Lolly Daskal

Gossip

There is no way to get away from gossip; people are interested in one another, and regardless of what you do there is a good chance you are the topic of a gossip session somewhere.
Even if all you do is avoid people and stay in your house, that fact alone can provide ground for the [...]

Be Kind

Just as in conversation it is good idea to listen more than you talk, it is also wise in a relationships to think about the well-being of others more than you think about your own wishes and desires.
When you constantly strive to treat others in the same way you would like them to treat you [...]

Nothing Exists In Isolation

Who is in your life?
What relationships do you have?
Do you understand your relationships?
Because if you don’t understand your relationships you don’t fully understand yourself.
Your interactions are your life; you define yourself through your relationships.
The people you chose to spend time with show what you think of yourself and your place in the world.
How you relate [...]

A Kite Flies Against The Wind

It is important to recognize from the beginning that success will not be achieved easily.
Achievers – like a kite struggling against the gusts-soar to great heights, firmly anchored to a philosophy of success that keeps them on course, regardless of the difficulties they encounter along the way.
Make sure you are anchored to a philosophy that [...]

Nature’s Way

If everything we attempted in life were achieved with minimum of effort and came out exactly as planned, how little we would learn-and how boring life would be! And how arrogant we would become if we succeeded at everything we attempted.
Failure allows us to develop the essential quality of humility.
It is not easy- when you [...]

Choose To Be

Stop living in auto pilot, within every moment, you can do one or two things, you can choose the moment or the moment can choose you—start choosing your moments. If you do not make the choice, the moment will choose for you.

Choose Greatness

Lolly Daskal speaks on Blog Talk Radio about Leading From Within 2010

Greatness is not something that can be bestowed upon you. It can only come from within.

Free Will or Fate?

Dear Readers,
Recently I had a powerful discussion with one of my readers that intrigued me : To what degree are our lives preordained, and to what degree does free will enter into the equation?
Please share with me your thoughts on this matter.
Love,
Lolly

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Who Am I?

If someone were to ask you, “Who you are?” what would you reply?
Would you give them your name, address, and Social Security number?
Would you state your occupation? Would you list your most appealing qualities?
To me the question, Who Am I? has both an infinite number of answers and a single answer.
We are, on one hand, [...]

Options

When you have decisions to make or problems to resolve, you should never feel backed up against the wall.
Our options in life may be simple, or they may be complex. Regardless of whether or not they are immediately evident, options are always available. Alternative ways of thinking and doing can always be found.
You may [...]