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- ***A lifelong battle for freedom and independence - by Submitted on Jul 13, 2015 from Agustina ThorgilssonIt is often said that man is born into this world with absolutely nothing. I do not agree with that as man has at least two things with him; a free will and the right to be himself. It is easy to convince a person to hand both over, especially when growing up and when the person is not aware ...
Views: 12371(3 votes) - ***A handicap is not a disease - by Submitted on Jul 13, 2015 from Agustina ThorgilssonIt’s amazing how in most societies there is a consensus or unwritten agreement or unspoken law that handicapped people are somehow just half a measure at best. It seems as though the handicapped person gets immediately categorized and mentally placed on a shelf containing “half” participants of ...
Views: 8893(1 vote) - ***Life is not to be taken for granted - by Submitted on Jul 13, 2015 from Agustina ThorgilssonIt’s amazing how often people get upset when their plans do not work out exactly as they had planned, when they feel that things have gone wrong. We seem to be hardwired to having success at every turn in life and having everything go smoothly and no hiccups along the way. Well, I got news for ...
Views: 8653 - ***To be at peace with oneself - by Submitted on Jul 13, 2015 from Agustina ThorgilssonSo often it’s too easy to criticize one’s own behaviour, words or lack of doing this, that or the other. How often do we set ourselves up to be disappointed with ourselves? For instance the New Year resolutions, where we promise ourselves and others to ’better‘ ourselves in certain areas, like ...
Views: 8812(1 vote) - ***Forgiveness - by Submitted on Dec 05, 2014 from Agustina ThorgilssonThink about how much time we waste on bad emotions we keep due to not being able to forgive. The inability to forgive sets our life on hold, we cannot move on and we get stagnated. We get blinded to the opportunities beyond the thing we need to forgive. We do not forget. But forgiving ...
Views: 8195(2 votes) - ***When Fear Becomes A Prison - by Submitted on Dec 05, 2014 from Agustina ThorgilssonHow often have you had a pang of fear in your guts when faced with something that you find threatening as you do not know it? Fear of the unknown threat, terror or unmapped future becomes so often stagnating that its effect is like imprisonment. As you do not know what you are up against you ...
Views: 8699(1 vote) - ***Pandora’s Box - by Submitted on Oct 28, 2014 from Agustina ThorgilssonThere are many of us concerned of what is happening at these times we live. We are seeing eruptions, wars being started, dangerous pests roaming around the world, the global warming, uncontrollable weathers and unusually fierce weather phenomena in normally calm areas etc. it’s like Pandora’s ...
Views: 9444(1 vote) - ***Finding The Job You Love - by Submitted on Sep 17, 2014 from Agustina ThorgilssonThe fear of “losing it all” often blinds us to what we really have and our riches. Many people hang onto jobs they are miserable with and hang onto situations that are “secure” instead of letting go and go for new pastures green where they find way to enjoy and achieve life success. This ...
Views: 8811(1 vote) - ***Beating The Sleepiness In The Morning - by Submitted on Sep 17, 2014 from Agustina ThorgilssonThere is a great difference in waking up fresh and nourished in the morning after a good night sleep or still feeling tired and sleepy until midday. The morning is the most productive time for those that are awake and alert and have time on their hands before the telephones and meetings ...
Views: 8745(1 vote) - ***Use your anger - by Submitted on Sep 09, 2014 from Agustina ThorgilssonUse your anger Anger blinds us Most of us have made the mistake of acting in anger and then regretted the results of those actions. Anger makes us impulsive and we act without a thought, foresight nor any insight for that matter. It hinders us in enjoying and achieving life success. ...
Views: 15108 - ***Concentrate on your strengths - by Submitted on Sep 09, 2014 from Agustina ThorgilssonConcentrate on your strengths In my work as a psychologist and a coach I often get people saying to me that they need to be better at or strengthen certain traits they have or get a better education or get better at some personal characteristics. Doing that they limit their possibility of ...
Views: 8044 - ***You are all you need to deal with in life - by Submitted on Sep 08, 2014 from Agustina Thorgilsson“How can I get past these obstacles?” “How can I deal with these difficult situations?” These and many similar questions I often get from clients and it’s true with most people that they see a multitude of obstacles and hindrances when movig on with their ...
Views: 8137(1 vote) - ***You can rise like the Phoenix from the ashes! - by Submitted on Sep 08, 2014 from Agustina ThorgilssonYou can rise like the Phoenix from the ashes! It’s amazing to see how some people always manage to stand up and continue when they have been blown over by life. Some seem to thrive in difficulties and grow to enormous emotional strength in dire circumstances, while other succumb ...
Views: 8276 - ***Too Stubborn to Learn the Easy Way - by Submitted on Sep 08, 2014 from Agustina ThorgilssonToo stubborn to learn the easy way Isn’t it amazing how often life knocks us on the head and we persist to move on regardless? We sometimes do not learn to enjoy and achieve in life until everything else has been exhausted. We’ll that’s what I went through. I had been ...
Views: 7507 - Positivism - by Submitted on May 25, 2014 from Agustina ThorgilssonNegativism is always limiting You put on side cover and limit your view. It’s easy to fall into the negative mode when things don’t come out the way you planned or are threatened by changes, but there lies an opportunity! Hindrances can be opportunities in disguise We often set ...
Views: 5913 - We lead ourselves to where we are at in life - by Submitted on May 24, 2014 from Agustina ThorgilssonIt’s all too common to hear people saying that they wished they were somewhere else in life. That they had been more successful and wished they were in the position of someone else they look up to. I was there too. Wait a minute! Do we really have to do this to ourselves? No, of ...
Views: 5385 - You are all you need to deal with in life - by Submitted on May 23, 2014 from Agustina Thorgilsson“How can I get past these obstacles?” “How can I deal with these difficult situations?” These and many similar questions I often get from clients and it’s true with most people that they see a multitude of obstacles and hindrances when movig on with their lives. It often leads to ...
Views: 7164 - Too Stubborn To Learn The Easy Way - Coincidence And The Law Of Attraction - by Submitted on Mar 06, 2008 from Agustina ThorgilssonIsn't it amazing how often life knocks us on the head and we persist to move on regardless? We sometimes do not learn to enjoy and achieve in life until everything else has been exhausted. Well that's what I went through. I had been reading interesting material on letting go and trust ...
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