Did you ever mix up your days? I’ve been known to mix up my times since I have to deal with different time zones throughout the world but last night was the first time I mixed up my days. If one of my clients didn’t show up for an appointment, I might not have noticed it, but when none of my scheduled appointments showed up, it was beyond belief. So, there I sat, in the middle of the night, sending …
I saw a great cartoon that said, “Respect your parents. They passed school without Google.” At first I laughed, thinking it was so funny, and then I stopped laughing because I realized how true it is. Teachers, nowadays, are telling their students that it’s not important to memorize anything because they can just Google it. This is so sad, particularly because it deprives a child of learning how to think and how to develop his mind. I’m seeing more and …
Let me start out by saying I don’t like emoticons and I don’t use them. My rationale is that I don’t see authors using them in the books I read because they credit the reader with being intelligent enough to read a passage and know whether the author was being sarcastic, humorous, sorrowful, apologetic, angry, pleased, rude, cavalier, or a whole host of other emotional responses. To this day, I have refused to memorize what those silly things mean because …
If I could train every newborn child in this country to think for himself, the first thing I would do is to make him express his own opinions without letting him hear my opinions or the opinions of others, including the experts. Essentially, there are some basic storylines that our lives revolve around and we build on those themes throughout the years. We change the dialogue to fit the circumstances, but we’re repeating certain patterns in our behaviors and thought …
Have you ever watched someone who is always busy but doesn’t seem to accomplish anything? It’s one of the most amazing and dizzying sights to behold. Whenever I see someone who runs around like a chicken without a head, and yes, chickens can run around without a head for a very short period of time, I always think of the song, “Busy Doing Nothing.” I can still hear Vaughn Monroe singing, “We’re busy doing nothing,/ Working the whole day through./ …
I have often wondered why parents spend more time training their children to follow orders rather than training them to think for themselves. In a culture where the common belief is that the masses are asses, it would make more sense to teach our children how to lead, rather than how to follow. The military takes to heart the words of Alfred, Lord Tennyson in his poem, The Charge of the Light Brigade, “Theirs not to make reply,/ Theirs not …
One of the most difficult things for someone to do is to ask for what he wants. Sometimes it’s for a pay raise or for a personal favor, or if you’re being bothered by what someone is doing, asking them to stop doing what they’re doing. One of my clients has a very hard time being direct so she thinks if she asks an indirect question that the other person will get the hint and do what she wants. One …
When I first started studying the principles of metaphysics, I kept hearing about the power of affirmations. I looked around at the people who believed in them so strongly and I couldn’t see where the use of their affirmations had helped them. If my back hurt, it hurt, and no amount of affirmations that my back was healed, or that I was completely healthy, or that I lived in perfect health and wellbeing, made the pain go away. This was …
Each of us has a different level of self-confidence and each of us attained it in a different way. If you are very assertive and you have a Type A personality, it will probably be almost impossible for you to sit back and watch someone who has to think through every decision before he makes the first move. It does no good to push a Type B personality into doing something that he isn’t ready to do because, in all …
This is one of those horror stories about customer feedback that is so hard to believe, yet it’s true. Whenever you buy something online, you get an email asking you to take a survey and to post your opinion of the product and the customer service you received. You also have the option of posting your feedback online so that other customers can benefit from your experience. But wait a minute. Think again. Apparently, if you exercise that option, you …