Archive for the 'Relationships' Category
Most Common Regrets and How to Deal With Them
March 16th, 2011A while ago I read a story about a group of researchers who traveled the globe over a number of years and conducted interviews with terminally ill elderly people on the topic of regret. Only the elderly were interviewed for this particular survey and each and every participant was aware they were close to death. [...]
The Family Factor
May 15th, 2010As we travel through life, friends come and friends go, some stay around a little longer than others, some friendships dissipate as quickly as they began. If we are lucky we might have a friend or two who is a friend for life although these types of friendships are rare, especially these days. Family on [...]
Through Failure Comes Success
December 30th, 2008I think one of the greatest tragedies in life is not learning from your mistakes. Failures in my experience have been the catalysts for some of the greatest successes in my own life and those success stories would never have come to fruition unless I had failed, often time and time again until I got [...]
Obsession with Celebrity
March 22nd, 2008It seems every day the worldwide obsession with celebrity grows stronger and stronger. Gossip magazine sales are off the charts and paparazzi photographs sometimes sell for millions of dollars. Why is this? Are people so unhappy with their own lives they need to obsess over the lives of the rich and famous? Perhaps a huge [...]
The Road to Happiness
February 25th, 2008Although I cannot speak for everyone, I do believe the ultimate goal in life is to walk the road to happiness as often as humanly possible. Some people seem to spend most of their time on the path to happiness and many would appear to be walking a lonely path or the road that leads [...]
Tough Love and Self Discipline
July 29th, 2007Enforcing some tough love might be the only way to teach someone about learning self discipline as hard as it might be to do. When I say tough love I am referring to loving someone so much that by not helping them might be the only way to truly help them. Tough love is the [...]
Moving On
July 27th, 2007When you come to the end of a friendship or relationship, moving on can seem like an impossible task. Moving on from someone who was once a big part of your life is one of the most difficult and uncomfortable experiences anyone ever has to go through and it can sometimes feel almost as bad [...]
Self Sabotage
May 3rd, 2007Self sabotage is when you let your insecurities take control of your life. Often people will self sabotage themselves or their own efforts without even being aware they are doing it. It is not always easy to determine if you are sabotaging yourself but the most obvious way regarding how to detect self sabotage is [...]
Do Nice Guys Always Finish Last?
April 21st, 2007Many women like the bad boy image but in reality that is where it normally ends, at the image. Women like the idea of a troubled and rugged figure who represents adventure and unpredictability. They may fantasize about a man who is tough and ready to fight at the drop of a hat instead of [...]
Overcoming Loneliness
March 24th, 2007Overcoming loneliness can be a big problem for many people but often they can hide it so well you would have no idea they were lonely unless they told you. One of my Aussie friends who also lives in Bangkok was telling me over lunch last weekend how he is so lonely at the moment [...]