“Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
Today I’d just like to quickly share something that has helped me to feel a whole lot better about myself. And it does not only benefit me.
It is a very simple habit.
It is the habit of being kind to the people in your life.
How can you use it?
“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.”
Leonardo Da Vinci
“If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.”
Olin Miller
10 years ago I was a big slacker. I procrastinated most of the time and had very few helpful habits for when I actually did some work.
These days things are a different. I usually get more done in a day than I used to get done in a week back then.
So today I would like to share 23 habits that have helped me – and still help me – to make such a big shift in my own life over the past years.
Today I would like to simply and quickly share one of my favorite thoughts on self-improvement.
This short thought comes from Nathaniel Branden’s book The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem and it simply goes like this:
“No one is coming”.
Short. But it has been a powerful and sobering reminder for me.
Because yes, you can look for the next big thing that will fix you.
Read more blog articles. Read more personal development books. Look for people to help you.
“Smile, breathe and go slowly.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.”
Marcus Aurelius
One of things we may often take for granted in life is the simple act of breathing.
Sure, we know that without it we would not live.
But it is one of those things that happen unconsciously, automatically as we go about our lives. That’s all that’s to it.
This is at least what I used to think. But I have in the past 8 years learned that by consciously breathing when needed I can in the long run reap big, big benefits from extremely little effort.
Today I’d like to explore a common issue readers email me about. An issue that have been quite painful for me too in the past.
This article is about how to handle criticism or verbal attacks.
Or more specifically, what to do when something someone says really gets under your skin and hurts you.
And how to replace destructive thought habits with more positive habits and through that make this a much smaller issue.
This is a guest post by Celestine Chua from Personal Excellence.
One question I often get is, “Celes, how do you stay so positive?”
Reason being people often see me bright and cheery every time. I’m rarely unhappy, and even when I am, I don’t stay that way long.
I didn’t used to be positive though. I wasn’t hopelessly negative, but I wasn’t positive.
When I was an adolescent, I would complain, harbor thoughts of inferiority, and be critical of others.
It was through the years that I switched to become positive and upbeat.