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Everything you apply in the weight room is a perfect analogy for life - everything.
The iron is more than adding weight to the barbell. It is about discipline, perseverance, patience, and a lot of hard work. It builds character, a healthy body and a healthy mind. It teaches you to be humble ... Views: 1328
Are we becoming a society of angry people? Most days my answer would be a resounding “yes!” Between shouting matches at school sports events, road rage, hateful comments via social media, and other popular displays of aggression, it seems that we are allowing our anger and frustration to rule us ... Views: 961
Many people feel content to sit back and let others lead.
But if you are to be the CEO and head of your business, you must also become a leader of others.
In fact, when you embrace and exercise your leadership qualities, your business will grow substantially.
Ah, but it's not so simple, ... Views: 1178
Like most people my age I started smoking as a teenager. At first it was obvious that my body did not want that smoke in my lungs. The coughing, nausea, foul taste and eye irritation were worth putting up with in order to look grown up. Before long my body adjusted and the habit was ... Views: 948
Picture this; you're sitting in a dark corner of a coffee shop when you spot your dream guy (or girl) sipping their double cappuccino at a table on the other side of the room.
You know they're the one. You have to meet them. You've been waiting for someone exactly like them to walk into your ... Views: 990
Today I was reminded of my own anger while driving.I don't get angry that easily or that often. Luckily I know what tools work for me when I start noticing anger wanting to show it's ugly face. Like I've told many clients, it's called Anger Management, not Anger Cure. This is an important ... Views: 1123
Lesson 7
The Growing Why
Your Why is a burning desire. It is the driving force that makes you achieve your ultimate goals. As your life progresses and your horizons expand, your Why will also naturally progress. Here’s an important principle: Your Why expands as you grow.
With your ... Views: 1628
Lesson 1
The Most Important Day of Your Life
As life goes on day by day, we all experience challenging days and some really magnificent days, but there’s one day in particular that is more important than any other day of your life. The most important day of your life is your birthday.
... Views: 1616
More often than not people are focused so much more on just paying this month's bills that there is no room in their experience for the bigger picture of life. While success with large sums of money may be wanted there is no space for it because the whole life is filled with stress, anxiety and ... Views: 951
Today because of all the phone calls, we want to do something extraordinary and set up an acting class. I think acting in television, theater or cinema is something very appealing.
I’m friends with a lot of actors; truthfully, they are a very likable bunch of people. Not just because they are ... Views: 1226
We are bombarded with information. All the time!
Every day, or so it seems, entrepreneurs are bombarded with ideas and information about how to do things.
At times, it can make you feel like you don't know how to do anything. And that you're not only overwhelmed, but also hopelessly ... Views: 1324
Knowing Why You Came From: Choose where you’re going!
I have seen this picture posted around a lot over the past couple of years:
The picture States:("Everything you do is based on the decisions you make. It's not your parents, your past relationships, your job, the economy, the weather ... Views: 1144
Knowing Why You Came From: Choose where you’re going!
I have seen this picture posted around a lot over the past couple of years:
The picture States:("Everything you do is based on the decisions you make. It's not your parents, your past relationships, your job, the economy, the weather ... Views: 1058
Knowing Why You Came From: Choose where you’re going!
I have seen this picture posted around a lot over the past couple of years:
The picture States:("Everything you do is based on the decisions you make. It's not your parents, your past relationships, your job, the economy, the weather ... Views: 1216
Knowing Why You Came From: Choose where you’re going!
