Showing posts with label self help. Show all posts
Showing posts with label self help. Show all posts

Sunday, March 15, 2015

A list of 10 things I appreciate today

It’s important to appreciate yourself. It’s better to live your life as a happy person. Taking time to appreciate the little things will put you on the road to a better life. Why not give it a go and see what happens? You have nothing to lose. We have so much to be grateful for.

Spring flowers

Longer hours of daylight

Sunsets

Oranges

Bird song

The wind in the tops of the trees

Me time

Working at my own pace

The internet

Peace and quiet

Tuesday, December 16, 2014

The Magic grows

Over the years I read and reread ‘The Magic of the Mind in Action’ getting as much as I could from the extracts included in the book.

It wasn’t until computers arrived in homes and the birth of Amazon that I actually managed to buy myself a copy of ‘Bring out the Magic in Your Mind’. I even loved the design on the cover! It was a delight to read. Al Koran wrote as if he was talking to me personally.

I’ve since read the book many times. I lent it to my younger son and he felt that it was helpful too. I gave him a copy of his own in the end as I didn’t want mine to disappear. I discovered that other people online were inspired by the book too.

Then one day someone sent me a link to YouTube videos about positive thinking which pushed the ‘Magic’ even further!

Wednesday, October 8, 2014

My Mind holds Magic

About 40 years ago I picked up a book in the supermarket which caught my eye because of the title; ‘The Magic of the Mind in Action’ it was by a mentalist (mind reader, magician) who called himself Al Koran. His real name was Edward Doe.

The book contained letters that had been written to him by readers of an earlier book that he wrote ‘Bring out the Magic in Your Mind’. With quotes from the first book he used the letters to show that people really had managed to change their lives through positive thought. Reading the words of Al Koran and the stories of the changes people made in their lives really inspired me.

 I lacked self confidence and had been inspired by two other books in a small way a few years before. ‘Anybody Can Do Anything’ by Betty Macdonald and the title of the other book remains a mystery after all these years. All I remember about it was reading that many people do not know how to say ‘No’. I didn’t read much of that book but I was armed with the idea that I didn’t have to comply with the bidding of others.

 I had started to make changes.