Archive for the ‘Life’ category

When everything falls apart

June 16th, 2010

I’ve read this beautiful article about accepting and learning from falls.

About peaks and valleys of life.

It starts by asking:

Have you experienced the moment when everything in your life seems to be going well and then, suddenly, something unexpected happens and it feels like there is no hope and nothing is ever going to be the same again?

And then the shift to use the peaks to grow:

If you let confusion, anger and anxiety be, and accept even the worst things in your life, often something great happens.

Read full article on Dragos Roua’s blog: http://www.dragosroua.com/when-everything-falls-apart

How to Handle Criticism: The Top 7 Tips from The Last 2500 Years

June 15th, 2010

Many of the tips in this article can be used to learn to handle criticism aimed at you in a better way. But I’d also like to point out that it can be very useful to examine your own reasons for feeling like you have to criticise someone. It can tell you quite a bit about your own life at this moment and what you think about yourself.

From among the tips:
1. Understand through experience.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do. – Benjamin Franklin

2. Remember who the credit belongs to.

Read all 7 tips as the author presented and explained them: http://www.positivityblog.com/index.php/2008/11/14/how-to-handle-criticism-the-top-7-tips-from-the-last-2500-years/

Fear of Failure – Building the Right Mindset

June 9th, 2010

Found these days a beautiful article about using fear as a powerful tool to empower life.

Luciano Passuello present in the first article a perspective about:

How to create a first line of defense — a “psychological armor” — against fear of failure.

There are 6 ideas to help you look at the failure from a different perspective and stop being help back by it.

“If you hit every time, the target is too near or too big.” –Tom Hirshfield

So “Failing is the only way to go far enough”.

Read full article here: http://litemind.com/fear-failure/