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 Source/Author: Bruce Sallan |  Posted on: April 28th, 2010 My son and I had an extraordinary experience this Spring Break while on a ski trip at Mammoth, California. It was just the two of us, since my wife stayed home for work and my older son preferred hanging out with his friends and girlfriend (I can’t blame him, as she’s wonderful). So, it was a special alone-time-trip with my younger son, David.
 Because our skiing levels and skiing interests are quite different, we tend to prefer to ski separately. I have friends there and David had some friends from school that he skied with. However, we always hook up at some point and one day, after he’d slightly hurt himself and was taking it easy, we skied together. We skied just one area, where there’s a short chair lift and short runs.
When we approached the lift line, I noticed a woman waiting just outside the line. I made a comment that on such a beautiful day, she shouldn’t be kept waiting. She smiled and we went ahead.
A few minutes later, when we returned to the lift, she was still there. I suggested that whoever was keeping her waiting was rude and she should ride up with us. She replied that she might ride up with us the next time we came down. I introduced my son, and myself. She told us her name was Lisa.
Next time down, again she was there and I said, “Okay, that’s it; they’re being very rude and you should get to enjoy yourself.” “C’mon with us.” She then quietly told me the real story of what was going on. Evidently, she had had some sort of accident on a chairlift five years ago, and was scared to go on again and hadn’t in all the intervening years. Today, she was trying, but had stood there for over an hour trying to get up the nerve to go.
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Source/Author: Karl Staib | Posted on: February 28th, 2010
“Never go to sleep without a request to your subconscious.” – Thomas Edison
Your subconscious loves to do work while your body performs other tasks that are easy. I can prove this very easily by asking you how many good ideas you have had while driving or in the shower. When you are relaxed yet slightly distracted, your mind is often at its best.
Using subconscious requests will…
- Improve your motivation.
- Help you become happier.
- Increase your emotional intelligence.
You’ll see improvement in less than a month.
My last request was…
“Please give me more patience when commuting to work and allow me to even enjoy my time in the car.”
Within a month I was enjoying my ride to work.
My latest request is…
“Let’s find creative ways to grow my blog.”
I took this approach because it’s going to take a request to my subconscious and action in my waking life to make this happen. This request is only a few days old, but it’s already working. Instead of just asking people to help vote for my blog on social sites that rate articles such as Stumble Upon and Digg, I’ve change my communication. I now friend someone, give a compliment (only if they are worthy) and tell them that they ever need any help to shoot me a message. They are much more willing to help me out.
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Source/Author: | Posted on: January 5th, 2010
By David Pisarra
Life has a funny way of teaching you lessons. Sometimes they come easily, like when you were a kid and your mom caught you stealing a candy bar and made you take it back to the grocery store and admit your wrongs. That was a long car ride. But it was a lesson that I’ve never forgotten.
Other times the lessons are harder to come by.
I have a friend who for the past 10 years has dated the same girl. Sometimes she has red hair, sometimes she’s brunette. Sometimes she’s a model, other times she’s a makeup artist. One time she was a dancer. The women all looked different, or they had different jobs, but they were always the same girl on the inside. There have been probably five women that he was sure he was going to marry. “This is the one,” he’d say with enthusiasm and excitement. I’d sit back and just wait. You don’t want to burst that bubble of joy that people have when they say they are in love, but you can see that it’s a train wreck waiting to happen.
The hard part of seeing your friends make these decisions is not being able to speak up. It’s a hard call. They invariably ask, “What do you think of her?” Do you tell him that you think she’s just like all the others, and that he’s going to end up in court with a restraining order against her, and he’ll be paying the rent on the house they rented together even though she’ll have kicked him out? No. You can’t do that.
