Ten Plus One Ways To Add Positive Meaning To Your Daily Life
1. It has been said that it’s not what happens to us, it’s how we deal with it. Perspective is key to keeping yourself in a positive frame of mind. Whatever happens, reflect upon some aspect that is positive.
2. Expect the best no matter what. This, at first, is not an easy thing to do. (more…)
Recovery & Stewardship: Is “What’s In Your Wallet?” Affecting Your Bottom-Line?
Many men in recovery find they need to set limits on their spending habits; often men will include financial accountability as part of their commitment to recovery in general. Although sexual addictions have dramatic effects on some men’s finances, for many more its influence is more subtle and may lie “under the radar. (more…)
How To Deal With Difficult People Part 3 - The Passive Aggressive
Thirty-three year old Roberto had promised his wife Tina that he would be home after work in time for her to attend her weekly “women’s group” at her church. Having only one automobile, Tina was completely at the mercy of Roberto’s promise.
You guessed it! Roberto did not show up until 8:45 PM-way too late (more…)
Check Your Confidence Levels
Would you like to be confident? Your answer may be - yes; I do want to be confident. However, this answer lacks the impact. It is too generalized. Just like everybody wants to do well in life and be rich but not many ever realize this wish. This is because to actually get somewhere in life, you need to quantify your confidence. (more…)
Limiting Perceptions And Broadening Horizons
If you live in modern society I’m sure at some point in your life you’ve sat in a window seat of an airplane looking down at the fluffy blanket of clouds and thought to yourself, ‘Wow, it’s so big and flat, fluffy and soft, I wonder what it would feel like to lay down on that super-soft mattress.’ (more…)
Who Else Wants To Keep Failing?
Who wants to carry on being a failure?
Failure. Not a great word is it? It is a very negative word, it says nothing good happened at all. But it’s still a word that is used a lot by so many people.
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There Is No Such Thing As ‘Self-Made Man’.
Somewhere on your road to success, you’ll begin to understand that you are really never alone.
There are amazing sources of strength and help everywhere you look—you just have to use them. You’ll have to look to find them and then know how to use them, but it beats the heck out of not having them at all! (more…)
Two Leadership Traps: How To Get Out Of Them. How To Avoid Them (part 1)
Summary: Most people fail in their careers because of leadership deficiencies. A key reason for their failure is they continually and unknowingly keep falling into two leadership traps. The author describes the traps and how to get out of them. (more…)
Choose
Humans can be divided into two groups: the hesitant and the bold and courageous. The former will forever be shining the armor of the latter, throwing them accolades, paying them money to light the way. Not that it’s a bad job, mind you. (more…)
15 Great Techniques For Teams
People are always asking me about good (proven) techniques for developing and supporting teams, networks and communities.
So I have put together an introduction to my favourite fifteen techniques with a short description of each. (more…)