The Dalai Lama says "I believe the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness" and "I believe happiness can be achieved through training the mind, including intellect and feeling, heart and mind." Howard Cutler, another author this idea comes from, indicates how strange it is to western thinking that we can develop and sustain our happiness. According to the Dalai Lama: "If there are certain types of events that you do not desire, then the best method of ensuring that that event does not take place is to make sure that the causal conditions that normally give rise to that event do no longer arise."

So, what events cause bad emotions for you, and what can you stop from this to happen?
Start the day by saying "I will utilize this day in a more positive way. I will not waste this very day."
And in the evening, check what you've done and ask yourself: "Did I utilize this day as I planned?"


 

Over the last months, I came in several business situations where there was a latent or open conflict between the persons around the table. As happens in most conflicts, each party has the solution in terms of what another party could change, so that the problem would be solved. As often (and as predictable), this other party does not want to change. Take for instance a truck driver that arrives at his final destination, only to discover he doesn't have the necessary papers so that the customer can process the cargo. Often, the staff at the Depot will react "that's not our problem, you have to solve it". And then the discussion begins. The truck driver calls his company, the administration of that company calls their own customer (for whom he did the transport), that party calls back to the depot, etc. In general, it's always someone else who ...

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You are always doing the best you can, based on your current belief system. Life has designed us with a built-in mechanism for survival. To repel from pain, and move towards feeling good. It's in all its creatures, big and small.

I think what trips us up is that it doesn't always APPEAR that way. I can hear it now, someone saying “you mean the person that slits their wrist is doing the best they can?” My answer is “Yes”. At that point in time, ending their life appeared to be the best way to end their pain. If they knew a better way, ....

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The job of a manager in the workplace is to get things done through employees. To do this the manager should be able to motivate employees. But that's easier said than done! Motivation practice and theory are difficult subjects, touching on several disciplines.

In spite of enormous research, basic as well as applied, the subject of motivation is not clearly understood and more often than not poorly practiced. To understand motivation one must understand human nature itself. And there lies the problem!

Human nature can be very simple, yet very complex too. An understanding and appreciation of this is a prerequisite to effective employee motivation in the workplace and therefore ...

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