Have you ever thought about taking a chance? Risking failure?
Maybe right now you’re thinking about starting a business, running a marathon, learning a new skill, or going back to school. Maybe you’re thinking about doing something simple, like asking your boss for a raise, or something complex, like trying to convince your board […]
According to a study conducted by The Conference Board in 2005, Americans are increasingly unhappy with their jobs:
–Only 14% claim to be “very satisfied.”
–50% say they’re dissatisfied.
–25% say they’re “just showing up for the paycheck.”
In the interest of investigating why so many of us dislike our jobs, I offer you these […]
It wasn’t long ago that researchers believed that every human being was born with a set “happiness point,” a fixed and unavoidable baseline level of happiness. On its face, the idea appears to have merit: Tsunami victims, amputees, and lottery winners alike eventually return to their previous emotional baselines. In other words, no matter […]
Everyone gets in a rut every now and then, a Doldrum where all our motivation is sucked out and we just don’t feel like working on anything.
A short-term dip into one of these emotional ruts is fine, but sometimes we need a boost so we can climb back into the sunshine and resume the pursuit of our […]
When mainstream America thinks of the stereotypical “positive person,” they envision someone with his head buried in the sand, ignoring life’s challenges, smiling like a gomer as his life falls apart.
But devil-may-care personalities do not fit my definition of a positive person. A real positive person seeks to be a positive force in the world, to make a […]
When I was a small boy, my mother had a lot of crafty things hanging on the walls: pictures of geese, cross-stitches of farm animals; that sort of thing. She also had an inspirational quotation embroidered onto white canvas, hanging on the kitchen wall, near the pantry.
Little did I know that the tattered and frayed […]
Our lives are like clay on a potter’s wheel. Each day, the wheel turns anew, and with our decisions, we shape our lives; we are sculptures formed by choices, vessels crafted by free will. Your life: your masterpiece, your unique creation.
While it’s true that we all must decide for ourselves what shape our lives should […]
If someone doesn’t take us aside and teach us a few things (assuming we’d listen) before we graduate high school, we are doomed to learn life’s hardest lessons in the real world beyond the classroom.
With that in mind, here are 21 non-academic lessons every person should know before he or she graduates high school; if you graduated long […]
A mad scientist stands before you, wearing a white lab coat and holding a glass beaker. Inside the beaker, a green liquid bubbles and foams.
“This is a magic potion,” says the mad scientist. “If you drink it, your behaviors and attitudes will change in such a way as to make you amazingly successful and happy.”
Have you ever dreamed of doing something big? I’m talkin’ moon-shot big, Eiffel Tower big, set-the-world-on-fire big: a firestorm of accomplishment, racing over the dry kindling of the world; a powder-keg of success, detonating like a star in the night sky.
If you’ve ever had a big dream, let’s talk. Because the simple, 4-step process I’m […]
