#52 – Words Of Wisdom – Thomas Mondel

“I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.” – Abraham Lincoln

It was the first day after I gave up teaching in a classroom to become the high school student assistance coordinator. I asked the woman who was retiring from that job how she tolerated working with a principal who was extremely narrow-minded and negative in his approach to teachers. Her answer was so amazingly positive and beautiful that I embraced it immediately. It spared me unending hours of frustration and became the solution for conflicts throughout my life. She said simply: “I pray for him. It’s difficult to dislike someone for whom you are praying.”

– Kay Conner Pliszka

PS: This is the “Words Of Wisdom” story from Jack Canfield’s book Chicken Soup for the Soul I just started reading. This is just one out of 101 inspiring stories and I am looking forward to 100 more of them!

#76 – You Are No Superhero

By Thomas Mondel

November 4, 2013

2 Min read

We are all cut from the same cloth. No one has any super powers (yet). We all have to obey the same rules and principles. But some of us do follow through on that more than others, and that is where the difference in the people’s results shows up! We tend to look at people, see their success and life and compare ourself with them. In comparison we seem small and useless. You just have to...

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#60 – The Ten Action Signals: Anger

By Thomas Mondel

September 22, 2013

2 Min read

4. Anger Angry emotions include everything from being mildly irritated to being angry, resentful, furious, or even enraged. The Message: The message of anger is that an important rule or standard that you hold for your life has been violated by someone else, or maybe even by you. When you get the message of anger, you need to understand that you can literally change this emotion in a moment. The...

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#40 – How To Keep Moving Forward When Life Sucks

By Thomas Mondel

September 4, 2013

4 Min read

How To Keep Moving Forward When Life Sucks

“Setbacks are given to ordinary people to make them extraordinary.” Life will beat you down. Period. Everybody who wants more out of life will happen to run into roadblocks and setbacks. There will be people around you who will doubt you and find the stuff you set out to achieve stupid and useless. There will be people who will try to stop you, because they have not the same vision as...

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#17 – How Books Will Shape You Into A Successful Leader

By Thomas Mondel

August 3, 2013

3 Min read

How Books Will Shape You Into A Successful Leader

Reading good books is the most essential tool you can use for yourself to achieve anything in life. It is the cheapest and most efficient way to absorb knowledge that you can use to support yourself in any endeavour in your life. I actually believe that BECAUSE books are so cheap, people don’t see their true value. An awesome book can literally be like the “best of” of 50+ years...

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