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Nurse reveals the top 5 regrets people make on their deathbed

For many years I worked in palliative care. My patients were those who had gone home to die. Some incredibly special times were shared. I was with them for the last three to twelve weeks of their lives. People grow a lot when they are faced with their own mortality. I learnt never to underestimate […]

How to Be Assertive Without Being Aggressive

Oxford Dictionary defines the word ‘assertive’ as ‘confident and direct in claiming one’s rights or putting forward one’s views’. Most of us, however, confuse the concept of being assertive with being aggressive. While there is a very thin line that differentiates the two, it is important to be assertive but not aggressive in your approach. […]

How to Avoid Trying And Being Committed

A chicken and a pig were looking in through the dining room window at a family having ham and eggs for breakfast. “Doesn’t it make you feel good to know that you can make a contribution to the happiness and well being of a family like that?” the chicken asked. The pig replied, “For you […]

How to Stop Playing the Blame Game and Take Responsibility

Taking responsibility is tough. It is always much easier to put the blame on others – to point a finger and say that fate, your colleague or your spouse is to blame for the things that go wrong. What if you were to point at yourself and say that you were responsible for everything that […]

How To Make Life Transitions

The only thing constant in life is change. Starting school, getting a new job, the beginning or the end of a relationship, marriage, loss through death, relocating to a new region or even a new country, retirement – the list of life changes is never-ending. But, there is a difference between change and transition. A […]

How to Be A Decision Maker Not A Procrastinator

“Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday,” says American journalist, novelist, poet and playwright Donald Marquis. How true! Procrastination is perhaps among the easiest traps to fall into and could be the deciding factor between success and failure. Think Hamlet and you get the picture. The worst thing about procrastination, however, is NOT […]

Five Steps to Effective Listening and Communication

Wikipedia defines communication as a process by which information is channeled by a sender or speaker to a receiver or listener who then decodes the message and gives the former a feedback. For communication to be complete, feedback is essential. While speaking skills have always been greatly stressed upon, it is listening that plays a […]

Ten Secrets of Highly Successful People

“Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one’s ideas, to take a calculated risk – and to act.” ~ Andre Malraux It has often been said that successful people are not different from everyone else, […]

How to Trust That Life Is Just Perfect and Avoid Doubt

As Shakespeare said, “Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.” Everybody has doubts and it is perfectly human to do so. While doubts help us to take necessary precautions, too many doubts can ruin our lives. If an individual inculcates a tendency to excessively […]