02/21/2023Abundant Living, Awareness, Beliefs, Career, Contentment, Contribution, Direction, Encouragement, Influence, Joy, Living What Do You Want to Do, Now, with Your Life? On a summer afternoon many years ago, my wife and I were picking tomatoes in our garden. She noticed that I appeared […]
01/25/202301/25/2023Awareness, Beliefs, Career, Greatness, Happiness, Living, Success When the Teacher Is Ready, the Student (Teacher) Will Appear One of the things about life that continually amuses me is irony… People who have attended my workshops and speeches and engaged […]
11/30/202211/30/2022Compensation, Compliments, Contribution, Creativity, Happiness, Inspiration, Interests, Joy, Legacy, Living, Passion, Success The Joy of Creative Expression! One of the principles I often talk about in my coaching work, workshops, and speeches is “multiplying your joy.” I discovered early […]
10/17/202210/17/2022Awareness, Beliefs, Blessings, Career, Contentment, Customer, Depression, Gratitude, Happiness, Joy, Living, Questions, Reframing, Success What Could Be Good About This Situation? A tool I often use in my work as a life coach and business consultant—and in my personal life as well—is “reframing.” […]
09/08/202209/08/2022Abundant Living, Accomplishments, Astronomy, Balanced Living, Compensation, Contentment, Dreams, Giving, Gratitude, Happiness, Joy, Life Balance, Living, Passion, Personal Treasures The Joy of Sharing Our Talents with Others 9-2-22, “I am eating breakfast on the patio, reading a good book, and enjoying the sunrise—another glorious day begins for me on […]
08/28/202208/28/2022Accomplishments, Awareness, Beliefs, Blessings, Career, Caring, Compensation, Compliments, Contribution, Giving, Gratitude, Greatness, Happiness, Heroes, Inspiration, Joy, Kindness, service, Success, Work Your talents are not for you alone–they belong to the world. I was loading my paintings into our truck to travel to my first art festival. My wife noticed that I had left […]
07/10/2022Abundant Living, Accomplishment, Awareness, Balanced Living, Beliefs, Career, Contentment, Contribution, Decisions, Direction, Epiphany, Goals, Greatness, Happiness, Integrity, Interests, Joy, Legacy, Life Balance, Living, Passion, Self, Success, Truth, Uniqueness Be yourself–your best self. You can be no more. We have all been conditioned to believe many things that simply are not true. One of the most damaging myths we have […]
06/19/2022Abundant Living, Awareness, Beliefs, Contentment, Decisions, Depression, Gratitude, Happiness, Joy, Living, Reframing Formula for Happiness When I was growing up, I often suffered from “I’ll be happy when_____” syndrome. I can vividly recall some of my most […]
05/15/2022Abundant Living, Accomplishments, Awareness, Balanced Living, Beliefs, Career, Contentment, Contribution, Decisions, Depression, Direction, Goals, Happiness, Joy, Life Balance, Living, Self, Success, Uniqueness, Work If You Try to Be All Things to All People… One of my life coaching clients this week, we’ll call him Jim, told me that he had been promoted. I congratulated him. […]
05/01/202205/01/2022Accomplishments, Awareness, Beliefs, Career, Coaching, Direction, Encouragement, Great Teachers, Happiness, Influence, Inspiration, Interests, Joy, Learning, Living, service, Students, Success, Support, Teaching, Training, Tribute Every Person Is Born with Special Talents and Abilities I experienced two, life-changing events during my senior year in high school. During my first two years, I mainly took classes that […]