Brian Weiner

Do you control your thoughts or do your thoughts control you? At first blush, that answer seems obvious, you control your thoughts. But if you think about it, is that really true? There are countless circumstances where your brain loves to run amok with its own concerns, worries, anxiety, fears,…

Let go of anger. Let go of pride. When you are bound by nothing, you go beyond sorrow. How many different ways do your emotions constrain you?  It is very easy for each of us to believe in our heightened state of emotion, that we are always clear of mind…

If you want to fly, give up everything that weighs you down. BUDDHA What would be the most important thing for you to change, if you were given a chance to fly by your own standards? Every detail in our world adds another variable to our overall life structure. Much…

The best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your own arm. Trust yourself. Who is the only person in your entire life, that you can count on day and night?  If you are answering anything, other than yourself, you are leaving out your single greatest…

You can’t change the past, but you can change the way you think about it. Wouldn’t it be nice if life came with the opportunity to reverse and then undo some of the decisions that we made previously?  If there were such an option, would you use it?  Given that…

Love is not what you say, love is what you do. Have you ever had somebody do something for you that was such an over the top act of kindness, that you were touched beyond words? Professing love for another human being is one thing, but acting on that love…

Life is simple. We make it complicated by overthinking and overanalyzing.  What is your trigger moment that takes you from your contemplation to your action? Depending upon the importance and complexity of the issue, the trigger may be instantaneous or it could potentially stretch out over an elongated period of…

Meaningful silence is always better than meaningless words. It is an interesting social phenomenon, that the more comfortable you are with another human being, the more comfortable you can be in their presence, without a word spoken. In most relationships, we are continually working to keep the flow of conversations…

A few bad chapters doesn’t mean your story is over. Appearances can be highly deceiving. One vantage point does not define an entire scenario. If you look at other people’s lives, and presume that there were not tough chapters within those lives, you are almost certainly making a massive mistake.…