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- What Is Love? - by Submitted on Sep 21, 2007 from William CottringerWhat is Love? by William Cottringer, Ph.D. I have studied the "love phenomenon" personally and professionally for over 40 years now and would like to share a few things I have discovered in my studies. First, it may be that we are being artificial and limiting in trying to describe and ...
Views: 1014 - What is Our Basic Nature? - by Submitted on Jun 13, 2023 from William CottringerWhat is Our Basic Nature? By Bill Cottringer He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts. ~Samuel Johnson. A turtle was about to enter the water on the edge of a large ...
Views: 585 - What Is The Moral of Your Story? - by Submitted on Feb 15, 2014 from William CottringerWhat Is The Moral of Your Story? By Bill Cottringer “The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson. The answer to this intriguing title question ...
Views: 2056 - WHAT REALLY HAPPENED IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN? - by Submitted on Apr 13, 2008 from William CottringerWHAT REALLY HAPPENED IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN? By Bill Cottringer “Adam and Eve are like an imaginary number, like the square root of minus one... If you include it in your equation, you can calculate all manners of things, which cannot be imagined without it.” ~Philip Pullman. I have been ...
Views: 2716 - What To Focus On? - by Submitted on Dec 20, 2016 from William CottringerWhat To Focus On? By Bill Cottringer “Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.” ~Alexander Graham Bell. Regarding the title question, the answer in a word is—NOW. One very popular view of life is that we are all pawns ...
Views: 1396 - What We All Want and The Simple Game We Play to Get It - by Submitted on Aug 02, 2008 from William CottringerWhat We All Want and The Simple Game We Play to Get It By Bill Cottringer “Life is very simple; men insist upon making it complicated.” ~Confucius. It has taken me 4 decades of self-improvement giving and receiving, but I think I finally understand the penetrating meaning of the above ...
Views: 926 - What’s Behind the Curtain of the Political Divide in America? - by Submitted on Nov 15, 2020 from William CottringerWhat’s Behind the Curtain of the Political Divide in America? By Bill Cottringer “We divided ourselves among caste, creed, culture and countries but what is undivided remains most valuable: a mere smile and the love.” ~Santosh Kalwar. Don’t be fooled into believing the divide in ...
Views: 1022 - When Ability, Intelligence, Effort, Creativity, Perseverance & Luck Aren’t Enough - by Submitted on Oct 28, 2011 from William CottringerWhen Ability, Intelligence, Effort, Creativity, Perseverance & Luck Aren’t Enough By Bill Cottringer “Man may have been made in God’s image, but he has been trying to return the favor ever since.” ~Unknown humorous lay philosopher. Now what? When the above sure-cure success ...
Views: 2550 - When All Is Said And Done - by Submitted on Oct 20, 2007 from William CottringerWHEN ALL IS SAID AND DONE By Bill Cottringer What remains when all is said and done? Take away all the additions, subtractions and changes we make to life with our thinking, perceptions and reactions and what remains is the 5% truth making up our personal success quest. Hidden away in that ...
Views: 1053 - WHEN TO FISH OR CUT BAIT? - by Submitted on Apr 13, 2008 from William CottringerWHEN TO FISH OR CUT BAIT? By Bill Cottringer “Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson. One of the hardest places to locate intellectually and emotionally is getting to the comfort zone where you can make the right decision to fish or cut bait—to continue ...
Views: 2506 - When Your Back is Against the Wall… - by Submitted on Oct 16, 2015 from William CottringerWhen Your Back is Against the Wall… by Bill Cottringer …Or when you are caught between a rock and hard place and can’t get any lower because you are already lower than a snake’s belly. This is a horrible place to be in life, but only the lucky few escape these painful experiences. Most of ...
Views: 1863 - Why Going From Surviving To Thriving Is So Difficult - by Submitted on Jun 13, 2009 from William CottringerWhy Going From Surviving To Thriving Is So Difficult By Bill Cottringer “Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in awhile there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.” ~Ralph Ranson. There are ...
Views: 1176 - Why Is It So Hard To Talk About The Elephant In The Room? - by Submitted on Jul 16, 2008 from William CottringerWhy Is It So Hard To Talk About The Elephant In The Room? By Bill Cottringer “Two cows were talking in a pasture. One says to the other, “Are you worried about catching mad cow disease?” “No” said the other, I am an elephant.” ~Bad joke. A work colleague of mine, Bob Bennett, is quick to ...
Views: 1065 - WHY PRISONS DON”T WORK (AS WELL AS THEY COULD) - by Submitted on Mar 20, 2018 from William CottringerWHY PRISONS DON'T WORK (AS WELL AS THEY COULD) By William Cottringer “Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons.” ~ Richard Wright. I do not want to offend all the good people who have devoted their entire careers to positive prison reform, but the very ...
