• Happiness

    The Difference Between Happiness and Joy

    Website DIVISIONS (Over 600 articles to help you to grow in every facet of your life) Written by Jimmie Burroughs Email to a friend We all prefer happiness in our life over unhappiness, sadness and grief, and we try to arrange the circumstances that bring happiness into our life. However, the things that we think make us happy often backfire and cause grief instead. For example, a drink of an alcohol beverage will take the edge off our stress and give a bit of happiness, but one drink leads to another and then another until there is no happiness just a dulled brain, and a hangover the next day. If…

  • Happiness,  Purpose

    The Poison of the Mind That Brings Defeat…

    Written by Jimmie Burroughs So much pain could be avoided and so many things could be accomplished was it not for the poison of the mind that brings defeat; that tell you, you cannot do certain things; which hold you back from your potential and in general limit you.  Overcoming the Poison of the Mind That Brings Defeat is a must before you can ever move forward and accomplish those things your heart desires and at the same time be happy. The first thing you need to understand if you are to overcome the poison of the mind that brings defeat is how you are made. You are actually made…

  • Happiness

    The Road of Life Can be a Beautiful and Exciting Experience…

    Written by Jimmie Burroughs The Road of Life can be a Beautiful and Exciting Experience… although sometimes it can be a little disconcerting with all the twists and turns, but the excitement of not knowing what’s next can add a bit of adventure. At any rate life is an exciting adventure at every turn in the road. The attitude we have about life though determines how exciting it is. We can look at life with a jaded eye of disdain or we can see it as an opportunity to experience it fully, enjoying every little twist and turn of the road even up to the very end. Death itself can…