You smile, you say, “She’s great! I love her laugh.” It’s that non-obligatory positive comment we make to reassure our friends that they need, because deep down, somewhere in the bottom of their soul, they know it will not work out, but they are hoping it will anyway, and are looking to us for support. For me, it’s a difficult place to be. I want to be honest with my friends, but when that question comes, I feel like Jack Nicholson in “A Few Good Men.” My heart is screaming, “You can’t handle the truth,” so my lips say some true but innocuous statement like, “I think she’s really beautiful.” But I’m just waiting for the phone call that will eventually come: “Dude, I don’t know what happened. Can I sleep on your couch?”
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Source/Author: | Posted on: December 30th, 2009
इस पेज का नाम ‘जस्ट जिंदगी’ ही क्यों? इस सवाल से जूझते हुए हमें तमाम जवाब सूझे। जस्ट जिंदगी क्योंकि सब कुछ जिंदगी के लिए ही है। ऑफिस का कॉम्पिटिशन, सुबह की जॉगिंग, थिएटर में पॉपकॉर्न टटोलती उंगलियां या फिर सोने के पहले सोचने जैसा कुछ, यही सब मिलकर बनाता है जिंदगी को। हमें इस जिंदगी से तमाम शिकायतें हैं, मगर उन शिकायतों की पूंछ में लिपटी आती हैं तमाम उम्मीदें और उन्हें पूरा करने के लिए जोश।
हमारे मकसद में एक तपिश है, जो मुश्किलों के पहाड़ को धीरे-धीरे ही सही, पिघलाने का माद्दा रखती है, बशर्ते हम ठंडे न पड़ जाएं। इसलिए जिस कोने में कभी आपकी सेहत, तो कभी आपकी जेब को बचाए रखने और बेहतर करने के नुस्खे सुझाए जाते हैं, उस पर हमने इस बार जिंदगी की हरारत से जुडे़ कुछ ख्यालों को जगह दी है। वजह सिर्फ इतनी कि जिंदगी को बांहों में भींचने के लिए हमें भी तो कुछ करना होगा। तो नए साल से पहले जिंदगी को नई नजर से निहारने की कोशिश कर रहे हैं सौरभ द्विवेदी :
खिल-खिल-खिल कर हंस दें
एक ही स्कूल, कॉलेज और दफ्तर में तमाम ऐसी शक्लें हैं, तमाम ऐसी आवाजें हैं, जो कभी हमें पसंद थीं। फिर एक दोपहर या शाम किसी बहस ने जंबो साइज हासिल कर लिया और हमारी मुस्कानों के बीच में इगो का सोख्ता आ गया, जिसने रिश्तों की सारी नमी को सोख लिया। कोई दोस्त, कोई कलीग या फिर कोई रिश्तेदार, जिसके साथ आपने कभी न कभी कुछ अच्छा वक्त जरूर बिताया है, अब उससे बात करने का, उसे देखने का दिल भी नहीं करता। तो कोशिश करें कि अच्छी यादों को बुरी यादों के ऊपर जीत हासिल हो। हम यह नहीं कहते कि ऐसी हर गलतफहमी या मनमुटाव को खत्म कर धर्मात्मा बन जाएं, मगर हां चुप्पी के कुछ सन्नाटों को एक हंसी के कहकहे के साथ खत्म किया जा सकता है। क्या पता आपकी हंसी फिर से नमी पैदा कर दे? और हां इन सबसे दूर हंसी की डेली डोज भी जरूरी है। आपसे किसी ने कभी तो कहा होगा, वेन यू स्माइल, यू डू वेल। सो डू वेल इन लाइफ।
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Source/Author: | Posted on: December 2nd, 2009
Recently I received an email from a friend of mine listing the top 10 things in order to enjoy life more. As I sat there and read the list I thought of 100’s of more things I could add to that list. I figure that if each of us, who read this blog do at least 10 of these a day, we would be happier, healthier and have fuller lives, regardless of how happy, healthy and full our lives are already. According to the “ripple effect” we would then act differently, be friendlier, happier and more upbeat then we usually are and thereby the people whose lives we touch each day would also benefit from our enthusiasm and pass it on, and so on and so on and so on. (Remember the movie “pay it forward”? if not rent it, its worth the seeing)
Here are my top 40 things I think about:
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