Category Stress

The Importance of a Positive Attitude – Smile!!

People are so funny. They’ll go to school and learn from books for practical things, “educational” things they would call it. But trying to improve on yourself? Reading books…to learn how to improve yourself? Oh no…they’ll steer clear of that most of their lives. Why?

Possibly because (and I’m speaking from my own past/personal experience here) it would show a sign of weakness? That they need to improve themselves? No way, those self-help aisles are for crazy people or losers.

Again, why?

If you’ve ever gone down one of those aisles (or found things online) and/or picked up some of the books I think you’d be amazed at the wealth of knowledge there...

Strengths Finder 2.0

I was recently introduced to Strengths Finder by a friend of mine. I hadn’t heard of it before, yet ironically not a week later it was mentioned in another book I was reading. Would I have even paid attention to the mention of it had I not already been introduced to it? I’ve no idea, it doesn’t matter I suppose – just curious.

I seem to go through phases where I am simply a sponge and want to soak up as much information as I can. Other times…not so much. This particular week though I was a sponge and probably soaked up 5 or more books: Strengths Finder was one of them, so I decided to review it for you just on the off chance that you too haven’t heard of it.

Strengths Finder is a pretty cool little book written by Tom Rath that includes a test that you can take to dete...