3 Keys to Lasting Love

Honor — respecting your spouse for all of his or her individual qualities as well as differences from you.
Communication — speaking to one another in a way that moves conversations and conflict into deeper realms of understanding.
Constant Renewal — recharging your spouse emotionally, mentally, physically and spiritually.

How to Learn From Your Failures

Success is not an experience that does you much good. Failing is much more sobering and enlightening. But, when you fail, you must see failure as a step toward success—and then go back to work and try again. Chances are, we’ve all experienced a setback. You can’t succeed big unless you’ve experienced failure, especially creative failure, and learn from it—not make the same mistake twice. There’s nothing worse than middle ground. Mediocrity is the bane of existence. Embrace your failures, along with your most celebrated successes, rather than a life of mediocrity.

5 Ways to Handle a Crisis

Don’t become part of the problem. — Concentrate on the worthwhile things in your life that can be turned around. Focus on answers and solutions.
Remain committed to creating a new life for yourself — Even through the darkest and most depressing times, wake up each morning determined to stay the course for as long as it lasts. Keep your heart and my mind completely on track. Either swim toward solutions or sink and lose everything.
Allow the experience to open you up to what you need to learn — Every situation is an education. Learn that if you open your mind to the voices of others, you will open your life to receiving your good.
Engage in acts of selflessness — Even if it seems insignificant, devote yourself to giving. Many of us have been blessed with benefits both immeasurable and incredible. Establish yourself in a community of people who will come to your aid when you need them.
Aim at responsibility, honesty, and integrity at all times — We are all part of the whole, and however we act determines what we receive. There is a law of cause and effect, and what we express comes back to us faithfully.