Don’t Fail!

Knowing that failing is a necessary part of success. If someone tells you not to fail, are they really saying that they don’t want you to succeed? No. What they’re saying is that they don’t have the slightest idea of what success is.

Telling someone not to fail is like a guy having unprotected sex with a girl, who’s not on the pill, and asking her not to get pregnant. There’s always a chance that it will happen.

Feeling Down?

If you're feeling down, the best thing to do is to get out of the house and go help someone else or say something good about someone. The good that you do helps you feel better about yourself and can get you out of an emotional rut.

Understanding your Partner

It’s impressive how long it can take to understand someone. It’s even longer if we don’t actively study people.

There’s many ways that one can learn about someone else. Asking is often a good way although not every one knows themselves good enough to tell you what they like and dislike.

The best way, I find, is the “try/error” approach. Do something and study the result. If the results are considered positive, then chances are that your partner likes it.

The Devil Hour

The devil’s hour is the name given to that time of the night where you wake up due to a worry or unfixed problems in your life.

“I will lie down and sleep in peace, for you alone, O LORD, make me dwell in safety.” -Psalm 4:8

Though a person is suffering great distress, to wake up at night due to worry/problems could mean that they need to trust in God's endless concern for them. Some problems just won’t go away even if you worry about them.

A Kiss is Just a Kiss ... Or Is It?

"Beyond the romance and magic of kiss, chemistry and neuroscience are at work. When two people lock lips, they’re transmitting a flood of information indicating whether they would be a good match, writes research scientist Sheril Kirshenbaum, author of The Science of Kissing. A good kiss stimulates the neurotransmitter of dopamine, which is associated with desire, or the love hormone oxytocin, which helps create a special bond between people. A bad kiss can produce the stress hormone cortisol. Some research indicates kissing can help people subconsciously discern each other’s health, fertility and whether their immune systems are diverse, which could be helpful in producing healthier children. So keep all this in mind on Valentine’s Day… or maybe not, if you don’t want to spoil the moment."

-P.11 of “Success Magazine”, February 2014