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How to Attract People Instead of Repelling Them


Some individuals seem to naturally attract people; some individuals seem to naturally repel people. Why? The answer is that the former makes people feel good, while the latter makes people feel awful.
If you make people feel good, you’ll never be without friends; if you make people feel awful, you’ll never have friends. Most of […]

Virtuous Thoughts, Behavior, & Outcome


Outcomes come from thought. If the thought is virtuous, the outcome is virtuous. If the thought is vice-filled, the outcome is vice-filled. Outcomes of fine wines and food, beautiful mansions, and sharp suits contrast with outcomes of destructive drugs, dilapidated slums, and dull rags. Though outcomes come from thought, they don’t directly come from thought […]

Thoughtful Possibility, Emotional Hope, Behavioral Direction, & Environmental Success


What defines human life? Does thought, emotion, behavior, or environment define human life? Perhaps all of these factors? Are any of these factors related to success? If so, how?
Thoughts, Emotions, Behavior, & Environment
According to physics, a light beam consists of particles (photons) and waves. If you observe a light beam in a certain way, […]

Habitual Persisting, Giving, & Believing


Habits consist of behaving, consisting of thinking. Thinking, behaving, and habits decide success or failure. Thinking, behaving, and habits are the cause; success or failure is the effect. Controlling your thinking, behaving, and habits, you control success. If you believe thoughtfully, giving behaviorally, persisting habitually, you are on the success track.
Habits
The successful person is […]

How to Cure Gout Attacks Without Prescription Drugs


Gout is a very painful inflammatory condition of the joints, caused by crystallized uric acid collecting around the affected joint. The most common joint affected is the big toe; however, gout can affect the ankle, instep, heel, knee, spine, elbow, wrist, and finger. In severe cases, gout can deform the affected joint.
People prone to […]

The Compass, Beehive, Virtues, & Hourglass


Impulsiveness, laziness, and weaknesses waste time foolishly, wasting human life foolishly. Self-control, industry, and virtues use time wisely, using human life wisely. The world is filled with those living wisely and foolishly, those using time and wasting time, those virtuous and weak, those industrious and lazy, and those self-controlled and impulsive. Hence, the world is […]

Failure: Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt


What causes failure? What is the solution? For years, I asked myself these questions; because I mostly failed. My failure pattern started in childhood. Riding the school bus, students teased and beat me regularly. “Chinese, Japanese, dirty knees . . . ,” they rhymed mockingly at me interspersed with punches, slaps, and pokes. Chink and […]

How to Cure Any Phobia Without Prescription Drugs or Therapy


A phobia is an intense fear that causes you to avoid the feared thing or endure it with unbearable mental pain. Additionally, a phobia is an irrational fear, in that most people either don’t fear the same thing that you do or fear it to a much lesser degree. Some examples of common phobias are […]

The 3 Levels of Reality: Perception or Thought, Behavior, & Environment


Are perception or thought, behavior, and environment related? Does good perception or thought improve behavior, improving environment? Does bad perception or thought worsen behavior, worsening environment? Or is there a complete disconnect between these variables?
Perception Affects Behavior
Success, which is something so simple in the end, is made up of thousands of things, we […]

The Guaranteed Cure for Severe Public Speaking Anxiety


Public speaking is the most prevalent fear, I heard. And I believe it, because my acquaintances have this fear. However, people do not have the fear to the extent that I had. There were times where I, completely freezing at a scheduled speech, could not perform at all. But usually before this happens, I attempt […]