15 Tips For Greater Loving

"To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever." -Henry Drummond

It is the eve of Valentine's Day and today I provide you with some practical tips to go along with my book called LOVE IS. I encourage you to buy the book and read it together with the one you love. It will change your love for each other into one more powerful, one more lasting and one that is greater.

15 Tips For Greater Loving

1. Say "I love you."
2. Don't compare them to anyone, accept their weaknesses and flaws.
3. Be courteous at all times, consider their feelings.
4. Leave notes or send letters, make them laugh.
5. Give them your full attention when talking and be interested in their interests.
6. Say you're sorry and let go any bad experience and anger.
7. Encourage health in all its forms.
8. Be lavish in praise, become their biggest fan!
9. Forget about past mistakes, practice forgiveness and let go of jealousy.
10. Show your gratitude for them, take pride in them, show your pride.
11. Spend time with them, listen to them.
12. Give hugs and kisses, buy a "for no reason" gift.
13. Tell the truth, keep your promises and say what you mean.
14. Pray or meditate together.
15. Say "I love you."

Keep loving one another and stay inspired my friends.

What of Valentines Day

"Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real." -Iris Murdoch

There remain only a few short weeks before that mid-winter celebration called Saint Valentine's Day. A day, February 14, celebrating love and affection. People express their love for each other by presenting flowers, offering sweets or candies, and sending greeting cards.


Valentine's Day is a day dedicated to love and all that love is. No surprise to my regular readers, I have a book out called Love Is, which explores the greatest love story ever told. But do you know how we came to celebrate love on this day?


Watch the video below from "The History Channel" to find out some of the mystery behind that question. This short video gives you the background into the day known as Saint Valentine's Day. After you learn about the celebration of love, why not order my book Love Is and find out what "love is".



This important holiday is coming quickly. Plan now to make it a special time to show your love. It doesn't have to be a grand gesture. Many times the simple things are the grandest of all. And while Valentine's Day may have a varied history, the story of what Love Is will go on forever. Love will remain a powerful force in your life.

Stay inspired my friends.

Love Is Here

Navin R. Johnson: The new phone book's here! The new phone book's here!
Harry Hartounian: Boy, I wish I could get that excited about nothing.
Navin R. Johnson: Nothing? Are you kidding? Page 73 - Johnson, Navin R.! I'm somebody now! Millions of people look at this book everyday! This is the kind of spontaneous publicity - your name in print - that makes people. I'm in print! Things are going to start happening to me now.
-From 1979 movie The Jerk

Navin is quite correct, "things are going to start happening to me now." My new book called "Love Is" has arrived on the virtual shelves. And I'm as excited as Navin is regarding its release. I truly believe I'm getting better at this!

"Love Is" is available in both paperback and eBook formats. A story of one man's journey to figure out what love is, stories of what others did in the name of love and an exploration of the greatest love story ever told. This book will change your view on what love is meant to be. It will show you just how powerful love can be in your life.

What a great revolution it would be if more people learned how the true meaning of love could lift them even higher. If millions of people got a fresh way of understanding how love moves in their life, the change would be dramatic.

So get excited about your life. Be part of the millions that will learn what "Love Is" this Valentines Day. Let love move you to greatness. And most important, stay inspired my friends.

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Love Is a Googly-Eyed Frog

"A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge." -Thomas Carlyle

As I continue to promote my new book "Love Is", I thought I would share some insight into the googly-eyed frog from the book. The picture I use is not of the actual art creation I made back in Kindergarten. I certainly wish it was but alas, you will have to read the book to find out why I do not have the original in my possession.

You see over my many years, I have always had the urge to be an artist. Raphael, de Goya, Monet, and Dali to name a few. There are so many others that I have come to enjoy over the years. Even in my earliest years, I felt a connection to the art one could make. I believe it is because art gave me a window to other possibilities in life.

The physical act of producing art was to me, an extension of one's imagination. A window into one's heart and soul where that imagination is birthed. And my googly-eyed frog was the earliest form of my own imagination being revealed.

Alas, I never developed a decent talent for the arts although I have dabbled in it from time to time. Painting, acting, singing, architecture and design are the purview of others. Even so, I have always relished in being close to it. To watch and be amazed by those with artistic talents.

One might suppose that I didn't try hard enough or work on the craft enough. Yet I seemed to realize early on that the various arts tend to have a natural ability that flows from the individual. It is similar to athletic ability and the great athletes in history. No, I eventually accepted the fact that my talent lay elsewhere.

My mother helped me to understand where my talents were. My father helped to build my talents. And together they gave of themselves so that I could master what it is I do today. Each of them had a loving heart to guide me early on in life. It is a loving heart for others that matters quite a bit in life. That is what "Love Is".

I would appreciate if you pass along the word of my new book. I have it available both in paperback and in eBook formats. I feel it is important to understand what love is in order to have a great life. I believe that this book will change people lives for the better. I believe it will change your life for the better.

Love Is will take you on one man's journey to find out what love really is. It will explore his life, the stories of others, and take a close look at the greatest love story ever told. So open yourself to a different and very real way of understanding what love is. After reading this book, you will have found one of the greatest things in life, which is love.

And stay inspired my friends.

Love Is One

"Love Is ..."

"If you've got love you've got life, if you can love you can live". -Kim Casali

A comic strip called Love Is has been around since 1970. I remember reading the panel every time I picked up a newspaper. New Zealand cartoonist Kim Casali created these from love notes that she drew for her future husband Roberto.

Kim was actually born Marilyn Judith Grove in Auckland, New Zealand, in 1941 and at the age of 19 travelled to Europe and the U.S. She worked in various jobs, including being a waitress in a London teashop, before moving in 1967 to Los Angeles, where she met Roberto Casali, an Italian computer engineer, at a party.

She created the "love notes" during her courtship with Roberto in Los Angeles. As Kim said to an interviewer "I began making little drawings for myself to express how I felt . . . It was a little bit like keeping a diary that described how my feelings had grown."

They were married in 1971 but unfortunately lost their jobs and were now living illegally in the U.S. They were trying to find jobs that would keep them "... one step ahead of the Immigration Department" here in the United States.

In 1972, they moved to Britain and had two sons, Stefano, now 24, and Dario, now 21. In 1975 Roberto was diagnosed with cancer and died a year later. However, a third son, Milo, was born through artificial insemination in 1977, nearly a year and a half after his father's death.

In 1975, Bill Asprey was chosen by Kim Casali and her husband Roberto to take on the writing and drawing of these daily panels. Even though Robert passed away in 1976 and Kim more recently in 1997, their love continues to be shared with readers around the world.

Love can be a very enduring part of our life. Love can be shared and inspire others beyond the natural part of our life. Love is ...