Motivational: Beluga Whale Hits the River

Beluga Whale Hits the River

Written by Laurie E. Smith

(c) 2005 Laurie Smith

Wonders never cease. Just when those in our area of repparttar Delaware River were beginning to recover from repparttar 105676 recent floods, a whale arrives to shake things up.

A 15-foot Beluga whale-now identified as named "Helis" and hailing from repparttar 105677 St. Lawrence Estuary in Canada--has been spotted swimming up and down repparttar 105678 water near Trenton, New Jersey. Passersby gathered to spot repparttar 105679 beautiful creature today. Although I wasn't among those to who saw him, a few lucky neighbors spotted him making playful splashes.

All this talk about whales had made me wonder what made this lone traveler (who if he is true to his breed, usually migrates in pods of two to 25) choose to get so off-course to take a 125-mile detour away from repparttar 105680 sea, a 800-mile detour from home.

Everyone has ideas. Perhaps repparttar 105681 flooding, some say. Perhaps repparttar 105682 plentiful herring and shad in these parts, say others. But no one really knows for sure. Except repparttar 105683 whale.

I can relate. Sometimes I get off-course too. Whether it's worrying about what others think, watching repparttar 105684 signs "out there" rather than tuning inward, or simply going with repparttar 105685 flow—sometimes too much so—occasionally in my life I have looked around and wondered, "Now how repparttar 105686 heck did I get here?"

Finding Your Life Purpose

Written by Jo Ball

Finding Your Life Purpose

You have a purpose in life. You have a unique gift or special talent. By using this to gift to benefit others you raise your spirit to it’s highest. This is repparttar ultimate… repparttar 105675 dream of all dreams and repparttar 105676 point where you can all live a life with abundant happiness.

The question is how?

This article will set you on that path and tell you what to do next.

Forget how much money you have. Forget how big your home is or how big you’d like it to be. Forget where you want to go on holiday. Forget your religious background and forget your education. I say this because focus on these things can stop you from seeing who you really are and therefore stop you from doing what you want to do in life.

The reasons why you’ve forgotten who you are and what you want to do are that they have been extracted from you or squashed by following beliefs and values of those around you. You’ve been stopped from exploring you.

We get caught up on ‘being good’ conforming to repparttar 105677 norm, directed by peers and elders and adopting repparttar 105678 beliefs of groups and our society as a whole. Your education may have thwarted your talent about as much as a religious upbringing may have choked your self-expression.

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