“All the lonely people. Where do they all come from?” Leave it to the Beatles to hit the nail on the head about loneliness.
Turns out that upwards of 15% of society is lonely, and this lonely is deep and it can cause health issues. One study found that lonely people develop high blood pressure compared to non-lonely people. And it can ruin your sleep, make you sick and bring about an early death.
We all want great relationships, so let’s keep this simple and get right to it.
#1: Successful relationships take work.
#2: You can only change yourself, not your partner.
#3: All arguments stem from our own fear or pain.
#4: Understand that men
Read More
When it comes to a lack of ambition and no direction, today’s youth seem to have a strangle hold on this issue. Although what we define as youth keeps changing. From the teenagers whose favorite saying is “What ever” to the young adults who are discovering that they are not entitled to a good living.
As each generation grows up, it seems that the baby boomers had it best of all. Their parents had survived not just the Great Depression but World War II and the Korean War. The economy started on the greatest boom in the history of the world. Back then a high school diploma was a guarantee of a good job. And then the baby boomers grew up and suddenly you needed a college degree to get those good jobs. And now the children of the baby boomers are growing up and the goal posts have once again been moved.
There is no automatic job waiting for you just because you grew up in an affluent household. A high school diploma means
Working with people this week, there seemed to be a theme about moving forward, growth and reaching one’s goals. And that theme was the chaos that ensues when change happens. Chaos, let’s be real, isn’t something that is easy to live with. And yet the universe has chaos as part