Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world. – Helen Keller
With apologize to Ms. Keller, there are other grave threats to ability to anything wise in the world, self-deception chief among them.
But feeling sorry for your self, for more than five or so minutes is a killer.
This week’s external resource is from a favorite author/researcher: Heidi Grant Halvorson. A link to her interesting and useful article is below – after I blather on a bit: *** So many people believe that 1) they are too stressed and 2) that stress is bad for you. They are right and wrong, sort of… They…
“Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.” – Albert Einstein Whatever you focus on, with emotional intensity, comes into being. Let’s dissect that a bit: “Whatever you focus on,” the thoughts and images you repeatedly create in your mind; “with emotional intensity,” whether you feel or generate positive or negative emotions around something,…
All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why. – James Thurber Thurber’s words are so profound, so amazing, so perfect . . . all I am going to is reiterate his message: What are you running from? What are you running to? Why
Any regular reader of this blog knows I am a big Seth Godin fan. I just read another great post on his blog (you can read it here). In the post he talks about the resistance of (certain factions in) business to important changes. One example being the elimination of child labor and the complaint…
As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds. – Buddha Your experience of life, and your results, come from your thoughts. For the great majority of us, our thoughts are sometimes scattered, occasionally chaotic and insistent, and often rapid-fire. How can…
“I must learn to love the fool in me—the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries. It alone protects me against that utterly self-controlled, masterful tyrant whom I also…