Category: attitude

Feeling pressured?

August 30, 2006 | 2 comments

Do you have too many jobs to do? Uncompleted projects piling up? Not enough hours in the day? People demanding your attention? How does one cope with too much to do? One way is to love more. There’s always time

Relax

August 17, 2006 | 1 comment

While working on improving my tennis serve, my coach told me to relax. I was too tense, he said, causing me to make many errors. He was right. I quickly saw that I needed to loosen up. When tense, my

Don’t let up until you win

August 2, 2006 | 5 comments

I’ve learned a lot about not letting up your effort until you win from playing tennis. Last winter, in a local tennis tournament, I was ahead 5-1. One more game and I’d be the winner. Suddenly, my game fell apart.

The Fisherman and the Industrialist

June 16, 2006 | 1 comment

A rich industrialist was horrified to find a fisherman lying comfortably beside his boat soaking in the warm afternoon sun. “Why aren’t you out fishing?” asked the industrialist. “I’ve caught enough fish for the day,” said the fisherman. ”Why don’t

Self-justification

June 13, 2006 | 2 comments

Self-justification is one of those qualities we often ignore and overlook because we hear it done so frequently. But honestly, it’s not a good quality. It’s a shortcoming of the trumped up human ego that seeks to hide its errors