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It's amazing how in most societies there is a consensus or unwritten agreement or unspoken law that handicapped people are somehow just half a measure at best. It seems as though the handicapped person gets immediately categorized and mentally placed on a shelf containing "half" participants of society.
It is often said that man is born into this world with absolutely nothing. I do not agree with that as man has at least two things with him; a free will and the right to be himself. It is easy to convince a person to hand both over, especially when growing up and when the person is not aware of his/her individuality ...
There is a great difference in waking up fresh and nourished in the morning after a good night sleep or still feeling tired and sleepy until midday. The morning is the most productive time for those that are awake and alert and have time on their hands before the telephones and meetings start. There is no need to ...
Concentrate on your strengths In my work as a psychologist and a coach I often get people saying to me that they need to be better at or strengthen certain traits they have or get a better education or get better at some personal characteristics. Doing that they limit their possibility of enjoying and achieving life ...
The fear of "losing it all" often blinds us to what we really have and our riches. Many people hang onto jobs they are miserable with and hang onto situations that are "secure" instead of letting go and go for new pastures green where they find way to enjoy and achieve life success. This can be dangerous as we get ...
Think about how much time we waste on bad emotions we keep due to not being able to forgive. The inability to forgive sets our life on hold, we cannot move on and we get stagnated. We get blinded to the opportunities beyond the thing we need to forgive. We do not forget. But forgiving starts in our own heart, you need ...
It's amazing how often people get upset when their plans do not work out exactly as they had planned, when they feel that things have gone wrong. We seem to be hardwired to having success at every turn in life and having everything go smoothly and no hiccups along the way. Well, I got news for you! Life does not turn ...
There are many of us conce ed of what is happening at these times we live. We are seeing eruptions, wars being started, dangerous pests roaming around the world, the global warming, uncontrollable weathers and unusually fierce weather phenomena in normally calm areas etc. it's like Pandora's box has been opened and ...
Negativism is always limiting You put on side cover and limit your view. It's easy to fall into the negative mode when things don't come out the way you planned or are threatened by changes, but there lies an opportunity! Hindrances can be opportunities in disguise We often set ourselves a certain target that is on a ...
So often it's too easy to criticize one's own behaviour, words or lack of doing this, that or the other. How often do we set ourselves up to be disappointed with ourselves? For instance the New Year resolutions, where we promise ourselves and others to 'better' ourselves in certain areas, like stopping smoking ...
Too stubborn to learn the easy way Isn’t it amazing how often life knocks us on the head and we persist to move on regardless? We sometimes do not learn to enjoy and achieve in life until everything else has been exhausted. We’ll that’s what I went through. I had been reading interesting material on letting go and ...
Isn't it amazing how often life knocks us on the head and we persist to move on regardless? We sometimes do not learn to enjoy and achieve in life until everything else has been exhausted. Well that's what I went through. I had been reading interesting material on letting go and trust the ...Isn't it amazing how often ...
Use your anger Anger blinds us Most of us have made the mistake of acting in anger and then regretted the results of those actions. Anger makes us impulsive and we act without a thought, foresight nor any insight for that matter. It hinders us in enjoying and achieving life success. Anger takes over Anger takes ...
It's all too common to hear people saying that they wished they were somewhere else in life. That they had been more successful and wished they were in the position of someone else they look up to. I was there too. Wait a minute! Do we really have to do this to ourselves? No, of course not! Each day brings with it an ...
How often have you had a pang of fear in your guts when faced with something that you find threatening as you do not know it? Fear of the unknown threat, terror or unmapped future becomes so often stagnating that its effect is like imprisonment. As you do not know what you are up against you allow your fear to take ...
“How can I get past these obstacles?” “How can I deal with these difficult situations?” These and many similar questions I often get from clients and it’s true with most people that they see a multitude of obstacles and hindrances when movig on with their lives. It often leads to inactivity for a long time or even ...
"How can I get past these obstacles?" "How can I deal with these difficult situations?" These and many similar questions I often get from clients and it's true with most people that they see a multitude of obstacles and hindrances when movig on with their lives. It often leads to inactivity for a long time or even ...
You can rise like the Phoenix from the ashes! It’s amazing to see how some people always manage to stand up and continue when they have been blown over by life. Some seem to thrive in difficulties and grow to enormous emotional strength in dire circumstances, while other succumb and give up or get ill or even worse ...