Steve Goodier Wisdom: Attitude Determines Altitude

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

Unlike some things in life, we can choose our outlook. Sometimes we just need a reminder that happiness can often simply be a result of choosing attitudes:

“I woke up early today, excited over all I get to do before the clock strikes midnight.  I have responsibilities to fulfill today. My job is to choose what kind of day I am going to have.

“Today I can complain because the weather is rainy or I can be thankful that the grass is getting watered for free. Read more

Happiness 101: Teaching our children the habits of happiness (inspirational video)

From the TEDx YouTube channel: Erin is a theatre artist, activist and educator whose passion is making the world a better place via theater, the arts, her infectious exuberance and the classroom. Originally from the US, she’s taught at schools in Ghana, South Korea, Togo, and Bali. She focuses on nurturing global citizenship, happiness, and social activism within her students and leads dynamic workshops on inquiry-based learning and integrating the  arts into the classroom.

She writes about these explorations in her personal blog “Common Threads” and in “World Mom’s Blog,” The Huffington Post and Union Station magazine. She’s been recognized for her commitment to enriching lives through the arts by Mayor John Street of Philadelphia; U.S. President George Bush; and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR). Read more

Steve Goodier Wisdom: Bound to Forgive

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

Writer Norman Cousins said that life is an adventure in forgiveness. I think Fr. Lawrence Martin Jenco would agree.

In 1984, Fr. Jenco traveled to Beirut, dedicated to help the poorest of the poor. On January 8, 1985, he was kidnapped by Shiite Muslim extremists and held hostage for 564 days. He endured imprisonment, beatings, illness and heartbreaking periods of sorrow and loneliness. Several years after his release, he wrote a book (BOUND TO FORGIVE, Ave Maria Press, 1995) about his experiences in captivity and, more importantly, about the power of love and forgiveness.

Fr. Jenco tells about being taped like a mummy from his ankles to the top of his head each time he was transported from one place to another. He described being forced to breathe only from his nose as his mouth was stuffed with a cloth and taped shut. Read more

All it takes is 10 mindful minutes (inspirational video)

From the TED.com YouTube channel: When is the last time you did absolutely nothing for 10 whole minutes? Not texting, talking or even thinking? Mindfulness expert Andy Puddicombe describes the transformative power of doing just that: Refreshing your mind for 10 minutes a day, simply by being mindful and experiencing the present moment. (No need for incense or sitting in strange positions.)

Steve Goodier Wisdom: It Begins With a Dream

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

The agricultural school dean was interviewing a freshman. “Why have you chosen this career?” he asked.

“I dream of making a million dollars in farming, like my father,” replied the freshman.

The dean was impressed. “Your father made a million dollars in farming?”

“No,” the student said. “But he always dreamed of it.” Read more

Planting Seeds Of Happiness The Danish Way (inspirational video)

From the TEDx.com YouTube channel: This talk is about what you can learn from the Danes - among the happiest people in the world and planting seeds of happiness.

Author of the book “Heureux comme un Danois” (Happy as a Dane) and named one of the “24 women of 2012” according to the French magazine L’Express. She is part of the advisory committee for the Positive Economy Forum since 2012, an initiative lead by Jacques Attali under the sponsorship of the President of the French Republic. Watch her talk about what you can learn from the Danes - among the happiest people in the world!

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Say your truths and seek them in others (inspirational video)

From the TEDTalks YouTube channel: In a lyrical, unexpectedly funny talk about heavy topics such as frayed relationships and the death of a loved one, Elizabeth Lesser describes the healing process of putting aside pride and defensiveness to make way for soul-baring and truth-telling. “You don’t have to wait for a life-or-death situation to clean up the relationships that matter to you,” she says. “Be like a new kind of first responder … the one to take the first courageous step toward the other.”
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Steve Goodier Wisdom: Heroes Among Us

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

Not every Marine is a hero! During field training exercises at Parris Island, South Carolina, one drill instructor threw a pinecone among the recruits and yelled, “Grenade!” The trainees immediately turned away and hit the ground. “Just as I suspected,” chided the DI. “Not a hero among you! Didn’t anyone want to jump on that grenade to save the others?”

A little later the instructor threw another pinecone and yelled, “Grenade!” This time, all the recruits but one jumped on the “explosive.” Read more

Stories from a home for terminally ill children (inspirational video)

From the TED.com YouTube channel: To honor and celebrate young lives cut short, Kathy Hull founded the first freestanding pediatric palliative care facility in the United States, the George Mark Children’s House. Its mission: to give terminally ill children and their families a peaceful place to say goodbye. She shares stories brimming with wisdom, joy, imagination and heartbreaking loss.

Steve Goodier Wisdom: Time Well-Spent

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

Charles Francis Adams was the United States ambassador to Great Britain during the Lincoln administration. He had the habit of keeping a daily diary. He also taught his son, Brooks, the value of journaling his activities in a diary.

One memorable day, eight-year-old Brooks recorded, “Went fishing with my father, the most glorious day of my life.” It must have been, for the next forty years Brooks repeatedly mentioned it in his diary. Read more

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