Brian Weiner

We rise by lifting others.  ROBERT INGERSOLL What do you do every single day that is of service to others outside of your immediate friends and family?  If your answer is “nothing,” perhaps this is your wake up call?  Finding a little bit of time to provide value to people…

After all of this is over, you’re going to come out stronger than before. Have you ever been immersed in a situation that is so overwhelming, you can’t fathom what it might be like to be on the other side?  I believe we all have.  The survival skills that those…

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it. ECKHART TOLLE Are you unhappy? Why? I have met people who can be unhappy under the most ideal of circumstances, and others who can find happiness living within the most dire circumstances.  If both of those…

Stay close to anything that makes you glad you’re alive. What or whom makes you grateful that you are alive?  For most people, it is a collection of living things, physical things, and experiences. In this collection, we find ourselves delineating the reasons that these particular stimuli are so important…

The moment you start acting like life is a blessing, it starts feeling like one. Are you living a blessed life?  Religious meaning aside, do you feel in general that your life is full of things for which you have good cause to be extensively appreciative?  Life is full of…

Have a good heart and healthy boundaries. Otherwise, your life is for everyone else and you lose yourself. Kindness is everything, but setting limits allows you to remain true to who you are. Do you set proper limits in your relationship with other people? When is it appropriate to set…

If you don’t leave your past in the past it will destroy your future. Live for what today has to offer, not for what yesterday has taken away. What is the single biggest incident in your past that you are having the most problem leaving behind you, without influence on…

A lot of problems would change if we talked with each other instead of about each other. There is a giant line of demarcation between malicious gossip and constructive conversation. The chasm between the two is as wide as the Grand Canyon. Constructive communication will traditionally yield some sort of…

Everything in your life is a reflection of a choice that you have made. If you want different results, make different choices. What would you rank as the most important choice you have made in your entire life?  Why is that?  What if you had made an alternate choice, how…

The best thing about the worst time in your life, is that you get to see the true colors of everyone. Everyone loves you when you are a winner. But when you are a loser, not so much. Why is that?  Beyond the obvious reasons that everyone likes winning, I…