“You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.” –J.S. Knox

Whenever you are teaching someone a new sport, craft, trade- or whatever it may be- it is better to teach with patience and understanding that they may be new at it. I’m sure that when the person came to you for help they saw a great teacher in you, and did not expect to be antagonized.

An influential person not only knows how to be charismatic, but…

When you’re having those occasional thoughts of unaccomplishment, confusion and doubt, don’t believe those thoughts. They are not true. It’s all in your head.

Whenever you hear that loud voice screaming to you that you cannot make it, don’t believe that voice. It’s not true. It’s all in your head.

Whenever you are feeling sad, alone and afraid, don’t believe that feeling. It’s not true. It’s all in your head.

Today, know that negativity is not real.…

Most things that people tell you you have to really evaluate before believing. People say so much, but deliver very little. Most of the times they say things just to get you to believe in them and they really don’t mean any of it.

You get your hopes up and become really excited about something new, and it turns out that it was all an agenda.

Today, whenever you are told something too good to be true,…

If someone you’re distant with calls you and you don’t like what they say, you are free to hang-up. You always have the power and the choice not to stay in a relationship that isn’t working for you.

Get real. You don’t need a long distance runaround.

Take the distance as a great sign that it is meant for you two to be apart. Take advantage of the better times that you have without him. It’s about knowing…

“I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

Time and time again I’ve been to concerts, sports games and even plays and watched how people will faint, cry, throw panties, bow to and even stalk anyone who has made a name for themselves. It’s amazing (and extremely embarrassing) how low below we are willing to put ourselves according to the rank of an honored person.    It’s as if we…

Ever look around yourself and scream, “What a mess!”  Life is pretty messy, huh?

Always a messy pile of bills, and then there’s school, work, and then home to cook and clean.

What a messy, messy world we live in. But, hey, someone’s gotta clean it up.

So why not it be you?

Today, busy yourself with cleaning up your mess.   It’s always worth it to start completely fresh.

—Penna

If we are not in control of our lives we are living as an effect rather than being the cause. Just merely existing instead of creating. Never fully understanding about the things that happen in our lives, or even learning from them. We are then always the “victims”, and never the heroes.

But WHY do things happen as they do?

Every single situation in life is strategically placed in our lives at certain specific times in life. …