• Stop Complaining and Start Living: The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them.
• Increase your Value: You cannot have all that you want if you remain the person you are. To get more from life, you need to be more in life.
• Be Unorthodox: To live a richer, more rewarding life, it is essential that you run your own race. Read every day something no one else is reading. Think everyday something no one else is thinking. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.
• Carry a Goal Card: The great and glorious masterpiece of men is to live to the point. It will foster the self-control you need to concentrate only on activities that advance your goals, give you the discipline to say no to all the rest and in doing so, restore focus to your days.
• Savor the simple stuff: One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
• See your day as your life: Many people think that it takes months and years to change to life. The truth is that you change your life the second you make a decision from the depths of your heart to be a better, more dedicated human being. What takes the months and years are the efforts you must apply to maintain that decision. And the best life change decision you will ever make is the one to live every moment of your days to the fullest.
• Don’t be so hard on yourself: An excellent way to rise to a higher level of enlightenment and personal wisdom is to make a list of the ten biggest mistakes you have made in your life on the left hand side of the page within your journal. Then, on the right hand side, write down the corresponding lessons you have learned from ever mistakes and the benefits that actually flowed into your life as a result of those so-called failures.
• Rewrite your life story: No one is stopping you from opening your journal and on a bank page rewrite the story of your life. It is never too late to become the person you have always wanted to be.

1. Discover Your Calling: When you were born, you cried while the world rejoiced. Live your lives in such a way that when you die the whole world cries while you rejoice.
2. Every Day, Be Kind to a Stranger: Nothing can be further from the truth than believing that in order to live a truly fulfilling life we must achieve some great act or grand feat that will put us on the front covers of magazines and newspapers. A meaningful life is made up of a series of daily acts of decency and kindness which ironically adds up to something truly great over the course of a lifetime.
3. Maintain Your Perspective: To live happier, more fulfilling lives, when we encounter a difficult circumstance, we must keep shifting our perspective and continually ask ourselves “Is there a wiser, more enlightened way of looking at this seemingly negative situation?”
4. Honor Your Past: I would much prefer spending the rest of my days expanding my human frontiers and trying to make the seemingly impossible probable than live a life of comfort, security and mediocrity. Further, I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one reaches in life as by the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
5. Take a Weekly Sabbatical: Organizing your life so that you get to do more of the things you love to do is one of the first steps to life improvement.
6. Get up Early: Few disciplines have the habit to transform your life as does the habit of early rising. There is something very special about the first few hours of the morning.
7. Take More Risks: I will make you this promise- on your deathbed, in the twilight of your life; it will not be all the risks you took that you will regret the most. Rather, what will fill your heart with the greatest amount of regret and sadness will be all those risks that you did not take, all those opportunities you did not seize and all those fears you did not face. Remember that on the other side of fear lies freedom.
8. Always Carry a Book With You: If you have not read today, you have not really lived today. And knowing how to read but failing to do so puts you in exactly the same position as the person who cannot read but wants to.
9. Practice the Action Habit: All too often, we spend our days waiting for the ideal path to appear in front of us. We forget that paths are made by walking, not waiting.
10. Keep Your Cool: Anyone can become angry- that’s easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose and in the right way- that is not easy.
11. Get Good At Asking: He who asks may be a fool for five minutes. He who doesn’t is a fool for lifetime. Remember, the person who asks for what he wants at least has a chance of getting what he wants. The person who does not ask has no chance.
12. Develop You Talents: The weakest among us has a gift, however seemingly trivial, which is peculiar to him and which worthily used will be a gift also to his race.
13. Create a Pure Environment: The first step to become a happier, more serene person is to manage your thoughts and purify your thinking. One of the best ways to begin this inner work is to improve the quality of your personal environment.
14. Write a Legacy Statement: “Spring has past, summer has gone and winter is here. And the song that I meant to sing remains unsung. I have spent my days stringing and unstringing my instrument.” These words were written by a man whose heart was filled with regret over a life half lived. Rather than singing the great song he was destined to sing, he spent his days preparing and waiting until things were just right before he acted. Sadly, that time never came.

The main common reason behind conflicts in life is perhaps miscommunication. Lack of cohesive ideas and thoughts favor conflicts.

The first thing that may come to your mind when someone asks you to come up with a solution to resolve conflict is to work out a compromise. But is it really the Holy Grail in our endeavor to resolve conflicts. Perhaps in the longer term, it may not prove to be one. It may not prove satisfactory to both parties at conflict.

If ever people were good at reading minds, then they could have effectively put themselves in other person’s shoes and tried to weigh the situation with regards to all the conflicting possibilities.