Why The Stories We Tell Ourselves Matter So Much

2 Kids, 1 Swim Meet, and the Insight of an 11-Year Old Boy That Will Impact Me Forever

Kid Swimming in Pool

One of my daughters is a competitive swimmer, and I was volunteering as a timer at one of her divisional swim meets. While standing in the lane getting more and more wet with every passing heat (i.e. a group of swimmers who are lining to compete for their race), I saw hundreds of kids line […]

How to Develop Thick Skin

Rough Hands Working Clay

One of my observations of our current society is that we have lost the sense of thick skin that I feel we used to have. There is such a heightened sense of political correctness and hypersensitivity, that we have created “safe spaces” and have new labels like “micro-aggression” to insulate us from what someone would […]

If you want balance you have to fight for it yourself. It’s a lonely battle, because no one is going to give it to you, and no one is going to help you. If anything, they’re trying to take it away.

Mark Botros

Overcoming the “Sunday Night Dread”

4 Steps To Start Your Week Even When You're Not Ready

Fearful Girl

Have you ever felt the “Sunday Night Dread”? The “Sunday Night Dread” is a phrase I coined to express the feeling you get every Sunday night before going into work on Monday morning. It’s that feeling of not looking forward to what you’re going to face the next day. You’re not looking forward to facing […]

How to Conquer Procrastination Once and For All

8 Ways to start that thing you’ve been putting off

Man at starting line

All of us are plagued by something that we don’t want to do, and we’ve been putting it off for some time. It may be starting a business, going back to school, pursuing a new certification, taking a compliance training, starting a workout regimen, re-organizing the garage or our personal space, balancing our checkbook, or […]

Meditate for 8 Minutes per Day

If you meditate for 8 Minutes a day, you will become more centered, joyful, and at peace with yourself and the world around you.

My Personal Meditation

5 Things I think about to help me become a better human everyday

Picture of Stacked Stones

One of the most enjoyable aspects of my morning routine is daily meditation. The first documented practice of meditation dates as far back as 1500 BC. So it’s not a new fad, it’s an enduring ancient practice of pursuing inner peace, and its benefits are well-documented. I had a fairly well-established morning routine, and as […]

Whether you think you can or whether you think you can’t, you’re right.

Henry Ford

Why The Words We Use Are So Important

25 Words That Will Transform Your Mood Right Now

The Word LOVE Written in Hands

Have you ever thought about how powerful the words we use are? Our words have great power. They are like “spells” we cast on our world. They shape how we see ourselves, our relationships, how high and how far we go in our career, they determine our success or failure. How do you feel when […]

What the fear of losing our job makes us do and what you can do differently

10 Ways to Save Yourself from Job Catastrophe

Frustrated Baker

In an economic environment where corporations can easily outsource work to other countries for less, where salaries are not increasing but are actually decreasing, where layoffs are a reality even in the most robust economic areas, and all so that companies can meet Wall Street expectations – fear of losing one’s job is not only […]