No one can create the life you want for you. You don’t need anyone’s permission to have a great life either. You can create your own lucky breaks. So what do you have to do? You choose to have it, design it, and make it happen. Years ago, a minister friend and I were talking […]

Have you ever heard, “Some day I’m going to _________ (write a book, take that trip, start getting in shape, etc.).” Or “When ________ (money, time, love, knowledge) happens, then I’ll be able to __________ (be free to do what I want, write, be happy, etc.)”

What would your life be like if the part of your mind that doubted what is possible for you to accomplish, was gone? That limiting part of your brain that picks on you and tells you things are impossible just vanishes. What would you begin thinking you could do? Your imagination is amazing. When you […]

Who are your customers? If we use the American Heritage Unabridged Dictionary in my office it’s: “Customer — Anyone with whom you must deal”. Isn’t that interesting. That means your customer’s are all your family members, friends, clients, bosses, preachers, teachers, the knot-head that swerved in your lane and almost ran you off the road, […]

Anybody can succeed once — often by accident. Yet ongoing success requires having vision, making a plan, taking action, revising your plan, taking new corrected action, revision of that new plan, taking more action, etc. Your habits will make or break you.

Life is hard sometimes – is it not? That’s unfortunate, but it’s also just – so what…. The level of difficulty of your experience is the result of your perspective. One student may think staying up and studying all night so they do well on an exam is really hard, while another doesn’t see it […]

When was the last time you gave something new a shot? Something that was hard and really made you work to learn it? During the process you may have felt really uncomfortable? Know what – that’s good for you. Few of us like that discomfort. The vast majority will

Add a twist to your thinking. An “araprosdokian” is a figure of speech in where the latter part of the sentence or the phrase is surprising or unexpected in such a way that it causes the person receiving it to reframe or reinterpret the first part. Comedians us this frequently. Shock value of this sort […]