You know you’re “present” when you can engage all 5 senses both equally and simultaneously. When you consciously know what you see, hear, smell, feel, and taste all at the same time, (and can continue that effortlessly), you have reached a goal that many have considered unattainable!

The second most important part of the parental role includes giving your child the tools to find hope in hopeless situations. In the darkest of days when they feel most alone, they can use these tools for self-preservation. This only comes second to providing the basic necessities of food/shelter/safety/love.

Life is over when we allow ourselves to lose our childlike curiosity and desire to experience new things.

The rate of success or failure in any given relationship is directly dependent on the roles assumed within that relationship, and the degree of adherence to those roles. For the relationship to be successful, willingness to change one's role is crucial.

Discounting the fact that nobody knows what happens when we die--until we die, is pure ignorance. Believing that your human-relayed interpretation of God and His/Her existence (or non-existence), is the only one that is correct, is egotistical at best. Until we all die and know the truth, everyone is both right and wrong. Let us not squabble over all the inconsistencies and celebrate the goodness within us and the commonality in all of us—our humanness.

Growth only occurs when you successfully adapt to change.