Brian Weiner

People will always notice the change in your attitude towards them, but they will never notice it’s their behavior that made your change. The dynamic of any relationship, personal or professional, is always subject to change, predicated upon how both parties continue to conduct themselves. The way that two people…

You didn’t reply, but I got your message. The silence is deafening. Sometimes, the need for a response can be so overwhelming as to make everything else diminish in relative importance along the way. You may find yourself waiting for an update, a confirmation, a meeting date, or just a…

Stand by those who stand by you. Making one hundred friends is not a miracle. The miracle is to make a single friend who will stand by your side, even when hundreds are against you. As we grow up, we realize it becomes less important to have more friends and…

They start missing you, when they fail to replace you. Personally and professionally, this adage is always true. Whether it is your colleagues, friends, lover, partners, clients, or team… it is always the same. If you are being taken advantage of, or you are simply feeling as if your value…

Sometimes you have to play the role of a fool to fool the fool who thinks they are fooling you. Have you ever found yourself in a position where the best option is to pretend you are ignorant? It can arise under many kinds of circumstances, across a field of…

Sometimes life doesn’t give you what you want, not because you don’t deserve it, but because you deserve so much more. Is it really true that when one door closes, another one opens? From my life perspective, it is true, but only if you are willing to open the next…

Sometimes we don’t need advice. We just need somebody to listen. One of the greatest gifts you can ever give another person is to listen with all of your presence and all of your heart. There are times when another person is so overwhelmed with their life experience as to…

When life gets hard, don’t wish it to be easier, decide to be stronger. How infinite is our own internal reservoir of determination? Life has a way of showing us that it is far more expansive than we would be willing to forecast. There are so many chapters of life…

When I shut my mouth and walk away, it doesn’t mean you’ve won. It simply means you’re not worth my time anymore. Sometimes you have to walk away to get to where you are going. For every individual, this “breaking point” is a different line in the sand. It is…

I thought of you today But that is nothing new I thought about you yesterday And days before that too. I think of you in silence I often speak your name All I have are memories And your picture in a frame. Your memory is a keepsake From which I’ll…