20 Mar,2019 | Personal Development, Self Help for Yourself, Uncategorized
Where does the road end for the “bad and the ugly”? Bad and Ugly? Much like the classic 1966 Spaghetti Western movie, starring Clint Eastwood, “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly,” we automatically judge people. We separate them into “us and...
3 Dec,2018 | Personal Development, Self Help for Yourself, Uncategorized
How many steps in a marathon? Depending on how long your running stride is, you could take anywhere between 30,000 and 50,000 steps to run a marathon. Marathons are an excellent metaphor for the awesome power of the “little and often” success...
22 Nov,2018 | Personal Development, Self Help for Yourself, Uncategorized
My Spanish language adult students should have learned this wise quote. Once a week they came to my two-hour evening class. Almost 100% of them had not opened their Spanish book for seven days. The result? Invariably the same. They forgot most of what they had...
17 Nov,2018 | Personal Development, Self Help for Yourself, Uncategorized
“Who we really are” seems to refer to our values. What kind of a human being am I? Self knowledge is crucial. It is one of the keys to our personal growth. Am I a good, loving, caring person, thinking of others and their needs? Or am I...
9 Nov,2018 | Personal Development, Self Help for Yourself, Uncategorized
Can you remember the last time you had a great stroke of luck? Suddenly something great happened that you weren’t expecting, and you loved it. You were flying, like you suddenly had wings. “If only this happened more often,” you felt, “life...
2 Nov,2018 | Personal Development, Self Help for Yourself, Uncategorized
I will prepare and some day my chance will come. Everybody realises that you can’t expect things to fall into your lap, even if you haven’t done any preparation. Just senseless, wishful thinking. Even “asking the Universe” doesn’t work...