Encouraging clarity
As you begin your Monday, looking to this day and the six that follow, do you have clarity about that which you expect to happen? About what you will accomplish? When you get to next week’s Monday and...
View ArticleStaying focused
Last week we visited the idea of honing in on your purpose: how your specific gifts and talents are expressed in the world. I do hope you took the time to work through that exercise. It does not matter...
View ArticlePush-ups
How have you been choosing what you think about? Do you find it is challenging as I do? I know from experience it does get easier with daily, consistent practice. When I have feelings of anxiety, or...
View ArticleStopping Irritations
In our current culture there is a lot of talk about the environment. Many people working in many causes. Today, though, we’re to chat about the environments you live in but not the creek in your...
View ArticleAccountability rocks
Do you have people in your life that support you and cheer you on? “That’s What Friends Are For” is a mid 1980s song by Burt Bacharach and Carole Bayer Seger, most famously covered by Dionne Warwick...
View ArticleThe big one
Do you have a breakthrough goal? A dream goal that bubbles up out of your heart that it would be quantum leap for you? A goal so big it scares you a little to think about it? Yes, that goal. It might...
View ArticleLittle bites
Quick! What’s that big goal you wrote down last week? Even if you didn’t do it write one down right now. Don’t over think it. I hope it is so big a goal you have no idea how you will get from where you...
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Be a student always
Are you pursuing new ideas, new knowledge, new connections? Part of the grand adventure of life is expanding what your know and how you show up in the world. I bet you already do that naturally for...
View ArticleA thankful way of life
Do you consider yourself a thankful person? Someone who practices gratitude daily? We can always find something to be grateful about even in the midst of dire circumstances. This morning I hear birds...
View ArticleNo straight line here
“I need to make time for that.” What’s impossible in that statement? “Make time.” Oh sure, it’s a saying. We deep down know that we cannot actually “make time.” I also know that the meaning behind...
View ArticleOpen to possibilities
“We should always be open to greater opportunity.” My dad told me this years ago. He was a career man and this particular comment had to do with working. Completing university after his service in...
View ArticleGood and good for you
I was reading an article this week about practicing pleasure and its physiological impact on the human body. One particularly interesting part is that pleasure and distraction are not the same. “Ah,”...
View ArticleThe power of knowing
Did you wake up this morning knowing what you want to happen today? You know, a plan? More importantly, do you know what it is that you want in the various parts of your life and have them written...
View ArticleSuccess is a learned behavior
One thing I know is that success is a learned behavior. Yep, step by step you can learn to be successful in whatever area of life you want and toward your personal definition of success. What four new...
View ArticlePeeking out of your box top
Here in the U.S., we have the saying “Thinking outside the box.” This phrase causes me to ask are we all in the same box? Do we each have our own box? What are we doing in a box anyway? Can we get out...
View ArticlePeeking over the edge: small actions
Last week, you were encouraged to peek over the edge of your box. You know, that imaginary box also called comfort zone. We are all creatures of habit. Our usual, so usual we don’t give any conscious...
View ArticleWhat’s YOUR end game?
A father once said to me, “I want my daughter to be happy.” I said “I want my daughter to have purpose.” That memory came to me when I was reading a favorite thinker of mine. He wrote “…focus and...
View ArticleThree steps to a summer of success
What is the success you have planned for your summer? (For you in the Southern Hemisphere, June, July, and August are winter, I know. Substitute “winter” for “summer” in this post.) Step 1: Write down...
View ArticleWhat’s YOUR endgame?
A father once said to me, “I want my daughter to be happy.” I said “I want my daughter to have purpose.” That memory came to me when I was reading a favorite thinker of mine (Roy Williams). He wrote...
View ArticleSummer of success Step 1
Last week, I shared with you three simple steps that, if you take them, will increase your success level dramatically. It isn’t the reading of the steps, it isn’t the knowing of the steps, it is the...
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