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How Do People Benefit From Your Business

Your Business is Not About You Here is something for you to think about:  If the only person that is served by your business is YOU, then you shouldn’t be in business.  If the ONLY question you have is how you can benefit from your own business, then you probably …

Your Message Matters: Keep Talking

They Are Listening to Your Message We live in a world where everybody seems to be reaching for something.  It could be a better life.  Perhaps you have an idea for a business.  It could be that you want to help people.  I am here to tell you that if …

Believe, Receive, Achieve

Believe and It’s a Done Deal I woke up this morning so excited about what is currently taking place in my life.  I woke up excited about what the future holds for me and excited about the lives that will be changed because of what is going on in my …

Is Indecisiveness Your Roadblock?

Clear the Roadblock for Success You grind and grind on a daily basis and you just do not seem to be making any tracks towards the success for which you have been aiming.  Have you stumbled upon a roadblock and cannot figure out what has happened? Is the roadblock called indecisiveness …

Get SMART With Your Goals

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 …

Crippling Fear of Failure

Don’t Let Fear of Failure Stop You Fear of failure may come from a variety of sources.  This fear can even be a learned behavior unknowingly passed down from one person to another.  It can stem from repeated attempts to achieve something and yet not reaching the desired effect. Failure …

Getting Back to Center

Finding Your Way Back to Center Sometimes time slips by us so fast that we don’t realize that we’ve somehow have gotten off center.  Chores and tasks have piled up and we find ourselves caught up in a bevy of disorientation because we’ve fallen behind in completing said tasks.  Before you …

Ever Feel Like You Just Don’t Fit In?

Be Proud to Be Different and Not Fit In Do you ever have that feeling that you just don’t fit in anywhere?  Nothing really weird or strange about you, but you just don’t seem to fit into any particular group or God forbid “a clique.”   Well I’m here to tell you …

Opportunity: Prepare For It

What Do You Do When Opportunity Knocks? It’s a funny thing about opportunity.  It’s just like God, it doesn’t always come when you want it. But no matter when it comes, the real question is will you be ready for it?  Some of us can think a situation to death. But when it comes …

Deciding to Settle Instead of Pursuing

Settle or Pursue Here’s a thought for you:  The minute you stop trying to pursue your goals, is the minute you decide to settle.  Let me say it one more time:  The minute you stop trying to pursue your goals, is the minute you decide to settle.  Okay let that …

Crawl, Walk or Run

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 …

Childlike Curiosity: In the MInds of Babes

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 …

Find Your Gift. Discover Your Purpose.

A Take Away From James Edwards I was watching a clip of James Edwards (The Most Valuable Motivator) being interviewed by Kenny Anderson.  I’ve known James for about a year and I’ve read his story as given to me by James in a manuscript.  But the manuscript was nothing like …

Fear Is An Anticipatory Emotion

Anticipatory Anxiety Fear is an anticipatory emotion that stems from less than desirable results that you believe may occur given a certain set of circumstances. Oftentimes failure or rejection is associated with fear. However inasmuch as you can anticipate failure or rejection, you can also anticipate success and acceptance? DISCLAIMER:  Let …

Your Life As a 100 Piece Puzzle

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 …