|
||||
|
||||
|
|||||||||
| 158 Articles Under This Category Now Displaying Page 1, Articles 1 to 25 Next » Page 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 |
|||||||||
Why I Write -
Ken McCreless (673)     Ken McCreless   Greetings Fellow Travelers... To the dismay of just about every teacher that instructed me from elementary school through college, I have an insatiable need to know why. To me, why a person does something is as important, and sometimes more important, than what they are doing. So the quest began.... ( added 15 days 22 hours ago.) |
|||||||||
How to do what you DON'T love -
 - Sulagna Dasgupta (236)   Sulagna Dasgupta  So you have homework? You have to peel a lot of potatoes? You have to organize all your papers? Well, in short, you have to do something that you don't like at the best and positively hate at worst. There are a no. of ways to tackle this situation. Write it down: Write down... ( added 13 days 4 hours ago.) |
|||||||||
|
How To Cope With Cancer of a Family Member -
- Sulagna Dasgupta (236) Sulagna Dasgupta Many people have written to me asking for advice regarding how to handle it when their mother is diagnosed with cancer. Here's my reply to all of them, and to everyone else who's going through the same situation. First of all, all types of cancer are not fatal, and there is a lot of hope for... ( added 13 days 3 hours ago.) |
|||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
|
Exerting Self-Control Is Not As Difficult As You Think! -
- Sulagna Dasgupta (236) Sulagna Dasgupta I guess just like me, you too at times find yourself unable to exert enough self-control. This is probably the biggest challenge for anyone who wants to lead a life of purpose. It all comes down to willpower, doesn't it? And yes, it is hard. But here is some good news to make you feel better... ( added 13 days 3 hours ago.) |
|||||||||
|
How To Successfully Switch Over From One Task To Another -
- Sulagna Dasgupta (236) Sulagna Dasgupta Have you ever had to switch over from one task to another very quickly? If so, did you find it a little difficult to concentrate on the second task right after starting it? Did you find your mind straying towards the first task-dwelling on how it went, what are the things that are left to do... ( added 15 days 8 hours ago.) |
|||||||||
|
Choose to be happy -
- Sulagna Dasgupta (236) Sulagna Dasgupta Once there lived a man called Jerry. Whenever you asked him how he was, he would say, "I'm fine. If I were any better, I would be twins!" One day his friend Tom asked him, "But how is this possible? Is it possible that you're never ever unhappy?" Jerry said, "Every morning when I wake up I... ( added 16 days 3 hours ago.) |
|||||||||
|
What Turns You On-A Problem or a Challenge? -
- Sulagna Dasgupta (236) Sulagna Dasgupta Today I was talking to a friend about the ‘anger-problem' that I was suffering from, and what I did to overcome it. He appreciated my efforts and told me that many people can gain from my experience if I shared it with them. Then he told me that I had committed a sin! I was of course... ( added 16 days 3 hours ago.) |
|||||||||
|
How To Turn Every Failure Into a Success -
- Sulagna Dasgupta (236) Sulagna Dasgupta Now that my website has become a success I feel I can share this with you. In the initial days, when I had just set up the site, naturally I was getting about 5 visitors a day (lol). Of course all I ever wanted was to help people. I didn't and don't have any plans of monetizing my site. But... ( added 16 days 3 hours ago.) |
|||||||||
|
Time-Management: a Few Tips -
- Sulagna Dasgupta (236) Sulagna Dasgupta I couldn't write my blog yesterday or the day before. I was a bit too busy. This week and the next are going to be really busy for me. So I'll make this quick. Before I go back to work, I want to share my experience of and views on being busy and feeling overwhelmed with you. Whenever I... ( added 16 days 3 hours ago.) |
|||||||||
|
Want To Cut Costs But Don't Know How? Here's How -
- Sulagna Dasgupta (236) Sulagna Dasgupta Many of us think they're spending more than they should. So they want to cut costs. But that is where the problem arises. Most tell themselves in the beginning of the month, "You'll HAVE TO spend less from now on." They try to follow this for the first few days but soon realize that they... ( added 16 days 3 hours ago.) |
|||||||||
|
Positive Statements For Dramatic Change -
- Sulagna Dasgupta (236) Sulagna Dasgupta Today I had an immensely challenging task ahead of me. Don't worry, it all went alright. But let me share with you the story of how I faced it. Last night, I was feeling overwhelmed and-between you and me-really really SCARED! Yes, it had got me-that particularly formidable enemy, who I always... ( added 16 days 3 hours ago.) |
|||||||||
|
A Quick Recipe To Cheer Yourself Up When You're Feeling Down -
- Sulagna Dasgupta (236) Sulagna Dasgupta Today I've decided to share my techniques of warding off that monster called feeling bad' with you. This brings me to my favorite topic-Harry Potter. If you have friends like him and Ron and Hermione, it's difficult to feel anything but cheerful, actually. I mean whenever I'm feeling down, I... ( added 16 days 3 hours ago.) |
