Tuesday, 28 April 2015

Why we are angry with God?

We’ve long known that people can get angry at God but a 2013 study in Psychology of Religion andSpirituality (Grubbs, Exline, & Campbell, 2013) tells us who is most likely to do so. The authors found that anger at God was predicted by psychologicalentitlement—the belief that one deserves more than others. The authors argue that those feelings of deservingness lead to more intense perceptions of having been wronged when individuals don’t get what they want.

Monday, 27 April 2015

False Envy

“Comparison is the thief of joy”

Do you look at others lives as your guide to where you should be...  Most people's lives are a lie...  Not to them necessarily but your perception of them.  Do you someone with a big house and a nice car and think they are successful....  Maybe they have uncontrollable debt,  or all of their children have disowned them,  or maybe they suffer from a serious condition.  There is so much we don't see,  we can't read minds,  we can't feel what they feel,  we don't know the costs of their life choices...  Don't envy someone if you're not prepared to make the sacrifices they made for their result...  Be you and who you are,  be kind to yourself, work on yourself and be proud at what you achieve.  Celebrate your successes, learn from your mistakes. Don't forget your past enjoy your present and focus on your future!

Sunday, 19 April 2015

Love me like I do!

Sometimes the real stress cones from our desire to want someone to match our intensity of feeling over a subject matter. From extreme love to extreme hate and all the apathy in between.

Good or bad all depends on me

Not including 'famous' or 'known to us but not known to them' people.

Someone is good based on what they have done for us,  what they are doing for us or what they could do for us

Someone is bad based on what they have done to us,  what they are doing to us or what they could do to us.

Tuesday, 14 April 2015

The success in failing

Challenging life.

"I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times, I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed." — Michael Jordan

Why it's not OK to cash in on tragedies.

In many Western cultures we judge someone on their actions and determin how harshly by their motive.  Big business aligning themselves with a tragedy happens frequently with relaxed casual connections through social media.  Woolworths in Australia aligned themselves with the ANZACs Story here
On the face of it,  it does seem to have good intentions,  but we need to stop and think.  What is there motive? Simple. Traffic,  clicks,  brand awareness/alignment and of course profit.  There is not one business out there that does good just because.  If they did,  we would not hear about it, and if they did,  it wouldn't be the business but the people in it doing it individually.  I don't care how amazing their marketing department is...  Any tragedy that no one asked their opinion on,  yet gives it anyway is all about money....  Shame...  For Shame.

Friday, 10 April 2015

Confidence

Maybe it's not 'being confident' but what being confident brings that makes it important.