Improving The Quality Of Your Life

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“Great acts are made up of small deeds.”
— Lao Tzu

Do 5 good deeds each day. Anything from holding a door open for someone to buying and passing hamburgers to impoverished street people works. Or, if you spend most of your time online, you can help other people by answering their questions in a field in which you are good.

Doing so is guaranteed to make you feel better about yourself. It might even boost your productivity along with your mood!

“When I was 13, I told Henry Winkler I wanted to act. He said, Do it and don’t let anyone stand in your way. His validation just made it all the more true. I haven’t stopped thanking him since.”
— Marlee Matlin

Validation is one of the most important emotional skills you can possess. Yes, it is a skill because it has to be learned. And it is an important one if you want to have better relationships with people. Read the rest of this entry »

“Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.”
— Elbert Hubbard

If you were to rate your mornings, how good would they be? Would your mornings be the great, motivating and inspiring part of the day, or the part which clutters your mind and makes you feel confused and powerless? Read the rest of this entry »

On January 12, 2009, the Australian Queensland Tourist Board started advertising for a position they referred to as ‘the best job in the world.’ It is basically a six-month paid vacation on the gorgeous Hamilton Island, which has year-round sunshine, sandy beaches, warm lagoons and sea life galore. The job (’island caretaker’) doesn’t require any academic qualifications, although you need to be a good swimmer, enjoy snorkeling, scuba diving and have the ability to create and maintain an online blog — weekly reports via blogging, a photo diary and video updates. The successful candidate will live rent free in a luxury three-bedroom villa with pool on the island and return home $150,000 AUS richer. Read the rest of this entry »

Business failed? Love of your live left you? Cat died? Got fired? Lost your house? Totaled your expensive car? Found out your favorite TV show got canceled? Friends betrayed you?

“You can spend minutes, days, hours, or months over analyzing a situation, trying to justify what happened. Or you can leave the pieces on the floor and move the f— on.”

– Tupac Amaru Shakur (June 16, 1971- Sept. 12, 1996)

What would you do if any of that happened to you?