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Most people want to be successful, but not everyone can tell you what success looks like.Today, let's look at the meaning of success.
 
What does it mean to be successful? Do you consider yourself a success? If you do, why? If not, what will success look like when you have finally achieved it?
 
These are important questions because your happiness in life will probably depend on knowing the answers.  Now, some people think that success means a wardrobe full of designer clothes, a fancy car and a 50-foot sailboat. Others think that success is never having to work… >>>

Do you have trouble understanding why your kids do what they do? Or why your mate refuses to listen to you? Here is a suggestion to make that might help.   If you'd like to see your relationships change for the better, there is something you can do that is almost guaranteed to help. It doesn't matter whether it's a teenager who doesn't talk to you anymore, a spouse who just won't listen, or a co-worker who never asks you to lunch.    This technique will improve any relationship, and it's not hard to do, once you get the hang… >>>

Do family problems affect your working life? Do you take problems at work home with you at the end of the day? Today, let's look at how our work and family lives interact.
 
For a long time, employers have been concerned about how troubles at home may affect their workers' on-the-job performance. But a major study done some time ago by the Families and Work Institute says that the truth may be closer to the other way around. Workers are far more likely to bring job-related problems into the house than they are to take family conflicts to the… >>>

If you're interested in living to a ripe old age, here is some information about aging and attitude that may surprise you.
 
Several studies of people who are older, who have lived far beyond the norm in the United States, indicate that attitude seems to play an important role. There probably isn't anything like a "longevity personality." Living to the ripe old age of 100 seems to happen to selfish, cantankerous people as often as it does to those who are quiet and kind. But there does seem to be a common thread, and it is a sense of… >>>

How much unnecessary junk is accumulating in your attic? No, not the one in your house - your mental attic.
 
Since we are in the middle of what many of us, in the northern hemisphere, call "spring cleaning" time, we have started to sort out and discard possessions we no longer use and give them to charity or sell them at a garage sale. But have you ever thought about how valuable it could be if you took the time to perform the same kind of mental housecleaning? 
 
Removing the superfluous, the unnecessary, the destructive, or the outlived… >>>

Everyone likes to feel good. But, sometimes, postponing those good feelings will get you more of what you want in the end. 
 
All of us know what it's like to be impatient for good things to happen. When we're kids, we say we "can't wait" for the holidays or some other special occasion we've been anticipating. But the ability to wait is an important part of becoming an adult. In fact, the ability to delay our need for immediate gratification, so that we can enjoy something even better down the road, is a critical part of nearly every success… >>>

Would you like to have more love in your life? Are there days when you wonder if that's even possible? Are you not sure you can get it? 
 
Now, when we use the word "love" in this context, we are not necessarily talking about romantic love. You see, love is a way of living, and there just isn't any way that you can keep it in a box labeled "Romance." 
 
Whether you have love in your life, or not, has nothing to do with being lucky or being raised in the right kind of family environment, or having… >>>

Why is it that so many people don't know what to do with negative feelings? Today, let's look at  some research, collected at Rutgers University some time ago, that may help explain. In a study done with 10-week-old infants and their mothers, results indicated several things. 
 
First, our emotions are among the earliest signs of our awareness of patterns of meaning. Second, we naturally self-organize to seek out and become interested in positive feelings. Finally, negative feelings trigger negative responses. 
 
Awareness of negative feelings, and perhaps even more importantly, the ability to channel them appropriately, is not something… >>>

How well developed is your sense of humor? Today, let's talk about one of nearly everyone's favorite subject: the importance of laughter and its place in our lives.
 
President John Kennedy once said, "There are three things that are real - God, human folly, and laughter. The first two are beyond comprehension. So we must do what we can with the third."
 
Today, we know that humor is a vital sign of life that affects us both physiologically and psychologically. Genuine laughter signals emotional flexibility and is a common reaction to the unexpected, the unpredictable. Some folks claim… >>>

Do you have an open mind? Most people think they do, but how can you really tell? Let's talk about open versus closed minds.
 
Open minds are like a good sense of humor - everybody thinks they have one, but the truth may be another story. And what does it mean to have an open mind, anyway? Well, here's one description: An open mind is one that knows the difference between fact and opinion and doesn't get them mixed up. It searches for the truth as best it can, and even when it feels reasonably certain of what's true,… >>>