I have seen this picture posted around a lot over the past couple of years:
It’s a quote attributed to Wayne Dyer. Wayne is a writer, mentor, near avatar that I greatly admire and read quite often. However on this statement, taken at ... Views: 1166
So, you want to be a successful marketer, first let me applaud you on your decision. The lifestyle afforded to those who learn to master a few simple concepts, can be more rewarding than you may realize at this point. First, know that we all struggle with ourselves and until we re-train our ... Views: 1291
If I spend time thinking about the various issues specific to addicted clients I come up with a few central themes. Many people need to find a sense of purpose, some need to find a sober place to live, and others need to find a way to earn income or repair family relationships. However, what is ... Views: 2796
What Defines Your Confidence? / Online Marketing
In today’s hectic paced society, humans make a mental impression (like – dislike) of the other person on a first meeting within 7 seconds. It does not take long for these mental gymnastics to happen, as it has been happening this way for eons ... Views: 757
What image comes to mind when you think of an unstoppable person? Is it someone who’s untouchable; maybe it’s someone who’s sitting on top of the world without a care in the world; someone who’s not plagued with procrastination issues; or maybe even an super accomplished superhero in the sky ... Views: 3223
You are correct if you say we communicate using words- partially though! We also employ voice tone, gestures and body language, emotional state, clothing, the physical location (aka time/place setting) we occupy, and more; this is, in addition to the words we use. Even the lack of communicating ... Views: 1231
So, you’re thinkin’ about taking the plunge, eh? Thinkin’ about buyin’ a FitBit, eh? Well, you should probably stop right here, partner! Let me give you the lowdown!
I get a lot of people asking me about the FitBit and if I actually enjoy it. So, I figured, why not write a little bloggy about ... Views: 867
I had started to lose weight in January of 2013. Going to the gym, watching what I eat, but not counting my calories. I went to Japan and when I came back I was in full swing once again. Hitting the gym 5 days a week. Exactly one year ago tomorrow, I joined MyFitnessPal. I was counting my ... Views: 913
No one wants to work with difficult people, and in a small office environment it can be especially challenging. The company and everyone involved loses when problem employees don’t embrace the leadership vision and company direction.
Worse yet are the problems that occur when a difficult ... Views: 1147
“People warn me, when you’re on top, there’s envy.” – Hate Me Now (Nas/P.Diddy)
It’s an unfortunate truth we all have to face at some point in our lives. At times people will not be on your side, they may slander you behind your back, smile in your faces as a friend and have a dart board with ... Views: 1253
Do you find yourself taking longer than usually to reach your goals for your new business, your new career, your new health regimen, etc… Sometimes, we get so comfortable that we don’t feel the urgency to move, we don’t have any ‘fire under’ our heels to get things started..and most of all we ... Views: 1284
We all have different types of personalities, attitudes, moods, emotions, languages, cultures, beliefs, values, traditions, customs, and priorities in life. We share a few commonalities and the big differences even when we live together as a family member, a part of a social group and being a ... Views: 1608
I have written in this column recently about emotional hygiene, and doing the necessary maintenance on feelings as well as your physical body and household. Health reminders tell us to wash our hands frequently to prevent transmittal of diseases. Did you know you can “wash” your ... Views: 1529
It is very important to know exactly what goals you would like to achieve so they become reality.
You must make them vividly clear what goals you want before you can expect to have them become true. Many people just generalize what they desire in life instead of being specific about what they ... Views: 1164
Living by Likes
It’s funny how sometimes life sneaks up on you and catches you by surprise. I had some occasion of inspiration recently to examine the way I have been thinking, the way I have been living and the general direction of my life. It was not something I planned on doing, it just ... Views: 1407
" Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life." Steve Jobs
Someone recently asked me the definition of Codependency, so let's take a look at what we can see to help uncover this complicated phenomenon. The visual I have is someone who is suppose to be driving his own ... Views: 1303
"I'm a victim of domestic violence." That's one phrase you'll never hear emanating from my mouth. Even though I spent three years engaged to marry someone who verbally and physically abused me, I never once entertained the thought of myself as a victim. Perhaps it's because I define a victim as ... Views: 1319
" You will never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore." Christopher Columbus
Denial is a mechanism we use consciously or unconsciously to alter reality, usually to pretend it is better than it is. We don't want to see aspects of life for which we have no ... Views: 992
What is radical ownership? It’s seeing and owning that life is a mirror reflecting me back to me. All the things that happen in my life have one thing in common…ME. I am the common denominator in all that keeps showing up. Mike Dooley describes it beautifully in his Notes from The Universe: ... Views: 3098
As I sit in the park watching my grandson play tag with other kids on the playscape, the noise from all the children is deafening, yet I can pick out my grandson’s voice amidst the din. It makes me wonder how we are able to tune things out that are not important to us at the time, and yet when ... Views: 1132
(We all need Strong Minds!) "Unless you try to do something beyond what you have mastered you will never grow." Ralph Waldo Emerson
The most important asset one can have is a strong mind. Forget all the material things many think are so important and would be lost without; a strong mind is ... Views: 1516
I like to think I was a control freak, but I guess I still am. Back in the old day I was a micromanager, taking responsibility for every aspect of a project even if it wasn’t mine. I would stay awake at night worrying about outcome. I would plan and scheme what else I could do to make the ... Views: 1283
"What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do." Tim Ferriss
How did we become a society that cannot hear the word No? Why are we so sensitive to being told No? There is yes and there is No, there is night and day, dark and light, yin and yang, and on and on. So to be balanced ... Views: 1462
Women get it from home:
Watch out for you pretty dress, stay away from the puddle, sit still, stop picking your nose, girls don’t do this, girls don’t do that…
And that’s BS.
