Tag: Life lessons
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4 Important Life Lessons Your Inner Self Wants You To Remember Now and Ever
Your inner voice wants to tell you some hard truths. And you should start listening to it. 1. Luck is a state of being There is a “here and now” for you, and that’s awesome. Steve Jobs doesn’t have it anymore Kobe Bryant doesn’t have it either 🙁 You are fortunate to be alive, and you forget it.…
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Three Life Lessons to Stop Being Secretly Unhappy
Happiness is a skill you can learn. Leo Tolstoy was wrong when he wrote that first sentence in Anna Karenina, “All happy families are alike, but every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” As I get older, I realize that all the reproaches, deceptions, and arguments end up looking like commonplaces in the life…
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30 Things That Take Less Than 60 Minutes but Can Drastically Change Your Life
Life is much more than a succession of effervescent moments, fireworks, sexual partners, and white sand beaches in Thailand. Life is a succession of three types of moments. And routine makes up 80% of your entire life. Therefore it is in the valley moments where you can see more clearly if you are happy or…
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Three Hard Truths That Will Leave You With Your Mouth Open
#1- Most people don’t miss you when you leave. To understand ourselves, we have to grind the experiences we live through in the grinder of memory; to come back again and again to the same thing, tear it apart, break it down, boil it in our mind, filter it and serve it as the best coffee…
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Four Habits of Deeply Mean People
#3–They always suspect others. In 1888 a French newspaper announced Alfred Nobel’s death by mistake — the one who died was his brother Ludwig — and this allowed Alfred to find out what people would think of him when he died. It was not good news, “Death merchant dies,” read the headline. Alfred Nobel invented dynamite. And dynamite comes from…
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Three Life-Traps That I Wish I Had Avoided Much Earlier in Life and That You Should Avoid as Soon as Possible
Learn from my mistakes until it’s too late. My grandfather told me once, “life is like an elevator. It takes you up but also can take you down. So be careful with which button you push. It is not the same to be on the first floor and press the button for the second floor as…
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3 Signs That You’re Not as Smart as You Think You Are (and You’re Not Aware of It)
Don’t make the same mistakes over and over again. Being smart isn’t about being unique but about being human. Being smart is all about making good decisions. And there is no better decision than being kind and helpful to others. Being helpful to others will make you rich. Being helpful will get you a girlfriend or…
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Three Hard Life Lessons I Learned in My Forties That I Wish I Had Known in My Twenties.
Learn these lessons before it’s too late. When you get older, you discover that it’s no use running away. It’s not the problems that always haunt you. Sometimes you are the problem. You can’t hide from your unresolved traumas. And the pain will stay with you until you process it. It is a hard lesson but…
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7 Reasons Why My Life Sometimes Sucks (and Maybe Yours)
Sometimes everything is fine, and suddenly all goes to hell. Do you know that feeling? When karma hits you hard, and your dog dies, you lose your job, or your mother-in-law says she will spend a vacation at your house and stay for a whole year. Shit happens But the attitude with which we face…
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Four Unsexy Habits That Make People Respect You More
Sometimes life isn’t funny. You know that. It’s not funny to be underestimated. It’s not funny people treated you like a rooky. It’s not funny that no one trusts in your capacity. But you can change that. Stop making things too complicated. You don’t have to use fancy techniques or train in non-verbal communication before…