One topic. One honest look at it. Each Peace of Wisdom takes a single idea — a habit worth building, a setback worth reframing, a word worth choosing carefully — and turns it over until something useful comes loose. Short enough to read in a minute, sturdy enough to stay with you.
You’ve no doubt heard the expression – one never gets a second chance to make a first impression. How we present ourselves to others matters a great deal. Do you want people to feel drawn to you the minute you meet? Do you want to attract more opportunities … make...
Have you ever counted the hours you spent with the news or social media? Did you ever think it might affect your life balance, or that choosing to make time for other things could keep you healthy? There are studies today that suggest too much television can cause...
Today’s society in which we live tends to excuse all forms of bad behavior. There are now highly educated professionals who are actually referring to gossip as a ‘social skill’? According to some of the largest news outlets, gossip has gone from a negative to a...
Have you ever been described as gentle? Personally, when I think of the word “gentle,” I think of Winnie the Pooh. Did you know that Winnie the Pooh was created by author Alan Alexander Milne after one of his son’s toys? It’s true. Winnie, Tigger, Eeyore, Piglet,...
What did your mother tell you? “If at first you don’t succeed…? Try, try again.” There’s a lot of wisdom in that simple saying. Why do we NOT try again?” Is it because whatever we’ve tried can’t be done? Not usually. Perhaps, someone saw us or became aware that...
The essence of yourself, whether you think so or not…contains a spirit of tenacity. Amelia Earhart once said "The most difficult thing is the decision to act. The rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do." You might...
Are you afraid of anything? Come on now... everyone is afraid of something! How about Spiders? Or heights? Snakes? Whatever it might be, have you ever let your fears get the best of you? Have you not reached a goal because fear stood between you and success? You...
Do you know the definition of flexibility? It is the quality possessed by something that will bend, but not break. Do you think that quality is possible for you? How about a willingness to change or compromise? Even the greatest Achievers the world has ever known have...
Helen Keller had an unusual perspective for someone who’d been deaf and blind since the age of two. She noticed things that, for most, seem insignificant – “I, who cannot see,” she said, “find hundreds of things to interest me through mere touch. I feel the delicate...