Views: 1523 - Why Somebody Else Can’t Tell You How To Be Successful And Happy. - by Submitted on Mar 15, 2009 from William CottringerWhy Somebody Else Can’t Tell You How To Be Successful And Happy. By Bill Cottringer “Success and happiness are what you get from doing what you have to do to get them.” ~The author. What do you suppose all these folks have in common? • All the present living presidents. • All the academy ...
Views: 978 - Why You Should Focus More On The One Really Important Need You Have Rather than on The Many Others That Occupy Your Attention - by Submitted on May 15, 2009 from William CottringerWhy You Should Focus More On The One Really Important Need You Have Rather than on The Many Others That Occupy Your Attention By Bill Cottringer “We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.” ~James Matthew Barrie. We all really just have one ...
Views: 892 - Why You Want To Abandon Your Comfort Zone Right Now - by Submitted on May 15, 2009 from William CottringerWhy You Want To Abandon Your Comfort Zone Right Now By Bill Cottringer “The security and safety of a comfort zone are a persistent illusion; but the only real security is in accepting your insecurities as you venture outside of your comfort zone.” ~The author. Here are six very good reasons to ...
Views: 1787 - Winning In Life - by Submitted on Jan 07, 2008 from William Cottringer“Winning isn't everything, but the will to win is everything.” ~Vince Lombardi. After decades of mixed results—of both enjoying happiness and a sense of accomplishment in succeeding, and not enjoying the bruises, bumps, bleeding and broken bones of failing—I finally figured out a simple ...
Views: 1012 - Winning Principles - by Submitted on Oct 01, 2007 from William CottringerWINNING PRINCIPLES By William Cottringer, Ph.D. “Winning and success are what you get from doing what you do to get them.” ~The Author. I have been an avid student of the psychology of winning/success for four decades now—learning all the knowledge and skills that bring about ...
Views: 3217 - WORDS ARE WICKED - by Submitted on Jun 19, 2017 from William CottringerWORDS ARE WICKED By Bill Cottringer “In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends,” ~Martin Luther King, Jr. For over 50-years now, I have worked in criminal justice as a law enforcement officer, prison warden and a security manager, and ...
Views: 1429 - Work Success - by Submitted on Apr 01, 2017 from William CottringerWORK SUCCESS By Bill Cottringer “The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.” ~Vince Lombardi. Success in today’s work place involves a commitment to ...
Views: 1463 - WRESTLING WITH THE ULTIMATE CONFLICT: CONTRADICTORY PARADIGMS - by Submitted on Feb 14, 2008 from William CottringerWRESTLING WITH THE ULTIMATE CONFLICT: CONTRADICTORY PARADIGMS By William Cottringer, Ph.D. “The only way you become aware of the intrinsic paradigms that guide your thinking are when they come in open contact with their opposites.” ~The author. I am sorry but I am not going to ...
Views: 1312 - Writing Options - by Submitted on Jul 22, 2021 from William CottringerWriting Options By Bill Cottringer “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” ~Ernest Hemingway. Writing is both an art and science involving both the right and left hemispheres of the brain, including the thinking and feeling brain functions. ...
Views: 651 - Wrong Perceptions Can Be Lethal - by Submitted on Dec 05, 2007 from William CottringerWRONG PERCEPTIONS CAN BE LETHAL By Bill Cottringer “You are only as wise as others perceive you to be” ~M. Shawn Cole It would be amusing if it weren’t for the destructiveness that wrong perceptions of people and situations can cause. What is amusing is that we are convinced of the truth ...
Views: 13568 - “BEST RELATIONSHIP SUCCESS: Via Better Thinking and Better Communication” - by Submitted on Apr 07, 2012 from William Cottringer“BEST RELATIONSHIP SUCCESS: Via Better Thinking and Better Communication” “Assumptions are the termites of relationships.” ~Henry Winkler And where do we make and express these assumptions but in our mind and with our mouths? The way to the biggest gains in best relationship success ...
Views: 2336 - “P” Point Photography: Seven Success Sources - by Submitted on May 06, 2015 from William Cottringer“P” Point Photography: Seven Success Sources By Bill Cottringer “Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.” ~Dorothea Lange Learning the art of good photography offers valuable life lessons that can bring success in other endeavors. Here are seven ...
Views: 1577 - “P” Point Power - by Submitted on Jun 28, 2023 from William Cottringer“P” Point Power by William Cottringer, Ph.D. Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you. ~Aldous Huxley. Earlier on in my correctional career, an MIT math genius, Herb Gross, introduced me to an obscure engineering term, which he called ...
Views: 527 - “The Truth About Success That Most Of Us Need To Know.” - by Submitted on Feb 27, 2015 from William Cottringer“The Truth About Success That Most Of Us Need To Know.” By Bill Cottringer “To succeed in life you need two things: Ignorance and confidence.” ~Mark Twain. I have been an avid student of the success phenomenon for nearly 5 decades now, and the deeper I dig in studying this phenomenon, ...
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