Never heard of "tilting at windmills"? Or read "Man of La Mancha"? We were taught about it in school.
Of course as I am LenQuixote de La Mancha .I once had an impossible dream but that is a subject for another message board.
It was ammonia, the suffocating by-product of waste and decay. No one answered. The officers muscled the door open. Blocking them was excrement, half a foot ]
To Land a Job Instead of sitting poised in the waiting room, run through a couple of power poses—such as raising your arms in a V or standing with your hands on your hips—in the bathroom or elevator. Research from social psychologist Amy Cuddy has shown that holding these postures for just two minutes can ]
I recently attended a family funeral at the Pacific View Memorial Park in Newport Beach, Calif., about 15 miles southeast of Disneyland and fewer than 10 miles from John Wayne Airport.
George Washington’s Dentist: John Greenwood (1760–1819) Making his inaugural address on April 30, 1789, George Washington smiled at the crowd with only one 
of his own teeth. Much has been written about 
our first president’s 
intellect, work ethic, and stature, but when 
it comes to his teeth, one historian described them as his “feeblest physical ]
The challenge of change is learning to detach and let go. That doesn’t mean we care any less about our loved ones, but we allow them the dignity of making mistakes and finding their own way. We take care of our own needs that we may be neglecting, and we empower others to do the same by supporting their choices. That also means we empathically and lovingly allow them to suffer the resulting consequences, by not removing the natural consequences of their actions, nor having an “I told you so” attitude.
I thoroughly enjoyed Art &Fear: Observations on the Perils and Rewards of Artmaking by D. Bayles and T. Orland. While this is not a psychotherapy book, it does a great job of exploring psychology concepts that pertain to the creative person.
1. Don’t Lose Weight Quickly Many experts have chided that losing weight too fast means you won’t keep off the pounds over time. “Yet it’s not true,” says David Allison, PhD, director of the Nutrition Obesity Research Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). “In clinical trials, rapid initial weight loss is associated ]