Recently, I discovered a new meaning to the saying: “I’m not rich enough to buy cheap things.”
Indeed, only a wealthy person can afford to wear cheap clothes and use cheap services.
Do you know why?
Because they don’t need to prove anything to anyone. They are established. They have proved to the world and themselves that they can do …
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I remember once at a meeting, there was this “comrade” giving a presentation. One of the participants at the meeting criticized the presentation. He didn’t insult or demean the speaker, and he wasn’t against the speaker personally. He was only against the idea. But the speaker immediately flared up with intense hatred towards him.
It’s astonishing.
We automatically consider critics
For many years, I’ve been driving myself around Europe on vacation. Driving on the autobahn there is not a chore but a pleasure.
During this time, I’ve learned several lessons that I’ll share with those who are about to travel the expanses of Europe:
When you carry one stone to one place every day, no one notices.
The daily price of big wins. Then the day comes when you find yourself on top of a mountain of your own stones.
Everyone is jealous of you and wants to get in your place.
But few people want to wear one stone every day.
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Today, many well-off people have helpers at home: housekeepers, nannies, drivers, security guards, etc.
Different relationships develop between employers and employees.
It happens that the newly-made rich think of themselves as feudal lords (bays) and treat the workers as serfs: arrogant, disdainful, consider them second-class people.
Others treat the assistants almost like family members: respectful, friendly, warm.
The same two …
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I recently had to fire an employee. It’s just that our approaches to work did not coincide. It happens.
So after the dismissal, she wrote me a long message, where she expressed everything that she thinks about me.
It turned out that I am too dry in my work, I do not pay attention to relations with employees, I often …
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I recently went to a general practitioner with complaints of neck and back pain. She glanced at me briefly, then lowered her head to her computer and continued typing.
– “Everything is clear, – she told, – You have low back pain. You have too tight neck and spine muscles that are squeezed and create pain.”
I was surprised:- “How …
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Once a newlywed couple came to visit us, a niece and her husband.
The honeymoon is in full swing, eyes burning, hand in hand, embarrassed smiles. In general, everything is as it should be.
I look at them and rejoice. I was like that myself.
But the devil pulled me to enter into a discussion with them.
The niece believes …
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They say don’t raise children, educate yourself. Children will learn on their own by watching you.
I was once again convinced of this truth today
when I became an involuntary witness to one scene.
A woman and a little girl walked along the aisles of a toy store. Suddenly the woman turned awkwardly and touched some kind of plastic toy, …
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