What makes life worth living? How can we live in a meaningful and joyous way? Do we need to fear death? John Izzo addresses these questions in his latest book The Five Secrets You Must Discover Before You Die. In the book, Izzo not only shares these concepts, but he illustrates them by telling the […]

Recently fellow blogger Lorraine Cohen of Powerfull Living asked me to participate in an OnGrowing Weekly Challenge inspired by Donna Karlin, author of the blog Perspectives. The purpose of this challenge is to discuss a period in our life when we can gave our power away to people, situations of things and then how we […]

If today happened to be your wedding day all over again or the day you made a life-long relationship commitment to your partner, what would you say? With knowing what you know today, would you change your vows?
This isn’t about having regrets for what you should have said, it’s about taking advantage of the opportunity […]

Welcome to the 18th issue of the Personal Development & Happiness Carnival. This carnival is dedicated to people who want to share and receive ideas to improve the quality of their relationships, sustain happiness and create lasting success for the next 45 years; and beyond.
Every Sunday a new carnival containing your thoughts, articles and inspirational […]

Look deep. Are you doing the things you need to do on a consistent basis in order to get the results you want to get? No matter if your goals are personal or professional in nature; there are four characteristics of people who are able to find the success they are looking for in […]

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A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post entitled 10 Things You Wish You Had Never Learned. This has been the most popular post to date on The Next 45 Years.
In the article, I discuss we have all learned from the negative thoughts and experiences which have contributed to defining who we are today. […]

I must admit that I have heard the question, “do you have time for a coffee?” more in the last couple of weeks than I have my whole life. Maybe it’s just that I haven’t been paying attention, or maybe it’s a new expression. Either way, for me it rings of friendship, and it creates […]

Welcome to the 17th issue of the Personal Development & Happiness Carnival. This carnival is dedicated to people who want to share and receive ideas to improve the quality of their relationships, sustain happiness and create lasting success for the next 45 years; and beyond.
Every Sunday a new carnival containing your thoughts, articles and inspirational […]

Paul Potts is our new Cinderella. What’s amazing about his story isn’t the fact that he nailed Puccini’s Nessun Dorma on Britain’s Got Talent in front of Simon Cowell and many others; what’s amazing is his reaction afterwards.

One day last week I was at the gym doing my 45 minutes on the elliptical and, yes, […]

Lord, I’m not worthy to receive you,but only say the word and I shall be healed.CommunionThe Order of Mass
Catholics celebrate Communion at every Mass. It’s a reminder that no matter what struggles we experience during the week, we can use Communion as an opportunity to affirm our need for love and mercy; and we can […]