Tag Archives: proper perception

The Power of Negative Thinking: Your Successful Attitude is Arbitrary and Fleeting

Today’s popular appeal in the self-improvement industry is to the power of positive thinking. As a matter of fact, Dr. Peale’s book The Power of Positive Thinking, the main encourager of this phenomenon, will help you learn: How to eliminate that most devastating handicap — self doubt How to free yourself from worry, stress and [...]

Critical, Creative, Intuitive Thinking: All You’ll Ever Need in Life

Looking to impress that special someone? Need to build a new cabinet under the kitchen sink? Need to make a career change? It’s a bedtime story you need? Have to make an important political decision? Got an exam you’ve got to pass? On and on and on it goes. All begins in thought. Everything under [...]

Self Improvement Tip: Be Bigger Than Your Problems: If You’re Offended, it’s Mostly Your Fault

I once asked my students what they would do if someone said that they were stupid. Most said they would be outraged, some said they would take the matter into their own hands, literally. A few said that they would do nothing. I asked why. Some said they didn’t want a confrontation that it wasn’t [...]

Why is the Majority of Your College Education a Waste of Time

Education today, to a great degree, is wasting time, money, and effort-the time and effort of the student and, to a great degree, the parents’ money. Let’s begin by dispelling the myth that teachers (for now let’s talk primary and secondary) are all that and a bag of chips. Teachers are not only given too [...]

You May Not Care About Your Success But the Rest of the World Does

Some say that distraction is the tool of the devil or that which gets us off track from doing great things in our lives not only for ourselves but for others. Now some may not believe in the devil and some may believe that they are happy and don’t need change. Not believing in the [...]

An Objective Analysis of the Arbitrary Nature of Opinions and Mores is Essential to Your Success

What are perceived as “standards” or “the way things are done” is oftentimes set arbitrarily based only on that which benefits the individual or group who sets them. And equally as often, they are set to perpetuate the individual’s / group’s weaknesses and fears.