Rare Faith Blog

This is a really sensitive topic—one I honestly don’t enjoy discussing. Mostly because I never want to say anything that might give someone justification to make a decision they’ll regret later.

But ...

An anonymous letter from one of our Mindset Mastery participants:

I married someone who has a lot of struggles inside.  He is a good man, but as soon as we were married, he showed a temper I had no i...

We were newlyweds—just one year in. My husband and I decided to drive twelve hours to attend a business conference that we hoped would help us launch our dreams. Tensions were high. We couldn’t really...

"Leaning into" your problem is less painful than pretending it doesn't exist.

One afternoon, as I was playing with my kids, my sweet little two-year-old stepped on my hair.

The moment I felt the pai...

Disclaimer: I understand there are real and serious circumstances where divorce is necessary. But I also believe it happens far too often in situations where it doesn’t have to. So, here’s some food f...

There's something I want you to know about this book, Success Through Failing.

My first memory of the author of this book was when she entered a contest to win a free ticket to my Genius Bootcamp. ...

If you're not as happy as you'd like to be, then better opportunities or circumstances will make you happy, right?

Well… maybe.

But often, those better opportunities and circumstances only come to y...

From one of our readers (I'll call her Susan), in a two year-old Facebook thread:

(Original post) October 15, 2014

...I get that you can't make people do things by visualizing it, as explained in Ja...

If you're married and working toward a goal, living the principles can be especially challenging—because deep down, you have expectations of what your spouse should be doing.

Heck, it’s hard enough t...

Grumpy spouse? No worries.

The question comes up time and again: How much do our thoughts influence a situation, especially if our spouse’s thoughts don’t align with our own? If we shouldn’t manipula...

A Message to My LDS Friends Who Love the Church

This week, a policy change in the Church’s handbook stated that children of same-sex couples cannot be blessed or baptized until they are 18. The annou...

"Whatsoever ye ask the Father in my name it shall be given unto you, that is expedient for you; And if ye ask anything that is not expedient for you, it shall turn unto your condemnation." (D&C 88:64–...

Success principles activate a power that allows us to co-create with God.

Co-creation—the power to cause things to happen through faith—is a lot like pro-creation—the power to create a child. Both ar...

By Cristie Gardner

For years, I’ve written down my goals—the character traits I wanted to develop, the things I hoped to own, the adventures and projects I dreamed of completing. But at times, I felt...

My mother attended a church service recently where the speaker talked about overcoming adversity. She was impressed enough by the message that she asked for a copy and shared it with me. I felt like i...

By Mark Andrew Beach

Many success gurus talk about goal setting. In fact, it’s such a foundational part of the laws of success that if someone claims to be a success expert but downplays goal setting...

Throwback to my Great Recession experience:

I didn’t think it would take me this long to share the story of why I dropped off the map in May 2011, but it’s been on my mind daily—especially after the ...

By Mark Andrew Beach

In our pursuit of wealth, prosperity, abundance, and riches, we must never forget that some things in life matter even more than money.

A former teacher of mine once said,

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