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The moment when you require to be respected, the respect disappears. Why? It is because the respect can not be attained by begging for it. When you demand respect, you impose a certain mind frame on a person. And this never brings results! The frame of mind is the inner work of a person. It must com...

Are you afraid at your work place? If yes, then check one important quality: kindness. Are you aware of your kindness? If, yes, then you manifest it.
And when you display your kindness, it relaxes you from inside. Your tension and nervousness disappear and fear disappears with them.

Work, play, perform with enthusiasm and inspiration and leave the results in the care of God. Focus mainly on results, and you will lose both your enthusiasm and inspiration. During one NBA game, Kobe Bryant got eight baskets out of twenty attempts. Still, he is one of the greatest players in NBA. Y...

We can lead by our attitude, not just by reason. For instance, if you threat someone as a friend, he/she can become a friend for you, too. When you treat everyone as friends, you send a certain message. People can listen, understand your message and follow you.

One of the reasons why many people don't make progress it's because they have a tendency to look at great people as super humans. Thus, they develop the inferiority complex, which doesn't allow them to make progress. Their inner voice tell them continuously: "I can not do the same thing". ...

Two principles guide people’s success. The principle of the least resistance makes you look for the easiest ways possible. But the principle: “persistence beats resistance” makes you never quit working toward achieving your goals. Any person must choose the second principle, as the guiding principle...

What would you prefer: to be a rich person or to be a wise person? If you choose the second option, you will discover that life is not a lottery. Why? If you look around yourself, you will see in everything the concept of a gradual growth: in a tree, in a flower, in a building, in a city, in knowled...

The fact that there are well established truths; anyone can be a teacher to a certain degree. For instance, if a child knows exactly that two plus two equals four, and this truth doesn't change over time, he can be a teacher of this truth to his little brother or sister. If we know that all men are ...

You have this tool. This is your concentration. Think about the concentration as it is a flash light in the darkness. You direct the light of the lantern wherever you choose. You pick up with your flash light one single mood or thought which you really enjoy. Let’s do a little mental experiment. Ima...

People have a tendency to compare themselves with others. They also try to imitate those persons, who are “one head above” them. And there is nothing wrong with that. There is, though, one hidden problem. Mentally one can imagine that he is at the level of his role model. Even though he can imitate ...

Let’s see if you are a balanced person. At one extreme we have the lack of sincerity and openness and at another extreme we have a maximum sincerity and an open heart. The balance must be somewhere in the middle. One thing is obvious: a person can not be balanced if he doesn’t have a certain degree ...

Everyone wants to be happy. If you ask anybody what choice you are going to make: to be happy or unhappy, the answer will be obvious. Nevertheless, there are so many unhappy people. So, what is the problem? The problem is that most of people think that they will be happy in the future. They don’t ad...

We all know that a self-complaining person is a proud person. He is blind to the display of love in his life. Why? It is because love “doesn’t yell” from the bottom of its” lungs, “to announce” its presence. But for a proud person only “noisy” love is love. It is because he doesn’t know the secret a...

The tendency of people to prove others wrong and criticize others is so strong, that they don’t have time to simply live. Their preoccupation with what others think about them is so overwhelming, that they have no room for simple enjoyments of life. Gradually they forget to look friendly at any face...

A colleague of mine, who works in a financial company in the center of New York City, told me: “Do you know that only a few people know how to really work in my company?” I was surprised to hear that from him. But later on I realized that being full with activities and really working is a big differ...

How many times you saw situations, when a person tells you: “Yes, I understand”, only to come to you, again in next few minutes to declare: “I don’t understand what to do?” One important cause of people’s frustration is that they confuse a general understanding of a situation with a real one. People...

Have you thought about how much freedom you possess? An enormous amount! For instance, nobody is forcing you to love or hate people. But if you choose by your own choice to love people, the way you will enrich your life will be beyond imagination. Also, nobody is forcing (or imposes limits on you) t...

I know a person, who is full of anger because of what happened to him thirty years ago. He keeps fighting with those thirty year old negative thoughts until now. What was the result? He doesn’t have trustful human relationship. Manipulating people in order to gain their favor is a routine for him. B...

An idea without faith in it couldn’t be appreciated at its real value. A deep thought doesn’t dwell long in our mind without belief, that it can change the perspective with which we look at ourselves and others. So, nothing can bring changes in us without a strong faith. It’s evident that our human ...

Our authority comes not from who we are, but comes from the principles we stick to. If we live by these high principles, even when nobody is watching us, these principles become part of us. Only then we can say we posses the real authority in the eyes of other people. Imagine a person who says one t...

Do you know what is involved in reading? It is passion. By being passionate readers, we captivate our listeners. A passionate reader looks for the meaning, excitement. How does passion work? First, it elevates our soul and, second, it opens the way for us to captivate and elevate the souls of others...

Do undeveloped skills mark your personality? If yes, what should you do? Refuse to have more than one main activity. Decide this for yourself. Your enjoyment for what you do really well, will replace disappointment for hundred of things, which you do poorly.

So, what will be your choice?

One shouldn’t apply his full intellectual power to a routine issue. If you intend to solve a routine issue intellectually, you’ll run into frustration. For instance, you wish to make a reservation at the Hotel. The receptionist misplaced your order. And she did this twice on your order! Instead of m...

When the love to live, think, create and admire is easily overshadow by another person misbehavior, this love is weak. It appears that your pride is stronger than your love and appreciation. Should you hold tightly to your pride, if it destroys your love for life and joy to live? None and nothing mu...

Are you always doing the job in a hurry, at the last moment? Do you put yourself usually in a tight time framework? If, yes, than it could be that you have never thought about the culture of doing the job. There is a certain culture in doing everything. The key element of this culture is planning ah...