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Week 7 - Love and Accept Yourself As You Are
I love and accept myself as I am right now.

HVASF Affirmations
Aug 7, 20202 min read


My Whole Self
I am posting the words for a few of my self-compassion Mini-Insights videos. I create 1-4 mini-insights for each week of the year based...

HVASF Affirmations
Jul 31, 20201 min read


How to get financially stable in 2020
“Three things too much, and three too little are pernicious to man; to speak much, and know little; to spend much, and have little; to...

HVASF Affirmations
Jul 16, 20207 min read


Ultimate Freedom - 2021
Is it possible for two people in the exact same circumstances to exercise greater or lesser freedom? Let’s define freedom first. The...

HVASF Affirmations
Jul 2, 20206 min read


Insta-Pot vs Slow Cooker - A Metaphor For Life
Which is better, your trusty old slow-cooker or the new version of a pressure cooker, the Insta-Pot? Well, based on a non-scientific pole...

HVASF Affirmations
Jun 18, 20207 min read


Two Essential Skills For An Accomplished, Intentional, Balanced life.
Your mind is your source of skills, creativity, complex thoughts, and hope. I suggest there are only 2 essential thinking foundations.

HVASF Affirmations
May 29, 20207 min read


Week 20 - 5 steps to overcome setbacks
David Edwards here with HVASF and your Video Insights for week 20. Your affirmation this week is: “I recover quickly from setbacks and...

HVASF Affirmations
May 16, 20202 min read


Lei Day 2020
Friday is May Day, but in Hawaii it is also Lei Day. Typically this is a day of celebration, hula, lei making demonstrations and...

HVASF Affirmations
Apr 29, 20201 min read


EARTH DAY 2020 & YOU
As stewards of the world, and not just inhabitants of it, we have significant power by our choices, our actions.

HVASF Affirmations
Apr 21, 20204 min read


Can I persist even with setbacks? (Week 12 #3 of 3)
I am posting the words for a few of my self-efficacy Mini-Insights videos. Each week of the year I create 1-4 mini-insights based on...

HVASF Affirmations
Apr 20, 20201 min read


Are Failures due to insufficient effort? (Week 12 #2)
I am posting the words for a few of my self-efficacy Mini-Insights videos. Each week of the year I create 1-4 mini-insights based on...

HVASF Affirmations
Apr 18, 20201 min read


Are you in control of your life? (Week 12 #1)
I am posting the words for a few of my self-efficacy Mini-Insights videos. Each week of the year I create 1-4 mini-insights based on...

HVASF Affirmations
Apr 17, 20201 min read


Traboule vs Your Brain
Most famous in Lyon, France, the Traboule is a covered passageway first created in about the 4th century. They were used to transport...

HVASF Affirmations
Apr 10, 20204 min read


Change Under Pressure!!! 4 Keys
The discharge papers from my grandfather's service during the first World War stated simply, “The World War”. It is tragic that a century...

HVASF Affirmations
Mar 31, 20208 min read


Competition, Games, Motivation - Oh My!
I like to play an online car racing game. It provides a nice distraction and total concentration when I need a break from the rigors of...

HVASF Affirmations
Mar 7, 20204 min read


Discovering The Future
I was in a large hotel a couple years ago and had to take a picture of this space below the main stairs – which if you are of a certain...

HVASF Affirmations
Feb 24, 20203 min read


Parenting and Self-Reliant Children
The well thought of “Raising Self-Reliant Children in a Self-Indulgent World” by Stephen Glenn and Jane Nelsen provides a great road map...

HVASF Affirmations
Feb 10, 20203 min read


Cynicism - Friend or Foe?
I watched a program recently from Penn and Teller debunking commonly held beliefs. Their program on alternative health tackled magnetic...

HVASF Affirmations
Feb 4, 20202 min read


Its a Small Thing - 10 Profound Quotes
There are things we can control and things we cannot. As is so often the case, small things that we can control make a huge difference,...

HVASF Affirmations
Jan 27, 20202 min read


People Energy
Energy in the dictionary is defined as “the strength and vitality required for sustained physical or mental activity” and later as “the...

HVASF Affirmations
Jan 13, 20204 min read
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