Dealing with regret

(One of my favorite clips.  Pardon the curse words) For the last several years I have tried to live my life without regret.  Trying to make the most of the opportunities that come my way.  Through I try every once and a while I am presented with something that catches me off guard.  Something that [...]

“We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about” Charles Kingsley

I have noticed that one of the scariest things that people face it the fear of change.    One of the reasons why is that normally we spend our entire lives trying to maintain stability and avoid change.   Change is uncomfortable because change requires a certain degree of pain. For example if I want to have [...]

“If you are not getting as much from life as you want to, then examine the state of your enthusiasm. Norman Vincent Peale

I once came across a study of motivation that said that the older we get the harder it is to motivate ourselves.  For some reason over time people tend to lose their motivation to do things.  I have noticed the same tendency in my own life.  When I was younger it was not a challenge [...]

– “People would worry less about what others think about them if they knew how seldom they do” Anonymous

The subject of worry is an interesting thing because the basis of worry is the constant dwelling on certain aspects that are not real.  For example I know people who fear flying because they worry that something might happen to them when they fly.  There is a higher probability that something will not happen than [...]