Are You Satisfied?

Personal development and self growth is an ongoing journey. Growing, learning and developing as people and building a better life are basic human needs. If we can accept the things we can't control, we'll be much happier and we'll have more strength to work towards the things that matter most to us where we can make a difference,

Chasing Our Tails

They say that insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different outcome. That's what many of us do. We know it's dumb. But we do it anyway.

Song of The Year And Its Lessons

Lessons from this year's Grammy awards; how the Dixie Chicks' persistence paid off in a coveted award and the lesson for personal achievement that it teaches.

Motivational Alignment

Motivation can be an extremely complex attitude to define, nurture and enhance with people. It's different for every one of us. Motivational values, attitudes, perceptiveness and potential in every one changes from day to day, from situation to situation. If you can align the right values with the individual and their environment, your motivational methods will work better. Motivational methods of any sort will not work if the people on the team are not aligned. People are motivated towards something they can relate to and something they can believe in.

Is There a Change You Need to Make?

Making a change may seem overwhelming. It may cause you to feel uncomfortable, maybe even fearful and insecure. But change can be renewing, re-vitalizing and re-energizing!

I Haven't Got Time

We are all rushing around trying to desperately stand still. What happens if you stop and appraise your situation.

Opportunity The Trickster

Opportunity loves to play tricks on people who are seeking success in their own businesses and these games to these people are not fun at all. Opportunity likes to play tricks by disguising itself as failure, misfortune, temporary setbacks or defeat.

Tame Your Inner Critic

Everyone experiences negative mind chatter to some extent, even the most successful people in the world. The major difference is in knowing what to do when it occurs and creating positive habits to minimize negative chatter.

Butchie

The suburbs of Chicago was a different kind of experience for a kid that was living in the shadows of the skyscrapers. We played in the streams and ditches, hunted pheasants with homemade bows and thought we were in a wild place. We met kids unlike those in the alleys and gangways of Chicago. It was great, really great.

What's Your Commitment Level?

Is your commitment to living the successful life you want comparable to a limp fish?

Your Loss Could Win You an Oscar

How to change your loss into success; Jennifer Hudson's rise to Oscar stardom and its lessons of personal achievement.

Expect to Win - How To Use a Strong Vision of Success To Win Business

Running your own business is a great laboratory for self discovery. I told many people when I first started my practice that I learned more about myself in 2 years of running the practice than I did in the preceding 50+ years. Many people say that to be successful in business you need lots and lots of training and knowledge. Others will tell you need to be really gifted. Do you ever look around and see “less qualified” people who are very successful? How does that happen?

Are You a Terrorist, Change Maker or Revolutionary?

Most folks do not wish to be called terrorists when they are the ones to bring about change. The word seems to have very negative connotations. Sure it would be nice to use another word than terrorist, but those who are in the Status Quo do not want change so from their perception many of them might consider you a terrorist if you are a the one who proposes change. That is what the King of England thought of Thomas Jefferson and the group of Founding Fathers in the US of course; he thought they were terrorists.

Motivation to Enter the War Zone

Clint Eastwood recently produced two films about the second world war, one from the viewpoint of the American soldiers (Flag of our fathers) and the other - letters from Iwo Jima, from the side of the Japanese soldiers... one very interesting motivator ... showed up in the comments about this film.

The Dance of Romance

February is the month of love. It even includes an entire day that is set aside simply for the purpose of making grand gestures of romance and love. Dive into this article to learn more about how to romance yourself, your relationships and your business.