Making friends is relatively easy… keeping friendships is what sometimes gets messy. It happens at times because we begin to assume that friends or close ones should always understand us and will stay by us. But like Oliver Wendell Holmes said “Don’t flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. [...]
“You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. ” – Buddha
“Obstacles can’t stop you. Problems can’t stop you. Most of all, other people can’t stop you. Only you can stop you.” – Jeffrey Gitomer
“Fix your eyes forward on what you can do, not back on what you cannot change.” — Tom Clancy
“Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful. ” – John Wooden
“I must never be late”…
“I have to be perfect”…
“I should always tell the truth”…
How often do you catch yourself making such statements to yourself? Most of us are programmed right from childhood to freely use the ‘should’ – ‘must’ – ‘have to’ rule book on ourselves and others.
So what happens when we use the rule [...]
It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either. – Wayne Dyer
Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary. – Cecil Beaton
Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one. – Hans Selye
What is stress?
Stress is a response to real and imagined event that alters the normal functioning of the body.
Stress arises when a situation is perceived as stressful. Stress is often associated with situations that you find difficult to handle. How you view things also affects your stress level. If you have very high [...]