Fork In The Road
a book in the making by Don Shapiro Ever made a choice by following your inner wisdom with surprising results? Share your story, read others' stories and offer comments to help discover more about how our inner wisdom works.Where Does Everyone On The Facebook Page Come From?
If you think English speaking countries dominate the list, think again!
The Life Is A Fork In The Road page has been on Facebook for 18 months. During that time it has grown to over 21,000 people from 155 countries around the world. Facebook has provided me with information about the top twenty countries and cities that everyone on the page comes from. The results are a bit surprising. I come from the United States and write in English. So, yes, there are more people on the page from the United States than ... Read More25 Update Post From The Life Is A Fork In The Road Facebook Page
How Do I Create The Weekly Facebook Status Updates?
At least once a week and sometimes more, I’ve posted a status update on the Life Is A Fork In The Road Facebook Page since January. These updates were initially intended to encourage discussion about listening to and following our inner wisdom. As I read more stories and insights, I began to learn things that shaped these weekly reflections. Sometimes it was a deeper insight about what was really going on in people’s lives. Other times I found several people commenting about the same issue and turned that into a post so others could comment on it.... Read MoreA True Story Of Unconditional Love
How I discovered the meaning of unconditional love when my wife of 11 years left me for another man A post I made about unconditional love on the “Life Is A Fork In The Road” Facebook page has raised the question about whether humans are capable of true unconditional love. Here is how it began: “Love is unconditional. It is a spiritual state, not an emotion. It’s not a choice you pick at a fork in the road….it exists forever.” Is this just an ideal we strive for but can never attain or is it possible for a human to actually love someone unconditionally, love them even if they ... Read MoreShe disobeys her family so her son can have a father
Her boyfriend walks out on her after she was five months pregnant because of his drug addiction. After separating from my husband, I met someone and started a new relationship. Our relationship progressed very quickly and I got pregnant after about 5 months. All of it came way too fast and stressed us both out. He slowly became despondent with me and took off more and more. We got into more fights and he would leave for days then come back and apologize. It wasn’t until much later after the baby was born that I ... Read MoreFork In The Road Band Takes A Lot Of Forks To Become A Band
Could all of this be a coincidence? (The following story was submitted by Dan Allen, a member of the Fork In The Road Band in Logan, Iowa. They are a country rock band. www.myspace.com/forkintheroad) Fork in the Road has both a geographic and ironic meaning to us. The obvious one is that I actually live between the forks of two highways in Logan, Iowa. The locals call it "The Fork." That's where our band practices and writes music. How we came to be a band involves a lot of fateful events, timing and locations. The guys in the band are ... Read MoreChoices
Choices: 4 tips to reduce your risk and improve your outcomes Image via Wikipedia How can we know when our choices are a justified risk versus just rolling the dice? We should never just choose to do something because we fear we might regret it later. At the same time, we have to find a way to overcome our natural fears about making risky choices. Anyone who advances themselves whether moving up the career ladder as an employee or in their own business has to ... Read MoreWe face over 10,000 choices a year…oh my
Image via Wikipedia How has a tiny choice changed your life? In a typical day, we make over 200 choices which add up to over 10,000 choices a year. You may have put many of those choices on automatic pilot but they are choices that you could change if you wanted to. And each of those forks in the road has the potential to alter the course of your life. At first, that might seem like an absurd thing to say. Until you really start thinking about it. Take some of the most basic ... Read MoreEsmerelda freezes up dealing with separation & divorce
Takes action by learning difference between instincts and inner voice
Image by xaimex via Flickr (Esmerelda is a fictitious name selected by the person who submitted this story so she remain anonymous.) When I was 19, I married my high school boyfriend. At the time, it seemed like a wonderful idea even though my parents and his parents were a little trepidatious because we were so young. That decision was made out of what seemed like the obvious thing to do. I don't remember any debate or internal voices. Life got more complex over the next few years. Fast forward to me at 28. We ... Read MoreHow Book Title “Life Is A Fork In The Road” Found Me
Image by Denis Collette...!!! via Flickr In 2005, my step daughter Kristin and I engaged in a lengthy email exchange about a problem she was facing. She had written me a long email explaining what was going on. So I wrote her a long email back. Then she wrote me a long email in response. That led to another email from me. By the time we got to the third round of these long emails, I was digging pretty deep inside myself for something that might be helpful. Kristin ... Read MoreCarolyn Finds A Path From Despair To Bliss
Photos of wrought iron gates helps open Carolyn's heart
(Carolyn Jones shared the following fork in the road story.) I fall into the category of hearing the voice, following where it took me, and discovering great beauty in myself and others. By following my bliss, I passed through the gates of my heart. I am a photographer. Several years ago, I discovered a community filled with wrought-iron entry gates. I grew to love these gates and could not stop photographing them. That is the voice I listened to initially, the one that said to keep shooting them. Drawn to their beauty, they began to represent the ways in which my heart was closed - to ... Read More
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