New Beginnings

I love new beginnings: the start of a school year, the first day at a new job, the beginning of a relationship. It is a change to begin fresh and establish a new routine and better habits. It can be a great time to reinvent yourself.

Can you recognize a new beginning in your life? What changes are you going to make? What goals are you going to set and accomplish?

Killing me Softly

There are always going to be people in your life that you don’t get along with, someone with whom you just aren’t compatible. This doesn’t mean that you aren’t nice to them, you just are never going to be close. This person may be someone with whom you are constantly disagreeing or picking fights. It sometimes seems as if this person is your enemy.
I have come up with a new strategy for dealing with this type of person. Kill them with kindness. Instead of being mean back to them, go out of your way to do something nice for them. This will do two things. It will first confuse them. “Why are they being nice to me after I was so unpleasant toward them?” The second thing it will do is frustrate them and make them feel guilty.

Killing me Softly

There are always going to be people in your life that you don’t get along with, someone with whom you just aren’t compatible. This doesn’t mean that you aren’t nice to them, you just are never going to be close. This person may be someone with whom you are constantly disagreeing or picking fights. It sometimes seems as if this person is your enemy.
I have come up with a new strategy for dealing with this type of person. Kill them with kindness. Instead of being mean back to them, go out of your way to do something nice for them. This will do two things. It will first confuse them. “Why are they being nice to me after I was so unpleasant toward them?” The second thing it will do is frustrate them and make them feel guilty.

Read Between the Lines

How much should you read into what others say?
There are times I think that there is more to what someone is trying to tell me than what they are actually saying. The problem with this is that you have to try to figure out what the subliminal message is. This can lead to misunderstandings, miscommunication, frustration, and confusion.

Why can’t people just say what they mean and mean what they say? Why do we think we have to be secretive and mysterious?

Don’t You Want Somebody to Love

Have you ever wanted something so badly that it was all you could think about? Not something small, but a major, life-changing thing? Something so huge it requires another person to fulfill?
What do you do if the only person who can give you what you really want, doesn’t want to, or worse, doesn’t even know that they are the one? Should you try to convince them or move on?

High Hopes

Have you ever hoped for something? Had high expectations? When you did get what you hoped for, were you were sorely disappointed because it did not meet your expectations?

If you don’t expect anything, you can’t be let down, and if you always set your expectations low, they will almost always be exceeded.

Dear Diary

Have you ever written something that you wanted a particular person to read? Something that expressed feelings you could never say aloud? Something so deep and personal that you feel you could never show it to the person to whom it was written?
When will you know it is the right time to give it to them, or should just hold on to it forever?