You know how everyone in your team seems to be aware that the CEO has put in his papers or that your colleague is dating the hot new VP? Do you wonder where all the dope comes from? Here’s a secret you probably should have heard a long time ago. It’s water cooler goss a.k.a. coffee machine goss. Ooooo! Did we turn Ms Holier-than-thou off with the word ‘goss’?…
One day a woman’s husband died, and on that clear, cold morning, in the warmth of their bedroom, the wife was struck with the pain of learning that sometimes there isn’t “anymore”. No more hugs, no more special moments to celebrate together, no more phone calls just to chat, no more “just one minute.” Sometimes, what we care about the most gets all used up and…
A young couple moves into a new neighborhood. The next morning, while they are eating breakfast, the young woman sees her neighbor hang the wash outside.
That laundry is not very clean, she said, she doesn’t know how to wash correctly. Perhaps she needs better laundry soap.
Her husband looked on, but remained silent. Every time her neighbor would hang her wash to…
USED vs. LOVED
While a man was polishing his new car, his 4 yr old son picked up a stone and scratched lines on the side of the car.
In anger, the man took the child’s hand and hit it many times not realizing he was using a wrench. (more…)
Even in the unlikely event that you win an argument, what have you really gained?
Do you really need to arrange things so that you can feel superior to everyone else? Even when you've been hurt by others, do you ever really receive anything of positive value by hurting them in return?
Do you really need…
The way to overcome negative thoughts and destructive emotions is to develop opposing, positive emotions that are stronger and more powerful.” – Dalai Lama
Negative thinking, in all its many-splendored forms, has a way of creeping into conversations and our thinking without our noticing them. The key to success, in my humble opinion, is learning to spot these thoughts and squash them like little bugs. Then replace them…
Group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university lecturer. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work life
Offering his guests coffee, the lecturer went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups: porcelain, plastic, glass, some plain looking and some expensive and exquisite, telling them to help themselves to hot…
It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations. Khalil Gibran
It is with true love as…
Friendships come and Friendships go Like wave upon the sand Like day and night Like birds in flight Like snowflakes when they land
But you and I are something else Our friendship’s here to stay Like weeds and rocks and dirty socks It never goes away!
A friend is a person to laugh and cry with, An inspiration,
Someone who lends a helping hand, though friends may not be forever, And they may not…