Ken Haystead
“Your day goes better if you start it right.”
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Our most heartfelt THANK YOU! goes out to you for having supported Peace For Today for the past 40+ years. Thanks to your support Peace For Today made a difference in the lives of many who will remember it fondly.
There comes a time when the cycle of life yields for new beginnings. Such is life and we can but live it fully, with all its laughter and tears.
Today Peace For Today must say goodbye, grateful that it was given the honor of being the vessel by which many listeners found inspiration and encouragement and learned to live life more fully. And there are no words to ease the heartfelt pain but there is abundant gratitude to YOU for having made this possible.
We hope that Ken’s guidance and encouragement will continue to live on in you and wish you the very best.
May God bless you today and always…
PS: The Peace For Today website will shut down soon. However, Ken Haystead’s legacy lives on and you will be able to listen to his programs by visiting:
www.family-therapist.org.
“Giving From The Heart”
“The Best Gifts To Give”
“A Happier Loving You”
“A Tranquil Spirit”
“The Magic Of Turning It Around”
“The Magic Of Loving”
“The Magic Of Personal Growth”
“It’s An Inside Job”
“Exploring What Goes On In Our Heads”
The Price Of A Negative Attitude
“Exploring Everyday Living”
Handling Trouble/The Virtue Of Kindness
Change And Forgive/Can I Change Me?
The Challenge Of Relationships
“Exploring Our Inner Selves”
Prerequisites For Self Exploration – Part 1
Prerequisites For Self Exploration – Part 2
Prerequisites For Self Exploration – Part 3
“Exploring Tomorrow”
“Some Rewards For Lessons Learned”
“More Lessons In Living”
“Leasons In Learning”
“Learning To…”
“Trust The Process”
“Trust”
Trust Your Stress Resistance #1
Trust Your Stress Resistance #2
“Facing Problems”
“Staying Young At Any Age”
“Free To…”
“What It Means To…”
“The Challenges Of Freedom”
“The Challenge Of Freedom”
Finding Peace/The Blessing Of America
“Be Kind To Yourself”
“A Transforming Force”
“Loving Relationships”
“How To Generate It”
“Positive Remembrances”
Change What You Can/The Process Of Freedom
“Taking Charge”
“Positive Attitudes”
“Eliminating Negatives”
“Turning Points”
“Forgiveness Is…”
“Spring Growth”
“Beginning Anew”
“Your Assets Are Within”
“Measuring Up”
Guidelines For A New Self Image
“Seeking Opportunities For…”
“You Make It Happen”
The Impulse To Be Kind, Take Charge
“Where To Begin”
“The Challenge of Really Living”
The Challenge Of Living Joyously
“The Challenge of Hurt”
Handling Anger, Guilt And Depression
“The Challenge of Love”
“The Challenge Of…”
“Opportunities For Fulfillment”
“Opportunities For Freedom”
“Opportunities For Personal Growth”
“Opportunities To Help”
“A Climate For Opportunity”
Opportunity In Sleeping Potential
“Getting Ready For The New Year”
“Christmas Is Reaching Out”
Looking At The First Christmas
“That Loving, Caring Feeling”
“Finding Internal Peace”
How To Avert The Holiday Blues
Ken Haystead – Founder
“Your day goes better if you start it right.”
These favorite words of Ken Haystead simply express the philosophy of the popular weekday radio program, Peace for Today — 15 minutes of bright, encouraging words guaranteed to get your day off to a good start.
For more than forty years the program has shared insights on living, built around the premise that life is the process of growing and becoming a fully alive human being . . . enjoying the experience of the here and now. It reinforces the belief that life is meant to be abundant and joyful.
Kenneth Haystead was an articulate man, warm and perceptive, truly in touch with the times and able to give keen insights in coping with everyday problems, as well as psychological and spiritual concerns. He was a successful church leader for forty years, but at age fifty-nine made a dramatic life change, returned to school and earned a Masters Degree in Marriage, Family and Child Counseling and was about to finish his Doctoral program for Clinical Psychology when he succumbed to cancer.
Mr. Haystead often said that he “grew up right in front of his listeners” as he shared life involvements, mid-life crisis, a late-life career change, and ultimately cancer. He was an inspirational role model in many ways and his hundreds of messages on tape live on, although he was taken from us in 1987. It was often said of him that he was a man ahead of his time, and his forward-looking and direct approach to everyday living is just as applicable and practical today as in the past.
Born in England on March 6, 1916, Kenneth Mark Haystead came to Sacramento, California at age three and began his public ministry in his teens. He began Peace for Today daily broadcasts in Portland in 1964 as a hobby and later branched out to many large cities with daily programs. It was in 1974 that Peace for Today was incorporated and received government approval as a qualified non-profit organization.
Peace for Today gets close to listeners as individuals, encourages them, and offers them a more fulfilling way to live. Peace for Today gives something that is spiritually positive, personally practical and immediately helpful to each person.