Mind & Spirit, Featured

What Is Being in the Flow?

This is an important question, as being in the flow has the potential to impact many aspects of your life. We all know that when we are “in the zone,” everything just seems to flow. Everything clicks and falls into place. We perform effortlessly and our productivity is through the roof. But what is brain ...

Armin Auctor

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How a Poor Young Man Became an Entrepreneur

Many people dream of starting their own business and becoming successful entrepreneurs. But they feel heavy-hearted believing that they will never make it without any financial privilege or joint venture (JV) funding.  But the following story may prove this belief wrong as it shows the successful journey of a young man who started up a ...

Hermann Rohr

Multi-story buildings and a radio tower with trees and light poles in the forground and mountains in the background of Mohe County, Heilongjiang Province, China.

Liu Xiangshi: Legendary Fortune Teller of Taiwan

In Taiwan, there lived a legendary fortune teller whose magical powers and skills for fortune-telling are still being talked about long after he passed away. He was Liu Denan, better known as Liu Xiangshi. He was from a very poor family.  When he was 10 years old, during the period of the War of Resistance against Japan, Japanese warplanes regularly bombed his local neighborhood. During those bombing raids, he and his friends often took refuge in the local bridge cave.  On ...

Michael Segarty

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Your State of Mind Impacts Your Health

Scientists have observed that our moral state of mind affects our health. For example, people who lack patience age faster while people with a loving heart tend to be healthier, and honest people are even better off. Your state of mind impacts aging The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) published a study in January ...

Emma Lu

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8 Great Ways to Teach Your Kids Gratitude This Christmas

Christmas is a time of giving and being grateful for what we have. Thus, Christmas is an excellent time to teach your kids gratitude. 8 ways you can teach your kids gratitude this Christmas  1. Give back It can be easy to think of Christmas as a selfish time of year, but you do not ...

Raven Montmorency

Two children, a boy and girl, wearing santa hats and sitting in front of a Christmas tree while the boy whispers in the girl's ear.

8 Simple Activities That Teach Kids an Act of Kindness

When it comes to raising kind kids, it’s not about lecturing them on what they should and shouldn’t do. Kindness is a state of being that needs to be nurtured and cultivated. And the best way to do that is by getting your children involved in fun activities that teach them to perform an act ...

Emma Lu

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Changing Your Situation Leads to Experiencing Exciting New Opportunities

“Life is hard!” This statement has been heard many a time throughout the generations. If you have the heart to engage in hard work and the courage to pursue creative new opportunities, life can become very different and even prosperous. Such is the story of Levis Strauss and Jacob Davis. Changing your fortune by seeking ...

Emma Lu

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How Do You Move on From the Doubts of Imposter Syndrome?

Imposter syndrome is a psychological pattern of thoughts in which an individual doubts their skills, talents, or accomplishments and has a persistent internalized fear of being exposed as a “fraud.” Being caught between the desire to flourish and the fear of achieving success can be painful and overwhelming. Moreover, that fear may indicate specific worries, ...

Katrina Hicks

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What Almost Changed This Young Man’s Fate?

A Chinese proverb states: “Fate leads those who are willing, but must push those who are not.” Once upon a time in the Qing Dynasty, there was a young man who was brought up in an aristocratic family and was engaged to the daughter of a rich man when he was still a child. However, ...

Max Lu

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How to Raise Successful Children

Quan has six children — four sons and two daughters. All six of her children have doctoral degrees from either Harvard or Yale, and each of them holds a position of great responsibility. She has been named “The First Mother In Korea,” and she has astonished the world by raising such successful children. Quan Hui-Xing was ...

Raven Montmorency

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