Unplug from work, not friends or family
Before your vacation, social media executive Alexandra Samuel recommends asking what is the least amount of work connectivity you can get away with.
Set up a separate vacation e-mail address and decide how you will use your phone and computer while away.
– Harvard Business Review Blogs
Each day we are born again. What we do today is what matters most. Buddha.
It’s all so easy to let all the negativity get to you. Don’t let that happen. The real winners in life cultivate optimism. They have the ability to somehow see the brighter side. They see setbacks or failures only as an opportunity to grow and learn another lesson. Optimists view their world as a place crowded with endless possibilities, even in challenging times.
No matter what the situation, the optimists always find a way to put a positive spin on it.
No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear or hollowness of heart just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now. Alan Watts.
Action separates dreams from reality. Taking action makes things happen.
If there is a project you have been meaning to start, or there is something your intuition is telling you to do, listen to your intuition. Trust yourself.
Despite your fear, don’t settle for less than what you think you deserve or less than you know you can be.
You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem and smarter than you think. You know what you want to accomplish, get out there and do whatever it takes to do it. There is no other way.
Try not to become a man of success but a man of value. Albert Einstein.
In today’s world it is all too easy to get caught up in doing as we focus on the outward aspect of our lives, our job, the money, our status among our peers, being loved, being important…. you get the idea.
That’s not to say there is anything wrong with all of the above – just as long as their pursuit is not defining you and your life.
It’s not what you are doing that matters, it is who you are being that counts.
What is important is that one use one’s intellect and not be 100 percent sure about one’s convictions. Shirin Ebadi
There are few needs of the human heart that are greater than the need to be heard, to be understood and respected for whom we are; to have someone actually hear what we are saying.
Often, though, in our state of busyness and the desire to win, many engage in a conversation without actually hearing what the other person saying.
Have you ever found yourself in an encounter when you are already preparing a response to the point the other person is trying to express even before they have finished speaking? I know I have.
You are nodding, smiling, but not really hearing. You are in too much of a hurry, too invested in your own point of view to even hear their’s.
It is only when you actually slow down and the other person realizes that you are listening, sincerely paying attention to what they have to say – that real communication begins.
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