The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation ‘The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.’ Mark Twain There have been short periods in my life where I have found myself employed in a job that I didn’t suit and didn’t like. I didn’t stay there for too long, but learnt…
Making Wise Choices: The Key to a Meaningful Life Every single day of our lives we make decisions. And it is those decisions that define us. With the passing of the years one begins to review some of the decisions made in the past. But this is not a place for regret to take a…
How to Live Bright In Spite of, Well, Everything When I was young, I admired many things that one would think out of reach for a poor child. I made wishes. I had dreams, and of course it was weird at that time. Or so I thought. Born of a local church priest who was…
How to take responsibility for your life and Change What Isn’t Working Responsibility is the ability to respond and act accordingly. You must understand that leadership is responsibility. Often times, most folks want to attain a high position in their job or life, but they are not ready to take the responsibility that comes with…
Can You Really Have It All? We live in a world filled with unlimited opportunities, radiant sunshine, breathtaking scenery, and boundless experiences. We also live in a world with crushing poverty, warring nations, corrupt politicians, and rampant drug abuse. There isn’t a day that goes by that somebody somewhere doesn’t fulfill their wildest dreams, nor…
How to “Never work another day in your life!” For seven years I owned and operated a successful web design company. Having no knowledge of how to create a website, but a vision for a profitable business, I stepped out on my first day of business walking from factory to factory, in a local industrial…
How to Get and Stay Motivated You’ve been struggling with this project for a while now and have suffered some challenges and setbacks but this latest difficulty is almost not worth overcoming. You’re at the end of your rope and all you’d really like to do is cope with a cheesy pizza, a drink, and…
Things That Make Getting Out of Bed Easier This post was inspired by David Wright who shared with me that the motivational quote that changed his life was the one that his dad told him, and I’m sure he heard it more than once, and that was ‘Get out of bed!‘ There have been days…
Develop A Winning Mindset: How to Think Like a Champion ‘A blind man with focus can see better than a man with perfect sight, but yet has no vision.’ A scientist marveled at how a seemingly harmless magnifying glass could create such intense heat, when the sun’s rays passed through its glassy surface. He asked…
You grow through what you go through: embracing failure There is the famous quote, “What would you do if you could not fail?” We’ve heard the question so often that we never answer it. So, how would you answer it? According to the dictionary, failure means “not achieving the desired end”. Embracing Failure: The Journey…
Abundance Mindset: Ways to Develop an Abundance Mindset I remember the day, at the age of 18, when my boss asked me to walk down the road to deposit $5000 cash into the bank. I refused. He ended up having to drive me to the bank. Why did I refuse? Because I thought it was…
Top Traits of Successful People Successful people are defined by what they say, what they do, and by who they are. Become Successful and Achieve Your Life Goals So here are three outstanding qualities demonstrated by the lives of those I perceive as being successful people. It doesn’t take long to determine whether someone’s successful…
How To Be Strong Without Being The “Bad Guy” Being strong without coming off as a rude or hurtful can be a difficult tightrope to walk for anyone in a position of authority. It can be equally tough when one is not in a position of authority, but must establish a strong stance to make…
Practicing to be Nobody-But-Yourself ‘To be nobody-but-yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human can fight; and never stop fighting.’ e.e.cummings I resolved many years ago that I would be the me that I had been…
Importance of Defining Success in Your Life We live in a media-driven world where many stereotypes of success are relentlessly thrust at us. At times these stories and these images can confuse us, and we can find ourselves at times pursuing a pattern of success that is not correctly aligned to what we have been…