u use your unique gifts in the world? Didthey even explore the term 'unique gift' with you?And what about your relationships? The term 'soul-mate' sounds like a wonderful concept, doesn't it?But did anyone point out to you that it would be impossible foryour soul-mate to discover your soul, before you discovered yourown soul for yourself? Before you left school, did any of your teachers sit you down,and ask: 'How will you use your unique gifts in the world? Didthey even explore the term 'unique gift' with you?And what about your relationships? The term 'soul-mate' sounds like a wonderful concept, doesn't it?But did anyone point out to you that it would be impossible foryour soul mate to discover your soul, before you discovered yourown soul for yourself? And what about our own children? What are we teaching them?We'd love them to thrive, be prosperous and go out into ...

...theworld with confidence. Yet if we lacked an inspirational teacheror important advice from a parent, how can we expect ourchildren to achieve greater richness and abundance than wemanage?Clearly there is a need for us all to seek greater wisdom, bethat for ourselves or for a youngster. Lost and unclear where togo for such advice we often turn to a friend or family memberand ask for their advice.But what happens?Often they have a preconceived idea about the problem based ontheir own experience. They impart their well-meaning advicebased on their view of reality. But what do you get if youlisten to their advice? Their life?If their life is something you admire and is full of thehappiness and abundance you crave, then perhaps the advice mightbe okay. But it's probably true that most of the people we turnto for advice are our peers. And by definition they're probablydoing no better than we are.So what can you do?If you are single or discontented in your relationship (and evenif you are not), my answer is simple. Find out who you are. Ifyou do this then finding the right work and the rightrelationship becomes simple.Why?Because you're finding who you are and using this as anavigational tool, everything will slot into place so mucheasier. Sure you'll have bumps, but when we're on the rightpath, life is so much happier.And if you have a family, what can you do?As a step-parent, I came to the conclusion that our familyneeded to be gelled. For that we had to look at the purpose ofthe family. The heads of the family need to impart the wisdom inthe home, no Barnie Bear and Homer Simpson. And that meantchanges in the home. Tough changes!Like no TV?For us, yes; no game stations, no game boys, mobile phonetexting or any electronic device from Monday to Friday. Ofcourse if you're going to remove these things, you have toreplace them.And you replace them with ...You. We got creative in the kitchen, made fun out of cooking,experimenting with the children, seeing what we could make fromthe ingredients they got out the cupboards, made houseworkentertaining and imparted little bits of wisdom while teachinglife skills. We're a long way from perfect but we are practicingand having fun with it all the time.Done well, with the emphasis on fun rather than getting the jobdone these simple ideas bring a family together like you won'tbelieve.Warm regardsJo...