Take the Pressure Off Yourself- Obtain Wise Counsel from Others
Despair is a lonely feeling. Often the road to abject despair is paved with a singular weighty two- part thought: That I should be able to solve ALL my problems quickly and efficiently and that I should be able to discover ALL the answers to my salient questions. When you find yourself thinking this way […]
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Does it Pay to Love More and Hate Less? You Bet it Does
You play these mental games in your head. It begins with throwing mental knives at people who irritate you; rub you the wrong way; or are the subject of your wrath for any perceived transgressions. The instant reactions beg a broader question; Why react at all? Is it not better to understand that people who […]
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5 Top Morning Nuggets for May
You would be more tolerant of others when you picture their actions as efforts to do the right thing. This requires looking at things from their perspective. This also requires that you stop jumping to conclusions. Different personality traits see the same things -differently. Better to focus upon the things you should do […]
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You Have The Power To Be Great-Do You Have The Guts?
Once there was a boy who had enough aspirations to fill two lives. While he was growing up, television was a big influence. He wanted to be Dr. Kildare (doctor), Perry Mason (lawyer), Columbo ( detective), and Mr. Novak (teacher) all rolled into one. Each character had amazing qualities. Each helped find solutions to intractable […]
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Stop Your Stinkin Thinkin and Start Thinking A Better Way
Why is it that no matter your age and maturity, you still make bad choices and bad decisions? Gosh, I know you are tired of making bad decisions; tired of saying, How could I have been so stupid? It would help if you stopped saying that there was nothing I could have done to change […]
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Too many people have REGRETS they can’t do anything about as they are about to enter those pearly gates. So, it’s time you get serious and ask yourself, AM I THE BEST ME POSSIBLE? Asking this now could change THE COURSE OF YOUR LIFE. Stop mixing up the past and future with the present. […]
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When “Failure” Wins, You Lose
Once upon a time, failure was really looked upon as an event, and only an event. It clocked in as a fleeting moment in time. It was marked by impermanence; looked at as a mere bump in the road. One was said to have made a failure. Today, however, in the ever escalating age of […]
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The Coronavirus is One Problem-The War Between Your Negative & Positive Self-Talk Is The Other
As the mental and physical restraint from the Coronavirus plays out, you probably feel that you have lost control over your life. Through no fault of yours’, you have lost your salary and /or income, your freedom to travel, your freedom to enjoy family, your independence, and painfully, you have no answers to important questions. […]
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ATTITUDE IS EVERYTHING AND MORE
The omnipotent Coronavirus has the power to bring the most intelligent and robust specie to its knees. And it has-for the moment. Who would ever had thought that the sky could be falling, and hell could freeze over? Whether humankind succeeds in the fight, quite frankly, depends on you. For such a time as […]
Read more 5 Top Morning Nuggets For March
The essence of being understood is clarity of thought. Henry David Thoreau said “SIMPLIFY SIMPLIFY”. Ralph Waldo Emerson, another great philosopher, who was more to the point, replied, “One SIMPLIFY would have sufficed”. More words are usually less effective. There is only ONE WAY to act in your own self-interest. Take what you LOVE […]
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