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The next five articles will deal with “The Five Fires of Life” Anger-Jealousy-Fear-Procrastination-Temptation Like any disaster of life, the ability to survive is closely associated with the knowledge of both how and when the event occurs. Make no mistake; Anger can become a major disaster of life. The knowledge of how, gives one the advantage of possible prevention of the event and the knowledge of when, allows time to prepare or even avoid the disaster. The following information can be...

The second of five articles on “The Five Fires of Life” Anger-Jealousy-Fear-Procrastination-Temptation In the second of the series on the Five Fires of Life, we look at one of the most serious of life’s “sunburn sensitive” issues, jealousy; a.k.a. “the green eyed monster”. Although normally associated with love and romance between men and women, jealousy expands far beyond romance. Loosely defined, jealousy is resentment against a rival, a person enjoying success or advantage, etc., or...

4 th in the Five Fires of Life series Video – 10 Tips to Fight Procrastination Are you a Procrastinator? Do you put off till tomorrow or the next day or the next day or the next what you should’ve done today? Doctors and Psychologist tell us that two of the leading causes of both physical and mental destruction are the partners of procrastination and anxiety. A survival guide for anxiety has already been discussed but the irony is procrastination ultimately leads to anxiety. The frustration...

I have been very excited by so many readers of this blog as well as FaceBook, Twitter and Google plus as well as private email who have had positive comments about this series which I preached back in the 1980′s and later revised in the mid 1990′s. There have been two complaints however, which I would like to address and hopefully have begun to solve. The first is that I have not finished posting the final two articles in the series on “Procrastination” and “Temptation” and many have asked if...