Creative Success Depends on Long View
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In this podcast, we feature author Taylor Marsh, who [read more]
Podcast: A Blind Man’s Guide To Success
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Born into a family of carnival owners in Texas, Maxwell Ivey lost his sight at age 12. Having a natural gusto for life, Max graduated college and became heavily involved in the Eagle Scouts. He also worked in the family business [...]
Three of Me
2015 March, I was hanging out with my friend. I had purchased Blue Bell Butter Crunch and we went to her apartment.
It had been a minute since I had seen her so, she stopped by and scooped me up. As we sat at the table catching up on things [...]
The Point Of True Beginning: Your Perfection
Back in the 1880s while living as a sawyer in Yosemite National Park, America’s first ecologist, John Muir, lived face to face with nature.
He climbed into the High Sierras throughout his life. He summited mountains, fished in clear streams [...]
Podcast: Overcoming Obstacles For Change
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Certified Life Coach, Glenda Thomas, is the owner of Integrated Life Coaching. is co-authoring a book with Jim Britt and Jim Lutes entitled The CHANGE.
Overcoming Obstacles For Change
What is the book The Change to about?
Why [...]
A Single Thread In The Tapestry Of Life: Tuscany, Italy
The mystique of bicycle travel fascinates most people.
Why would anyone “endure” the pains of providing their own locomotion via pedaling rather than the comfort and speed of a car, boat, plane or train? The answer lies in the antiquity [...]
Illusion of Being Right: High Level Fear Wearing A Mask
We humans make judgments on just about everything that comes into our eyesight.
We judge ourselves when we look into the mirror in the morning. We judge our friends by the cars they drive. We judge strangers by the clothes they wear. We judge [...]
Harriet Anderson: 78 Year Old Ironman Champion
In 2013, Harriet Anderson raced the Ironman Triathlon in Kona, Hawaii.
No big deal if you’re 25, full of muscle, pep and vinegar! You can power through the 2.4-mile swim in ocean water. You can jump on your 27-speed carbon bicycle to ram [...]
A Simple Thank You Will Do
Just because you’re an adult, mature and wise, it doesn’t mean you should take this wonderful life for granted.
When something great happens to you, how do you show your appreciation? Do you just ignore it or do you make an effort to be [...]
Podcast: Animals Are Our Best Teachers
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Kelly Meister Yetter is the author of Crazy Critter Lady and No Better Medicine. Both books detail her experiences rescuing abused and unwanted animals. Both books also chronicle how caring for animals has helped her heal from [...]
Podcast: Going Gypsy! From Empty Nest To No Nest At All
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David and Veronica James are authors of Going Gypsy: One Couple’s Adventure from Empty Nest to No Nest at All, a warm, funny memoir about their decision to sell the nest, hit the highway and look at this phase of life [...]
The Ultimate Buzz
As many people were celebrating the New Year with sparkling champagne or some other way to get “a buzz on,” I was having a personal “buzz machine” implanted in my spine.
No, I have not gotten into some New Age technological [...]
Podcast: This Is What Happens When A Comic Goes On 500 Dates
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Mark Miller was a self proclaimed, veritable, virginal social and dating outcast that became a nationally syndicated dating columnist for the LA Times Syndicate, Huffington Post and countless other media, as well as a writer producer [...]
Confidence V Arrogance: Defining Words We Use All the Time
At the recent State of the Union President Obama drew loud applause from Republicans when he began a section of his remarks, “I have no more campaigns to run.”
Departing from his prepared speech, Obama responded to the surprise applause [...]
What Goes in Our 2015 Time Capsule?
What were Paul Revere and Sam Adams thinking 220 years ago when they packed a time capsule that would sit beneath the new Massachusetts State House?
What clues about their state of mind should we take away from the newspapers, coins and other [...]
A Little Empathy For The Holidays
Our workplaces, public places and even entertainment places are almost under constant siege from frustration, anxiety and the resulting violence against each other.
Whether such violence results in micro inequities, little slick comments which [...]
Societal Exhaustion In Our High Speed World: Slow It Down
You live in a high speed, high stress society.
Everything ramps you up to meet deadlines, reach class on time and excel at work. You face texting, emails and Smart Phone recordings. If you’re a parent, you must take the kids to soccer practice, [...]
Is The Philosophy Of Sales The Same Wherever You Go?
The dilapidated sidewalks of the old city of Puerto Vallarta talked to me every day.
Every day I would walk the two miles along the beachfront Malacan, the home of time share and tequila vendors alike. Truly those sidewalks came alive with the [...]
