The old method of positive thinking was to visualize a goal in life such as landing an esteemed job in a prestigious company and life would just align according to your visualization. Or if you want to be more specific in visualizing it, imagine yourself working in one of the
August 5, 2023
Christ established His Church to continue His salvific work and to apply the graces He gained from His Passion and Death to all people through all generations until the end of time. The Catechism of the Catholic Church says, “From the beginning, Jesus associated his disciples with his own life,
August 2, 2023
Here’s a summary of the great book entitled “Reinventing Yourself: How to Become the Person You’ve Always Wanted” from a newly discovered author (at least by me), Steven Chandler. Steven is a former alcoholic and has turned around his life. His down-to-earth and commonsensical message will endear you to him.
July 27, 2023
Here’s a nugget of wisdom from Jordan Peterson, a psychologist in the U.S. who is getting a great following from young Americans for his sensible rules of life, that he wrote in his best-selling book, “12 Rules of Life: An Antidote to Chaos.” One of his rules is to stop
July 20, 2023
St. Thomas Aquinas divides the vice of sloth into two: laziness and disdain for spiritual things. One is called physical sloth and the other spiritual sloth. Let’s focus on spiritual sloth because it leads to many other vices and to greater misery. St. Thomas specifically defines spiritual sloth as sorrow
July 18, 2023
I think everyone will agree that the greatest source of stress in our lives are our problems. But is it really our problem or just how we relate to our problem is the problem? Meaning what makes us stressful is our attitude towards our problem but not necessarily the problems
July 15, 2023
You must have heard of this famous Robin Hood scheme of winning the hearts of the people: that it is ok to steal from the rich and give it to the poor. The intention is good but the method of acquiring the money is questionable. This was actually done in
July 7, 2023
In Ray Dalio’s book, “Principles: Life and Work”, he defines principles as fundamental truths that back up his beliefs. One of his principles is “pain + reflection = progress”, meaning pain from failure when you reflect well on it, on how you arrived at that failure, will only contribute to
July 6, 2023
On earth it is natural and right to love some people more than others, and this preferential treatment is true of all forms of love, including charity, the highest form of love. We should give our family more love than we give to strangers. And this is also true in
July 3, 2023
Seth Godin, a best-selling author of a number of self-improvement books, came up with a latest book on how to enhance our creativity entitled “The Practice: Shipping Creative Work”. Seth Godin defines creativity as “the generous act of making things better by doing something that might not work.” A doctor
July 1, 2023
Anders Ericsson, the author of this book, “Peak: How to Master Anything” was the first one to come up with the idea that if you want to be proficient with any skill you need to practice that skill for 10,000 hours. The Beatles and Bill Gates reached their level of
June 26, 2023
