People often ask me how I became successful in that six-year period of time while many of the people I knew did not. The answer is simple: The things I found to be easy to do, they found to be easy not to do. I found it easy to set the goals that could change my life….
Here is a good question to ask yourself … Where are you going? Ten years from now, you will surely arrive. The question is, where? We don’t want to kid ourselves about where; we don’t want to kid ourselves about the road we’re walking. At 25, shortly after meeting my mentor Earl Shoaff, I had…
The ultimate expression of life is not a paycheck. The ultimate expression of life is not a Mercedes. The ultimate expression of life is not a million dollars a bank account or a home. Here’s the ultimate expression of life in my opinion, and that is living a good life. Here’s what we must ask constantly,…
Knowledge fueled by emotion equals action. Action is the ingredient that ensures results. Only action can cause a reaction. Further, only positive action can cause a positive reaction Action. The whole world loves to watch those who make things happen, and it rewards them for causing waves of productive enterprise. I stress this because today I…
One of the major reasons why we fail to find happiness or to create a unique lifestyle is because we have not yet mastered the art of being. While we are home our thoughts are still absorbed with solving the challenges we face at the office. And when we are at the office we find ourselves…
Pity the man who has a favourite restaurant, but not a favourite author. He’s picked out a favourite place to feed his body, but he doesn’t have a favourite place to feed his mind! Why would this be? Have you heard about the accelerated learning curve? From birth, up until the time we are about eighteen, our learning curve…
One of the difficulties we face in our industrialized age is the fact we’ve lost our sense of seasons. Unlike the farmer whose priorities change with the seasons, we have become impervious to the natural rhythm of life. As a result, we have our priorities out of balance. Let me illustrate what I mean: For a farmer, springtime is…
Over the years I’ve learned to challenge my audiences to turn their response to the ideas and information they receive into results. According to the Christian story, the first couple, Adam and Eve, was instructed to be fruitful – produce some results. Fruitful is kind of an interesting word; it denotes abundance. Here’s what I…
Four powerful little words: learn, try, stay and care. What difference can you make in your life today by putting these words to work? 1) First, life is worthwhile if you LEARN. If you know. What you don’t know WILL hurt you. You have to have learning to exist, let alone succeed. Life is worthwhile…
Two thousand years ago on April 15th one of Jesus’ disciples came to him and said it was time to pay taxes (that’s how I know it was around April 15th), but they had no money. In response to his disciple’s statement, Jesus said “no problem”. Now why could he say “no problem”? Word had…
