Monthly Archives: March 2010

Fear of Fear of Itself

Posted on March 23, 2010 by | Leave a comment

Perhaps it’s true to say that no one actually fears heights or change or the unknown, or whatever their particular brand of fear is. What they really fear is the out-of-control feeling they experience when confronted by these things. Take flying. The tendency is to focus on the plane. But it’s nothing to do with the plane. Continue reading →

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Bill Gates

Posted on March 21, 2010 by | Leave a comment

He controls something the world’s PCs can’t live without. But he’s neither as good nor as bad as the publicity.

Gates was a rapt teenager watching his friend Paul Allen, cofounder of Microsoft, type at a computer terminal in 1986. He dropped out of Harvard in 1975 and later became Microsoft’s chief and cofounder. Continue reading →

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The Most Valuable Quality–Persistence

Posted on March 19, 2010 by | Leave a comment

If you first attempt at achieving your goals seems futile, should you move on and do something else? Absolutely not! You can’t give up so easily.

Persistence overshadows even talent as the most valuable resource in shaping the quality of life. Continue reading →

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How to Protect Children from TV Violence

Posted on March 17, 2010 by | Leave a comment

American children watch an average of three to four hours of television daily. Television can be a powerful influence in developing value systems and shaping behavior. Unfortunately, much of today’s television programming is violent. Extensive viewing of television violence by children causes greater aggressiveness. Continue reading →

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George Washington

Posted on March 15, 2010 by | Leave a comment

Some of the notebooks George Washington kept as a young man are still in existence. They show that he was learning Latin, was very interested in the basics of good behavior in society, and was reading English literature.

At school he seems only to have been interested in mathematics. In fact Continue reading →

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