|||||||||
|
Getting Angry But Losing One's Ground -
Gerry Charbonneau (31) Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act." Maxwell Maltz There's an old german idiomatic expression which may help many of us cope with... ( added 10 days 22 hours ago.) |
|||||||||
Just Another Day -
Star Lyn (168)  Star Lyn It was hot and humid that day in September. Our monsoon had come early that year and had stayed late. We were all ready for a break in the weather. All we needed was for the dew point to drop below 55 degrees for more than three days, ending this necessary but uncomfortable season. When the heat... ( added 31 days 16 hours ago.) |
|||||||||
Regretting Regret -
Sara O'Rourke (280)   Sara O'Rourke Lately I have been drifting. My mood, normally a whirlwind between peppy and pessimistic, has now only one word which does it justice; hollow. Lately, I have been hard at work in my mind, thinking about how things have turned out, why they are the way they are, and inevitably, I've started to... ( added 70 days ago.) |
|||||||||
|
What It Means To Be A Christian -
Star Lyn (168) Star Lyn I have found, because I have been looking, that a Christian is not just defined by an oath spoken on a bright and holy morning. Nor is a person given such a title because of birthright or status in the community. A Christian is person who has made a conscious, intelligent choice to believe that... ( added 28 days 10 hours ago.) |
|||||||||
|
More Time -
- Star Lyn (168) Star Lyn I need more time. I'm not ready to give up the life experience yet. I still want to go to college, live in a dorm and throw my cap in the air at graduation. I want to become a doctor and save lives. I can see me becoming a lawyer – then a judge. There are so many things still left to do. I just... ( added 31 days 15 hours ago.) |
|||||||||
|
7 Steps To Solve the Anger-Problem -
- Sulagna Dasgupta (236) Sulagna Dasgupta We all get angry at times and it's perfectly normal. But some of us have a tendency to lose control over ourselves when we get really angry, and this is a serious problem. If you have an anger problem, people will think you're very strong, formidable and dangerous. But the irony is that, it's you... ( added 35 days 7 hours ago.) |
|||||||||
|
A Day Like Any Other -
- Star Lyn (16) It was hot and humid that Arizona day in September. Our monsoon had come early that year and had stayed late. We were all ready for a break in the weather. All we needed was for the dew point to drop below 55 degrees for more than three days, ending this necessary but uncomfortable season. When... ( added 47 days 17 hours ago.) |
|||||||||
Where Do Thoughts Go After You Think Them? -
- Gizelle River (0)  Gizelle River Before I answer your question, I want to spend a few moments making sure you clearly grasp an important fundamental that forms the basis for Law of attraction. Energy is always moving. There is no "stay still" state. In order for you to understand how to apply Law of Attraction to your... ( added 58 days 18 hours ago.) |
|||||||||
Helen Keller And Little Annie -
Michael Kocis (1,061)   Michael Kocis Over the past week I've had the uncomfortable pleasure of hearing three separate women bitch, moan, and complain about how their lives weren't going the way they should. Money problems, men problems, work problems, and self-induced problems. In each case, I took advantage of their momentary pause... ( added 70 days 1 hour ago.) |
|||||||||
Sociopathic Relationships -
- E. Raymond Rock (3,144)   E. Raymond Rock Although you may never know it, people you look up to, love, and respect could easily be sociopaths. They give themselves away by exhibiting strange combinations of controlling behaviors, such as being charismatic, calculating, extremely confident, while warmly embracing those who fall under... ( added 71 days 18 hours ago.) |
|||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
|
Who Stole Your Dream -
- Michael Kocis (1,061) Michael Kocis Ever ask a small child what they want to be when they grow up ? You'll hear some mighty high aspirations. Depending on the the situation when you ask, you could get a variety of answers from super hero, cop, fireman, to some type of athlete, doctor, movie star, or astronaut. A theory I heard many... ( added 73 days ago.) |
|||||||||
Are you Living Your Best Life? -
- Susy Gerber (4)  Susy Gerber What keeps you from living your most passionate life? Maybe you don't even know what that would look like. You're not alone! Sleep and time deprived, many of us are wearily drowning in a sea of "duties", service, or activities. We're overcommitted and so adventure-deficient that we hope to "get... ( added 79 days 17 hours ago.) |
|||||||||
Thankful For You -
Laurie Brenner (40)  Laurie Brenner If there's one thing that I have learned in creating the life of my dreams it is this: be thankful. Being full of thanks for what you have in this moment will create opportunities in your life that will bring you more things for which to be thankful. A thankful state of being is a welcoming... ( added 111 days 3 hours ago.) |
|||||||||
|
158 Articles Total in this category |
|||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
|
||||
|