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Share your goals and reasons

To move forward towards achieving your goals, try to replace your behavior from negative to positive. A few steps can be considerably helpful:

1) Determine your goal.

2) List your reasons.

3) Identify likely obstacles.

4) Develop new behaviors.

5) Stay focused.

It is highly possible that you might detract from your focus due to any emotional, social, or any other problem. You need to be reminded every now and then about your goals.

Share your goals and reasons with someone very near to you who can a...

A fruit of all seasons

Just like an absence of ill health does not equal good health, an absence of negativity alone does not make a person positive. We must do something good to others and to the world in order to keep us positive and to keep the good health.

When people do not know how to recognize opportunity, they complain of noise when it knocks. If often happens that we get irritated by some unexpected thing happen in front of us. We treat it as a disturbance and try to avoid it or stay away from it. It is bec...

Pay for the service charges as well as for the food

Some people never behave ethically. They think they are taking the easy way. In reality, it is the tougher way. The consequences of not following ethical behavior are the same as not following legal behavior.

When we cheat the people around us, most of all we are cheating ourselves.

We start learning ethics right after birth and all through our lives. What is the purpose of our life if we do not learn to behave ethically to other people?

Some people have an excuse of pressure to perform which is...

WordPress is a great social media place

We are driven to express ourselves in many ways, whether that is through speech, writing, art, music or other activities.

This may be connected to our needing to relate to others and belong to a group or perhaps for recognition and achievement, or it may be done just for our own fulfillment.

We get pleasure from using our abilities and talents.

Social media has marvelously changed the worldwide environment to share and express ourselves. Varieties of ways are there for us to get connected with p...

We all strive to feel good

Although we are extremely complex individuals, through the core of each one of us runs a single universal motivator. We are all striving for one thing, and that is to:

‘Feel Good’

It sounds far too simple, and of course in one sense it is. However, if we understand that this is at the heart of every human then we can start to get some perspective on what it is that drives not only ourselves but also those we work with.

What makes us so complex is the fact that there are hundreds of factors that...

How to discover if something is important

The master was strolling through a field of wheat when a disciple came up to him: “I can’t tell which is the true path. What’s the secret? What does that ring on your right hand mean?” asked the master.

“My father gave it to me before dying.”

“Well, give it to me.”

The disciple obeyed, and the master tossed the ring into the middle of the field of wheat.

“Now what?” shouted the disciple.

“Now I have to stop doing everything I was doing to look for the ring! It’s important to me!”

“When you find it,...

Laughter increases alertness

Laughter creates happiness. It helps people cope with grief, aids creativity, and eliminates boundaries. It makes hard things easier. When we share our joy, our joys multiply. When we share our sorrow, our sorrows diminish. There are people in the world who are covered with a lot of mess in their life and they do […]

The world is demanding the utmost perfection

The deeper we go in to the problems, the more we get stressed and the longer it takes to get back to normal life. People of old times used to search for the magic in their life which might change their destiny. I believe, people of this era do the same. They also search for […]

With great pleasure and long-lasting outcomes

There are more stars in the sky than grains of sand on the earth. Similarly, there are more opportunities to be happy than the troubles on the earth. As long as we have faith and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us. It is only the moment when we ignore to […]

Life: a sort of splendid torch

Life is no brief candle for me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations. ~George Bernard Shaw