
Change Your Life: Define Your Goals
From Guideposts founder Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, here’s a collection of anecdotes in which people change their lives by defining their faith and goals.
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From Guideposts founder Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, here’s a collection of anecdotes in which people change their lives by defining their faith and goals.

Prayer helped the former MLB player and coach see that life’s setbacks are only temporary.

She hadn’t told anyone. But by trusting God and holding on to hope and faith, she finally opened up.

In this story from April 2005, singer Gladys Knight shares how her mother’s faith impacted Knight’s career and spiritual life.


Doing without her favorite treat taught her an important spiritual lesson.

In this story from September 1986, actor Martin Sheen talks about regaining his faith after a frightening health crisis on the set of Apocalypse Now.

In this story from December 2005, pioneering journalist and broadcasting icon legend Barbara Walters explores the confidence, widely held across different faiths and belief systems, that there is an afterlife.

In this inspiring story, faith and prayer reunite a divorced couple.

The inspiring story of how her husband’s project made her dream come true

CNN news anchor Soledad O’Brien wanted to give her kids the strong spiritual foundation she had growing up.

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