Before anyone had ever heard of him, Jerry Seinfeld walked on stage at a comedy club, looked out at the audience and froze with fear. He was eventually booed and jeered off the stage. Have you failed at something really big? Maybe your business went broke or a marriage failed. Perhaps you took an important […]
Month: April 2013
What Could Possibly Go Right? Don’t Be Down and Out – Be Up and In
It is claimed that depression affects an estimated 33 to 35 million U.S. adults at some point during their lifetime. The symptoms are numerous: trouble focusing, sadness, irritability, hopelessness, trouble sleeping, weariness, feeling worthless or guilty, major weight change and/or disinterest in favored activities. This list was adapted from a website of one of those […]
What Could Possibly Go Right? Don’t Pull Back – Push Forward
A big temptation in tough times is to pull back until things get better. In some cases it makes sense. You might have to pull back on some of your spending habits or pull back on the kind of vacations you take. But as an overall strategy for success in the tough times, pulling back […]
What Could Possibly Go Right?
There’s not a lot of good news these days. The unemployment rate has hit another high, over 70% of people are not happy with the job they have, and millions have lost their jobs with little prospects of getting anything more than part-time work. Gas prices are going up again, welfare rolls are burgeoning, the […]
Seven Reasons We Might Open the Doors of Our Lives to Others – Reason 7: To Love
We all watched with embarrassed fascination the life and death of Michael Jackson. It appears he tried everything life had to offer: fame, sex, money, drugs, and two adopted children. Yet he died starved for love, empty, unfulfilled, and surrounded by a bevy of human vultures who never loved him only used him. But you […]
Seven Reasons We Might Open the Doors of Our Lives to Others – Reason 6: To Grow
sThe Irish have a proverb that goes like this, “You’ve got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your Grandfather was.” That we might do our own growing it is necessary for us to open several doors of our lives to an unusual variety of people. The first person (besides our mother) that […]
