Psychologists believe that our capacity as human beings depends on what our minds truly believe to be possible. “It’s all in the mind,” as they say. In order to show how simple this idea is, a concrete example may serve to illustrate it. Two students, without their knowledge, were subjected to an experiment. Both …
Have you ever wished you had stronger willpower? How can you make yourself stop doing things you don’t want to do? There are ways, and the first thing to do is to redefine the concept of willpower. Self Awareness Instead Of Willpower It’s hard to resist temptation sometimes, isn’t it? That piece of cake …
Life is like an ocean. The waves may be very calm one day and the next day there may be a storm. Life is not like a mountain that remains steady forever. Right from our childhood we find the times changing. Sometimes everything looks going perfectly. Otherwise everything goes wrong. Why and what to …
Let us renew our hope in humanity. It’s so easy to lose faith when someone cuts us off on the highway, when a “friend’ blows us off (for the second time) and fails to show, when we get burned in a business deal, when a co-worker doesn’t do what they said they were going …
Good luck, people called it, when a couple I know had a business handed to them for free. It was making a little money, but the owner didn’t want to deal with it anymore. Other things were going on in his life, and he just wanted to drop the whole business. However, the lease …
When I find myself in the midst of a challenging experience, I ask myself “Why is this happening to me?” Not in a whiny, wailing kind of way (not anymore that is, believe me, there was a time when I surely would have), but in a genuinely curious way. I know now that no …
Do you ever feel stuck? Perhaps you don’t have the job you want, or the relationship, or the financial situation. You probably know what it is that you don’t want, but have you ever taken the time to figure out what it is that you do want? Rather than answer with generalities like a …
One of the habits that has served me well throughout my life is keeping the mindset of a student. I’ve always had an insatiable curiosity about a wide variety of topics, and I’m usually reading several books during the same time period. I’ve read about some really fascinating things, like quantum physics, and some …
It does not matter if you are a doctor, a lawyer or an infantry soldier in the army if you want to be the best and get ahead, you will need to take risks. A doctor may have to take risks when working with a patient. The doctor may have to experiment with different …
I recently had the privilege of traveling to a third world country. I realize that using the word “privilege” when talking about an underdeveloped country may seem incongruous; however, it proved otherwise. I was part of a group of nineteen, along with my husband and 16-year old son, who traveled to Ghana, West Africa. …