Why are we offended by the success of others?

Your colleagues are doing better than you.The classmate who flunked in school is doing better.Everyone’s life seems sorted, other than your own. And all this makes you worried.Perhaps jealous of their success. But why are we jealous of it?Because we are not focused on...

The stories we tell ourselves

An alcoholic father had two sons. One grew up to be an alcoholic.When asked why, he responded, “I watched my father.” The other grew up hating alcohol.When asked how he chose to be sober, he responded, “I watched my father.” So it wasn’t about what happened to...

Whom should you trust?

Whom should you trust?Who deserves to have it?Who doesn’t? It’s a big thing, because maybe you’ve been betrayed.Maybe your heart’s been broken.You trusted someone and they let you down. However, is trust only about the other person?Isn’t it a measure of how much...

Should you be a good human?

I recall during my first job, unable to understand why things functioned in a certain way, I asked my boss: “How is it that some people have so much work and some hardly have any work?” She said, “Good people pay a far higher price for being good, than bad people pay...

Wrong decision is not the problem!

Are you afraid of making decisions?What to wear, what to eat, career choices, who to marry, whether to marry – small to the biggest decisions, are you afraid of making them? The truth is, we are afraid of making decisions because we are afraid that they might turn out...

Did you fail today?

Sara Blakely is a tremendously successful businesswoman.  Someone asked her, what do you attribute your success to? She said, “Every night at the dinner table, my father would ask my brother and me, ‘What did you fail at today?’” Did you fail today?Did you get...