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If This Isn’t in Your Mental Toolbox, You Are Handicapped
I’m a big believer that solid, steady progress wins most races over the long haul and that the mastery of the basics, day in and…
April 19, 2022Happiness Takes Work
No matter what our life circumstances, there are things for which to be grateful, to be thankful. Think not? Imagine seriously for a moment all…
March 17, 2022The World is a Giant Mirror
The world is a giant mirror, reflecting back the attitudes, energy, and behaviors you choose to broadcast. Don’t like what you see? Change what you…
March 3, 20223 Important Life Hacks We All Say We Know but Few Actually Do
Happiness is a choice: But not always an easy one. It requires that you discipline your mind and decide to walk on the sunny side…
February 24, 2022Taking the Kindness Challenge: Can You Become a Kindness Factory?
How do we make “kindness the norm”? One way is by starting a “Kindness Log” where you record acts of kindness you have observed or…
February 22, 2022Four Easy Ways to Self-Sabotage
Poison Your Body with Junk Food and Drinks. Love Yourself? Want to live long and healthy? Want more energy? Avoid processed food, red meat, and…
February 15, 2022Think like there is no box
All too often it is our own thinking that hurts us the most. Self-imposed beliefs about what we are capable of, artificial limits about what…
January 27, 2022It’s Not as Easy as You Think
There are probably over 5,000 athletes playing Division 1 college football. Every year maybe 250 get to go to the NFL. Five Percent. Max. One…
December 21, 2021If You Are Standing Still, You Are Running Backward
To live your best life, continuously strive to improve your skills, broaden your knowledge, revise your internal maps, challenge your comfort zone. Talent is just…
December 14, 2021Consolidate Your Caring
It is possible to care too much, both from the perspective of 1) being ineffective and of 2) emotional exhaustion. Far better to positively impact…
November 30, 2021The Ultimate Resource
Believe it or not, you probably have most of all you need to get where you really want to go. You are the Ultimate Resource.…
November 16, 2021Own Your Frequency
Your “Frequency” is just an interesting way of describing your energy levels; the enthusiasm and eagerness with which you approach life, the intensity with which…
October 28, 2021Your Friends are Your Future; How is it Looking?
It has been said that you are the sum total of the 5 people you spend the most time with. While there is much truth…
October 14, 2021Can You Find It? It’s Often Hidden Well but it’s Golden
Concealed within every failure, buried within every setback, lie clues toward the path forward, lessons to be pondered and treasured. Regrettably it is all too…
October 5, 2021Seven Habits of Happy People
They monitor their self-talk; keep it positive, solution oriented. They choose companions in life that challenge them to be their best. They Release. They focus…
September 9, 2021Doing the Duchenne Smile
The non-technical definition Duchenne smile is a genuine smile that comes straight from the heart, reflecting true joy or real happiness i.e., not a forced…
August 31, 2021Can You See Souls Instead of Bodies?
What if we could see people’s true inner essence instead of their outer bodies? What if we could see spiritual growth and accomplishments as easily…
August 5, 2021Alive Time Vs. Dead Time: Where Do You Spend (Invest?) Your Down Time?
We all have free time, down time, in between times. Sometimes they are just brief moments, sometimes they stretch on and on. What we do…
July 20, 2021Destitutus Ventis, Remos Adhibe
“Destitutus ventis, remos adhibe” is a Latin proverb that translates as “If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.” The most successful people…
May 11, 2021Leave it on the Riverbank
Two monks out walking came to a river with a strong current. As they started to cross, a beautiful girl called out to them, asking…
May 4, 2021The Discipline of Essentialism
Essentialism is the discipline, the skill, the ability to sort out the vital few from the trivial many, casting aside all but the essential, saving, hoarding…
April 20, 2021Many a False Step Is Made by Standing Still
Even when you are on the right track you’ll get run over if you just sit there. Doing nothing (aka Decision by Indecision) is still…
March 18, 2021Base Metal into Gold; Weakness into Strength: Mental Alchemy
As far back as 300 AD, the ancients wrote of a “philosopher’s stone” that could transmute base metal into gold. Well, I can’t tell you how to spin gold…
March 11, 2021Seven Habits that Drain Your Energy
Taking it personally: It’s rarely about you. Really. Lugging the Past into the Present: The Past should be a place of Reference, not Residence. Junk/Fast…
January 5, 2021Reading the Newspaper in the Morning
If there is one thing I know how to do, it is how to be mega productive, how to hyper focus, how to laser in…
December 24, 2020What is Your Ikigai?
Ikigai is a Japanese word for “reason for being” or more loosely translated, “the reason why you wake up each morning.” What makes your life worthwhile, what…
December 1, 2020