How Questions Can Help You Focus - By Mohamad Latiff

Focus. That is the single most important ability determinant of your success. The lack of it is also the single most common problem faced by a major portion of the general populace.The average person cannot focus his or her mind on any one thought, task or thing for extended periods of time if he or she wants to.Just try this - picture a circle of any colour you choose for at least 68 seconds.

Overcoming Rejection by Cultivating High Self-Compassion - By Peter Murphy

How does one go about overcoming rejection? We all encounter rejection at sometime in our lives - we could be at a check-out counter and the clerk ignores us because she is too busy talking to someone else. Or perhaps we rush home to our parents with a great report card, only to be brushed aside because they are busy doing something more important. We react to situations when we are rejected with

What Are Values, Personal Values, Family Values, Core Values? - By Thomas Drummond

Values are what motivate us. But when we use words over and over they become buzzwords which is...a word that has only vague meaning... because we can't define it. But we continue to use buzzwords and think we are communicating something to ourselves and to other people.Politicians talk of family values...and everyone lets it pass because “everybody knows” what those are. But schizophrenic

Life Is What You Are Doing Right Now - By Michael Sean

Well, its time to get back to work here. Don't you hate it when life interferes with what you really want to do? OK, stupid question. Life is doing what you want and need to do. Sometimes, you just have to stop and get off the treadmill of others expectations and do the things you want and need to do. Thats what I have been doing the last few weeks. Living off line.That's why I'm writing this.

Life is a Journey - By Nicole Matoushek

Life is a journey: A journey filled with off road stumbles and on road bliss. This journey can feel like it is all uphill for those who are coping with a financial troubles, relationship woes, chronic illness, addictive disease or an injury-related condition. But life is a journey. We have a choice to make it our journey and live the life we dream about. Anyone can do it. It is easy, and it is

The Law of Attraction Should be Renamed The Law of Distraction - By Craig Harper

Today I'm stepping out on to the cyber high-wire. I'm performing a high-risk blogging manoeuvre. No safety net. No cyber-harness.I'm going to write a brief opinion piece on the Law of Attraction (LOA). Possibly a no-win situation for me. Aah well. Advocates (of the concept) will disagree with me. (I'm okay with that... as long as you're okay with me thinking differently to you). And opponents are

What Motivates People to Change? - By Arlene Harder

Are you actively working to change some aspect of your personality — and absolutely can't understand how someone else (perhaps the "significant other" in your life) doesn't have a clue that anything is wrong with him or her or seems inexplicably unwilling to do anything about it?Why, you ask, are you so willing to change and the other person is not? I've asked myself that many times, since I'm