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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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Step One: Mend ANY Relationship

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Encouraging everyone to mend relationships with love on Near a River.

Part one in an encouraging series of posts on how to mend relationships. My Grandma only had a second grade education but she was very wise.  She taught me so many things about life in what she told me and Read more…

How to Play the Game of Life

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Encouraging you to play the game of life well on Near a River.

You can play the game of life successfully! The best players of the game of life are on the bench, the piano bench, that is.  Why? When you play piano, you realize that life and playing piano have much in Read more…

Step Four: Mend ANY Relationship

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Encouraging you to mend ANY relationship with this fourth step on near a river.

What is the fourth step to mend ANY relationship? In the first three posts in this series, you read the first three steps to mending ANY relationship.  First, you must commit to loving the person.  Second, you must give up Read more…

Take Action!

About Love's Power..., Articles On Nearariver.com (Are the Best!), Training for Success June 15, 2020
Encouraging you to take action on Near a River.

Action is very important! What do the words above mean? The entire quote is this,  “A bell is not a bell until you ring it.  A song is not a song until you sing it.  Love in your heart wasn’t Read more…

If Not Today, When?

Articles On Nearariver.com (Are the Best!), Training for Success March 15, 2020
Encouraging you to do things today on Near a River.

Don’t put off until tomorrow what you can do today! Think about this.  It is Christmas Eve, and you still have not done your Christmas shopping.  Instead of taking your time in an uncrowded store, now you must shop in Read more…

On Friendship

About Love's Power..., Articles On Nearariver.com (Are the Best!), How Can I Be Happy?, Training for Success May 1, 2024
Encouraging you to maintain friendship on Near a River.

Friendship is a truly special gift. The dictionary defines friendship as “a state of mutual trust and support”.  I love this definition of friendship because it is what I look for in my friends. We need to select friends very Read more…

Your Life Journey

Articles On Nearariver.com (Are the Best!), The Power of Positive Thinking!, Training for Success March 15, 2020
Encouraging you to enjoy your life journey on near a river.

Here is the story of your life journey. Life is like a journey on a train with its stations, with changes of routes, and accidents. At birth, we boarded the train and met our parents.  We believed they would always Read more…

Albert Einstein’s Advice for a Successful Life

Articles On Nearariver.com (Are the Best!), How Can I Be Happy?, The Power of Positive Thinking!, Training for Success March 15, 2020

Albert Einstein died in 1955 but his advice is still applicable today. We all know that Einstein was a genius in science.  He wrote the mass-energy formula, the world’s most famous equation.  Did you know that he was also a Read more…

You Never Know When…

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Encouraging you to know to always be kind on near a river.

You never know when someone will repay your kindness with an even greater kindness! A poor young man was selling door to door to put himself through college.  At the end of the day, he reached into his pockets and Read more…

Avoid the Flu!

Articles On Nearariver.com (Are the Best!), For Parents, For Veterans, The Power of Positive Thinking!, Training for Success March 15, 2020
Encouraging you to avoid the flu on near a river.

Smiling DOES enable your body to avoid the flu! It is cold outside.  I woke this morning before 7 am to snow covering our lawn.  Flu season is upon us. Did you know that smiling enables you to avoid the flu? In 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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