I ran across an interesting post by Celestine Chua titled, “Are You a Howling Dog?” She begins the post by stating that there are different variations to this story. Go read her variation, and then come back and read mine – along with some commentary. Her’s is a good version. And her comments and analysis […]
Intention: The Powerful Tool for Massively Deepening Your Motivation So You Get Big Results
By Scout Wilkins  Do you want to massively deepen your motivation, so you magnify your results in any class you take, any project you take on, any conversation you engage in? Get crystal clear about your intention for doing whatever it is you do. Your big WHY. Setting an intention is the most powerful […]
Altruism – Loving others as oneself
“But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love.” – St. Paul I believe the original term was “charity.” I think in many ways, “charity” might be a better fit for what St. Paul was writing about. I think he was talking about acts of love toward other church […]
How To Increase Your Performance by 1000 Percent By Adapting 7 Small Tasks To Your Daily Routine
By Keith Aul  As my journey of self discovery began many years ago I wanted to figure out how I could increase my performance indefinitely in every area of my life. So I began studying the habits of successful people by reading autobiographies, success journals and books and networking and associating with other successful […]
What Goes Up Will Come Down
By David Samuel, This article is about seeing and being able to use the positive in everything. We will start with exploring the foundation of being able to live a fully positive and successful life, what prevents it, and then proceed to more detail about the method. There is no point in discussing how to […]
My Personal Development Plan – Career Guidance and Career Advice
By Diarmuid Haughian Study Skills- Learning how to study to an optimum is down to environment, a singular mindset to focus one’s mind into a catacomb of learning and concentration, no distractions and a comfortable conducive setting, an achievable plan to complete a certain amount of work in one study session and to reward oneself […]
101 Things to do…
I ran across this blog, The Personal Excellence Blog by Celestine Chua. It seems very interesting and I particularly liked her articles on a 101 things to do… These are the links to those articles, hitting one will get you to her site or you could look at each one individually… It’s all about getting […]
Commit to Constant and Never-Ending Improvement
by Jack Canfield, The Success Principles are more than a collection of good ideas. They are timeless principles used by successful men and women throughout history. I have studied these success principles for more than 30 years and have applied them to my own life. The phenomenal success that I now enjoy is the result […]
Choosing Not to be Angry
by Stephen Covey, I was teaching the 7 Habits at a professional gathering last week when I experienced something remarkable. While I spoke about Habit 1, Be Proactive, and some of the principles for being responsible for your own life or carrying your own weather and choosing your own response, a gentleman from the audience […]
From Motivation to Motive-Action
by Denis Waitley, With the passing of every new year, each of us needs to understand the magnitude of social and economic change in the world. In the past, change in business and social life was incremental and a set of personal strategies for achieving excellence was not required. Today, in the knowledge-based world, where […]
How To Stay Optimistic
By Steven Berglas, PhD Benjamin Franklin encouraged us all to ”keep in the sunlight.” Here are a few tricks. Men are disturbed not by things, but by the views they take of them. –Epictitus (AD 55-AD 135) Athletes, entrepreneurs (especially the serial brand) and other high-performers get dealt the same number of bad hands as […]
6 Practical Tips To Make Your Habits Stick
Are you trying to cultivate a new habit? Are you having trouble being consistent with this habit?  Our habits determine our quality of life. This month I’m doing group coaching with my readers, and I was intrigued to see that many of them have goals to cultivate new habits this month. They include very useful […]
The ‘Big 5’ Challenges People Face
Don’t let your attitude set you back. By John Maxwell, It’s easy to have a great attitude when things are going our way; everybody can do that. It’s when difficult challenges rise before us, and the attitude within us rises to overcome those problems, that attitude becomes the difference-maker. Unfortunately, it’s more common for our […]
Conquering the Seven Summits
Kay LeClaire climbed Everest and others–and left behind her fear of new challenges. By Ivy Hughes When Kay LeClaire, 61, talks about her extreme life experiences, she speaks as if she were relaying the weather—very matter-of-fact. “I became the oldest woman to complete the Seven Summits by default, not by goal,†LeClaire says casually. “It […]
To Thine Own Self Be True (all with due respects to Sir William)
Last couple of weeks, I learned some fundamental truth about myself – or rather relearned or reaffirmed or whatever the appropriate term is. (Also the first chance I’ve had to do any real blogging this past couple of weeks) It’s a crazy few weeks. We finally bought our condo. It was a short sale that […]
