Are you a person who likes change or are you very constant and you don't like change? What was a major change in your life lately? Where you fearful or hopeful before the change happened? How did the thought of the change make you feel? “Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. …
Your emotions effect others
How does it effect you when others around you are in a bad mood, say bad words or just look bored? I think some people literally “take” the emotions of others on themselves, it effects them a lot how other people behave. Some people seem to not care at all and they live in their …
Resolutions for 2015? How do you succeed? Why do you fail?
One of my resolutions this year is to read through the Bible in one year. I do this with an APP (BiOY), where Nicky Gumbel (a Vicar from England) puts readings together from the Old and New Testament and then he writes a very good (in my opinion) explanation about these chapters and how we …
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What is your plan for 2015? Do you need help for reaching your goals?
I wish you all a happy and very productive new year 2015. I hope your new year started very good – mine did! 1st of January I sat down and wrote down some of my goals for 2015 and what is important for me to remember each day/ each week. So far I have been …
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Emotional ability
Do you sometimtes honestly express to others how you feel? How do they react? Are they understanding or do they say: „Oh, it's not that bad', „Oh, I experienced much harder things“, „Oh, don't be like this“, „Oh, why do you cry“? „Lean into your own discomfort and take a moment to acknowledge, not stifle …
Train your EQ (Emotional Intelligence Quotient)
Do you sometimes or often or always avoid difficult people or situations? Why? What could you do different next time in order to grow in Emotional Intelligence? Here is one tip: „Do not avoid difficult people or inevitably tough situations. Make the choice to use your EQ (=Emotional Intelligence Quotient) skills to move forward by …
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Our emotions
„When we negate, deny, or disown our emotions we might find ourselves blowing up or 'going off' on others with little or no provocation. We can only repress our feelings for so long. Eventually, they will demand to be heard. When we pay attention to our emotions and not judge them as …
To understand each other (Part 5)
Paul Tournier writes in his book that in order to achieve understanding we need to accept our natural differences. He says that „instinctively, a very rational man is going to marry a very sentimental woman. Their complementing one another will, at the beginning, elicit an enthusiastic reaction in him. But later on he will want …
Being in a hurry
“Being in a hurry. Getting to the next thing without fully entering the thing in front of me. I cannot think of a single advantage I've ever gained from being in a hurry. But a thousand broken and missed things, tens of thousands, lie in the wake of all the rushing.... Through all that …
To understand each other (Part 4)
How do we achieve understanding? Paul Tournier writes in his book*: „One who feels understood feels loved, and one who feels loved feels sure of being understood. (…) Deep sharing is overwhelming, and very rare. A thousand fears keep us in check. First of all there is the fear of breaking down, of crying. There …