Here are some tips so as to have that energy all day, work fully charged so as to get more things done, have a healthier body, a sharper mind and better relationships. Tips taken from best-selling author Tom Rath’s book “Are You Fully Charged?: The 3 Keys to Energizing Your
April 18, 2023
A different approach to solving problems is offered by this book written by Edward Burger and Michael Starbird entitled, “Five Elements of Effective Thinking”. The kind of thinking the authors is recommending for us to try, is to make use (by analogy) of the elements of nature: Earth, Air, Fire
April 13, 2023
“This is the day the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it.” (Psalm 118:24) The Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ is the be all and end all of the Christian faith. As Bishop Barron would say, “If Christ did not rise from the dead, all
April 11, 2023
Here’s a summary of the famous book of the same title by best-selling author Ryan Holiday. First, Mr. Holiday tells us about the Three Areas in Life when the problematic ego appears. First area is aspiring. Aspiring in the wrong way means we are more of talking than doing. Or
April 6, 2023
What were the sufferings of Christ in His Passion and Death? The answer is He suffered everything. Literally everything. All areas of human suffering we can think of is covered. St. Thomas Aquinas gives us three. First, on the part of men: Christ endured suffering from Gentiles and from Jews,
April 5, 2023
How much did Christ suffer in his Passion? Christ as God would not experience suffering but Christ as man does. Death by crucifixion is the most painful death mankind could possibly invent. St. Thomas Aquinas gives three reasons for that unique painfulness of crucifixion. First, because the crucified are pierced
April 1, 2023
This is a good book for people who have been distracted with too much use in their life of smartphone apps, watching movies in Netflix, wasting time in social media and have ended up destroying their ability to concentrate on their studies or focusing on their job or listening intently
March 29, 2023
Is there a limit to love or charity? Does charity in us increase more and more forever, without limit? Will we never be bored in Heaven in all eternity (since there will always be new and exciting ways to love, a new person to love, and a new aspect of
March 23, 2023
If the kind of work involved in your company consists of straight forward tasks such as repetitive data entry work, an assembly line job, selling goods, then the carrot and stick incentives would easily work. Carrot would mean giving cash bonuses and stick would be punishments or penalties if there
March 21, 2023
What is the relation between the Ten Commandments of the Old Testament and the Beatitudes of the New Testament? The relation is not one of identity, nor is it one of opposition, nor is it one of simple difference. It is one of fulfillment. Christ said, “Do not think I
March 17, 2023
The author of this book, Cal Newport, gave credit to his commitment to “deep and focused work” for his good number of scholarly achievements in the last ten years. In one decade, after his college graduation, he published four books, earned a PhD, wrote peer‐reviewed academic papers at a high
March 16, 2023
A crucial conversation is characterized by three major factors: (1) the stakes are high, (2) opinions vary and (3) the parties involved have strong emotions. No doubt a crucial conversation must be handled with great care otherwise consequences on the aftermath of the conversation could have big negative repercussions on
March 9, 2023