Steve Goodier Wisdom: Just In Time

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

Do you ever worry about what might happen in the future? Or do you find yourself anxious about things over which you have no control? If so, then a teaching from author and lecturer Corrie ten Boom may help.

She learned a powerful lesson as a little girl. Having encountered the cold, lifeless body of a baby, she realized that the reality of death would someday strike her family, too. Perhaps her father or mother or sister, Betsy, would soon die.

She anxiously worried about these possibilities until her father came in one night to tuck her into bed. Corrie burst into tears and sobbed, “I need you. You can’t die. You can’t!” Read more

Steve Goodier Wisdom: What Will You Become?

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

“Is it true,” a young boy asked his mother, “that we are made of dust?”

“Yes,” she said.

“And is it true that we go back to dust again when we die?” he continued.

“Yes, dear.”

“Well, Mommy, when I looked under my bed I saw someone who was coming or going, but I don’t know which.”

Of course, a lot of people (like me) don’t always know whether they are coming or going. But he doesn’t have to worry about humans being created and dying under his bed. Read more

Steve Goodier Wisdom: Surround Yourself with Encouragers

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

Simeon Ford, the proprietor of the Old Grand Union Hotel in New York, said, “You don’t need to know anything about a hotel to run one. You just open up and the customers tell you how to run it.”

That must be true of other businesses, too. I heard of a newspaper editor who called in her assistant and handed him a stack of papers. “These are suggestions sent in by subscribers on how to run our paper. Make sure you carry them out,” she said.

He did. He dropped them into his trash can and carried them out. Read more

Steve Goodier Wisdom: This Wondrous World

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

Not everyone has a good grip of science. But these children’s scientific musings at least show humor and creativity!

To explain nuclear reactions, one child said, “When they broke open molecules, the found they were only stuffed with atoms. But when they broke open atoms, they found them stuffed with explosions.”

Concerning astronomy, one child said, “Most books now say our sun is a star. But it still knows how to change back into a sun in the day-time.” And another said, “Some people can tell what time it is by looking at the sun. But I have never been able to make out the numbers.” Read more

Steve Goodier Wisdom: Choosing Courage; Finding Peace

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

“Do you know what my son James dreamed about last night?” a friend asked me. “He dreamed about YOU,” she went on.

“James told me this morning that in his dream he was being chased by King Kong. Then he met you. I asked him if Mr. Goodier helped him. He said, ‘No! He was hiding in the bushes with me while the Boy Scouts were beating King Kong with sticks.’”

Since I wasn’t much help, thank goodness for the Boy Scouts! Read more

Steve Goodier Wisdom: Bluebird of Happiness

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

A sign in a pet store read, “If anybody has seen the Bluebird of Happiness, would you please notify this pet store?”

Happiness seems to be in short supply for many people. If the results of recent surveys can be trusted, there is a general decline of happiness in today’s world. And people were not all that cheerful a few years back! It was Oliver Wendell Holmes who stated, “I might have been a minister for aught I know, if a certain clergyman had not looked and talked like an undertaker.” (I have to say, though, that some clergy and undertakers I’ve known could teach the rest of us something about joy!)

Joy and happiness are not always the same things. Happiness can be thought of as more of a temporary, emotional condition, often based on outside circumstances. Joy, on the other hand, is deeper. We can be basically joyful, regardless of a particular unhappy situation that we may be enduring. It is often just a matter of keeping perspective on our troubles, and especially when those troubles seem to be in long supply. Read more

Steve Goodier Wisdom: A Kind of Devotion You’ll Never Regret

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

A true story comes from an incident which occurred during a business training seminar. To illustrate motivation, the trainer asked one of the business executives in the audience to come forward.

The trainer said, “I want you to imagine that I have placed a wooden beam across the floor here and I would like for you to walk from one end of the beam to the other end. Would you do that for $20?”

The man said that he would. Read more

Steve Goodier Wisdom: More Light and Less Noise

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

A great story from one of America’s greatest story-tellers, Abraham Lincoln, was related by the president during those anxious days of the American Civil War. A delegation of well-meaning patriots tried to impress upon the president the gravity of the war. They implied that his administration was neither as wise nor good as it ought to be. He listened carefully, then responded with a memorable anecdote.

He told them that he once had a neighbor who found himself in a tight situation. He was traveling home one dark and rainy night. There were few bridges in the country and he came to a stream that he would have to ford. But because of the darkness and the rain, he couldn’t see well enough to know just where to cross. Read more

Steve Goodier Wisdom: Three Messages of Strong Families

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

One family subscribed to the notion that money really CAN buy happiness — send the kids to summer camp! So they sent their son Joey away for the season. He was apparently as blissful about the arrangement as his parents, for after about three weeks, they finally received a postcard. Both parents huddled together to read it. After a moment, Joey’s mother looked up and commented to her husband, “Well, it certainly is Joey.”

The card read: “Dear Mom and Dad, they are making everyone write home. Love, Joey.” Read more

Steve Goodier Wisdom: Listen With Your Eyes

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

An expert on whales was telling friends about some of the unusual findings he had made.  “For instance,” he said, “some whales can communicate at a distance of 300 miles.”

“What on earth would one whale say to another 300 miles away?” asked a sarcastic member of the group.

“I’m not absolutely sure,” answered the expert, “but it sounds something like this: ‘Heeeeeeey!  Can you hear me nowwww!?!’ ” Read more

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