Leadership development traditionally is aimed at individuals who want to advance their career. But is that aspiration, by itself, enough to make a true leader who can change lives? For example, let’s take someone we all know about who made a difference in the lives of millions, South Africa’s Nelson Mandela. He didn’t just open [...]
I have ADD. And that’s OK with me. I’m glad I have it. I have lived successfully with ADD without drugs. And the reason I don’t take the drugs is because I don’t want to be fit into the mold of normalcy. Because I am someone with the traits or characteristics of what is often [...]
Energy is the foundation of abundance. Positive energy increases it, negative energy decreases it. When we can get free of all the negative, hurtful, limiting, and binding energy inside us, we can become attractors of positive energy. When we are able to smile, we get smiles back. When we are no longer afraid to talk [...]
February 11, 2007 – 10:52 pm
Nobody will ever admit they have a fear of success. The ego won’t let them. But it is the ego that uses subtle tricks to undermine success if it will mean a whole new kind of life. The ego likes the old and familiar. Why? The ego is all about identity. To have a new [...]
February 1, 2007 – 8:27 pm
Boredom and laziness are connected. When I was a teenager, I observed that boredom is due to laziness and that laziness is due to boredom. I realized that a lot of these bored and lazy people stay bored and lazy forever. When I worked at United Airlines I saw how true this was. I was [...]
January 20, 2007 – 6:04 pm
Activating intention is the key to unlocking the life of unlimited abundance. I remember when this first happened to me. I had just turned 21. My energy and inspiration were operating non-stop. This experience of energy was so new and exhilarating that for three months I hardly slept. I would doze off at 2 am [...]
January 14, 2007 – 5:11 pm
Before I share with you about making an identity shift to joy, I want to touch on identity shifts in general. Making an identity shift was a key component in Steve Pavlina’s recent and excellent piece on how to be a millionaire. For instance, instead of carrying $20 in your wallet, you would carry $400 [...]
January 13, 2007 – 3:58 pm
Toxic energy is hard to overcome. If you are trying to create something of beauty, or reach a goal, it is almost impossible to reach it in a toxic environment. Just ask any recovering alcoholic in the AA program. They will share with you of their constant effort to keep their focus on their higher [...]
January 12, 2007 – 3:52 pm
Was it a rewriting of life that made Napoleon exhibit the boldness that was so characteristic of Napoleon? Ultimately, it was the story he chose to tell about himself that defined himself. If he bought into the truth that he was an insignificant little man of five-feet-four, he might have been content to be a [...]
January 11, 2007 – 3:16 pm
Effortless mastery in holistic personal development means to become that principle which you are developing in yourself. It means much more than having an understanding of love–it means to become love. It means to go beyond understanding poise and to actually become poise. It’s one thing to understand the importance of living in the present [...]
December 31, 2006 – 1:51 am
With the beginning of every New Year people are full of resolve to reach dreams and the realization of their personal calling. Most will give up when they do not reach these dreams easily. Thomas Edison said that is why we see so much failure–people giving up. But vision, coupled with resolve and patience, is [...]