Unceasing Stress and Anxiety Will Crush Your Spirit. And burn you completely to a crisp emotionally. So, how do you minimize this? In my perspective, stress/anxiety are the opposite of peace. And I am a big proponent of moving towards what you want as a way of...
Just About Any Action Towards Your Goal is Good Action. The first fundamental I teach someone who is learning to fish, is how to cast. The reason for this is simple...you can't fish if you can't get your line into the water. Half the battle in catching a fish is...
Would You Walk 20 Feet Across an Eight-Inch-Wide Plank of Wood Laying Flat on a Sidewalk? If your legs are fine in general, this probably would be no problem at all. You may have to adjust your balance slightly at times, but you could do it. With some practice, you...
How Productive are You at Work When You Are at Odds with Someone You Love? Do you approach the day with a positive attitude? Are you dialed in and focused? Are you creative? Are you in a frame of mind to make good decisions? Are you a ray of sunshine? No. Not even...
Leadership is a Responsibility Depending on the level of responsibility, and the level of ownership, most leaders feel pressure on a consistent basis. By the way, when I say ownership, this can be viewed through two different lenses. One lens is a mentality and the...
I Could Not Do What They Said to Do… Way back in 1989, I started my first business venture. It was a home-based business that revolved around two aspects of the work: Building a customer base and recruiting and developing a sales organization. I was as green as it...
What Keeps You from Living the Life You Truly Want? This is a serious “can of worms question.” If, in fact, you are not living the life you want or making progress towards the life you want, the first part of the answer here is simply, that you haven’t actually taken...
All Work and No Play Makes Jack a Dull Boy. This saying makes me chuckle a bit. I don’t know who Jack is, or who decided to pick on him for this specific quote, but I have definitely known many “Jacks” in my time, and many years ago, I was Jack too! (I have to qualify...
The Story Goes Like This… The young man was incredibly undisciplined. As a result, his life reflected what you would expect. Money problems, health problems, no vision of any kind of future, brushes with the law, near misses with death, and a general feeling of...
Nothing is More Important to an Awesome Life, and Sustained Productivity, Than Self-Care. Having said that, I find that self-care can be seen so many ways that it’s easy to set it aside or mistake it for things that are for self but don’t matter as much. Self-care can...
