Category Archives: optimism

Neighborly Advice

Posted on October 15, 2025 by Steve Simms

There is still hope and joy in this world. Caring and compassionate neighbors can help you find it. Focusing your fixationOn positive expectationIn a negative situationWill change your narrationAnd minimize frustration. Strong faith-filled evaluationWill bring hopeful expectationTo a difficult situation.Align … Continue reading →

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My Ideal Day

Posted on February 5, 2025 by Steve Simms

My ideal day is when my heart overflows with love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.” As long as I can remember I have been seeking to increase those qualities in my life. My dad inspired me … Continue reading →

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When life gives you lemons (16 alternatives to lemonade)

Posted on September 1, 2018 by Steve Simms

We’ve all heard the popular phrase about what to do when life gives you lemons.  But what if you don’t want (or like) lemonade? Perhaps we could learn from inventor, George Washington Carter, (who came up with hundreds of things … Continue reading →

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The best thing to do with a bad thought

Posted on November 11, 2017 by Steve Simms

A human mind, polluted with various forms of negativity, produces a life overflowing with the same pollutants. I think, therefore I am . . . not going to think negatively! One thing I’m positive about is that thinking negatively is never … Continue reading →

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Influence others to hope or be influenced by them toward despair

Posted on July 18, 2017 by Steve Simms

Seek out people who will influence you to aspire & work to be the best you can. Saturate yourself with positive, upbeat, encouraging, wholesome, & hopeful influences. Negative influences are bold, seductive, and pushy. It takes great courage & effort not … Continue reading →

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The beach ball in my heart . . .

Posted on July 31, 2016 by Steve Simms

The Beach Ball In My Heart –When life shoves me under And tries to hold me down, The beach ball in my heart Comes bounding back, Thrusting me to the surface Like a jack-in-the-box And keeping me afloat, Displacing sadness with … Continue reading →

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ASPIRIN advice for living in a heart attack culture

Posted on October 28, 2015 by Steve Simms

We live in a heart attack society. Our culture is consumed with concepts, communications, cravings, and compulsions that continually attack our heart, conspiring to capture and control our conscience. We are surrounded by heart-damaging words, images, thoughts, and feelings. To protect our heart … Continue reading →

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Martin Luther King, Jr. On Liberalism (& Other Forgotten MLK Quotes)

Posted on January 21, 2014 by Steve Simms

“I began to question the liberal doctrine of man. The more I observed the tragedies of history and man’s shameful inclination to choose the low road, the more I came to see the depths and strength of sin. . . … Continue reading →

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