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Why Focus On Others?
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. – Mark Twain cheers! Imagine a world where we’re all cheerful, delighted, fulfilled and deeply happy! We can…
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What To Do When Loss Hits Us…
Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes around in another form. – Rumi loss We must lose if we’re to gain. If we’re up we’ll surely see the downside. Nature and Life flow in such a…
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Who And What To Imitate…
All art is but imitation of nature. – Seneca beyond comparison We compare self to others. We often imitate people that we find impressive. Sometimes that becomes a vocation! Why…
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How To Deal With Trouble…
Count your blessings. Once you realize how valuable you are and how much you have going for you, the smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music will play, and you will…
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How To Handle Ingratitude…
An ungrateful man is like a hog under a tree eating acorns, but never looking up to see where they come from. – Timothy Dexter ingratitude We suffer because of our expectations of…
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How To Defeat Any Enemy!
The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle’s own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction. – Aesop’s Fables enemies! Who are our…
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Why Can’t We Be Happy?
When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere. – La Rochefoucauld we’re the man No one else is capable. Only we can manage our state…
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Why We Must Let The Past Be…
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. – Leslie P. Hartley the past The only true consciousness of time that we have is of the present moment. Just like…
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What is the ‘Law of Averages’?
Happiness doesn’t depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude. – Dale Carnegie worry makes bad curry! Worrying is a waste of energy. It serves no good…
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What Is Success and Happiness?
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. – Dale Carnegie success & happiness I’ll modify the quote as follows: Success is getting what we truly need…
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Why It’s All Small Stuff…
It’s all small stuff. – Dr. Wayne Dyer don’t sweat Richard died suddenly in 2006; he left quite a legacy in the ‘Don’t Sweat’ series of books he wrote! There’s an interesting…
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Why We Must Keep Busy!
An empty mind is the devil’s workshop! thinking –> worry Most of us are big thinkers. And that’s one reason we’re so good at worrying! When we worry, we do crazy things. We get…
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How To Write Our Worries Away…
The problem of life is to change worry into thinking and anxiety into creative action. – Harold B. Walker the problem Sometimes all we do is worry without being clear about the…
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How Action Opens Up Possibilities…
The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react. – George Bernard Shaw decisions & action When we decide to do something we’ve decided to move forward. We’ve…
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How To Banish Worries (series)
If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep. – Dale Carnegie worry Let’s watch self and…
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How To Banish Worries (series)
Facts are many, but the truth is one. – Rabindranath Tagore facts Facts can and do help. We must gather all the facts when we find ourselves slipping into worry mode! If we can…
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How To Banish Worry (series)
If things go wrong, don’t go with them. – Roger Babson life Life deals us all kinds of cards. How we pick these cards up, play with them and throw them back into the deck called…
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How To Banish Worry (series)
Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. – Natalie Goldberg trouble When real or perceived trouble approaches we get stressed. We often don’t know…
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How To Banish Worry (series)
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy. – Leo Buscaglia reasons for worry How can we stop worrying? There’s so much to do, much that needs our…
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How To Guarantee Success…
The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are.– Stephen Covey ultimate success If we’re going to ask someone to do…
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Why We All Need Encouragement…
encourage! God knows that we all need to change; he also knows, as do we, that we can use a lot of encouragement! Today let’s remember to encourage others as well as self in our…
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Why We Give Others a Good Name?
"Give a dog a bad name and you may as well hang him." But give him a good name – and see what happens! – Dale Carnegie a good name Instead of tearing people down to force them to…
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“Praise Is Like Sunlight”
Praise is like sunlight to the warm human spirit; we cannot flower and grow without it. – Jess Lair praise! It’s so easy to criticize and to gossip. Why can’t we find it easier to…
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Building Great Relationships…
A real leader will always follow. – Dale Carnegie saving face We all have a tendency to save our own face. What if we let others save theirs’? What will that do to their…
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Why We Must Ask Instead Of Telling…
Are you asking me or telling me? – Sheldon Cooper ask first Asking people their opinion about a task, seeking their input and involving them in the decision making are the proven…
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Why There’s A Plank In Our Eyes!
How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? – Matthew 7:4 us first It’s so easy to point the…
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Why Not To Say ‘But’!
Simply changing one three-letter word can often spell the difference between failure and success in changing people – Dale Carnegie but Who amongst us doesn’t make sentences like…
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Why We Must Praise First!
Beginning with praise is like the dentist who begins his work with Novocain. The patient still gets a drilling, but the Novocain is painkilling. – Dale Carnegie begin with praise!…
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Why We Might Challenge Others!
The desire to excel! The challenge! Throwing down the gauntlet! An infallible way of appealing to people of spirit. – Dale Carnegie challenge! To encourage action consider…
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How Does It Benefit Us All?
Appeal to one’s nobler motives. – Dale Carnegie our nobler motives How can we convince someone or enroll them to support our vision? How can we gain anyone’s cooperation? Love the…
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The Key To Another’s Heart…
Next to love, sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart. – Edmund Burke sympathy We all need love and understanding. When we don’t get it we feel hurt. When we do…
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Where Do They Come From?
There is a reason why the other man thinks and acts as he does. Ferret out that reason and you have the key to his personality. – Dale Carnegie what?? People and their antics…
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How to Please Your Spouse or Your Manager!
The reason why rivers and seas receive the homage of a hundred mountain streams is that they keep below them. Thus they are able to reign over all the mountain streams. – Lao Tse…
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Why We Must Let Others Talk…
To listen well, is as powerful a means of influence as to talk well, and is as essential to all true conversation. – Chinese Proverb let’em do the talking Research shows that in a…
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How To Convince Others…
He who treads softly goes far. – Chinese Proverb avoid arguments We all want others to agree with us. Then why do we tend to argue so much? How likely is the other person to agree…
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How To Use Honey!
A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall. – Abraham Lincoln honey? How we begin an interaction is probably more important than the rest of the conversation. ‘First…
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When Are We Wrong?
It raises one above the herd and gives one a feeling of nobility and exultation to admit one’s mistakes. – Dale Carnegie I’m wrong Last week we explored why no one else should…
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Why No One Is Ever Wrong!
You cannot teach a man anything. You can only help him find it within himself. – Galileo you’re wrong We’re told that we must be transparent and say it like it is. Nothing wrong…
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How To Win Any Argument!
A man convinced against his will, is of the same opinion still. – Dale Carnegie don’t argue The best way to win an argument is to lose it! What do we really gain from being right?…
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Who’s More Important?
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated. – William James who? Whenever we’re chatting with another person it behooves us to listen and to pay proper…