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Patience, often heralded as a virtue, is the capacity to accept or tolerate delay, trouble, or suffering without getting angry or upset.
It’s an emotional skill that enables individuals to remain calm and composed in the face of provocation, misfortune, or enduring periods of waiting.
Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another person. It involves putting oneself in someone else’s shoes and imagining how they might be feeling in a particular situation.
Empathy is a crucial component of emotional intelligence and plays a significant role in building strong, healthy relationships with others.
Integrity is often considered the cornerstone of ethical behavior and is a fundamental value that many people strive to uphold.
It refers to the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles that one refuses to compromise.
It involves a consistency of actions, methods, measures, expectations, and outcomes.
I turned 59 yesterday.
Life whizzes past faster than you can imagine.
Live in a subsidized senior apartment, 1 bedroom, balcony, I rent my parking space to another tenant, I have a bicycle and a scooter.
JFK was president when I was born. Seen a lot, didn’t do much of anything
Air Force for 30 years, now a night janitor at a government building, in a major US city.
Never married, never dated, almost had sex with a prostitute, but my self respect stopped me.
In today’s fast-paced world, it’s tempting to look for shortcuts and quick fixes to achieve success. From get-rich-quick schemes to fad diets promising instant results, the allure of easy success is everywhere. However, the truth is that lasting success rarely comes without hard work, dedication, and perseverance.
We’ve all dreamt of drastic life changes: mastering a new language, running a marathon, or finally writing that novel. But often, these ambitions get buried under the weight of feeling overwhelmed. What if the secret to transformation wasn’t a dramatic overhaul, but a series of tiny tweaks? The truth is, “small changes can be the building blocks of a big revolution.”
We all have a script in our heads, a narrative of how life “should” unfold. It whispers expectations about relationships, careers, and even the weather.
But clinging to this script can be a recipe for disappointment. The truth is, life rarely follows a predetermined path, and the magic often happens in the detours.
Parkinson’s Law is a concept introduced by Cyril Northcote Parkinson, a British historian and author, in 1955. It states, “Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.”
In other words, if you give yourself a week to complete a two-hour task, the task will psychologically increase in complexity and become daunting, taking the entire week.
Part of this probably luck, but certainly not all of it. I was extremely intentional in dating. From around 18 I knew I was dating to find someone I would marry. I never stayed in a relationship for fun or to not be alone. And I had the very realistic understanding that Love does not conquer all. When I realized something between a GF & I that I felt would create a compatibility issue, would be likely to be a point of contention in the future, I moved on.
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Many of us are hard on ourselves. We feel guilty when we spend time on the “wrong” things, we berate ourselves when we don’t reach our goals, and we forget to be gentle with ourselves when we’re struggling.
