While many New Year’s resolutions such as losing weight, getting organized or expanding your horizons can be difficult to follow through on, here’s one that isn’t: be kind. All you need to do is smile and say something positive to the people you come into contact with. What you’ll find is that when you smile…
For a number of years, my wife conducted gift making workshops during early December. During these workshops, she would ask the participants to share their most cherished holiday memories. Not once did anyone recall a specific gift. It was always about something they had done with someone else, something they had done for someone else…
Life comes at us fast and hard and can have its share of negative experiences such as losses, setbacks, disappointments and unfulfilled dreams. These experiences can overwhelm us at times to the point where we focus only on them and lose sight of the many blessings that are showered on us on a daily basis. …
Businesses have suffered a great deal during these past several years, but the people working for them have suffered even more. Employees have been asked to do more and more with less and less while working longer hours in order to get things done. During times like these, a simple “thank you” for a job…
There aren’t many medicines that even come close to delivering the benefits that laughter delivers. To start with, laughter makes us feel good, makes our burdens seem lighter and makes the difficult times seem less difficult.
There are a number of people who view being nice as a liability when it comes to their personal and professional success. Some say, “If you’re nice, people will take advantage of you.” Others say, “If you’re nice, you’ll be seen as being weak.” Recent research studies, however, have shown that just the opposite is true. In…
There are a number of people who view being nice as a liability when it comes to their personal and professional success. Some say, “If you’re nice, people will take advantage of you.” Others say, “If you’re nice, you’ll be seen as being weak.” Recent research studies, however, have shown that just the opposite is…
Each day is a new beginning–a chance to start off fresh and new with a clean slate. Whatever happened yesterday is behind us and will stay there, but we have the opportunity to make today what it will become. What we make of each new day depends on our attitude which we get to choose. …
There’s a very seductive trap that people often fall into when they become successful. It goes something like this: Success eventually leads to arrogance where people become taken with themselves and their success. As a result, they slowly start to alienate the people who helped make them successful in the first place. Arrogance then leads to feelings…
The above quote from actress Geena Davis says it all when it comes to living a meaningful life. Taking a risk is one of the few “no lose” situations that life has to offer–if we succeed, we’re happy and excited, and if we fail, we learn from the experience which makes it much more probable that we’ll…