Have you ever just hit the Stumble button in the StumbleUpon toolbar just to see what will pop up? I do that once in a while, and I frequently find little gems that I would not have found any other way. Like this poem by Craig Harper, a motivational speaker and exercise scientist. As you […]

I love to wake up in the morning and read the latest business news, check the markets, see if oil has breached the $100 a barrel point, and generally see what is going on in the world. I am not a professional economist, just a rank amateur with a healthy interest in how our capitalist […]

When I travel through airports, go to the doctor’s office, or pick up groceries on my way home from work, I see people waiting. Not just sitting or standing peacefully waiting, but stretched like a rubber band waiting. Brows furrowed, eyes forward, a slight scowl of impatience walling them off from the world. I don’t […]

A water main broke on our street yesterday, and that meant an entire day without running water. No flushing toilets, no drinking water, no dishwashing, nothing that required water. It stayed off until about 10:30 last night when we heard the blessed sound of water rushing back into the pipes. We had a similar experience […]

I am re-reading the memoirs of Howard Schultz, CEO of Starbucks. Early on in his story, he shares that he was motivated by fear. He feared ending up like his father, he feared failing, and he feared missing out on life. Obviously, Howard Schultz went on to become a success, and found other motivations in […]

In the northern hemisphere, winter is settling in. Over the past couple of months, daylight has dwindled, and many of us leave for work and return home in darkness. With the reduced sunlight, it is common for many of us to suffer from the winter blues, often referred to as Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). Some […]

For many years this was one of my most difficult personal issues. As I struggled with mental illness, it was easy for me to take comments from other people out of context. I would write a whole story around how the other person was purposely trying to hurt me, or make me look bad. I […]

We tend to look at the next generation as lazy and unfocused, but Patricia Martin has a different take on the situation. She is calling the up and coming young people the Renaissance Generation.
Donald at LifeOptimizer takes a serious look at failure and how to keep it from derailing your success.
Our beliefs about life effect […]

So much of the personal development that we engage in as adults is about fixing bad habits we have developed over a lifetime of experience. I look back at my life and wonder how different I would be today if someone had taken the time to teach me the lessons I am learning now, at […]

Many of us carry around the pain of years of self-defeating thought patterns. We have created a wound that never has a chance to heal because we come back and inflict the same damage over and over again. I have struggled with this for years, and it has probably been the single biggest road block […]