The Foundation For A Better Life: Influence Top 10 Cheat Sheet

You’ve seen the commercials. You’ve felt the inspiration flowing through your fancy new LED TV, touching your heart and leaving a memorable mark in your life.  Well, the Foundation For A Better Life is a non-profit organization that has been spreading positive values for over a decade.  They spread their “Pass it on” campaign through Continue reading

You Can Do It!

Think of the hardest thing you ever wanted to do.  Does it seem like it is an impossible feat?  Well, then it is.  If it seems like a tangible goal, be it retiring your parents, getting that dream job, starting your own business or traveling the world on peace missions, you will accomplish it. 

What is the secret?  Whatever you can conceive and achieve in your mind, you can achieve in reality.  However, you don’t stand a chance of achieving a positive result if you can’t even accept victory in your mind.   It’s not a secret, to be frank.  It’s just the way we are wired. We cannot change it.  We must accept it and benefit from it.

Rekindle Extreme Passion

Disclaimer: I am NOT endorsing or promoting this product!  I am promoting the freedom!

I am sharing this video with you all because it captures a side of life that few of us get to experience.  I am sure at least one of these extreme activities will resonate with you as “something I always wanted to do.”  Whether its’ sky diving, rock climbing, flying or one of my own wishes, to Continue reading

Why Do People Procrastinate?

Michael Deer explains why we procrastinate

 

I was going to write a book about procrastination, but hadn’t gotten around to it yet.  We have all been burned by the mistress of the night who loves you and hurts you, feeding you grapes, while you rest in the bliss of ignorance as your kingdom burns to the ground.  I am talking about the tantalizing, the tempting force Continue reading

15 Tips Grow A Smarter Business

 

Anyone who has every started a business knows that it can be an extreme ride, from one day to the next.  If you do the right things, you can make your roller coaster ride to the top a little more of an enjoyable experience.  Here are 15 tips from some of the top business leaders, to help you find your pathway to business success:

  1. Surround yourself with Continue reading

26 Sentences Using Every Letter In The Alphabet

 

What do you call a sentence that uses every letter in the alphabet, anyway?  It’s called a pangram.  There are many out there.  No doubt, “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” has become the most widely used pangram, but there are dozens more. Some of them actually sound like pretty decent sentences that are practical for casual conversation.  Others will get you a one-way ticket to the Continue reading

100 People Who Change The World: Guess Where I Found Them?

Just the other day, at the supermarket checkout line I was in, the usual struggle of wills took place, “Mike, just keep your head pointed straight ahead.  Don’t even look at all those
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The 3 C’s You Must Get Rid Off!

We all try to do the best we can.  With all that is in our power, we try to do what we feel is right, not only for ourselves but for others.  Why is it, that our actions don’t always bring about the best possible outcomes?  It’s because, we either think what we are doing is honestly the best you possibly can, and you don’t know any better way or you Continue reading

What Does Success Look Like?

“Success!” This term has a meaning all its own, doesn’t it?  Isn’t it also hard to define?  What does success mean to you?  It could mean everything from raising your kids to be upstanding contributing citizen when they get older, creating the next big internet craze, to just having the finest things in life.  You and I both need to know just what success is, or we won’t be able to Continue reading

4 Things You Must Do Strong

We each have different strengths and weaknesses in our lives, yet there are four things which every human being must absolutely do with strength, if they are going to have an existence worth living.  Even if you are not a muscle head or have exceptional upper body strength, you (and I) have the internal power to Continue reading

Then-n-now

Take a picture today, recreating the conditions of a picture from your past.

Take a picture today, recreating the conditions of a picture from your past.

We all have pictures from our childhood.  This is a cool one.  Take a picture from your childhood and recreate it today using:

  • Setting (same location)
  • Clothing
  • Hairstyle
  • Actions
  • Facial Expressions
  • Lighting

See what you come up with.  You will be glad you tried it.

 

What Is The Wheel Of Life?

I know I know… the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the term, “wheel of life” is Disney’s animated movie, “The Lion King.”  Although it won’t be as exciting as an exotic adventure in the African plains, the wheel of life can help you Continue reading

Passion & Humor vs. Apathy & Dryness as speakers

Few things inspire us the way an articulate, effective speaker does.  If they do their job right, the audience is invited into a dimension of thought, experiencing the atmosphere and culture, built with the structure of words and sentences.  They have you leaving that conference room, theater, hotel, or classroom, feeling like you have escaped the Continue reading

4 Reasons Why New Year’s Resolutions Don’t Work!

It’s a brand new year. We watched the ball drop, we partied like it was 1999, and we even buried some long-standing gripes with people who we didn’t get along with. The next and obvious step in this quest for personal development is to load your plate with a bunch of “New Year’s Resolutions,” right? Wrong! You will be surprised by this but studies suggest that Continue reading

Where Do You Keep Your Cash Cow!

Tomorrow, you go to the mail box.  Among your standard junk mail, there is a special envelope with a silver ticket inside of it.  With the thrill of anticipation, you slide it out and it is an invitation to an auction that is coming into town.  Nothing like it has ever been seen before.  As the news travels around town, mixed comments float through the village.  The auctioneers discovered a Continue reading