In this materialistic world you can have anything your heart desires. If you just focus on what you want and throw away what you don't want then your thoughts will manifest to reality.

In school we are trained to find the one correct answer to a problem or a question. In fact, much of your experience of the educational system was probably built upon this type of convergent conditioning of your mind. This is of course the result of a system that is supposed to produce individuals to fit in society, and not necessarily train independence and creative thinking. In this article we explore ways to break our habitual thinking and to find new ways of though.

Perspective is everything, and when it comes to self development I believe it is really important to expand ones horizon in terms of how you view the world. Our flexibility of mind, creativity and perspective dictates our lives to a great extent. I'd like to say that we see what we want to see. How we experience the world depends on our expectations. Do you in a given situation see a problem or new possibilities?

What color are your dreams? Wait, don't answer yet.

Whether we choose to drink too much, eat too much, or smoke cigarettes - it is a choice that we have made for ourselves. The good news is that life offers us many choices. While we may have made one choice, we can easily make another choice to undo the harm that we may have created for ourselves from an earlier one.

"The refreshing pleasure from the first view of nature, after the pain of illness, and the confinement of a sick-chamber, is above the conceptions, as well as the descriptions, of those in health."

"What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined... to strengthen each other... to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories."

"Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind."

"Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it."