Just because you don’t name the direction, doesn’t mean that you aren’t going in one…

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both personally and professionally, through workshops/training and coaching.

 

Category Archives: Success

If you love it…

August 16, 2010 – 7:04 pm

“Your chances of success
are directly proportional
to the degree of pleasure
that you derive from what you do.”

Michael Korda

By all objective standards, he was good at his job.
He was able to fulfill the job description without incident.
He had been a solid, stable employee for the past seven years.
He produced…and completed…and performed…very well.
But, when he talked about his [...]

You are the sun…

August 1, 2010 – 9:48 am

“Concentrate all your thoughts on the task at hand.
The sun’s rays do not burn until brought in to focus.”
Alexander Graham Bell
How many of us live our lives feeling:

Scattered?
Rushed?
Stretched?
Distracted?
Overextended?
Unfocused?

We are constantly “doing,” yet seem to get nothing done!
This state of distraction has become the new version of what it means to be successful.
You must be important [...]

The Answers

June 3, 2010 – 2:23 pm

“As long as one keeps searching, the answers come.”
Joan Baez
Sometimes we can be impatient.
We want what we want…now.
We don’t want to work at it.
We don’t want to wait for it.
We want to know the answers.
We want to have the results.
We want every dream to come true…
every day.
While it is important to believe that we [...]

Leaving Your Comfort Zone

April 3, 2010 – 7:34 am

“Playing it safe is the riskiest choice we can ever make.”
Sarah Ban Breathnach

If you never push yourself,
you’re never know what you’re capable of doing.
You’ve played it safe, for a long time,
in so many areas of your life.
Playing it safe means you aren’t really playing at all..
you’re watching.

Sometimes it can work to stay nestled in that [...]

What if Change IS Security?!

February 20, 2010 – 8:31 am

“Security can only be achieved through constant change,
through discarding old ideas
that have outlived their usefulness
and adapting others to current facts.”

William O. Douglas
Live on the edge…
Today, do something that most never have the courage, or the faith, to do.

Take inventory of your life.
What does that mean, and how does one do it?
Simple.
Answer these questions…

What is working [...]