Tag: living
member name: Kare Anderson
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January 18, 2006 11:38 PM EST --
Getting enthusiasm is a little like learning to breathe:
Nobody can tell you exactly how to do it, but without it you're in big trouble.
No one but you can discover that compelling purpose or exciting . . .
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February 27, 2009 08:36 PM EST --
Ugandan women sell health, using the Avon ladies’ approach . Yes, door-to-door outreach looks different in villages than in American suburbs. . . .
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January 14, 2006 07:04 PM EST --
Imagine! The number one reason people get reprimanded at work in the U.S. is for displays of anger, and the number one problem people say they have at work is they do not feel heard and respected.
How . . .
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January 14, 2006 08:25 PM EST --
All Jokes Come Down to One of Four Themes
Anywhere in the world, all jokes can be reduced to just one of four themes, according to Dr. Richard Wiseman, a British scientist who's been conducting mass . . .
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January 14, 2006 07:39 PM EST --
Remember the agitated, bleary late-night looks on your friends' faces in college as they attempted to cram a semester of learning into the night before a final? Perhaps you were one of those crammers. . . .
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January 18, 2006 11:34 PM EST --
What a surprise . . . it seemed at first. Jamie Lee Curtis and Joanne Woodward actually promoting the production of a movie for TV about a story I did not think Hollywood would ever touch. But they will . . .
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January 14, 2006 07:35 PM EST --
"Write injuries in sand, kindnesses in marble." ~ French proverb
Whatever we praise, we can cause to flourish. We can choose, moment by moment, where to put our attention, emotion, and intention. . . .
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January 18, 2006 11:06 PM EST --
After winning several music awards last year Carlos Santana was interviewed many times about the other musicians he admired, the turning points in his life and how it felt to be popular again.
But, according . . .
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January 14, 2006 07:31 PM EST --
The secret is all in understanding a code.
It is a most elaborate code that is written nowhere,
known by none, and yet understood by all.
That secret is how we tell each other,
without words, what . . .
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January 14, 2006 08:07 PM EST --
On Regis Philbin's TV show, "Who Wants to be a Millionnaire?" a contestant couldcall his smartest friend or ask the audience for help with the answer. Contestants are more apt to get the . . .
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January 18, 2006 10:04 PM EST --
Opportunity is often inconvenient.
Two days last week were filled with the kind of scenes of character-building opportunities that may seem funny -- some day far off in the future.
They include a tense . . .
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January 18, 2006 10:15 PM EST --
There is a Tibetan saying "If you want to know your future, look at what you are doing in this moment."
This may seem childlike but, unless you are facing an unavoidable and threatening crisis, . . .
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January 18, 2006 10:57 PM EST --
As you speed-click through your emails, consider this: are you acting or reacting to life? To make more sane, satisfying choices and savor your life more, take five minutes or less to learn the highlights . . .
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May 01, 2007 02:40 PM EDT --
"Worry is interest paid on trouble before it falls due."
- W. R. Inge
We women generally worry more than men.
And worry leads to fear, as Adrianna Huffington has noted in her book Fearless. . . .
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January 14, 2006 07:26 PM EST --
Captain Eugene "Red" McDaniel was a navy pilot shot down in North Vietnam
and then held as a prisoner of war for six years. In his book Scars and
Stripes, he describes the desperate need of prisoners . . .
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January 14, 2006 07:16 PM EST --
In the movie, "The Player" during a scene at a Hollywood studio executive meeting Mr. Levy shows Reeve, the central character, how to pitch a potential movie story. Levy holds out a newspaper, . . .
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January 14, 2006 08:18 PM EST --
Men aren't born passive. Women aren't born wild. We just have that effect on each other … too often.
When and why does a conversation become one-sided, or dissolve into conflict, and how . . .
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January 14, 2006 08:22 PM EST --
We women generally worry more than men. How can we know when a fear for personal safety is justified and when a worry is sapping our spirit and making us see the world simply as a dangerous place?
"Our . . .
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February 09, 2007 11:25 AM EST --
Like many photographers before him, Richard Zaltman was visiting remote areas of the world to capture images of people living lives far removed from those in the United States.
Here’s what . . .
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January 14, 2006 07:08 PM EST --
Our attitude is the crayon that colors our world.
In a less certain world, you can demonstrate a caring attitude most quickly through compassionate, complete listening. Nurses are usually naturally compassionate . . .
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