Have you noticed that pain hurts, no matter how bad it is? Whether it’s physical or emotional, whatever pain we’re having at the moment seems worse than anything we’ve had before. That’s because we’re feeling it right now, in the present. We might have actually had worse pain in the past, but it’s a memory. […]
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4 Practical Principles for Thriving During Life’s Tough Times
Nobody promised that life was supposed to be easy. But somehow, we’re surprised when it gets tough. Someone said that we’re always in one of three stages: We’re in a tough period. We’re coming out of a tough period. We’re entering a tough period. Sometimes they overlap. Just as your health starts to improve, a […]
A Simple Way to Overcome Intimidation
Why do some people intimidate us, but not others? It doesn’t matter how confident we feel; there are just some people we get tongue-tied around. It might be their position, their personality or their power. It could be that they just know how to push our buttons, and we don’t know how to respond. It […]