When you have more questions than answers, ask yourself:

• What are these questions?
• Would you like to direct your questions to a particular character?
• Are they questions that you may be able to answer by reading more about the author's life and works...

Ask people to explain it to you a few times. Keep asking questions to really get to the root of the problem. 

Then go ahead and explain the problem to someone else, just to make sure you really understand it. Often times, simply formulating the problem and explaining it to others can hel...

There is often an underlying fear that prevents us from saying no. Perhaps we fear that we are not good enough. We find the compulsive "yes" might help us feel better. However, we cannot continue living at this pace.

We need to ask ourselves why we continue to do the very things that mak...