Self Improvement
Let Go!
Simplifying our lives goes beyond mere management of interrupting phone calls and hectic schedules; it is far more than organizing closets or cleaning out unwanted and unused things that clutter our homes. Simplifying is about enhancing our ability to focus on things that really matter, to deliberately choose our priorities, and to let go of physical and emotional clutter that prevents us from focusing on things of real importance.
Enough Is Enough
As years and experience have gone by, I have come to feel that one of the most important ingredients for a happy life--a life of joy, contentment, hope, and peace--is gratitude. Can you remember hearing the phrase "enough is enough" in your life? Maybe we don't use it as much as we once did, but I...
Raising the Roof: Young Humanitarians
Teens can change the world for the better when they put their minds to it. And studies show that youth who volunteer on a regular basis benefit from the experience nearly as much as those they are serving. *A charity event is not the first place you expect to find teenagers on a Friday night. But...
National Novel Writing Month
Ever thought about writing a novel but not ready to put years into writing it? Well, November is your month. This month, Benjamin Keely, a freshman computer science major at BYU, plans on writing his first novel in less than thirty days. He will be joined by thousands of aspiring writers at BYU and...
Because I Have Been Given Much
The Prophet Joseph Smith taught, "A true Latter-day Saint is to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to provide for the widow, to dry up the tear of the orphan, to comfort the afflicted, whether in this Church or in any other or in no church at all, wherever he finds them" (Times and Seasons, 15 Mar. 1842, 732).
Wisdom With A Gold Star
Joe is in his first year at a prestigious law school in the eastern United States. A lot of folks are impressed by that. But not Becky. Becky is Joe's five-going-on-fifteen-year-old daughter. She is in kindergarten, which means she's pretty much got life figured out now. For example, it didn't...
Hard Won Wisdom
The wisdom and understanding found in this article come from people who live all around us. The source might be the retired schoolteacher across the street who volunteers at a local elementary school; the World War II veteran who always plants a huge vegetable garden and gives away seemingly truckloads of corn and tomatoes to his lucky friends and neighbors; the kindly sister who greets you at the temple every month; the elderly couple who walk past your home every morning, occasionally picking up a piece of litter along the roadside.
Things I Wish I'd Known Sooner
When my husband was graduating from Harvard Business School, on the last day of classes General George Doriot, one of his professors, invited students to bring their wives to his final lecture. During the hour and a half in which we sat in the amphitheater of Baker Hall listening to General Doriot, we heard a most astonishing collection of thoughts, advice, wisdom, and personal observations gathered by this remarkable man through a long career of achievement and distinguished business and political connections.
The Gift of a Greenhouse
Global cooling--n. A decrease in the average number of confidants, and in the size of personal inner circles, resulting in the hearts of mankind beginning to wax cold. “Over the past two decades, the number of people who say there is no one with whom they discuss important matters has nearly...
A Degree of Sanity
I wanted to be a mother, a good one. I also wanted to be a student—eventually a graduated one. Up until the fall of 2003, these two goals didn’t seem to harmonize. But by turning off the television and turning my education into a family experience, I am now one semester away from finishing my bachelor’s degree.
Do It Right
I love my wife Anita's eyes. They really are extraordinary. I mention this only because I’m about to talk about her legs, and I’ve learned through sad experience that it’s best to lead with a positive—especially when I’m about to be negative. Don’t get me wrong—my...
Keeping Your Second Language Alive
Thanks to schooling and missionary service, many Latter-day Saints have been blessed with the opportunity to learn a foreign language. Don’t let this blessing go to waste by allowing time to erase your skills! I took French for several years in high school but I don’t remember much,” or...
Blogging for Beginners
What’s cheaper than a phone call, more thoughtful and intimate than email, and easier to create than an actual family newsletter? It’s a blog! Short for web-log, it is essentially a glorified personal diary or log that is frequently updated. When I first heard about blogs, I thought...
Enough is Enough
Can you remember hearing the phrase "enough is enough" in your life? Maybe we don’t use it as much as we once did, but I can remember hearing it a lot when I was younger. It usually meant, "Stop it! Quit it!" We’d be quarrelling or screaming or throwing silverware or whatever, and Mom would say, "Enough is enough!"
The Grass Isn't Always Greener
The desire to achieve joy in motherhood is universal; often that joy is easy to find, and sometimes it is not. We could all use a pep talk now and then--a reminder that a little weirdness is wonderful. Happiness and celestial glory are goals of all devout Latter-day Saints, but sometimes it’s...
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