Category: Life Lessons

Lift Yourself Out Of A Low Season

After a job loss, a bereavement or a long grey stretch, it is worth making a deliberate effort to shake off the gloom. Four ways to start moving again....

Why We Are Not Shown The Whole Map

We often wish we could see how life will turn out. Knowing everything in advance would probably crush us, and not knowing is what makes us grow....

Let Your Future Pull You Forward

The picture you hold of tomorrow can lift you out of bed or pin you to it. Three ways to build a future that keeps pulling you forward....

Two Sisters And A Stalled Train

The same delay, the same carriage, two very different journeys. A short story about waiting for life to improve versus living it now....

The Monkey And The Wooden Apples

A contented monkey steals two perfect apples that turn out to be wood, and cannot bring himself to drop them. A short fable about the things we cling to....

Ten Good Things To Let Into Your Life

We spend so much effort keeping bad things out. Here are ten good ones worth deliberately letting in, and why they crowd out the rest....

Let Go Of Anger And Forgive

Carrying an old hurt injures nobody but the person carrying it. How to let anger out the right way, then choose to forgive and walk away lighter....

The Seven Ds Of Success

Determination, dedication, discipline, decorum, decency, devotion and development. Seven words that together explain why some people reach their goals and others circle them....

Stop Waiting For The Perfect Alignment

Opportunities slip by while we wait on the sidelines for conditions to be just right. Everything is never going to line up perfectly, so the only answer is to start....