Exploration is over and now you’ve got a lapful of goals. So now what do you do with them? I am queen of my favorite 9-letter word: STRUCTURE. What’s next is to create a series of routines and habits in your calendar that have you accomplish your goals. The first place to start is with [...]
January 4, 2012 By Leave a Comment
50 Questions to Discover Yourself
First week of the New Year and I am all about evaluation. This time of year, I recommend looking at your life and figuring out who you are and what you want. I am not talking about the PollyAnna new year’s resolutions most people create. I am talking about soul-searching with a plan! Some people [...]
May 29, 2010 By 4 Comments
Change Your View, Change the Moment
I woke up this morning to my third rainy, gray and cold day at Seaside, Oregon. My fantasy of a sunny, exhilarating Memorial Day weekend filled with bonfires and shell-hunting had crashed head-on, 100 miles an hour into a concrete block wall; there were no survivors. It was 6 a.m. and I started to contemplate what [...]
June 15, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Be Your Own Best Stimulus Package (part 1 of 2)
The government seems to be intervening into our lives everywhere these days. One would think that we are all clueless morons that can’t innovate for ourselves. Sure, tax cuts are nice, but you don’t need government help to grow your business during a recession. Even more important, if you can’t grow your business during a recession… you can’t grow your [...]
May 25, 2009 By 1 Comment
A New World is A New Mind
This is one of my favorite quotes by William Carlos Williams, a physician and renowned American poet. It speaks to the fact that whenever a human being chooses to evolve, he may do so by first declaring it. In order to grow, you must first have the desire to change. In order to change, all [...]
May 20, 2009 By Leave a Comment
The Power of A Conversation
I’ve often said that conversation is the most powerful tool anyone has to cause success… but I think that I was wrong… it’s not just your conversation that’s important, it’s the conversation you are having about your vision. Case in point, Donald Trump recently admitted to publicly overstating his net worth based on his internal conversation, [...]
April 9, 2009 By Leave a Comment
The Biggest Lie Anyone Has Ever Told
Anyone who has ever read a business growth book knows what it means to “think outside the box.” This concept was new and cool 10 years ago. Since then, we have often been told by business gurus that we will reach “our highest potential” when we finally learn to “live outside the box.” This is [...]
September 4, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Why are we so willing to live uninspired?
Why are we so willing to live uninspired? When is the last time you asked yourself what you REALLY wanted to be when you “grew up?” How about what you REALLY wanted your life to look like? Have you ever wondered why most of us are so willing to live a life that is uninspired, [...]
