Or are you fighting a raging current? Or perhaps even stuck in a stagnant pool? Sometimes, we fight too hard to achieve our goals or we slip into inertia purely out of laziness or believing that everything is too difficult. Often, we place too much pressure on ourselves, trying to conform and keep up with our friends and neighbours. Frequently, we may punish ourselves for not being good enough, quick enough, brilliant enough or beautiful enough. The waters of our life become polluted when... (continue reading)

A huge Canadian guy was given a job as a woodcutter. He was so grateful for the opportunity to work, and support his wife and family, that he vowed to work as hard as he could, and fell as many trees as he could. On the first day, he worked very hard, and managed to cut down 13 trees. He was delighted with himself, and also his boss was delighted. He vowed to do even better on the second day. On the second day, he worked even harder than the previous day, and took a shorter lunch break. By... (continue reading)

We all have trouble areas in our lives. No matter how many you seem to knock off, there are always more to deal with. That's not a bad thing, and it's not a self-defeating attitude so long as you look at life as a journey in self-improvement. If we reached a point where there was nothing left to improve about ourselves, we may as well take a dive off a tall building; it'd be the only thing left to experience. Everything else would be pedestrian. Good thing it's not possible to reach... (continue reading)