Everybody talks about comfort zones. They tell us we’ve got to move ourselves out of our comfort zone; that we must make ourselves UNcomfortable if we are to grow.
Anyway that’s what they say. I’ve even said it myself. But these days I’m starting to wonder, because there seems to be more to it than [...]

A subscriber wrote:
A friend of mine is on a fixed income and has maxed out his credit cards (nearing $10,000). He has started a new business, but currently has no customers or prospects.
He is affirming that he is already successful and debt-free. What is the best way for him? Should he write checks [...]

Is there really such a thing as failure?
Let’s get this straight once and for all. Your Cosmic Pump (your inner mind) is not in the business of giving you what you want. It gives you exactly - and only - what you ask for. As long as you ask properly.
If you’re not consistently getting what [...]

It is often said that love must begin at home. How much closer to home can you get than forgiving yourself?
(Charles Burke, How to Prime Your Cosmic Cash Pump; p103)
It’s important to forgive ourselves for errors we commit. We know this… but…
When is the last time you caught yourself going back over old mistakes and [...]

Success is who you are right now at this moment, regardless of where you’re going, what you do, or what you have.
(Michel Fortin)
If you’ve been scrabbling and striving to be a success “someday,” you’re in the wrong lane, on the wrong road, going the wrong direction.
Success, like any journey, is within every step along the [...]

You can attract only that which you first mentally become and feel yourself to be in reality, without any doubting.
(Earnest Holmes, Creative Mind and Success)
Some while back, I realized a strange thing. Anytime I’d consider taking a new step in my march toward success, I’d run into resistance from my own mind.
But this was [...]

“You don’t know what you’re missing.”
You’ve heard that phrase all your life, but you may have no idea how true it is, or how accurately it describes those dreams you’re trying to nurture.
When you write out your goals, you may be — almost certainly are — leaving out the very details that would bring [...]

Massively infected, and I didn’t even know…
Early last week I ran my usual disk checking utility and, for the first time ever, it reported spyware — a keystroke recorder. And my anti-virus checker had missed it completely.
A piece of spyware was sitting there in my computer, watching everything I typed, recording it, and almost certainly [...]

It was a long 15 days.
First of all, if you sent me email during the past two weeks and I didn’t respond, please re-send your message. Lots of mails got lost while I was away.
The plan was to visit relatives in the US, finish up by spending four days in Washington DC at an [...]

So-called clinical depression is a growing presence in today’s world.
Vast and growing numbers of people are diagnosed with this emotional disorder, and they’re being treated for it with a variety of drugs, counseling methods and therapies.
But clinical depression?
Since I stayed mired deep in depression from my mid-teens to my late twenties, I know [...]