Emotions

Where would you rate yourself on a 0 – 10 scale as a grateful person?  Where would others rate you? Does your level of gratitude make any difference?  In your life?  In the lives of others? Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist and Hindu faiths all prize gratitude as a…

Do you often feel overwhelmed?  Is your appointment book or calendar running your life?  Do you have more debt than you are comfortable with?  Do your job and household chores leave you exhausted. It’s easy to let life get too complicated.  Advertisers tell us we must have the latest,…

In their book, The Art of Possibility, Benjamin Zander and Rosamund Stone Zander tell the story of a shoe factory that sends two marketing scouts to a region of Africa to study the prospects for expanding business.  One sends back a telegram saying:  SITUATION HOPELESS.  NO ONE WEARS SHOES.  The…

Margaret woke to her alarm at 6 AM.  She remembered that she had an early meeting and worried about the traffic and whether she would get to work on time. At work, she worried about her daughter doing well in a test at school, whether any…

If you’re an average person, you’ve probably been lonely from time to time.  It’s a normal emotion.  Experts report that 20% of Americans feel lonely at any one time.  One in five do not have a friend with whom they could discuss a personal problem. What is Loneliness?…

You get angry.  I get angry.  Your boss … your mother … your best friend … everyone gets angry.  Anger is a natural, emotional response to threat.  Some situation or someone’s behavior simply triggers angry feelings in you. Anger is just an emotion.  It is neither good nor bad in…