Empowering Articles on Life Challenges  
Nursing resentment and lack of forgiveness gives others power over you. It is always a mistake to let such negative emotions influence your living...
Once upon a time, a man named Raymond was looking for a wife. One day he was sitting on the river-bank when a beautiful maiden emerged from the water.Stunned by her beauty, he declared his love for her and asked for her hand in marriage...
Humanity today is on the brink of disaster for it is unable to fathom, and deal with the present-day complexities of our society. It is incapable of determining the direction we must take and what is to be done about it. All successful functioning organisms, apart from human society share one quality; the ability to function together in harmony as a whole. This so far we seem unable to achieve. In order to overcome our difficulties we will have to change and evolve inwardly as much as we have outwardly.
From the dawn of human history until today, a person's occupation has directly influenced their social standing, their integration in society, how others see them and how they regard themselves. Even more so, is the importance to a disabled person of being employed in a company that treats them with due respect, without any discrimination, and grants them equal opportunities. Although the legislator has ruled in the law of equal opportunities "Every person is entitled to work, the free choice of their work, just and fair terms of employment, and protection against unemployment", in practice the reality is very different - as my own bitter experience shows.
Everybody knows how to enjoy a vacation. Particularly when we travel abroad, we open our eyes to see new sites and our taste buds are ready to savor new kinds of food. It is easy to appreciate everything when we take a break from our work and our familiar surroundings. But we all return home after vacations and that means returning to routine and our daily chores.
What is the distance between failure and success? Nobody knows. However, Thomas Edison said "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." Does this apply to you?
Are children with special needs destined to failure?
Can parents of children with special needs help and guide their children towards success in life?
In this article, I will try to answer these questions and others, drawing on my own personal experience as a mother, educator and life coach...
I have always thought of myself as calm and certainly not hot tempered. I don't get impatient in traffic jams and I am not the type of person who gets insulted easily. Perhaps because I was so adept at dealing with the small disappointments in life, I assumed that nothing would ever shake me up. Life was comfortable; I was complacent and totally unprepared for the events to come.
It was in the summer of 2008, that I got the shock of my life...
How many of us remember ourselves as children who couldn"t be "straightened out"? The teachers were totally fed up with us. They just gave up on us. We were little children who knew in advance that there was no sytematic method to get all the knowledge to penetrate into our brains. Everything always turned out topsey-turvey for us but not for the others.We dreamt our way through the lessons gazing out the window, but were still considered
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Most of us think that we have balanced judgment, are independent in our thinking and not easily influenced. Most of the experiments below are up-to-date and were performed in the last year or so. We think you will find the results very surprising.
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