You Against Yourself: Which Wolf Wins?
At one point in history, President Thomas Jefferson faced a national crisis.
He said, “We have a wolf by the ears; he’s too dangerous to keep and he’s even more dangerous if we let him go.”
Jefferson also spoke about his own battles [...]
Pedaling For Peace
Lori Bell pedals a bicycle around the United States in order to create a much-needed discussion on America’s continual participation in wars: she pedals for peace.
Bell, 49, single, and having taken a non-traditional path in her life and work [...]
Do You Spend Time Looking For “Your Thang?”
It’s pretty funny, annoying and brilliant, how often things turn out to be nothing like we thought they would be.
So much time is spent wondering what our “thing” is. I thought long and hard about how would I ever know which [...]
The Gospel of LeBron
Ok let’s get something straight. I do not personally know LeBron James, but I live in Northeastern Ohio and have had the pleasure of watching one of the greatest basketball players on the planet.
I followed his stellar high school career [...]
Podcast: Mindful Strategies For Teachers
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Educational Leader, Lee Guerette, is the author of Cognitive Yoga: Mindful Strategies for Teachers, who has 25 years of teaching experience and coaches educators in how to create an empowered learning environment for their students.
Mindful [...]
Is Being Happy And Being Grateful The Same Thing?
Often times the words “happy” and “grateful” are used interchangeably.
If you’re happy, you must be grateful too and vice-versa. There’s no question that both words describe a person who is content in that moment of happiness or [...]
Extricating Yourself From The Dark Night Of The Soul
In today’s world, you face enormous challenges of time, work, family and friends.
You face many toils along with trials that rise up in front of you like a blazing attack of dragons.
While you endured cliques, politics and different kinds [...]
What If We All Came with Our Own BEWARE Sign?
The sign outside the pasture read: CAUTION. I BITE!!! DO NOT TOUCH!
While the horse looked friendly enough, I believed the sign. As I looked at the sign, then the horse, then the sign, a thought struck me. Sometimes a co-worker does not look [...]
A Bursting Heart: Dynamic Infusion Of Intentions
By: Frosty Wooldridge
June 26, 2014 | Comments Off on A Bursting Heart: Dynamic Infusion Of Intentions
Most teens exit high school without a clue as to what path they might follow on their life journey.
Most grab a job. Many get married with over half divorcing within ten years. Others rocket into college with their parents’ wallets by their [...]
There Is More Than Enough
I have a confession to make. I have been pulled into the diabolical mindset of “there’s not enough” in my life.
If you watched my daily activities when I was in my twenties and early thirties, you would see, “there’s not enough time,” [...]
Just Do It — Advice Not From Nike, But From A Musician
I’m a career mentor. I offer career advice to my subscribers.
I send daily success quotes to them. Annie has finally convinced me that I should do some blog posts in which I explain the quotes and what they mean to me.
The quote for May 2, [...]
Three Profound Secrets To A Happy Life
Thomas Jefferson said,
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
Through [...]
Oracle Of The Soul: Discovering Gems Of Understanding
As you grew up, you experienced different lessons along your life-path.
You discovered a hot stove hurt when you touched it. A candle flame caused pain when you passed your finger over it. A rosebush thorn made your finger bleed. A bee sting [...]
Want To Live Your Life With GUSTO?
Do you make a choice, each day, to seize the moment, every single moment?
There is an enormous difference between just existing and being fully, joyfully consciously alive. To live with passion is to really accept and embrace the precious [...]
Censorship: Never Worked, Never Will
A recent study by Pew’s Global Attitudes Project confirms what we might have surmised even without a survey – that emerging and developing nations want freedom on the Internet, and that young folks are especially opposed to censorship.
Pew [...]
The Life Long Gift Of Mentorship
I filmed a PSA this morning with my “Little Sister”, Eve.
Eve was matched with me through Big Brothers Big Sisters of Ventura County. She’s 11 years old, and brilliant, beautiful, funny, creative, and light years ahead of the game, and [...]
Against All Odds
My father had just been operated on to remove a cancerous tumor in his hip so he was still in the hospital recovering.
He knew he had to gain weight to stay strong. When I was visiting him one of many days there, I accompanied him as he made [...]
Life Steers, You Stir
I’ve been busy the past few months, which is a good thing. However what I’ve been doing is not my art.
I needed a decided effort to make any art at all. Creating has become a chore, but I don’t stare at a blank page or canvas. I look at [...]
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