For the Mind

Be Confident To Be Successful

Confident people are attractive without saying a word. It doesn’t matter who they are. Their age, nationality, sex, race or profession is a complete non-issue because their confidence makes you look past all this.

Their confidence clears the way for you to see them for who they are: A person who has embraced their complete self and shows up with all of it, without apology or guilt or shame, without feeling inferior or superior to anyone, and totally and completely comfortable in their skin. Now that’s something to strive for. But how?

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You got a choice: 2 ways to look at your problems

There are two ways to look at problems in your life. You can look at the symptom and figure out how to fix it. Or you can look at the whole picture and realize that everything is connected so if one part hurts, then all parts must be examined.

Most doctors of modern Western medicine take the first approach.

Your head hurts? Well here are the known causes and possible solutions for heads. Your stomach hurts? Well these are the known causes and possible solutions for stomachs.

But rarely does a doctor relate your head hurting to your marriage falling apart or your boss driving you mad. [Read more…] about How to Solve Your Career Woes: Cause versus Symptoms

What Really Happened in Istanbul

I came to Istanbul for many reasons.

First, I came to retrace memories of living here in the 80’s with my family after we had fled Iran. I truly long to go back to Iran naturally but the time for that has yet to come. Turkey, in the meanwhile, was where we first established our lives in a free country and I am forever grateful for the open and warm way in which the Turkish people welcomed us, and now, 25 years later, I came back and indeed found a treasure of memories to take back home.

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