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When a storm is coming, all other birds seek shelter. The eagle alone avoids the storm by flying above it. So, in the storms of life may your heart be like an eagle’s and soar above.” – Author Unknown

Category Archives: Training for Success

 You can have success!

Everyone who desires success needs help from time to time with personal and professional success, anger management, successfully overcoming hard times, and other topics. These articles provide some help in these areas. They enable every reader to overcome life’s storms as an eagle does and be successful.

Bobbie J Rae’s vision is insightful and encouraging. Therefore, her vision brings you a successful and positive outlook on life.

Written with uplifting words of encouragement, Near a River is a photographic book for children about two young bald eagles who are eager for their mother to teach them to fly so they may soar over the storms in their lives.

Near a River encourages early reading for children. BJ hopes that every child becomes a strong reader and overcomes the storms in life.

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BJ’s encouraging eagle Near a River common core reading book

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Saved by Writing Again!

Articles On Nearariver.com (Are the Best!), For Parents, How Can I Change the World?, Training for Success June 15, 2020

Thank you to all of my teachers who made certain that I understood effective writing!  Last week I had another chance to use writing to solve a problem. Three weeks ago, I ordered a pair of Birkenstock sneakers for 65% Read more…

A “Smart Phone”?

Articles On Nearariver.com (Are the Best!), How Can I Heal My Body?, Training for Success June 15, 2020
Encouraging you to not overuse your smart phone on near a river.

Is your smart phone making your family dumber? Physicist Albert Einstein (1879-1945) was a genius who helped lay the ground work for the creation of the atomic bomb.  One of his biggest worries was that people would misuse technology in Read more…

Boomerangs

Articles On Nearariver.com (Are the Best!), The Power of Positive Thinking!, Training for Success May 1, 2024
Encouraging you to thow positive boomerangs on Near a River.

“Thoughts are boomerangs returning to their source.  Choose wisely which ones you throw.”—Unknown Did you know that thoughts are boomerangs?  A boomerang is something you throw that returns to its source.  No matter what direction you throw it, it comes Read more…

Make Yourself Resilient!

Articles On Nearariver.com (Are the Best!), Training for Success June 15, 2020
Encouraging you to make yourself resilient on near a river.

You can make yourself resilient! Some people can overcome any obstacle in life and others do not.  What is the difference between these two groups of people? Those who overcome any obstacle in life are resilient.  They become resilient because Read more…

Can’t Never Could!

Articles On Nearariver.com (Are the Best!), Training for Success June 15, 2020

If you believe you can’t, you won’t.  Believe you will, and you will succeed. Have you ever seen a dog drive a car?  I have.  My dog Simba has driven my 2007 Santa Fe as the picture above shows. Check Read more…

Get Over Life’s Speed Bumps!

Articles On Nearariver.com (Are the Best!), Training for Success June 15, 2020
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You can get over life’s speed bumps. Right now I am encountering a speed bump in my life, as every person does from time to time.  Why do we have to encounter these annoying bumps in our lives?  Why do Read more…

BJ’s New Year’s Resolutions

Articles On Nearariver.com (Are the Best!), Training for Success June 15, 2020

Make sure you can use your New Year’s resolutions to improve your life! Do you live up to your New Year’s resolutions each year? Every New Year’s many people set resolutions they cannot possibly live up to, then they feel Read more…

It Did Pay Off!

Articles On Nearariver.com (Are the Best!), Training for Success June 15, 2020
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You never know when doing your best will pay off! Our home has not been cleaned since my right foot started bothering me a great deal, about a month ago. Since Christmas is on Monday, I decided to start cleaning Read more…

Step Three: Mend ANY Relationship

Articles On Nearariver.com (Are the Best!), Training for Success June 15, 2020
Encouraging you to mend ANY relationship by setting healthy boundaries on Near a River.

Here is the third step to mend ANY relationship. In this series of posts, I am explaining how my Grandma taught me to mend ANY relationship. In step one, you have to forgive him for what he did to upset Read more…

Step Two: Mend ANY Relationship

Articles On Nearariver.com (Are the Best!), For Parents, Training for Success June 15, 2020
Encouraging you to mend ANY relationship (Stop proving you are right) on Near a River.

Part two in a series of posts on how to mend any relationship. In part one of this series of posts, I wrote that the first step in mending any relationship is loving the person unconditionally.  First you have to Read more…

"Each reader's heart is like an eagle's and can soar above the storms in life..." - Near a River's Author, BJ Rae.

Written with uplifting words of encouragement, Near a River is a photographic children's book about two young bald eagles who are eager for their mother to teach them to fly so they may soar over the storms in their lives. Near a River encourages early childhood reading. BJ hopes that every child becomes a strong reader and soars above the storms in life.

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