It's been said often and in many different ways that it's not what happens to us that matters most. It's how we react or respond to what happens. "There is nothing either good or bad," Shakespeare had Hamlet say, "but thinking makes it so." And there's probably no greater area in our lives where this is so apparent and important-- especially when dealing with self-esteem-- as what are called "problems.

Do you agree with what the greatest Self-Help Success author of all time Napoleon Hill (author of Think & Grow Rich) said, "Whatever the mind can conceive and believe it will achieve"?

I've learned-- often the hard ways-- that what your mind believes you will ALWAYS achieve: Good, bad or indifferent. Unless and until something comes along to "change your mind.

A fatwah is a legal opinion or ruling issued by an Islamic scholar. Osama bin Laden issued three fatwahs calling upon Muslims ". . . to take up arms against the United States," which apparently resulted in the 911 attacks on the World Trade Center.

The term first came to the attention of Westerners more than a dozen years earlier when Ayatollah Khomeini, then Supreme Leader of Iran, called for author Salman Rushdie to be killed for writing a book that was seen to be critical of Islam, "The Satanic Verses" (1988).