Category Archives: Personal Growth

Decision Making – What’s Better?

What’s better than making decisions? What is more fun, more powerful and more creative than getting up in the morning and thinking that what you’ve got to do today is to make decisions? Making decisions is great but even more fun, more energizing and more creative is to have the mindset that today you don’t need to make decisions – that today your endeavor is...

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The Greatest Pragmatism In The World

The greatest pragmatism in the world is to have a dream you work toward realizing. To say, “I don’t dream. I deal in reality.” is to negate your power and to deny your ability to transform reality. Your ability to work and to realize your purpose and dream is the most real thing in the world. It is reality. Put differently, without idealism, a “realistic”...

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The Crackberry Addiction

It’s amazing and rather sad how new forms of addiction join the officially recognized list of addictions every year. We should all stop and ask – what does this picture tell us about the human condition? Why are so many people so out of balance? Are you addicted to your blackberry (crackberry)? Do you have an “involuntary habit” of checking your Smartphone every 64 seconds?...

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How Will You Astound Yourself?

Here are Thomas Edison’s words of wisdom: “If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves….” Part of the mission of this blog is to bring transformational value to you. The Edison challenge for you is the following: Imagine what you are really capable of doing… No, for real… Take 10 minutes today to imagine what you...

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When To Pray – Part Two

Prayer is an action petitioning to come into the presence of something. Therefore the best prayer is an action taken when you are already with and in the presence of what you are praying for. Pray for fitness and health when you exercise, when you enjoy hiking outdoors, when you swim in the ocean or in a cold mountain lake. Pray for love when you...

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The 5 Step Success Strategy For Everything

I am often asked towards the end of a four or five day seminar, “How can I sustain what I have learned here?” Typically this is an indication that the person has found new insights which they want to act on and not lose. The new self-knowledge and insight may consist of a clear set of values, appreciation of personal strengths, a new leadership strategy,...

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A thru Z (A2Z) Blessings

Dear Friend: Here are New Year A thru Z (A2Z) Blessings. I wish you for 2008 all you wish for yourself and more… Please forward this message to friends, family and associates. A – Act Audaciously, Align All Assets Adaptively, and Assimilate Adventurous Achievements… B – Be Bright & Bold, Banish Blame, Be Benevolent, Bring Blooming Benefits, Biography Becomes Biology, Begin Believe Beyond Best… C...

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Why 83% Of All New Year’s Resolutions Fail

Here are some of the reasons why 83% of all New Year’s resolutions fail: Habits are stronger than intentions. The resolution was not made with a truly committed action plan. You did not develop a support system to help carry on the resolution through the ebbs and flows of life. The resolution was a reaction to something outside yourself and was not based in new...

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The KEY: Three Things You Did Not Learn In School

This Key explores three vital skills you did not learn in school and had to discover for yourself. Failing to master these skills brings more strife and pain than anything else. Proficiency in these three skills opens the door to tremendous well being and to actualizing your goals and realizing your hopes. As a parent, know that your children will need to discover these three...

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When To Pray

People most often pray when they need something. This is understandable, we want health mostly when it begins to fail; we want friendship when we are lonely, and money becomes much more important when you don’t have it. But praying from absence is not the most effective way to pray. It is much better to pray for something from within its presence. The best time...

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