Can stress be a good thing? Moderate amounts of stress are a natural outcome of pushing oneself to achieve things that matter. Staying productive under short-term stress is usually not a problem. Staying productive under long-term stress can quickly become a problem. To be clear, it is unhealthy to be under prolonged pressure
Love finds a way. Even in lockdown. 2020 viral video clips of creative, social distanced dating made it clear that unless there was a quick vaccination turn-around, Valentine’s Day 2021 was not going to be of the usual sort. Like most major crises, the pandemic has taught us to consider what really matters.
How to receive help. We thrive best when we are in fulfilling relationships. While our completeness cannot be found in people, we often need people ('helpers') who help us get to our place of fulfilment. Care must therefore be taken in each of our relationships not to 'kill' (figuratively speaking of course!) these helpers. Here are
Why faithfulness (still) matters. Semper Fidelis (Always Faithful), the motto of the US Marine Corps resonates with their expectation of soldiers not only seeing missions through to the end, but of standing with one another through thick and thin. There is no harm in seeing marriage as a mission to accomplish where
Who's riding with you? How often, and to what degree do our actions and inactions affect the people seated in the ‘bus’ of our lives, especially those we are in direct relationship with? What got me thinking of this is an experience I had where one man, through his own choices got a
Sonnet 116 Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark,
