What Separates the Haves From the Have Nots? As I was sitting here this morning I began thinking about what it is that separates the haves from the have-nots. I don’t necessarily mean the rich and famous and I definitely don’t mean those that have been handed their defined success …
SMART Goals: Closest Thing to Guaranteed Success It’s been said that there are no guarantees in life and I’m willing to go along with that. But I believe that SMART goals, are the closest you’ll get to guaranteed success. So what are SMART Goals? Let’s take it one step …
Getting to Where You’re Going We’ve all heard the saying “you’ve got to crawl before you walk.” At some point, you have to decide to get up off of your knees and take that major first step. It’s okay to think, dream and make plans to accomplish a goal or …
Vision Boards Help You See Your Future If you’ve never heard of a vision board, in short, it’s a board that contains pictures of things that you would like to have or accomplish in the future. You could have a vision board in the form of list, but it would …
I Wanna Do, Be, Go and See Why is it that when some of us grow up, we lose our sense of curiosity and adventure? As kids, not only did we wanna do, be, go and see, we believed that there was nothing stopping us (besides Mom and Dad) from …
The Puzzle: Putting It All Together You’ve spent your entire life putting together the pieces of your life’s puzzle. Ninety-nine of the 100 pieces are all in place and then you discover that the final piece is missing. You spend months and perhaps even years searching for that missing piece …
Once You Get It, It Never Goes Away I once heard my friend Carole Sharp say “I can’t kill it and it won’t die.” As I recall, she wasn’t referring to entrepreneurs, but I remember that the moment she said it, I immediately related it to my entrepreneurial spirit. Over …
Do What You Wanna Do The Dramatics sing a song titled “Do What You Wanna Do” and it goes on to say “be what you are. There ain’t no right or wrong way….” That is “so” the path and attitude that we may want to adopt in our own lives. …
Martin Luther King Epitomized Dreaming No other writings about dreams resonate more than Dr. King’s “I Have a Dream” speech. He dreamed back in a day where our dreams hardly seemed possible and yet many of us are living our dream today. Dr. King dreamed that every human being would …
Personal Mission Statement When we think of mission statements, we often think that only businesses have them, but not so. We all have a mission in life don’t you think? Since in large part, we thought mission statements were only for businesses, many may not have considered their own mission …
Daydreaming and I’m Thinking of… Daydreaming and I’m thinking of you. Daydreaming and I’m thinking of you. Look at my love. Floating a way. Sound familiar? If you quessed it was one of Aretha Franklin’s hottest tunes, you guessed right. I woke up in the middle of the night with …