Stress can be good for you or it can be bad for you. There are both positive and negative stressors in life. Good or positive stressors can be things like going on vacation, putting on a party, a close baseball game, meeting a deadline, getting married, a job interview or winning a lottery. All of the former can cause stress, but usually you get feelings of increased energy and excitement. Good stress can pump you up and help get your creative juices going. Some stress is healthy and necessary.

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Quitting smoking is an admirable goal. But you can be sure of running into some problems along the way. It is difficult to be persistent when everything you try seems to fail. And many people who don’t realize immediate results from their efforts are easily swayed toward giving up.

It doesn’t have to be that way. Let’s begin by emphasizing how important it is to your self-worth that you never allow yourself to give up fighting for something you know and believe to be right.

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I grew up in a family that wore their negativity like a proud shield. I remember my beloved grandmother and her friends almost boosting about how bad life was as if it was a contest, who had the most aches and pains or the worst finances or problems with their children. They didn’t realize they were negative and they certainly didn’t realize the effect this negativity had on their life. This is the way it was and it was handed down from generation to generation. My older sister and I would sit in church every Sunday making fun of people (we may have looked angelic, but we weren’t!). For us it was a good time to poke fun at the ladies beehives and people’s outfits until my parents separated us in the pew. What we didn’t realize is that we were honing our critical skills, and negative thoughts. Then there are the people that make conversation by criticizing (we all know some). You could give them a million dollars and they’d still find something to complain about. They look at everything with a “what can I find wrong with this situation” attitude. They truly don’t know how to be happy, so they do everything they can to stay in the comfortable place they know so well, being unhappy.

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What do Leonardo Da Vinci, Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein, John F. Kennedy, Eleanor Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan, Winston Churchill, John D. Rockefeller all have in common? Aside from being brilliant thinkers, great leader, and amazingly productive individuals, they were all Nappers!

According to the results of a poll conducted by the National Sleep Foundation, the majority of American adults (63%) do not get the recommended eight hours of sleep needed for good health, safety, and optimum performance. Almost one-third of those polled report sleeping less than seven hours each week night, with many saying they try to “catch – up” on their sleep on weekends. This approach simply doesn’t work. Getting adequate sleep not only helps you feel rested but it allows you to restore and rejuvenate many body systems. Such as:

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Everyone wants to be happy, but their happiness must not cause other people’s suffering, otherwise it is a selfish happiness that is not real.

As a matter of fact, the contradictions one finds when searching for happiness are the most important stages of this journey because people tend to neglect other people’s happiness when thinking about their own. This indifference is responsible for many conflicts that cause pain and even tragedies, especially concerning love relationships with married people.

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What do Leonardo Da Vinci, Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein, John F. Kennedy, Eleanor Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan, Winston Churchill, John D. Rockefeller all have in common? Aside from being brilliant thinkers, great leader, and amazingly productive individuals, they were all Nappers!

According to the results of a poll conducted by the National Sleep Foundation, the majority of American adults (63%) do not get the recommended eight hours of sleep needed for good health, safety, and optimum performance. Almost one-third of those polled report sleeping less than seven hours each week night, with many saying they try to “catch – up” on their sleep on weekends. This approach simply doesn’t work. Getting adequate sleep not only helps you feel rested but it allows you to restore and rejuvenate many body systems. Such as:

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When my husband died, I was faced with a future as a single mother of two young boys. I rebelled by marrying too soon, and not wisely. I was thinking about how much I enjoyed my first marriage and that I wanted that again. I was also thinking that my chances of having that were slim at the ripe old age of 36, so instead of waiting until I had experienced any sort of healing from my grief, I plunged into a relationship before I really knew the man. Now, I had higher education and never thought I could be so stupid. But I have later decided that intelligence and matters of grief have very little to do with one another.

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Quitting smoking is an admirable goal. But you can be sure of running into some problems along the way. It is difficult to be persistent when everything you try seems to fail. And many people who don’t realize immediate results from their efforts are easily swayed toward giving up.

It doesn’t have to be that way. Let’s begin by emphasizing how important it is to your self-worth that you never allow yourself to give up fighting for something you know and believe to be right.

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What do Leonardo Da Vinci, Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein, John F. Kennedy, Eleanor Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan, Winston Churchill, John D. Rockefeller all have in common? Aside from being brilliant thinkers, great leader, and amazingly productive individuals, they were all Nappers!

According to the results of a poll conducted by the National Sleep Foundation, the majority of American adults (63%) do not get the recommended eight hours of sleep needed for good health, safety, and optimum performance. Almost one-third of those polled report sleeping less than seven hours each week night, with many saying they try to “catch – up” on their sleep on weekends. This approach simply doesn’t work. Getting adequate sleep not only helps you feel rested but it allows you to restore and rejuvenate many body systems. Such as:

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Anger is an emotion that if left unmanaged or free to manifest itself in your life, will in one way or shorten your natural life.

Anger raises one blood pressure, causes endocrine hormones to flow freely through one’s system at time when they are unwanted, and changes our outlook in life to a straight negative.

Anger is the secret killer in our lives.

The Emotion of Anger

Anger is a dark cousin of the emotion fear, and is the most powerful emotion we posses, save that of love. Anger gives birth to the perception of hate, and feeds the emotion of revenge.

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