I believe in positive thinking. I learned early on in life that most people spent far too much time dwelling on the negative and very little time on what’s a positive. Since most negativity is the result of false assumptions based on past experience or ‘programming,’ I decided I didn’t want to be there. It […]
I realized the other day that I never met a successful person who had a bad attitude, or lacked confidence. In fact, their entire worlds seemed more positive than most – and infinitely happier. It made me wonder which came first – the success, the positive attitude or the confidence? I couldn’t attribute it […]
No one said it was going to be easy. If it was easy, everyone would be doing it, because that’s what’s usually done. The expedient, that is. Everyone does what’s expected. Very few go the distance to provide the unexpected, and that’s a shame. Doing the unexpected is what creates value. Makes you mean […]
“Courage faces fear and thereby masters it… Courageous men never lose the zest for living even through their life situation is zestless…We must constantly build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.” – Martin Luther King, Jr. It’s a good day to talk about courage. When we talk about heroes, like Martin […]
“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” – Alan Kay A few short weeks ago, I encouraged you to think BIG. I believe in that. It’s a healthy thing to do. It encourages growth and opens up the door to opportunity. I hope at least some of you have […]
Like everything else in life, success is relative. We all define it in our own terms. Basically, it’s the end result of our efforts to reach our goals, but the path leading there will never be straight. Each twist and turn presents obstacles. It’s how we handle the obstacles that determine whether we strike […]
We choose our thoughts. We can think positively or we can think negatively, and as a result we have the power to change our lives by simply changing our belief systems. But to those who say that despite their positive attitudes, they’re situations haven’t changed, I would suggest they lack the not so secret […]
“You know you don’t have to act with me, Steve. You don’t have to say anything and you don’t have to do anything. Not a thing. Oh, maybe just whistle …” – Lauren Bacall as ‘Slim’ Browning, in “To Have and Have Not”’ 1944 That was Lauren Bacall’s first role and the one that made […]
Ah, Labor Day. Although its roots go back to the inception of the Labor Movement and the first unions back in the late 1800’s, man has always known that every effort demands hard work. Funny though that sometimes we’re so close to our work – so caught up in it – that […]
I can’t think of anyone who isn’t at least peripherally aware of Monty Python. From the sublime to the ridiculous, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Graham Chapman and Terry Jones’ brilliant theatrics made them not only cultural icons of their generations, but for all generations; because among other things, they proved that a […]