10 Life Lessons I Have Learned…So Far! As each year passes I realize that I continue to learn valuable lessons. So I thought I would share a few of them that I’ve been thinking about lately. Some of them were welcomed, while others were learned the hard way, but I think that is what this journey…
“If you can dream it, you can do it” – Walt Disney When I Grow Up… Do you remember when you were a kid and someone asked you what you wanted to be when you grew up? “I want to be a…fireman, policeman, a nurse, a superhero, etc.” So what did you want to be…
“I dare you to move, I dare you to move, I dare you to pick yourself up off the floor” – Switchfoot How To Pick Yourself Up Have you ever started your day feeling like everything was going your way? Until it wasn’t! Maybe it starts when you get a bit of not-so-great news. But…
Will You Achieve Success This Year? As we close in on the end of the first month of the new year, it may be obvious, that if you want to achieve success this year you will need to be persistent in your actions for the remaining 11 months. Yes, we all want to achieve success…
Blame, Projection & Your Shadow I do my best to stay away from political commentaries and hotly debated topics. So let me begin by saying this blog has nothing to do with politics and everything to do with personal growth & self-development. Yours and mine. Carl Jung, one of the great psychologist of our time…
Will 2022 Be A Happy New Year? As 2021 comes to an end, you might be having a reality check. That being, you didn’t accomplish what you intended to accomplish when you started this year twelve months ago. Maybe you’ve started reflecting back on this year. It’s possible that you’ve already asked yourself, “Why am…
Holidays – Blessing or Curse? The holiday season is going full throttle and for some folks this holiday season is starting off extremely difficult for a number of reasons. Maybe you lost someone dear to you earlier this year and this will be the first holiday season without them? It might be you’re facing a…
Change Your Story – Change Your Life! “Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, the power to retell it, rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change, truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts.” A. Salman Rushdie Have you ever sat in…
Closing in on Your Purpose In my last blog, I discussed the difference between talents and skills. I also shared information on how talents and skills relate to being extraordinary and discovering your purpose. Well maybe got you thinking enough to ask yourself…ALIVE So how do I know if I’m getting closer to my purpose? Getting…
Talents, Skills, and Being Extraordinary! People often use the words talents and skills interchangeably, as if they had the exact same meaning. I believe that talents and skills are different. Talents encompass your strengths, your brilliance, and your genius. By genius, I mean in its original form found in the word – genie which means…