Even if you're a seasoned professional multi-tasker, your body, mind, emotional life, and growth potential can get a blow from over-committing. Take a look at what's on your plate if you're swamped, and you can surely find some space for yourself even when you feel trapped.

Tension can be useful, exciting, flirtatious, strength-building, or destructive. Put yourself in charge of how you direct it.

Having goals can be useful, but don't lose sight of how great you are and how much you can help yourself and others right now.

When we interact with others from a place of compassion without expectations, things are set up to go pretty smoothly.

You have the God-given right to kick the government around - don't hesitate to do so.

I need a spiritual connection - I can make changes, but I can't make miracles - and I need people around me who'll support me and believe in me and tell me the truth and not let me deceive myself into avoiding the what's scary and hard and necessary.

In a home school, the kid does 95% of the work. But in a school system, since it's an indoctrination system, a teacher has to do 95% of the work.

My dear child, you must believe in God despite what the clergy tells you.