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  Your emotions help dictate your state of mind. This means that to keep your state of mind intact, it's necessary to have emotional balance. That way, you can make it through even the toughest times. You can enhance your emotional well-being, so when challenging times come around, you'll be more prepared to handle them! These strategies can help you manage your emotions effectively: 1. Identify your support system. It's very easy to experience emotional dips. This is especially true when you’re making emotionally charged decisions. Identify friends or family members who can be the voice of reason. While your emotions are cross-wired, it helps to have an external voice guiding you towards making an appropriate decision. It's healthy to discuss various topics with members of your support system. It helps them see how you think in different situations. 2. Confront y...

Once upon a time a man planted a bamboo tree. It was a small seedling and the man cared for it each day.  He watered it and made sure it had the proper sunlight to grow.  After a year's time, the man saw that the plant had not grown at all, but he continued the watering and caring for it.  After the second year the plant had not grown, but he continued watering and caring for it through the third and the fourth year. Suddenly, as if by magic, in the fifth year it began growing. In fact, it grew two and a half feet a day until in six weeks it was ninety feet tall.  The bamboo tree's growth is not magic. During its first five years, when it seems nothing is happening, it develops miles of roots beneath the ground. Though no growth is visible, the foundation is being established and strengthened.  The lesson:  There are times when we feel our lives are standing still and nothing is changing.  In reality, those are the days we are building o...

  A well known speaker started his talk by holding up a $20 bill.   "Who would like this $20 bill he asked the people in the audience?" Hands started going up. He said, "I am going to give this $20 to one of you here today, but first, let me do this." He then crumpled the 20 dollar bill up and asked, "Who wants it now?" Still the hands were up in the air. "Well," he replied, "what if I do this?" He dropped it on the floor and started to grind it into the floor with his shoes. He picked it up, now all crumpled up and dirty.  "Now, who wants it?"   Still the hands went into the air. "My friends, you have all learned a very valuable lesson. No matter what I did to the money, you still wanted it because it did not decrease in value. It was still worth $20. Many times in our lives, we are dropped to our knees, crumpled up, and ground into the dirt by the decisions we make and the circumstances that ...

The top salesman for a large corporation got up to speak; he had been top salesman with the company for several years. He had won many awards over his career and was about to retire. He said, “Tonight I am going to reveal the secret of my success. I wrote it down on a piece of paper and I put it in this envelope. But success must be earned so I can’t just give it away. I'm going to sell the envelope to the highest bidder. You have my word that it contains my true secret to success not only as a salesman, but also in life.” The bidding started at $5. Then it quickly jumped to $10. Then $50, $100, $200. Finally one of the salesmen bought the envelope for $1000. The excited buyer took the envelope and kept it to himself until he got home that night. What was written on the piece of paper? How was he able to make more sales than anybody else for so many years? What was this high priced secret? That night at home the auction winner locked himself ...