The importance of doing well in life cannot be denied. Everyone has been given a life and everyone exists but the main difference between the way you live your life and the way others do it is to live a fulfilling and content life. At the end of the day, when you look back at
(Material for this essay comes from the books “Love” and “Personhood” by Leo F. Buscaglia, Ph.D., “The Road Less Traveled” By M. Scott Peck M.D. “How Good Do We Have To Be?” by Rabbi Harold S. Kushner) Welcome to this journey called life. On this journey, we meet individuals from all walks of life who
After picking up the newspaper, turning on the radio, or watching TV, it is easy to become depressed. After all, our ears and eyes are assaulted with news of political, religious, racial, and ethnic strife. Add to this, global warming, blizzards, hurricanes, floods, landslides, forest fires, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, drought, plagues of locusts, and famine.
If you can’t fight, and you can’t flee, flow (Robert Eliot) Perhaps you or a friend may have said, “I don’t like it when.” or “I become angry whenever.” or “I can’t stand it if.” You can fill in the blanks. Here are some examples: “I can’t stand it when someone interrupts me while I’m
A reader asks about the pervasive problem of office politics. I’ll begin my answer with some introductory remarks. Then I will share her e-mail so you get a sense of her overall situation. After that I will respond point by point. I have numbered the paragraphs in her e-mail so I can refer to their
How sad it is to see people spend their lives haunted by fear. The joy of life is squeezed out of them by fear of failure, criticism, betrayal, change, rejection, loneliness, poverty, growing old, getting sick, losing one’s job, and saying what is on their mind. They are afraid of death. But what is the
