Working with Difficult People: 3 Questions to Help You Turn Your Tormentors into Teachers
When faced with the prospect of meeting with a confrontational employee, the project manager of a New Hampshire insurance company heaved a sigh. Not again, he thought to himself. Every conversation with this guy is a struggle.
Is Communism Dead Yet?
In order to control, these regimes tend to use fear. Generally, they create a culture of fear where people become afraid of speaking up. This leads to less people speaking out or complaining about anything. The environment of fear is amplified or bolstered when people who do speak out are punished in one way or another.
An Atypical Success
Melba Rae likely never traveled the world. It’s likely that she never rode in a limousine. She had none of the trappings of fame and there was probably very little fortune. She was just an ordinary woman that was extraordinary in her ordinary profession.
Most of us have many teachers in our life. As we think back on our years in school we can often recall the names and some of the characteristics but there are not many who have a lasting place in our hearts. Melba Rae was …
Are You Suffering From Ignorance?!
Why do you settle for less? Why do you accept living an average life?
What a good start!
Here is a fact of life that you must know:
“Most people are living a mediocre life because they are ignorant of who they are.”
You’ve a huge power inside, but your greatest problem has been ignorance of who you are and who you were meant to be. You’re limiting your unlimited potential.
There is too much space out there. Don’t stay in your cage, living a life of despair and …
Change Your Story, Improve Your Life
What do you tell yourself and others about your life? Do you paint a picture of your life as happy and optimistic or as somber and sad?
It’s not what happens to us in this life but it is what we do with and about what happens to us in this life. Life is not fair. Never has been. Never will be. That’s just the way it is. So if you don’t like the hand that you’ve been dealt you have a right to complain all you want but that won’t change circumstances and it won’t make it bet…
If You Were Chief Boss Of The World, Are You Gonna Be Really Happy?
Have you Ever Run Into Those Little Tyrants? The little guys who think they can step on everyone’s toes?
Did you realize that the only people who seem to be power-hungry are those who don’t have any. Once you attain power, it becomes a burden. This statement comes from many of those minds that rose to power, thinking that happiness would follow, and were highly disappointed.
There are some people who derive pleasure from ordering others around, but they’re just insecure…
Law Of Attraction: What’s In Your Wallet?
In the law of attraction, like attracts like. You get what you asked for based on the clarity of your thoughts. This applies also to what is inside your wallet or purse. You need to be careful with the kind of money that you carry. If you carry dimes in your wallet, that is exactly what you are going to get more of – dimes. So get rid of those dimes and nickels because you don’t want to be attracting that unconsciously.
If you want to attract hundred dollar bills, that is …
Manifesting Our Inner Potential
Self Limiting Elephants
Elephants born in captivity are restrained by a chain that attaches one leg to a metal spike driven into the ground. This prevents them from roaming. They become accustomed to the fact that, as long as the chain and spike are next to them, they are unable to move.
As they grow older, their minds become programmed. When they see the spike and chain, they “believe” and accept that they will not be able to move. They become so conditioned that when …
Practice Self Talk And Positive Affirmation Statements In Your Life
Positive self-talk means purposely giving yourself positive reinforcement, motivation, and recognition- just as you would do for a friend. Congratulate yourself when you do well, and remind yourself of your abilities, accomplishments, strengths and skills. Keep a to-do list, check off accomplishments, and review your progress periodically.
Make self-talk work for you. When you habitually say to yourself has a very profound impact on your self-image, your self-esteem, and y…
The Meaning Of Life. Really.
Since Day ONE of the creation, blokes like you and I searched for that elusive reason to life.
“Why are we here?”
“What is our purpose?”
“Does the world follow some rhyme or reason?”
And check out the great books and authors that elaborated on the idea: Summa Theologica, The Egyptian Book of the Dead, The ‘Quoran, The Bible, Jean Paul Sarte, Socrates, Paulo Cohello, Donald Trump.
Okay, I arbitarily inserted up that last name.
But seriously. You never realiz…