“Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work.” ~Robert Orben I have exactly one friend who loves their employment. One, just one person out of all the people I know. If you are not loving your job you […]
Five Principles
The following five principles were developed over a period of seven years by Dr. Mikao Usui, a Christian Minister and a Principal of Doshisha University in the 19th century. He created these principles while working in a beggars colony. Dr. Usui is the creative force behind Reiki in which he associates these principles; however, I don’t […]
Be Brave
Several things struck me and came together this morning. The first was this, “Bravery is being the only one who knows you’re afraid,” Franklin P. Jones. This quote is great, but it also made me think about why are we often seen as ‘brave’ when we are sacrificing for the sake of others, and why are we seen […]
Want A Great Story?
“Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth” ~Pema Chödrön Want your life to be great? What is the measuring stick you have used in determining others’ great stories? Most likely the stories of those you admire most include some adversity. Even Cinderella had to work through some stuff. This is not […]
Don’t Quit
I was listening to some motivational stuff on audiobook yesterday. This millionaire guy was talking about how before he made it big he was sleeping on a friends couch. Then I thought about how Tyler Perry was homeless for a while before making it in a huge way. Of course friends and family usually don’t […]
Less Talk More Action
“A little less conversation, a little more action please” song lyrics written by Mac Davis and Billy Strange, sung by Elvis Every single morning when you wake up you have a clean fresh slate. You can do anything you want and change course in any direction you desire. Knowing that why do we not do […]
Keep Trying
Having a bad day???? Maybe that is a good thing… “The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching […]
Watch Your Mouth
Have you ever noticed we are a society of people who speak in the negative? We say things like “wrecker” instead of “tow truck”, “stop light” instead of “go light.” A UCLA survey from a few years ago reported that the average one year old child hears the word, “no”, more than 400 times a […]
Failure
Once again a wonderful post on how failure is not a negative/bad thing. Not trying, not moving forward, etc., now those are much more frightening to me. http://succcess.org/2008/09/certainty-and-failure-concepts-more-than-words/