• Published: October 12, 2010

When we begin to question ourselves about something, which most people do several times a day, we tend to get too into our heads and quickly create a negative spiral of thoughts. When this happens, if you implement a simple action, you can stop a negative spiral in its tracks and move forward.

 

• Published: September 30, 2010

If you ask someone's opinion (bad idea #1), more often than not that person will tell you that things should be done in a certain way in order for you to market yourself or your business. More often than not, that person is wrong. It is at times like these when you need to reach into your toolbox and pull out the one and only tool you really ever need, but rarely use... Common Sense. Here are 3 simple (and free) ways to jump-start your fame.

 

• Published: September 30, 2010

Everyone you know, including yourself, have set goals and not met them. On December 31 of every year, someone you know is going to exercise more, someone you know is going to lose that 20 pounds once and for all, and someone you know is going to quit smoking. Most of them will not succeed. Why? Not because they did not have a goal, but because they did not have the correct expectation.

 

• Published: September 30, 2010

The way that most people choose to live their clock-dictated lives is to be as reactive as possible. In other words, you do the laundry when you have officially run out of underwear or grocery shop when you are about to go broke from eating out everyday. You rush every morning and still leave just in time to get into rush hour traffic and stress out about being late to work. You constantly feel out of control of your life and your time, but think about this for a moment. Time management is overrated. Life management is a much more efficient and effective way to regain control of both your time and your life! Take a look and enjoy yet another desperately needed "AHA moment."

 

• Published: September 24, 2010

The word "transition" needs to transition out of our vocabulary. It has officially joined the ranks of many other once useful and descriptive words, such as "motivated," "team-player," and "awesome," which have become so overused that they have completely lost their definitional meaning. You are in so much more control at this moment than you are telling yourself. It is all a mindset! Here are 3 ways to go from "I am in transition" to "I am thriving!"

 

• Published: July 13, 2010

Bill Cosby once said, "I don't know what the key to success is. I do know that the key to failure is trying to please everyone." If you make too many decisions based on what others will think instead of what resonates with you, do not ever expect to find happiness or fulfillment. If some of the people who have watched the "circus" incessantly for the last week spent one tenth of the time, energy, and passion on their own lives as they have on the lives of others, their own "success" stories would be quite different.

 

• Published: June 3, 2010

You may hold many leadership titles in your life: Director, Manager, Mom, Dad, Friend. Are you walking dogs or are you showing others how to be great leaders? "Follow the leader" works well in kindergarten. In adulthood, empowering others is the key. "Great leadership" has less to do with looking over the shoulders of people and more to do with empowering others.

 

• Published: May 28, 2010

What could you be before someone told you that you could not? What could you be before YOU told yourself you could not? What could happen if you pulled out that superhero cape again?

 

• Published: May 28, 2010

When did you stop asking questions? We all did at some point. Every child is born with the irresistible urge to ask "why?" And they do! Incessantly! So, where is the problem? After all, is that not how we learn new things?

 

• Published: May 28, 2010

When did you start complaining? We all did at some point. One day you just realize that out of the 10 things that happened that day, you are choosing to focus on the one challenging thing instead of the 9 positive things.

 

• Published: May 5, 2010

Define "success." Not what you think it is supposed to mean...what it actually means to YOU. For the sake of this article, "success" is defined as having something you want to accomplish and taking the action necessary to accomplish it. With that simple definition (because that is really all success is), why does it elude so many people? There are 3 simple reasons.

 

• Published: May 3, 2010

We spend a lifetime drawing maps only to get to a destination and regret that we were not somewhere else! We say things like, "I am nowhere close to where I want to be," "I should have/could have/would have done something else if I knew," and "I just never had the chance to do something I always wanted to do." Guess who is responsible for you being able to say all of those things?

 

• Published: May 3, 2010

If you choose to do things in your life without thinking about WHERE you are actually trying to go and WHY are you doing what you are doing to get there, you can be deceiving yourself into thinking you are on the right course when, in reality, you are so far off course that you are heading in the opposite direction. Unfortunately, too many people do not realize that until it is too late to turn around. Knowing the WHERE is so much more important than knowing the HOW! Get clarity on the WHERE, take ACTION, and the HOW will appear.

 

• Published: May 3, 2010

Sponges are useful until they are saturated. Then, they are of no value until you wring them out. Our lives are the same way.

 

• Published: April 13, 2010

Who are you? Have you ever noticed that no one ever asks you that? People ask you all the time "what do you do?" They never ask "who are you?" We live our lives by giving ourselves and others labels and we spew concepts in the form of "elevator speeches." But neither labels nor "30 second commercials" tell me a damn thing about who you are. What is wrong with that you ask? What is wrong with that is that people do not have relationships with concepts...people have relationships with people. So, how do you separate 'who I am' from 'what I do?'

 

• Published: March 25, 2010

Who is driving your bus? It is important to understand that everyone who takes a ride on your bus is there for a reason.

 

• Published: March 25, 2010 Carly Simon has done very few live performances in her life...even at the height of her career. When asked once by an interviewer, "why?", she said that she had a horrible case of stage fright. She described it as standing in the wings right before her name was announced, getting a strange feeling in the pit of her stomach, breaking out in a cold sweat, her hands going clammy, and an overwhelming sense of nerves engulfing her.

 

• Published: March 25, 2010

Have you ever had a "Columbo Day?" Every time you think you have it under control "ahhh, just one more thing" creeps in and you have to react. I believe that "Columbo Days" happen not because we are disorganized, not because we are forgetful, but rather because we have created a bunch of stress for ourselves that is totally unnecessary. Here are 5 simple and easy ways to de-stress and gain at least 15 minutes everyday by simply paying attention!

 

• Published: March 24, 2010

Big dreams? Big goals? Big resolutions? Great! That may just be why you are not accomplishing any of them! Small action steps are what get you to succeed in doing anything! It is just like climbing a staircase...you cannot get to the top unless you have started by stepping on the first step. Here are 3 ways to start make a difference starting today.

 

• Published: March 10, 2010

If you are on an airplane and the cabin pressure changes and the oxygen masks fall from the overhead console, what do they tell you to do? Put your mask on first, then help others with theirs.

 

• Published: March 10, 2010

Failure should never scare you. Regret should scare the hell out of you.

 

• Published: March 5, 2010

Everyone has a gift. The challenge is not just in getting clarity on what your gift is.

 

• Published: February 17, 2010

Get out of your own way by replacing one word you use dozens of times a day! How to improve your outcomes by going from "yes...but" to "yes...and."

 

• Published: February 17, 2010

Albert Einstein said the very definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. So, what is standing in your way of accomplishing more? The answer is YOU! The beauty of that? The only thing over which you have 100% control is just that...YOU!