For Success, Embrace Failure
Being comfortable with setback, the possibility of rejection and even failure may be an advantage and a critical factor in achievement and success. Once we embrace failure as a part of the path to success we free ourselves from its drag and can invest more fully in creativity.
3 Ways to Save a Failing Relationship
Human beings are naturally altrusitic, but when it comes to our personal relationships we can be petty, pernickity and petulant. And that's often the undoing of us. Some relationships are made to fail, and others should never get off the ground. Most hit rough water at some point; it is how they are tested and strengthened. If you value yours but it is struggling, remember that you have to invest in it. If a relationship is worth saving it is worth working at, even though sometimes you might not feel...
Depression Needn’t Mean Dysfunction
'Depression' is a concept, not an illness. The need to blame is a personal issue, and blaming a concept is about as sensible as blaming the weather. Depression happens. In most cases it can be fixed, and in all cases it can be adapted to. Blaming is a choice, depression isn't.
Miracles Almost Never Happen
Perhaps it's true that miracles almost never happen, but miraculous things certainly do. This is specially true where change in our personal situation is concerned. Understanding that nothing is constant can give us a head start when trying to bring about change.
Walking On Eggshells This Easter?
Whether personal and professional, striking the right note of respectful concern when discussing sensitive issues can be challenging. Here's a recipe for success. Getting the other person’s attention, striking the right note and ensuring that something changes is the challenge.
What If Your Inner Voice Is Wrong?
The gift of insight is a wonderful thing. But how an you tell the difference between what is truly insight, and the 'clutching at straws' mindset in a moment of desparation? Intuition my not be reliable, because It's still the same person making the decisions, whatever they are guided by.
Never Mind Finding Your Passion
"Follow your passion", the gurus say. Easily said, not so easily done... but I know short-cut.
No time? 1440
Time is not a commodity, it is not something we can pick up, contain, weigh, or manage even. Yet we treat it as if it is, by quantifying it. How many times have I heard "I don't have enough time"? How many times have I said it myself?!
Too Much Expected of You? Overwhelmed?
We are living in what is probably the richest period of human history, at least in the developed world. By 'rich' I mean we have access to more information, more wealth, more variety, more possibility... than we have ever had. This applies to everything, not just good stuff. So, it appears, we also have more demand, more pressure, more unhappiness... even more depression (and rising). Possibility is about choice, and choice is empoweriing, but there is a downside; because so much is possible, and because we are told it is ...
