Category: tip
Marksmanship
The life coach explains how one can make sure the target is never missed.
“Shoot first, and whatever you hit, call it the target.”
Where’s my present?
When she was young, Phyllis was so worried about the future that she couldn’t enjoy the present. Now that she is old, Phyllis is too busy regretting the past to actually enjoy the present.
Wise prayer
Serena prays, “God please give me patience, because if you give me strength I’ll just punch them in the face.”
The brave, the strong and the happy
The first to apologise is brave. The first to forgive is strong. The first to forget is happy.
Irony of suffering
Don’t always make it too easy. Don’t always provide the best comfort for children. Because it is through suffering that they can appreciate what they have and thus be grateful.
And gratefulness, interestingly, can make happiness.
Originality
Wilde always advises people to be themselves; because everyone else is taken.
Mindfulness – cosupporting remembrance
Peripheral awareness filters through an enormous amount of information and selects what’s relevant for attention. But attention also trains peripheral awareness to know which things are important.
– from The Mind Illuminated
Resilience and resourcefulness
Quite often we believe that as long as we do what we should, misfortunes and calamities will not befall us.
But minimizing risk does not mean eliminating risk. Shit still does happen despite all that we have done. Such is fate.
What’s important is developing resilience and resourcefulness in handling all that that comes. Prevention has its limits.
Listening to her as she is
“On that afternoon I finally learned that when any of us is in pain, the greatest gift you can give is to listen, patiently and purely.”
the madman speaks 