Posts Tagged ‘Overcoming’

 

How To Overcome Fear, Timidity & Self Pity

As a boy I struggled with all three of these giants. They particularly played a dominant role in my life when I was nine years old and my parents decided to invite a twelve-year-old boy to live with us. Being super-athletic, on the very first day he attended my school, he was challenged to race [...]

Simple Wisdom For Life’s Hard Question About Pain

Lori Deschene – the founder of Tiny Buddha has just released her book that touches on the subjects of pain, meaning, change, fate, happiness, love, money, possibilities, and control plus a whole lot more. I have simply drawn some of her wisdom from her chapter on pain. Ably assisted by her Twitter followers – where [...]

How To Understand & Be Understood

In Germany, I came face to face with the power of communication. For the first time, I recognised the privilege of understanding and of being understood. I had to go and get some money from the bank. Unfortunately, the bank in the little outer suburb where we were staying, couldn’t accept our credit card. Apparently [...]

4 Ways To Transform Your Disappointments Into Stupendous Success

‘Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.’ Henry Ward Beecher First, before I write anything more, I need to make certain that you understand the word ‘stupendous’ that I have used in my title. Stupendous means ‘extremely impressive’. So now with that cleared up, let’s move on with the article. Here are the 4 ways [...]

How To Turn Frustration Into Life Transformation

I often receive comments from my readers with deep and meaningful questions and I endeavor to respond in a way that can assist them on their life’s journey, Here’s one question I received recently along with my response. Sir, I would also love to ask you that ‘If actions don’t matter for a normal guy, [...]

How To Turn Your Bitterness Into Betterness

Throughout the years I have observed how the root of bitterness –allowed to take root in a life – has destroyed the one who in the first place allowed that root of bitterness to take root. The end result has been one of three things – a life filled with sickness, a life filled with [...]

Transforming Adversity Into Success: The Interview

Born profoundly deaf, Stephen J. Hopson didn’t let that stand in the way of fulfilling his dreams. His mother taught him to speak at home and sent him to public school. He attended college and landed his first job on Wall Street at a major New York bank.  Ten years later, he left this secure [...]

What Will Be Your Lifetime Contribution?

‘Life asks of every individual a contribution, and it is up to that individual to discover what it should be.’ Viktor Frankl To discover what our contribution should be often requires struggle, and many of us wish that the road could be that much easier. But Earl Nightingale – known as the ‘Dean of Personal [...]

5 Powerful Ways To Develop An Unshakable Strong Faith

‘A weak faith is weakened by predicaments and catastrophes, whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.’ Victor Frankl When it comes to faith there are two sides to it – weak or strong. But first, before we discuss these components, let’s have a closer look at the word faith on its own. I have [...]