What’s Your Purpose? Every person born and every thing ever created has a definite purpose. While this may seem so obvious, it is the obvious that often gets the cold shoulder of our attention. Consider all … continues
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Be Happy
Happiness is an aphrodisiac; anyone who has experienced it will crave it again and again. Happiness is a choice; it’s an emotion that can be found in any circumstance …continues
Aggressively Enforce Your Will
The very nature of a challenge sets an appropriate stage for practicing mental toughness, which by definition means a psychological edge that enables one to remain focused and confident …continues
Elevation is Everything
ELEVATE is a transitive verb which means to lift up and improve morally, intellectually, physically, relationally, financially, culturally. In the spirit of making a significant and lasting improvement …continues
Until the End…
If your life and career plans include achieving some BIG GOALS, then you must decide that what you want is BIGGER and far more important than any fear which prevents you from achieving it. Fear is …continues
What’s on Your Bucket List?
As you work to identify your Bucket List of goals, be sure to remember that there is no purer form of success, no more exact and demanding test of what you are capable of, then to set a challenging goal …continues
If It Doesn’t Challenge You, It Doesn’t Change You
The human body serves as the perfect metaphor for understanding the importance of a challenge for the simple reason that the body is built to adapt and respond to demands that are placed …continues
How to Get the Monkey Off Your Back
In my many years of coaching and consulting, I’ve found that, in virtually every case, the decision to rise to meet a challenge boils down to the desire for greater freedom in one’s life …continues
Never Give Up—Never Give In
Never Give UpIt may lack the nobility of integrity, the charisma of enthusiasm, the grace of generosity, and the sparkle of excellence, but the beauty of perseverance is that, in time, it always makes up for …continues
Oozing Excellence
Excellence begins as a decision — one where you look at your life, business, and relationships and decide that everything you touch is going to better, that the example you set is going to be inspiring …continues