Tag: Choices

Respect

What’s the most underrated life skill?

Lions Spending Time Together

Treating others with respect is so basic it’s hardly even recognised as a life skill, by many.

Respect includes the way we speak, the way we act, the way we react, and the way we listen.

Too many people, today, feel that respect only goes one way – towards them. They feel that everyone should respect them while they have no such responsibility towards others. It’s seen in examples such as road rage, queue jumping, and aggressive behaviour. And yet, with mutual respect, all these attitudes become extinct.

So, what’s the most underrated life skill? Mutual respect. And we do well to practice it at every opportunity.

If only everyone . . .

What’s a personal mantra or philosophy you live by?

Do to others what you want them to do to you.

Take a Deep Breath – It Will Improve Your Vision

Trecco Bay Sunset

A colleague once offered a very interesting observation on life. There are at least three sides to every story: There is your view, there is my view, and there is the truth, usually found somewhere in between.

I like the idea. Too many complications come from misunderstandings. People have been killed because of seeing things from different perspectives. So how can we simplify our lives in our interactions with other people?

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Eat Whatever You Want

What are your best healthy eating habits?

When it comes to healthy eating, I was struck by the advice that a cardiologist gave my mother, some years ago, and I’ve adopted it, too. He said:

Eat whatever you want; Just use a smaller plate.

Martyr

Martyr to the cause

I will speak what’s in my heart

In the name of love

Many people think of the word, martyr as meaning one who sacrifices himself or herself. Yet that concept was a later interpretation. The original meaning of the Greek word, martys, was of one who bears witness to what he knows or has seen. However, it also came to refer to the fact that someone who is truly committed to the truth would be prepared to die for the sake of truth; thus, a martyr.