ALL >> Writing
Archived Articles about Writing
Pat Mesiti: What You Believe At Your Worst Moment Is What You Really Believe By: Alex Carlson
When our lives are successful and we are doing well, then our beliefs appear as solid as bedrock. But when life derails us and wealth, family and fame are stripped away, often our certainties fade too.(read entire article)(posted on: 2008-03-03)
View : 204 Times
Pat Mesiti: All The Battles Of Life Are Waged Within Yourself By: Alex Carlson
The great speaker Dwight L. Moody said, ‘I have had more trouble with myself than any other man I have ever met.’ Sheldon Kopps said, ‘All the significant battles are waged within self.’ Think about it. Before anything materialises in your life, it generally happens on the inside of you.(read entire article)(posted on: 2008-03-03)
View : 232 Times
Pat Mesiti: ‘the Weak Can Never Forgive. Forgiveness Is The Attitude Of The Strong.’ – Mahatma By: Alex Carlson
It takes strength to forgive others. When people have ripped you off in a business deal, when people have hurt you, it takes strength to forgive them. Do you realise it also takes strength to forgive yourself? Refusing to forgive oneself and move on in life is an act of cowardice. Sure, you can never forget things.(read entire article)(posted on: 2008-03-03)
View : 204 Times
Pat Mesiti: Your Destiny Is Seldom Linked To Those Who Walk Away From You By: Alex Carlson
Have you ever had business partners or close friends who one day walked away from you? Let me help you get over the pain of that by telling you your destiny is no longer linked to those people. Certain people will leave you, and when they do, let them go. Don't try and talk them into staying, because you may end up trying to do that for the rest of your life.(read entire article)(posted on: 2008-03-03)
View : 292 Times
Pat Mesiti: Discipline Launches You, It Doesn't Restrict You By: Alex Carlson
Bob Knight, the legendary and often crazy US college basketball coach, states that the most important single ingredient in athletics is discipline, but he adds, ‘I have many times felt that this word is the most ill-defined in all our language.’ To me, discipline means doing what has to be done, when it has to be done, as well as it can be done, and doing it that way all the time. Discipline is a no nonsense attitude with tunnel vision. It is focused.(read entire article)(posted on: 2008-03-03)
View : 167 Times
Pat Mesiti: There Is Nothing That Has Ever Happened To You Or To Anyone Else That Cannot Be Forgiven By: Alex Carlson
In his brilliant book Even Eagles Need a Push, businessman and author, David McNally, tells a wonderful story about LeLy Hayslip. LeLy Hayslip speaks on forgiveness as easily as she speaks on personal tragedy. During the Vietnam War, soldiers tortured her by sending electric shocks through wires attached to her body. She was then tied to a stake in the hot afternoon sun and honey was poured on her feet to attract biting ants.(read entire article)(posted on: 2008-03-03)
View : 253 Times
Pat Mesiti: Money Magnifies What You Are Already By: Alex Carlson
Australian rugby league coach Wayne Bennett says that a man’s treatment of money is the most desirable test of his character. How we make money and how we spend it says a great deal about who we are. Money is not the problem in life. It’s what we do with it. Money is a good thing.(read entire article)(posted on: 2008-03-03)
View : 184 Times
Pat Mesiti: No Matter How Much You Have Learned From The Past, It Will Never Tell You All You Need T By: Alex Carlson
Author Leroy Eims said, 'A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees further than others see, and he sees before others do.’ All of us have experiences in our lives that we have learned from. You and I, as we grow as people, as leaders and business people, must see more, see further than others, and see before others.(read entire article)(posted on: 2008-03-03)
View : 218 Times
Pat Mesiti: The Most Common Responses To Life Crises Are Denial, Resistance And Acceptance By: Alex Carlson
Each one of us faces crises in life that take different forms and different shapes. For an adult, crises could be facing bankruptcy, loss of a friend, or a death in the family. For a man, a crisis could be the loss of a job. To a teenager, a crisis might be to have a pimple on a first date.(read entire article)(posted on: 2008-03-03)
View : 212 Times
Pat Mesiti: If I Have To Move More Than Two Feet Away From Where I Am To Be Happy, I'm Never Going T By: Alex Carlson
Author Kin Hubbard said, ‘It is pretty hard to find what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.’ If you ask anyone in life what their real goal is they will generally say 'to be happy'. We men struggle to find happiness in our search for a beauty to win or a princess to rescue.(read entire article)(posted on: 2008-03-03)
View : 205 Times