What Makes You Unique?
One Sunday afternoon when I was in college, my girlfriend’s roommate ran into the library, frantic. She was disheveled and seemed very alarmed. “They’ve taken her to the hospital in an ambulance!!!” she screamed. I dropped everything and we ran a few blocks down to the hospital. On the way, the girl told me that they had eaten a leisurely lunch and when they were done, they were walking out on the sidewalk having a pleasant conversation about nothing. All of a sudden, my girlfriend had fallen to the ground and went into spasms, foaming at [Read more]
The Greatest Thing in the World
Henry Drummond’s The Greatest Thing in the World is a classic work that illuminates the importance of Corinthians 13. Here, he addresses practical ways in which Christians today can experience the greatest thing in the world – LOVE. Widely read and quoted during his lifetime, the book continues to influence people even today to follow God’s two greatest commandments: to love God and to love each other. This book is inspiring because it shows you the path to pure and simple love. I hope you enjoy reading it.
–Harrison
THE GREATEST THING IN THE WORLD
by Henry Drummond
THOUGH I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am become as a sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not LOVE I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not Love, it profiteth me nothing. Love suffereth long, and is kind; Love envieth not; [Read more]
Colonic Hydrotherapy and the Need for Variety
A few years ago, I was invited by Tony Robbins to his resort in Fiji to discuss the job market. I had a good time and spent about a week there. The only thing I did not like about the resort, however, was the quality of the gym. Tony had a personal gym that was absolutely fantastic and had all this space-age equipment (like some machine that gives every muscle in your body a workout with radio waves). The gym for guests of the resort was something entirely different. At the time there were a few pieces of old weight equipment, a mid-1980s stepping machine, and that was it. Because I like to exercise each day, I made the decision to run outside every day instead of trying to work out in the gym. One day, when I finished my run through the resort, I found myself in front of a building that seemed a little odd. It was a small building and did not have any markings on it. I walked into the building and a very heavyset Fijian woman with a large Afro was sitting reading a magazine. “What’s this place?” I asked her. “It’s where we do colonic hydrotherapy for all of our guests,” she told me. At this point in time, I did not have a lot of history with colonics—but they seemed to be following me around. A few years previously, I had been attending a wedding in a very small town in Utah and stayed in a bed-and-breakfast. My wife and I stayed in a room next to “the colonic” room. “What’s this place?” I had asked the woman who showed us to our room. “It’s where we do colonic hydrotherapy for all of our guests,” she, too, told me. “You do this business to all of your guests at the hotel?” I asked. I was absolutely amazed. “Of course. You’ve never stayed somewhere that does colonics?” she started looking at me as if I were crazy. I had scarcely even heard of a colonic–much less stayed in a b-and-b that does them. “Why of course I have!” I told her. I will never forget the look on my wife’s face when she heard me say that. For the next few days, I passed the colonic room with a profound sense of curiosity and fear. Sometimes a little “in session” sign would be hanging from the door handle and I knew this could only mean one thing. I looked suspiciously at other guests in the hotel wondering if they had taken part in this strange anal ritual. I was a little apprehensive about eating the food as well. I wondered if it was safe to touch. The bed-and-breakfast hotel was almost directly across the street from a major Mormon temple. In fact, most of the guests of the hotel were there to see the temple. Clean-cut, happy looking people, they seemed so wholesome. I had a hard time believing they were participating in this colonic nonsense. This seemed like the sort of thing that belonged in a bad New York City neighborhood–or Las Vegas (more on that latter). The bed-and-breakfast did not serve any beverages containing caffeine, much less alcohol. Nevertheless, they did have a gorgeous 25-year-old girl, with huge breasts, whose only job was to take men, women, and children into a room and stick a hose up their rear ends, move the hose around, and suck out whatever was inside. I do not know how to say this … but this seems to me something that is [Read more]
Your Commitment Needs to Defy Explanation
My mother lives in a retirement community in Rochester, New York, next door to a woman who was once attacked by an axe murderer. This woman, one of my mother’s best friends, has been through one of the most horrific and unusual tragedies I can imagine. One day, the woman’s husband woke up for work, took a shower, got dressed and went downstairs to prepare a cup of coffee. As he stood there making his cup of coffee, he collapsed and died. Apparently he had been attacked with an axe while he slept, had bled profusely, was [Read more]
Do Not Tell Yourself You Have Negative Traits
Many years ago, I decided that I was not that good at math. This happened with seemingly good reason. I got an F in algebra in the ninth grade. However, I did not get an F because I was not capable of doing the work. I got an F because I never once did homework for the class—and was too distracted by other stuff during class to follow what was going on. I was a misbehaving, distracted, and lazy kid. I could get good grades in just about every other class without doing homework, but in math this was impossible. [Read more]
Get Dissatisfied
I recommend spending a Saturday afternoon in an exotic car dealership where they sell sports cars that cost $200,000-plus. Here, you will learn a success secret of the sorts of people who purchase these cars (and those who prey on them). I have never driven a Ferrari, but for educational purposes I believe that Ferrari dealerships impart the lesson the best. A Ferrari serves almost no social utility. They are very fast, but they are not known to be particularly good cars. All they really do is look good and go fast. Saturday around [Read more]
Choose Work That Fits Your Nature
For as long as I can remember, I have always sat in an office with someone else. For me, this is a useful way to work because various things come up throughout the day and as these issues come up, I want to ensure that I have someone to bounce ideas off of. I have shared offices with all sorts of people throughout the years. I once shared an office with a guy who was an extremely loud typist. He would bang on the keyboard all day long. He was also very loud when he spoke on [Read more]
Set the Rules for Your Life
Several years ago, I was on the island of Kauai in a very small, out-of-the-way restaurant with my wife. We had driven to one of the more remote areas of the island far away from the resort where we were staying. Seated at a table not too far from us was a group of four or five couples with young children. The children were wearing soccer shoes and the parents all seemed very familiar with one another. As I listened, I could tell that a few of the people at the table had New York accents. Since [Read more]
The Multiple Mentality Course
Originally published in the 1920s, The Multiple Mentality Course by Harry Kahne describes a series of exercises leading to the development of greater mental power. The author, who was at one time known as The Incomparable Mentalist and The Man with the Multiple Mind, often demonstrated his ability on stage by doing six different mental operations simultaneously. He believed that each one of us is capable of performing amazing mental feats, and through this book, he helps the reader to become mentally alive, strong, and vibrant. I am sure this book will help bring out that latent potential that has always been within [Read more]
Never Try to Be Someone Different from Who You Are
A few years ago, the Dean of the law school I attended took me out to lunch. He was in town because his son was attending a math camp. He told me his son absolutely loved math and the Dean was nurturing his skill. Reflecting on his son’s math skills, he said something like: “He’s having a little bit of trouble catching on to complex integers and his skills get a little sloppy in longer problems, but he’ll get the hang of it.” I had a hard time believing what I was hearing. How [Read more]
