Archive for July, 2008

Wake-Up Call: Its Time to Change

July 31st, 2008, Posted in Motivation

Have you had a wake-up call recently, such as an unexpected health crisis, a separation or divorce, or the loss of your job? Perhaps you just feel stuck or restless? Are you yearning for change?
These situations and emotions come with midlife, and this transition can be like falling down Alice’s rabbit hole: frightening, yet at [...]

Gratitude vs. Complaining

July 31st, 2008, Posted in Happiness

“All happy people are grateful. Ungrateful people cannot be happy. We tend to think that being unhappy leads people to complain, but it is truer to say that complaining leads to people becoming unhappy.” - Dennis Prager
Take a moment to think about this statement. Have you ever known a happy person who wasn’t grateful, or [...]

Decisions - The chess board of life

July 30th, 2008, Posted in Motivation

Do it. Do it right. Do it right now.
Life is a game of chess, the player opposite you is Old Father Time. Time is an opponent that stalks its prey with stealth and cunning. You may think that everything is fine and by staying upon the neutral ground of indecision that you are upon safe [...]

Take It Easy and Enjoy Life

July 30th, 2008, Posted in Happiness

Can you still remember back to your childhood days when you didn’t even care about the things that were happening in your life. As long as you had food to eat, thing to use, toys to play with, you were happy. Life was not complicated then. You were not asking for extraordinary things in your [...]

Bite-Size It!

July 29th, 2008, Posted in Motivation

It’s The Secret of Champions.
The average NBA player hits 8.3 points per game.
Michael Jordan’s average score was a mind-blowing 32 points per game.
That’s why Michael Jordan was Michael Jordan.
Jordan was so incredibly consistent he retired in 1999 from the NBA still keeping his 32 point career average. Here’s the remarkable thing: His 32 points happened [...]

My Stroke - Its Causes And My Miracles Part 2

July 29th, 2008, Posted in Motivation

The miracles were very evident to me during this time because I was able to see the neurologist almost immediately, which was amazing. He knew a great cardiologist who also put me right in to his schedule, another miracle. My cardiologist did a number of tests and found that I had a congenital heart defect [...]

Get Motivated, Stay Motivated

July 28th, 2008, Posted in Motivation

Do You Struggle with Self-Motivation? How to get motivated and stay motivated is a challenge everyone struggles with at one time or another.
The difference between consistently self-motivated people and those who frequently feel stuck is to understand that productive action and results depend on preparation - 99% of which is the mindset. In other [...]

Unstuck your Rut!

July 28th, 2008, Posted in Motivation

Recently I took my 12-year old niece Shannon to Karate. When we were about to leave the sky opened and it starting pouring rain. I thought I even saw a cat and a dog come down! I made a dash for the car and thought Shannon was right behind me. Not today. She sauntered along [...]

How To Motivate A Sales Team

July 28th, 2008, Posted in Motivation

Sales have always been one of the major concerns of any type of business. Generally, sales are directly proportional to the success of any business, i.e., if the sales go up the business does well and if the sales arm is week, so is the business. So after hiring people for the job the most [...]