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Why do people fail? This question may haunt everyone including you. What is it that can most effectively turn failures into successes ? If you ask this question to successful people, you may get different answers from each one of them. This is because every one of them is unique and their situations are different. But there is a common attribute or trait every successful person may have and this trait plays a major role in their enviable journey. Let us find out what this attribute is. According to successful people, this one attribute or attitude enormously amplifies the results of the efforts they put in. This post will dive deep to know more about this attitude. Now what is the attitude these successful people are talking about? It is what is popularly known as an " optimistic outlook " or "positive attitude." You, like myriad others out there, may argue whether bad things have not happened or will not happen in the lives of positive-minded folks. This argument i...

In the movie "Meet Joe Black," Joe, played by Brad Pitt, visits a hospital where he comes across an elderly and sickly woman. He interacts with her and "Obeah mon; I gonna die" are the first words the Jamaican woman utters on seeing him. To this, he replies "Obeah evil; I no evil."  You may wonder what the word "obeah" means. According to African spiritual traditions, the word indicates evil. Though great philosophers like Aristotle, Socrates, Thoreau, and Emerson have profoundly dealt with the concepts of "what is evil and what is good," the word "evil" comes with a lot of subjective interpretation. But we, despite our naivety, can easily say that in the present-day context, nothing can be more evil than anxiety attacks . Such attacks have become quite common and are intruding into our lives more powerfully than ever. The harshest consequences of these attacks is that they harm us both physically and mentally. In fact, they a...

You may be aspiring to become wealthy, your ambition may be to grow in your career, or you may want to beat the competition in your industry and become the numero uno in the field. These mundane desires and attaining Buddha-hood can not co-exist. Therefore, it is not necessary that you should worry about reaching that saintly stage or something parallel to it that may need complete renunciation. It is enough if you focus on the task on hand , that is accumulating wealth, achieving the career growth you want, or climbing to the top position in your industry. But how to accomplish these aims? Let us find out. If you observe how a champion player proceeds with his Chess game, you will observe that he will aim to make tiny gains on the board. As the game proceeds, these tiny gains will culminate into a huge win. Similarly, you should always work for making small gains. This rule is applicable to everyone, regardless of whether they are entrepreneurs or employees, or whether they w...

Stress is an important factor that affects all of us in the present-day world. The main antidote for overcoming our stress is physical fitness. In addition to combating stress, physical fitness gives a sense of well-being that is invaluable. Nowadays, it is also important to develop immunity also because chances of getting affected by diseases are more. Environmental pollution is taking a big toll on human health. Free radicals enter into our system through the air we breathe, water we drink and the foods we eat. These free radicals can wreck a havoc on our health if they are not kept at bay. Since we can not fight a lone battle against environmental pollution, by improving our immunity by being physically fit, we can keep the ill-effects of free radicals under check. There can not be any short-cuts for physical fitness. We should do regular exercises and also eat wisely. What you eat plays a major role in keeping you fit. Most of us are not aware that while the contribution of diets...