I Am Issa

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There are solid ways to becoming prosperous. Grasp them now. Build these pillars, now. Do you know that there are pillars, generally eight principles, that we can rely on to be prosperous? If you don’t know this yet, then it’s the best time to shake hands with James Allen. What are the Pillars of Prosperity? They

Bust the Leading Disease: WORRY. Declare war against worry today. My father once said: “in life, forethought wins, just like it is in Chess.” But lately, I’ve realized that too much forethought kills. No mental attitude is more disastrous to personal achievement, personal happiness, and personal usefulness in the world, than worry, and its twin sister, despondency (a

Is there really a right way of talking? Can we actually know how to listen and respond accurately? Is there a hope our conversations won’t end up frustratingly empty, banal, or worse yet, useless? Paul Grice proposed four maxims by which we can gauge conversations. Before you frown or get cynical, give his maxims a

What makes one a star? Florists hinted me I must be one. ASTER (a flower shaped like star) is my birthmonth flower. Yet lately, I learned that “ASTER” doesn’t always do one any good, like dis-ASTER. Image Courtesy of goodreads.com “Dis” means ”against” and “ASTER” is a Greek word for “star”. People in the ancient times

Five missed calls from five of my relatives. Oh, I didn’t want to hear them grumble so I didn’t call back. My, when I got home, I came to know they were “emergency calls”. This guy calls himself “George Smith”. He is close to his fifties, widower, with a ten-year old son. To further feed

What’s your personality? How do your closest friends describe you? I find it easy to tell others about myself in one word or two, but when they are the ones asking, I have to be more careful, that is, I should have ready details to support my descriptions of them. I’ve grown tired of horoscope