Girls are nurtured with all these prejudices and preconceptions, of what they can and can’t do.
They are ... Views: 1100
“Dad and mom think rock music is stupid, poke along under the speed limit, and I wouldn’t be caught dead in their clothing and hair styles.” Sound familiar? It’s what I thought in the teenage years while wearing my blue suede shoes with white socks, cuffed jeans and greased hair.
In later ... Views: 1012
Into every business, a little rain must fall. It's all part of the process. We do the best we can, and yet mistakes are made.
It's not about the mistakes themselves. Everyone makes them. Really. Everyone.
The paths of the most successful businesses include some failures.
When you're ... Views: 981
By Frosty Wooldridge
If you look around your community whether you share a schoolroom, workout class or meeting place—someone laughs a lot, smiles and expresses their happiness.
(Two happy guys on a bicycle tour. What makes them happy? They love to pedal their bicycles over long ... Views: 665
We’re great at giving our very best in the hard moments, the crises. We pull out all the stops to save a loved one’s life, rescue a child from a burning building, salvage our marriages on the brink of divorce. We are truly, then, the shining example of what a human being is capable of.
But ... Views: 1522
2009 was an extremely challenging year for both Michelle and me. Among the many issues we faced that year, one of the most painful was the difficult financial situation we’d put ourselves into: we were $105,000 in debt and about $300,000 upside down on our house by the end of that year. There ... Views: 1309
As a mortal human being, we just cannot deny the importance of products we use in our daily life. I am a fan of relationship science and its related benefits, but for this time, I want to highlight the benefits of the tangible items around us. As we use them often, they are closest to us, ... Views: 1803
I've heard that said since I was a little boy. Usually when talking about some awful deed that was committed. Fraud? Theft? Robbery? Murder? It's all been done to get money and will be again.
Many people believe the origin of the saying is religious. The Bible (Timothy 6:10) says something ... Views: 1024
Last week I talked about how you can unwittingly sabotage your own good intentions by negative motivation, blaming others and by getting discouraged too easily. Without even knowing it, you can contribute to your own struggles and thwart your goals. Here are a few more things to watch out ... Views: 1201
A wonderful actor died last week. I’ve enjoyed watching him portray a variety of “bad guys with a big heart” over the years, but last week, I learned something new about him and my appreciation for Bob Hoskins has grown even greater.
Hoskins left school at 15 because he was told he was ... Views: 1605
Words that describe nonsense in the dictionary include pointless, meaningless, irritating, disrespectful, obnoxious. Nonsense is words or actions that others don’t understand. Doing or saying things that seem illogical. In my experience, nothing is really illogical. If it seems illogical I don’t ... Views: 1102
“How you doin’ Jack (or Jill)?” I asked a recreation-center friend last week.
“Same ole, same ole,” he said.
“Come on man,” I said. “We’ve got ski season in full swing. That’s got to put a spring in your step.”
“Probably so,” he said. “But I need something new to fire me up.”
He ... Views: 742
Have you ever known someone who was so nice that it was hard to believe they were real? Usually these are the people who are pleasant and nice in all circumstances, even where others would be upset. They seem to accept you and everyone without condition.
Perhaps surprisingly, many of these ... Views: 3388