdom: A Cure for Intolerance

In this inspirational article, master storyteller, Steve Goodier, shares a key piece of life wisdom . Enjoy!

Intolerance is an infectious social disease. It has always been prevalent and is usually spread by fear and misunderstanding. It sometimes infects religious communities, too. Mark Twain noticed it in his daytime. He said that he built a cage and put a cat and a dog in it. After a while they learned to get along. Then he added a bird, a goat and a pig. After some adjustments they, too, got along. Then he added a Baptist, a Presbyterian and a Catholic. Soon there was nothing left alive in the cage.

Back in 1534 Abbot Paul Bachmann wrote a virulent anti-Protestant booklet titled “A Punch in the Mouth for the Lutheran Lying Wide-Gaping Throats.” Not to take it on the chin, Protestants responded with a treatise by Court Chaplain Jerome Rauscher titled “One Hundred Select, Great, Shameless Fat, Well-Swilled, Stinking Papistical Lies.” And the disease spread. Read more

Cultivating Unconditional Self-Worth

From the TED.com YouTube channel: When a person demands perfection of herself or himself, anything less can feel like failure. Adia Gooden knows this from experience. In addition to her work as a staff psychologist at the University of Chicago, she’s learned in her own life how to break negative thought patterns and live more freely. She shares those lessons in her talk: “Cultivating Unconditional Self-Worth.”
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Steve Goodier Wisdom: Living With Romance

In this inspirational article, master storyteller, Steve Goodier, shares a key piece of life wisdom . Enjoy!

One woman tells this story about her parents. She says that they had ot been out together in quite some time. One Saturday, as her mother was finishing the dinner dishes, her father stepped up behind  her.

“Would you like to go out, girl?” he asked. Read more

You Don’t Find Happiness, You Create It

From the TED.com YouTube channel: Why is it so hard to find that life of meaning, and connection, and happiness we long for? Why can’t we just live in our “happy place” all the time? According to psychologist Katarina Blom, the brain is not always on your side when it comes to well-being. Survival, absolutely. The rest, not so much. But there is hope!

In this personal and inspiring talk, Katarina Blom lets you in on a few secrets of the mind - and how you can cultivate happiness by befriending your brain. Katarina Blom is a psychologist, a co-founder of a gym for the mind, the first author to publish a Swedish book on positive psychology, and she is the creator of one of the biggest digital platforms on psychology in Sweden. Also, she is an Acroyoga instructor.
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Steve Goodier Wisdom: Grow Antennae

In this inspirational article, master storyteller, Steve Goodier, shares a key piece of life wisdom . Enjoy!

A story, which may be relegated to the files of “urban legends,” tells about a Philadelphia legal firm that sent flowers to an associate in Baltimore upon the opening of its new offices. Through some mix-up, the ribbon that bedecked the floral piece read, “Deepest Sympathy.”

When the florist was duly informed of her mistake, she let out a cry of alarm. “Good grief! Then the flowers that went to the funeral said, ‘Congratulations On Your New Location!’” Read more

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