Personal Growth
Personal Growth
How do we find contentment?
In our weekly neighborhood devotional, we were challenged to think about the concept of contentment. What does it mean to be content in life, and how do you achieve contentment? Is there really such a place? I definitely don’t claim to have all the answers, but these...
Can there be a positive impact from the coronavirus pandemic?
During this time when most of us are isolated at home and life has been turned on its head. When we cannot continue our busy (sometimes over-scheduled) lives, we have been afforded a unique opportunity for reflection. In experiencing life stripped down to the basic,...
Reframing our mindset in the time of Corona (COVID-19)
In times of crisis or difficulty there is always an opportunity to reflect on our mindset, on our behavior, and our choices. In the midst of fear and panic we can make a choice to rise above and find strength in choosing to remain joyful, in finding power in our...
How our thoughts create our reality
“The reality of man is his thought, not his material body.” ~ ‘Abdu’l-Bahá “We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.” ~ Buddha These quotes literally blow my mind. They suggest that how we think about our...
Personal growth and service to others go hand in hand
Often when we talk about personal development or self-care we focus heavily on the “self” part of those terms. But what does personal growth really mean? To me it means that every day we try to become more than we were the day before—more kind, more empathetic, more...
Why fitness is more than physical
Keeping physically fit is so much more than a physical thing. Sound funny? But my friend, if you want to show up strong and full of life for your life, if you want to be there for yourself, your kids, your spouse, if you want to do your best at work, and then go serve...
Self-Reflection in the Path of Growth
Let each morn be better than its eve and each morrow richer than its yesterday. ~Bahá’u’lláh ******* I love this quote so much! I love it because it sums up the growth mindset so beautifully. We just need to make every day better than the day before it. Small,...
Why Simple Strand of Love?
It was inspired by a comment from the Universal House of Justice (the governing body of the Bahá’í World) in 2015, explaining that our development as a community must be tied together by a simple strand of love. That our love for each other—our fellow human family—is...
The daily habits that sustain me
The word “habit” is often associated with the word “bad”, however, I think forming daily habits and practices that nourish our spiritual, mental, and physical well-being are vital to being able to walk through this life with intention, to be able to grow as a person,...