Either Tame The Bull, Or, You'll Eat The Crow!

Written by Richard Vegas


A man can stand a lot… as long as he can stand himself. Success is never Final and Failure is never fatal. Only failure to get back up is. The bull is lying to you and leading you downrepparttar trail ofrepparttar 123711 pied-piper.

If you want to achieve anything worthwhile in life it is imperative that you approach your bull with an optimistic frame of mind. A positive attitude isrepparttar 123712 generator that brings all sorts of good things to you.

The bulls in your life will bringrepparttar 123713 rewards of; grief, disaster, tragedy, disease, death andrepparttar 123714 like in any person's life withrepparttar 123715 "devil is after me mind-set".

Did I hear someone say, yea, butrepparttar 123716 world has given me a raw deal? Did you realize that most people whom have taken a motivational course thought of themselves as a failure when they enteredrepparttar 123717 course?

In a careful study ofrepparttar 123718 reasons people take these courses, a significant pattern has resulted. The reasons they give are a tragic story ofrepparttar 123719 causes of failure.

They say things like, I've never really had a chance to get ahead, my father was an alcoholic, my mother was a prostitute, I was raised onrepparttar 123720 wrong side ofrepparttar 123721 tracks, I fell inrepparttar 123722 sewer when I was twelve years old and never could getrepparttar 123723 smell off. Yuk. Yeah, they say things that crazy.

I Got Shafted!

They are all saying in essence, I gotrepparttar 123724 shaft. They will blamerepparttar 123725 world, their parents, their dog, they will believe they inherited their failure, and with this type of attitude they are severely handicapped.

When you are right, so will be your world.

Learn a lesson from a kid. I love kid lessons. They are so meaningful. A father was very busy one Saturday morning getting ready for a business meeting Monday morning. His seven year old son Tommy was very hyper and making his father unusually nervous. His father opened a magazine and found a huge picture ofrepparttar 123726 world.

He rippedrepparttar 123727 picture out and tore in many pieces. He then gaverepparttar 123728 pieces to Tommy and said, if you can put this world back together, I'll give you a dollar figuring this would take him all day.

Tommy tookrepparttar 123729 pieces of paper and in ten minutes had putrepparttar 123730 world back together. His father said Tommy how did you do it so fast? Tommy said it was easy. I found a picture of a man onrepparttar 123731 other side so, I figured if I gotrepparttar 123732 man rightrepparttar 123733 world would be also.

The father learned a great lesson in this. If you are unhappy with your world and want to change it,repparttar 123734 place to begin is with yourself. If you are right, your world will be right. When you are right,repparttar 123735 problems of your world are never uncontrollable.

You Were Born A Champion!

THE STORIES OF OUR LIVES - Turning Disenchantment Into Enchantment - Part 2

Written by Dr. Barbara Becker Holstein


In my psychology practice I hear so many disenchanted stories -- stories full of pain, anger and fear. My heart goes out to my clients every day. Butrepparttar wonderment is listening to these stories and helping my clients listen to themselves, recognizingrepparttar 123710 special capacities that each display in their stories. I try to help someone appreciate and even feel beloved toward herself as she realizes that she has had so many talents and strengths buried even inrepparttar 123711 worst of times. I try to help her see that it's her very coping skills that may reflect her genius, her humor and her capacity for endurance. If I can do this, then I've helped my clients and we have begunrepparttar 123712 healing process. In my counseling and therapy, I teach clear ways of reframing a person's experience so that she can retrieve from it what are her positive capacities and even to reclaim what gives her pleasure and joy. For example one of my clients was constantly put down by her husband and was now separated, was able through telling me stories about her childhood to reclaimrepparttar 123713 wonderful talent of singing. Even though her childhood home had been dysfunctional,repparttar 123714 family hadrepparttar 123715 capacity to sing together and once she recognized as a great gift, she brought it frequently into her own life with her children. It was a small step in regaining a sense of self worth and actually having pleasure with her children. I'd like to leave you forrepparttar 123716 moment with an easy activity to begin to reframe some of your life story: 1. Pick a year in your life and spend some time jotting downrepparttar 123717 main events of that year. They may be pleasant or they may be unpleasant.

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