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Lets face it. everybody has problems, It fell on you or you went looking for it. But the basic skill to get you out of it is the same. www.solveanythingin5steps.com is one my other sites talking about a set of skills to solve problems, It's a tool so that you can use for your own or use it to help someone.

Originally, "the world is really empty, it's our emotions that make it full." A variation "the world is really empty, it's our emotions that fill it." People who feel the world is empty are often not interfacing or interacting with others, be it electronically or face to face. While face to face is better, honest communication via phones, social media or messaging apps can be as meaningful. Notice the use of the word 'honest'. Honest communication are filled with emotions. When humans are able to connect emotionally, whether it positive or negative, their worlds are no longer empty. Negative emotions have a place. It prevents us from falling prey, warning us of danger. Positive emotions are most fulfilling. The best people are able to take negativity and create positivity.  

Absolute means perfection or something you can't find fault with or something that unconditional, not limited by any constraints that otherwise effects it lesser contemporaries. In almost everything in this world, imperfections can be found. In fact, what is perfect exists in ideals and ideas, in belief and in abstract. Sincere people looking the absolute are maybe looking for absolution. This gap is where the unscrupulous prey, fooling the pilgrims looking for release from guilt into subjugation of belief or even more guilt.

James Randi with some expensive art (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) If you are skeptical all the time, you would be right at least once. Being skeptic doesn't means being against anythings nor does it forward another alternative. Being skeptic is creating doubt around something but not enough to dismiss is outright. You can even go ahead dismissing something, knowing that if the that thing fails just once, you are proven right. Your position is save even if that thing is just right only one time. The skeptic can be right once to be proven true, the target of the skepticism, on the other hand, cannot fail. The position is non-committal. If you are wrong, then you can just shrug it off because you didn't say it was wrong in the first place. But you have gloating rights when your skepticism is proved justified, even though only in hindsight.

In a world where vanity is a virtue, it can be hard to be sincere to oneself. Where the action of doing good clashes with the desire to be a visible example of good. Being visible doing something means allowing others to join and do likewise. A kinship of common action creates community. In community, we find acceptance, affirmation and support. While visible is the start to this path, the path is not without devious junctions. The hunger the first drives us can cloud good judgement. Being visible is becoming the example. And becoming the example does not require self-promotion but recognition. And while recognition should not be the goal, preparing to take advantage of recognition, is. Be hungry still. Photo by: unsplash-logo Elaine Casap

Nothing is an example of the mastery of a knowledge than the ability to teach it. Answering questions increases the knowledge of both person who asked the question and the person providing an answer. Conversely, hoarding knowledge is a sign of little one knows, and hoarding the knowledge is a way to keep something for themselves as a way to show some things others know not of.

I love it how empowerment is being commercialized through "the lie of leadership". Like "individuality" before it, it's being packaged, dolled-up, re-processed, promoted and available at the right price. While the irony of "individuality" was that while following the urge and advice from everywhere to be a unique individual, you just ended up looking like someone else, one of exactly like others of a group (or someone touted as a model of individuality), the "lie of leadership" plays up the old "youth before age" schism as the drive to be a leader, eschewing experience for cookie cutter slogans and pop-philosophy. No more clearer is this exemplified in the TV series Silicon Valley. Being from the industry, the caricatures are painfully accurate, Dilbert-esque and enough for me to stop watching (let's face it, we watch TV to get away from reality, not have it thrown in the face). But in the tunnel-vision of "leadership...

You can look at life from a variety of ways. Some people call them rose-colored lenses. Others call it shades of blue. Since how we see life affects how we feel and make others around us feel, our view of life is basically how other people see us. They see what we do to what we see. They see what we do with the world around us. And they decide how to engage us based on this. Even if all you see are problems, what you do next is what others see you as. If all you do is complain and whine about the problems, then you make the people around you miserable. If all you do is point out the problems and blame others for it, you will drive the people around you away. But if you try to solve the problems you see and if you help others who are facing problems, then you make the world around you better.

