From My Notebook

Explores the importance of expressing your feelings of love to those that are close to you and how G-d wants and needs our love. 

Explores stepping into ourselves and becoming the person we need to be to face the challenges before us. 

Explores doing our best to maintain our own values while actively doing our best to positively influence others. 

Explores being the best that you can be and to work towards fulfilling the unique mission in life that only you can accomplish. 

Explores the destruction of the Beis HaMikdash (Temple), going through struggles, and how G-d gives us the obstacles is just the right proportions. 

Explores the last day of Chanukah and having total commitment to actualize our potential.

Explores what it means to be truly beautiful. 

Explores the confrontation between Yaakov and Eisav, the wrestling match between Yaakov and an angel, and our own wrestling match with life's challenges. 

Explores the usefulness of ladders in our daily lives and the role of a spiritual ladder to reach greater spiritual heights. 

Explores the relationship between ourselves and others and the influence we can have on someone. 

Explores how we choose to face life's challenges and how that impacts our view on life. 

Explores daylight savings time, our attempt to manipulate time, and the ability to go back in time and correct our mistakes. 

Explores how you can bring your home with you where ever you go. 

Explores how each person can accomplish great feats by starting with first working on himself.  By working on ourselves one can change the world.

Explores what we can learn from  brining our car to the mechanic and the importance of staying balanced and maximizing our potential. 

Explores our intimate relationship with G-d and why it is so special. 

Explores how each person on their contributes to the greater good.  A symphony can only be complete if each person plays their part. 

Explores how children are not afraid to try new things and how we should embrace our lives by not being afraid to be ourselves. 

Explores Michigan's Lake Superior University's "List of Words Banished from the Queen’s English for Misuse, Overuse, and General Uselessness,” the word 'amazing,' and recognizing how 'amazing' life really is as we enter the new year. 

Explores finding meaning in a car accident, realizing who is in control, accepting what happens in life and how we can learn to react positively to challenges, and what it means to crown G-d King. 

Explores staying focused while pushing ourselves to reach our potential, the importance of having a cheering squad to support you, having concrete goals and a plan to achieve them. 

Explores pacing ourselves while making an effort to achieve our goals, and preparing ourselves for Rosh Hashanah. 

Explores feeling imprisoned, judging others and ourselves, how to give advice to others, how to attain freedom. 

Explores what it means when children don't listen to parents, when we don't listen to ourselves, making mistakes, and how a curse turns into a blessing.

Explores saying 'thank you,' showing appreciation to others, increasing personal happiness, why being joyful is necessary for us to fulfill our personal mission, and how it's all intertwined.