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How Full Is Your Glass? Happily Full?
We’ve all been in those certain situations-they’re usually of a certain level of high intensity. Depending on our natural emotional nature, these situations can be viewed as either good or bad, up or down, fun or irritating. What am I getting at here? It’s all in how...
The Blame Drain! Familiar?
What is it about blame that attracts us to doing it? Blame happens at work, it happens when we hire people to do a job and don’t feel they’ve done it well; parents have been known to blame their kids, kids blame their parents, spouses and significant others blame each...
Procrastinate is Fear Spelled Differently!
How many things do you have in your head that you’re planning on getting to? You may tell yourself you’ll get to them tomorrow, or in a few days, or a week, or a month? Perhaps instead of time, it’s based more on events. You tell yourself you’ll get to it as soon as...
Suppose Middle Age Was A State of Mind?
What do you think are the signs of middle age? One study indicated that the average person believes that youth ends at 35 and old age begins at 58. That would mean the years between 35 and 58…all 23 of them would be MIDDLE AGE. Those aren’t many years considering how...
Control Should Be Your Own Personal Thing
“To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to...
Failure Feeds Fortune
How many of you have been hit by failure to the point you can’t take it anymore? How many of you have felt you tried hard enough but then threw in the proverbial towel? Did you really try that hard? Who knows what would have happened if those who did…didn’t? I read an...
Emotions are contagious-connect with the positive
Just being aware of something can make a tremendous difference. Have you ever felt quite upbeat and then spent time with somebody who is down trodden? Probably after a certain amount of that time spent, your upbeat mood floats away and is exchanged by their similar...
It Pays to Have a Sense of Humor! Funny Is…
Don Rickles said “You can't study comedy; it's within you. It's a personality. My humor is an attitude.” It’s an ATTITUDE! So true! Something is funny because it captures that moment…it contains that element of simple truth. Comedy is able to touch those things that...
Mind Growth Is Always Possible, Never Say Never
There used to be a thought that as we got older we lost certain abilities and that was it. We couldn’t learn anymore…our gas tank was emptying and there was no more fuel down the block. If we were to suffer neurological damage we would not be able to get that...
Tell Yourself The Truth
We ask ourselves questions all the time. How often do we answer them honestly? Not as much as we tell ourselves we do or perhaps we wish we did. We tell ourselves things and we often have no one else to answer to but those that are close to us and easy to get angry...
Fear-Fuel or Frost?
If you have a fear of death because of a life altering experience, you may recognize that one of the greatest remedies is a burning desire for achievement, perhaps because of the time you feel you have lost while you were fighting for the life you now have. If your...
What is it about Ego?
Our ego is an interesting thing. It’s a topic that comes up, perhaps not all the time, but frequently. It usually comes up when we talk about someone having a “big ego”. We don’t often talk about “he or she has no ego”. Yet this “big ego” possession while...