We are always told that we need to work hard to succeed. However we are less often told about how success itself needs to be maintained. People often think of success as a destination. That success is in of itself a permanent condition. Experience always prove otherwise. More rather than success and failure is more often than not two sides of the same coin. It can also be a cycle of which success follows  failures and failures follow success.

Perhaps all wisdom is ... is self-realization.

Sort of the opposite of the phrase, "jack of all trades, master of none." Was "Journey of Jack of all Trades begins with the mastery one." People who don't want to try something because they are afraid they are not good at it, will always wait. But when is someone good at it the first time, all the time? So try. Be good at it. Repeat.

Stupidity has to be fought, not celebrated. Idiocy has to identified, not identified with.

Being Objective - to not influenced by feelings (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/objective) Objectify - to treat as an object (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/objectify) The first brings an allure of high-mindedness. It is a desirable trait. The latter isn't one, at least that is what everyday says in public.

Nothing is easier to be found than blame. Look hard enough, and there is some to be found in the most unlikely of places. Or in the most obvious places. Blame just crops up whenever there is trouble to be made.

Today's celebrity culture has made it hard for people to recognize the difference between what is useful and what is most visible. What makes it harder is the opinion that one has to be visible to do more good. This could stem from a misunderstanding of the concept that it is not sufficient for good to be done but good must be also seen. And neither the extent of the visibility has a consistent correlation to the value of the good being done. But the confusion has led to desire to inflate the visibility of the do-gooder in tandem with the good, placing as much value in it as the deed itself.  Coupled with the phenomenon of popular being the cause of popularity, visibility takes the front seat in place of the good deed itself, obscuring it in the back seat.

I try not to get upset when things go wrong. I used to. But over time, I've come to realize that when things go wrong, it is an opportunity for me to solve a problem. And I love solving problems. The more I do this, the less trying I need to not get upset. Soon it becomes natural. Perversely, I see this a form of the saying "Don't get angry, get even." Because getting even is one solution. Not getting upset is also a form of peace. Where you don't need to get riled over the smallest thing. Now, I'm turning that view outward. Out to the people around me. Where I used to deride, I now choose to encourage. Where I used to vilify, I now choose to help. Positivity is a choice we all can make. First it helps us. Then it'll help us help others. 

Humility is in short supply today, especially when it comes to social media-obsessed millennials. In a culture where narcissism is a form of business, humility becomes a rare commodity. Despite to the contrary, we seem to deny the inevitability of failure, big or small. Therefore when it does come, failure without humility is often very bitter. More so when rage is the result. Why not prepare, brace for failure and accept it when it comes? Then rise up again, standing up straight and taking that defiant step forward. Onward, to real success. So nibble on a slice of humble pie today. It may not taste great but so many things are in life. Things that if without, makes our lives a little less. That even the bitter has an edge of sweet. Ask all those coffee connoisseurs.

Both are beliefs. But one is rooted in reality while the other is rooted in the clouds. One can lead to success, the other leads you in circles. 

Logo of the National Football League Playoffs, 2011–present (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) It's just a game they will say, because doing anything about it is going to cost a lot of money. Except that with football, they tell us all of the time it is the epitome of sportsmanship thereby fair play and life itself. We're talking about deflategate. It was more important to protect Mr. All-America's image than the truth. So what we are teaching our kids today is that you can get away with anything when there is a lot of money at stake

Lightning strikes over downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Normally we don't want something to happen again. Unless it's something good. So it's not the fact something happens again that is important, it is what that thing is. It's less likely we will make the same mistake twice if we do thing differently the second time around. And we will likely not achieve the same outcome if we do things differently So why do we do the opposite? How many times you've find yourself trying to make that thing work again by doing something different. Or doing the same thing, believing that things will work out differently this time around. How important is consistency and why do we apply it inconsistently? Insanity is both Doing the same thing expecting the same outcome AND Doing it differently and expecting thes This form of saying is what I call the tangent. It's taking a well known saying or common sense notion and adding an exclusion at the end tha...