Spiritual Goals for 2023

The New Year brings many opportunities to reflect on our lives and set goals for ourselves. Here are some ideas for setting goals that will bring you closer to awakening, awareness and living from a space of inner peace and love.

So, spiritual goal setting.  Is it something you should do? Is there any benefit to doing it? What are some good ways to start?

The place to start is with the question: What are spiritual goals?  

From my perspective, they are...

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Why am I like this?

When you think of how often your thoughts about yourself are critical, and sometimes even abusive, you might start to wonder, what is the matter with me?

There are emotional, spiritual, and physical factors that are unique to each of us.

I'm going to start with some examples of what created the you that you are.

I'm also going to go into a lot of the factors that were well beyond your control that put thought patterns and beliefs...

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I am Paul Flood,the Optimistic Heart. If not, it's nice to meet you for the first time! In a later post, I'll let you know where the name Optimistic Heart came from. It's an interesting story.

As I see it, an optimist is someone who knows that something greater is trying to, and eventually will emerge. I'm the first to admit that there's a lot of negative stuff happening around the world but I also know it's my choice how it will impact me and...