Changing the World With a Smile

Have you ever visited a jail?  A Division of Family Services office?  Unemployment office?  Hopefully “no” to all of the above.
But more likely, a hospital?  Or a Department of Revenue office?  (Where you’ve just been lucky enough to pull number “99″ and look up to see that they are now serving number “36.”)
What do all [...]

Practicing Personal Growth at the Airport

I’ve been listening to Wayne Dyer’s It’s Never Crowded Along the Extra Mile.  I’ve been through it twice now.
As a result I’ve been focusing a lot of my personal development efforts lately on raising my spiritual energy.  For me this involves seeing all people as being part of God.
Whatever your spiritual beliefs, becoming a nicer, [...]

Can Making Your Bed Make You Wealthy?

Yes, making your bed CAN make you wealthy.  Well, it’s a start anyway.  No, I’m not introducing a new “system” that pays you to recruit a team of people who all make their beds.
This is a lesson in understanding one of my favorite Jim Rohn quotes — “For things to change, you must change.”
I used [...]

Goals Check: Who’s Still Going to the Gym?

We’ve made it through February. Time to check up on those New Year’s Resolutions you reluctantly made. Most people have long ago lost that piece of paper.
I go to a fitness club.  I have for over 20 years.  So I know this little graph to the right to be absolutely true.
I curse [...]

Personal Development: Exercise Your Mind for Success

My 5-year-old was balancing on one foot on the edge of the bed frame last night.  She fell off and immediately said, “watch, I’ll do it better next time.” (And she did).
Being the ever-conscious parent that I am, I tried to seize the moment for a “life lesson.”  I told her that she was right, [...]

Be Careful About What You Assume in Your Home Business

I missed my favorite class at the gym last week because I had a meeting.  When I returned to class this week, people asked me where I’d gone and assumed I’d been on vacation.  Unfortunately, it was far from vacation, but it was clear why they’d made this assumption.  I never miss class, and I [...]

What Do Toddlers Know About Self Improvement?

I’ve been working hard on a new project lately.  It’s left me a little overwhelmed and without much time for blogging (sadly).  But, it’s going well and I should be back to “normal,” if there is such a thing, within a couple of weeks.
I was standing in the kitchen the other morning, feeling overwhelmed and [...]

Personal Growth: If You Believe, You Can Achieve

I love the Napolean Hill quote, “What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”   Sounds easy.  Yet one of the biggest reasons people can’t change their lives is simply that they don’t believe they can.
I got an email from an internet marketer the other day promoting a training for people [...]

Self Improvement: Celebrate Your Freedom Now

I confess that I had so much to do and so much fun over the holiday weekend that I just got to reading my emails from the weekend. And naturally, every internet marketer whose list I’m on had an Independence Day email for me.
Most of them had the typical “find your financial [...]

Mindfulness: Becoming Happier and Healthier

What exactly does mindfulness mean? To be mindful is to be present in the moment without passing judgment on the moment. Just being. Mindfulness has its roots in Zen Buddhism. So who better than Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh to define mindfulness for us:

One of my favorite quotes is [...]