Why is it easier to feel compassion and take action when matters are close at hand, as compared to when it’s something happening on the other side of the world? If you happen to walk past a pond and you see a child drowning, would you save that child’s life even if it meant ruining your expensive clothes and shoes?...
Christmas decorations everywhere. A spotless home. Absurd amounts of food. Too much wine. Spending time with relatives you don’t really like. Adding to your credit card debt to buy way too many Christmas gifts. It doesn’t have to be that way. Forget about all the should have been surrounding Christmas. Find your own way. A few Christmas decorations that you love....
There are days when you feel that you get nothing done. There are days when it feels that all you’ve been doing is running around putting out little fires everywhere. You’ve been reacting to the whims of everyone around you all day long. Those days are exhausting. They drain your energy and leave you feeling flustered and frustrated. Having several...
You hear about them on the news. Everybody loves the overnight success. The undiscovered wonder child who suddenly became successful. The natural talent who literally was picked directly from the street into the studio. Or something along those lines. What they neglect to tell you is the years of hard work that preceded the success. The late nights and early...
We have a ton of opinions and make loads of assumptions about everything. All the time. Every day. Consciously and unconsciously. Is today’s weather good or bad? Is your colleague’s outfit suitable? Is that child’s behavior appropriate? We constantly pass judgment and give value to things. We jump to conclusions and label people and situations that occur as good or...
Do you have a clear picture of what’s getting you up in the morning? Do you know why you do what you do? For what purpose are you slugging along trying to get it all together? If you don’t know, you do best in finding out. We need a sense of purpose in life and figuring out your why can...
Complaining is draining. Complaining is non-productive. Complaining doesn’t lead to anything. It doesn’t change things. Complaining only leads to more complaining. Down the rabbit hole we go. Sucking in people who just happen to be standing close by. Complaining is like a contagious disease. A toxin that gets under your skin. You might think it’s harmless, until one day, you...
We tend to keep score of favors. If I do this for you, I expect a favor back some time in the future. If the favor never is returned, we get frustrated. Thinking to ourselves that person is really selfish, never returning the favor. But that person might never be in a position to help you. Never be able to...
Injustices happen all the time. We see it on the news. We hear about it in the lunch room at work. We really like to talk about bad things that happen to others. We more seldom talk about the good things that happen. When we hear about an injustice being done, we might comment “That’s awful! How could they do...
You’re not entitled to anything. Entitlement is your worst enemy. The thinking that since I have accomplished X, then I’m deserving of Y is not going to get you anywhere. Even though you completed X successfully, Y is not guaranteed to happen. Some people even think that they are deserving of both X and Y without doing anything to achieve...
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