Anytime you go through something challenging in life – anytime you experience sorrow, tragedy and disappointment – it is an opportunity to raise your consciousness up a notch. It is an opportunity to exercise a real...
Ralph Waldo Emerson, the famous nineteenth-century poet and essayist, was out one day trying to get a calf into the barn. “But he made the common mistake of thinking only of what he wanted:...
In a recent television interview, Bert Jacobs, co-Founder of Life Is Good, told Colin Pope, editor of the Austin Business Journal, what he thought of about work and being passionate about what you’re doing....
Did you know that your brain is 31% more effective when positive rather than negative, neutral or stressed? And that the neurotransmitter, dopamine, which is produced when you’re happy, turns on the learning centers...
Thirty-three years ago I didn’t know a fraction of what I know now. What will I come to know in the next thirty-three?
Here’s an exercise that I used to teach with my former colleague, Jay Markunas in our career change course. Though we used it as part of our method to help people with their career...
What do you do to put yourself in a Can-Do Mindset? Here are some of the things I usually do: Surround myself with positive people. Ignore the news on the television and radio as...
When I was terminated from my job in 1998, I didn’t know then what I know now. For 11 months I’d been trying to “stick it out” even though I’d known this wasn’t the best company for me...