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If you want to better yourself and your personality, here are some suggestions. Do one thing at a time; shoot for one goal at a time. Live in the present; grasp today fully.  Forget the mistakes of yesterday; let them be gone forever.  Stop nagging yourself and others.  Seek self improvement earnestly.  Cultivate self respect through an honest self appraisal.  Learn to listen to others; it liberates you from been bias.  Reach out for your goal; if at first you dont succeed, try again.  Dont be scared to try again.  Venture into conversations; do not be timid even if you make a mistake.  Exercise your imagination and initiative to achieve success.  Keep your self image well regulated Never forget to spend a moment every day thanking God that you can feel good about your self.  The worst of slaves is he whom passion rules (Burke).  He is a fool who cannot be angry; he is a wise man who will not be angry....

5 The Burning Monk 1963 Photo credit:  Malcolm Browne/AP This shocking photograph depicts Quang Duc, a monk who set himself on fire at a busy Saigon road intersection in 1963. He died protesting the  persecution of Buddhists  by the South Vietnamese government. The regime had made life very difficult for Buddhists, banning them from flying their traditional flag or practicing their beliefs and spiritual exercises. Thus the Buddhists decided that a message had to be sent. Quang Duc emerged from a car just outside of the Cambodian Embassy, accompanied by two other monks. He calmly sat down in a traditional meditative position while another monk soaked him in gasoline from head to toe. Quang Duc didn’t even flinch as the other monk struck a match and set him ablaze. Passersby were mostly stunned, but some did manage to stop and pray as the monk burned alive. His protest didn’t go unnoticed. The image made headlines all over the globe within hours. In the words o...

 Have you ever met someone whose life constantly seemed to be   falling to pieces ? They seemingly can’t do anything right and always feel like things are getting worse. And, unfortunately for them, they’re right. Alternately, most of us have known someone for whom things always seem to work out. It’s like everything they touch turns to gold, and their lives just seem to get better and better. And the fact is, their lives  are  getting better and better. The difference in these two types of people lies in timeless principle. We reap what we sow, and we get out of life what we put into it. Call it karma, call it the Golden Rule, the Law of Attraction or the Law of Reciprocity – it’s a universal principle that has remained constant through the ages. The value we get from life is equal to the value we create. That’s just how it works. The key for all of us is to start the process of value creation ASAP, and to continue expanding it throughout our lives. En...

Dearest, It is a mistake to think time is going. Time is not going. Time is here until the world ends. It is you that is going. You don’t waste time. Time is infinite. You waste yourself. You are finite. It is you that grows old and die. Time doesn’t. So make better use of it.And one of the worst things to do with time is comparing yourself to others. A cow eats grass and gets fat but if dog eats grass, it will die. Never compare yourself with others. Run your race. What works for one person may be that which will kill you. Focus on the gifts and talents God gave you and don’t be envious of the blessings He gave others. If a rose smells better than tomatoes, It doesn't mean the rose can make a better stew. Don't try to compare yourself to others.  You also have your own strength, look for it and build on it. All animals that exist, were in Noah's ark. A snail is one of those animals. If God could wait long enough for snails to enter Noah's ark; His door of grace w...

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It is time for photographers to accept the realities of their new responsibilities and to embrace the possibilities of their new role in visual storytelling. Photographers have a personal and ethical responsibility to address the issues of unscrupulous, deceitful image creation and publication—as do the institutions that they previously looked to too provide authenticity. It is no longer acceptable to play the ignorance card. The role of the 21st century photographer has changed and is constantly evolving. It is therefore the responsibility of the engaged photographer to understand that reality and to respond to those changes. Not purely in word, but also in deed. Just as the role of photography changes within the digital communication environment, so does the role of the person who is evolved in creating photography. We are not living in a post-photographic world, but we are living within a new-photographic one and that change demands a new type of photographer.  I’m so h...

I commit myself today to being successful. I recogise that success is a process, not a destination. I will discover my dream and do what I can to... Know my purpose in life.  Grow to reach my Max life potential and so seeds that benefit others.  Although the road may get bumpy and it may require me to learn a new way of looking at life.  I will do what it takes and persevere.  I will take the success journey.  So help me Lord. 

If you want to better yoursef and your personality, here are some suggestions.  Do one thing at a time, shoot for one goal at a time.  Live in the present; grasp today fully.  Forget the mistakes of yesterday; let them be gone forever.  Stop nagging yourself and others.  Seek self improvement earnestly.  Cultivate self respect through a honest self-appraisal.  Learn to listen to others, it liberates you from been bias.  Reach out for your goals; If at first you dont succeed, try again.  Venture into conversations, do not be timid even if you make a mistake.  Exercise imagination and initiative to achieve success.  Keep your self image regulated, let it pulse and enthusiasm never fall with despair.  Finally: Never forget to spend a moment every day thanking God that you can feel great about your self. 

YOU CANNOT GET BY PRAYER WHAT YOU SHOULD GET BY CHARACTER & OBEDIENCE A man’s character is his fate Heraclitus Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States (US), said: “Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.” As a clergyman, I have watched pitiably how people self-sabotage themselves by seeking spiritual solutions to character-deficit issues. They look around at everybody as suspects for their predicaments when their greatest demons lurks within them their character. What we often call our destiny is truly our character, and since that character can change, then destiny can be altered. Character is destiny. Is prayer actually EVERYTHING? Many would begin to argue back and forth on this intriguing question, but my main purpose of writing this piece is not to get involved in arguments. Arguments don’t improve the validity of a ‘truth;’ they only determi...

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