Loss, Suffering, and Sorrow: Time for Gaining Strength and Insight
So you’ve hit bottom. You’ve tried everything and worked yourself to the bone trying to make things right. But no matter what you just can’t get off the ground. You’re stuck. So let’s talk about it because few will.
There’s so much talk out there today about being positive that people forget that [...]
To Achieve One Must Suffer the Insufferable and Endure the Unendurable
Thomas Jefferson lost his father when he was fourteen, his mother at thirty-three, his oldest sister at twenty-two, his wife after their sixth child, and was survived only by one child. Jefferson even states at one point that he had lost everything that was ever near and dear to him, yet he is known today [...]
Don’t Do More Than You Need to Succeed: Your Anxiety Will Tell You When Enough is Enough
We’ve all heard the terms of praise for the hard worker, the achiever: go getter; dynamo; spark plug; workhorse; mover and shaker; eager beaver.
But as you work hard and often, how much is too much? And in doing too much, do you really gain greater opportunity or lose ground?
Sometimes, in our enthusiasm to achieve-maybe even [...]
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 [...]
A High School Education is Necessary, But Has This Opinion Ever Been Confirmed?
First, to set the stage, let’s start by saying that most believe education to be critical. Education here meaning high school since it is compulsory and everyone is required to attend. But specifically the content of the “education” spoken to by the majority is quite different from what is essential to survive in today’s competitive [...]
Do Death and Mayhem Have Purpose?
What we don’t, wont, or will never learn in our comfort is staggering. All life’s great lessons come in the friction of pleasure / pain. It is this ying /yang, the opposition that we find life’s greatest, longest lasting lessons, for if we are always in comfort, always in the womb, we never learn, especially lessons of greatest significance.
