Perhaps you saw the film “Invictus” starring Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela, and Matt Damon as Francois Pienaar, captain of South Africa’s national rugby team, who was entrusted with an idea Mandela had to help unite the bitterly divided country following the end of apartheid in 1994. Invictus is the Latin word for “unconquerable.” […]
Usually when we view someone as being a menace to society, we picture a reckless driver, a con artist, a criminal. But without realizing it, we can actually be a true menace to the people we care about the most, and we do this with our attitude and opinions of them. If your friend
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Have you ever been in a situation where someone asked you to do something, and you automatically refused, not because you didn’t want what the request would bring you, but because you were resisting the person doing the asking? This is called “demand resistance” and, not surprisingly, the behavior is closely tied with self-sabotage. Sometimes
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I was in the grocery store line and heard a little girl behind me pipe up, telling her mom, “When I grow up, I’m going to teach running because I’m really fast, and I’m going to teach singing because I like it.” The mom replied that she thought those were great ideas and that her
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Countless writers, inventors, and explorers have had to face this dilemma: do I push ahead with what I see in my mind’s eye, or do I let the scoffers win? I’ll be the first to admit it can be a challenge when you have a big idea, and you know that family, friends and
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Did you ever stop to think what a devastating thing it is to have an inferiority complex? It means the person fails before they even get started. The mindset of thinking that others can do things that you can’t is filled with beliefs about yourself that are hardly flattering, and less than useful. In
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Have you ever been in a situation where you had been hurt or damaged by another person, and your friends or perhaps a spiritual advisor warned you that holding a grudge was hurting you more than the other person, and you “should” forgive that person? When that happens, most of us have a knee-jerk
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This project to return His Holiness the Dalai Lama to Tibet sprang from an idea I had one morning in January 2016, seemingly out of the blue. As soon as I got the idea, I knew it was a fantastic one—a “B-HAG”…a Big Hairy Audacious Goal. What do you do with an idea that
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I’ve been a bookworm all my life. When I was a child, trips to the public library (or to the bookmobile in summer months) were a family event, and I was blessed with parents and older sisters who showed me by their example how to expand my imagination and intellect in the pages of books.
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In the brilliant (and funny) book “The Dalai Lama’s Cat” by David Michie, the cat, “HHC” (“His Holiness’s Cat,” a name she favors over several nicknames given to her) learns a lesson about taking action in your own life, about being accountable, about being responsible. And the key words that help her are:“I alone can
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