Creative Success Depends on Long View
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When Your Grey Thinking Blocks Blue Skies!
Our thoughts are powerful beams of creation.
They direct our feelings, affect our mood, and attract things we desire or fear.
However, many of us unknowingly focus our attention on thoughts that actually block us from seeing and experiencing [...]
Billions On Bicycles
Millions of people around the globe ride bicycles, but I have never been so affected by bicycle riders than when I rode through the streets of Beijing, China.
That country houses 1.35 billion people. Their main transportation? The bicycle.
With [...]
Letting Go & Forgiving The One Who Hurt You
Your heart is broken and you just cannot understand how someone you love can do such a thing!
Whether they cheated on you, lied, or left you— the feelings you are having are incredibly painful. You have thoughts of hatred and perhaps even [...]
Listen Up Moms: Trust Your Judgment
Research in education and psychology.
Over the last thirty years, research in education and psychology that is focused on struggling children produces one consistent truth—early identification and intervention trumps waiting and acting later. [...]
The Midlife Sage Says: You Don’t Need to Shop ’til You Drop
Using free time.
While on a business trip, most women use their free time to exercise in the hotel gym, find the nearest wine bar, or pretend they are comfortable browsing in Saks Fifth Avenue. I usually combine all three by briskly walking [...]
Don’t Buy Into The Victim Thing
Sometimes it’s all too easy to frame your storyline as one in which things are happening to you by chance or through no effort of your own, unfairly, unjustly, and that you are a victim of circumstances, with the worst luck.
To see your life [...]
A Message For Anti- Bullying Month – A Glimpse At Steven Spielberg
So, do you have a child being bullied? Perhaps you are facing adult bullying?
Those facing abuse and aggression can prevail. Those facing bullying can use those unfortunate experiences to create new messages.
The inspiration for this blog is [...]
Mothers Against Text Messaging
Okay, you’ve heard about MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving) but have you heard of MATM (Mothers Against Text Messaging)?
Okay, it doesn’t exist yet, but the driving laws are totally against driving and texting, but how many people [...]
Podcast: Pain is a Gift – Tell Your Story
Eileen Doyon just released her 7th book, Starting Over, Stories of New Beginnings. In her book series Unforgettable Faces and Stories, she has people contribute and share their own story about a particular topic. People share their deepest [...]
Go Ahead, Be Amazing On Talk Radio
Go ahead, share your message with the world.
Yes, but how to you get ‘out there’ with the world listening in?
That’s what talk radio shows are all about. They have tens of thousands of listeners (some lots more) just hanging on to your [...]
Designing Your Family Using Astrology!
Did you know that you can try to conceive at a propitious time that potentially will bring a child into your life who will most likely be compatible with you and your partner’s sign?
Did you know that you can in this way, God willing, design [...]
We Turned Up A Dirt Road Today: Hawk And A Mouse
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” Robert Frost
Doug, a seven continent world cyclist with 130 countries under his wheels, and I met on a trip through New Zealand. [...]
Two Degrees Of Effort Over Time Equates To Exponential Results
Energetic people, dedicated people and individuals with passionate missions utilize the “Two Degrees of Effort Over Time” model in order to bring success into their lives.
Introverted, quiet and even timid people engage the same model in [...]
A Life Well Lived Is A Life Lived By Heart
No two artists have ever painted the exact same painting.
The personal expression, vision, interpretation, and creations are as individual of a masterpiece as the painter, and is born but once, with a message and expressed perspective all it’s [...]
Intuitive Shopping
When you go through a store looking for your item but passing many enticing things that call out to you, and when you then stop, pick up that item, examine it for a few seconds, and put it into your shopping cart, that is called impulse shopping.
Stores [...]
I’m Happy Being Ugly
“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine
flows into trees. The winds will blow their own
freshness into you, and the storms their energy,
while cares drop off like autumn leaves.”
John [...]
High Speed Chase: Wile E. Coyote & The Rabbit
On Route 72, near Parker, Arizona, I headed east into the twilight.
A blistering day scorched my body into a dishrag that had cleaned out a pot of greasy spaghetti and hung over the top tube to dry. My chances of finding a stream for a bath [...]
Podcast: Determination
Keith Buff is an 18 year AVM survivor. Similar to a brain aneurism, it impacts all motor skills and doctors thought he would never walk, eat or talk clearly again. Keith, now a motivational speaker, tells the story of his journey to recovery [...]
Want To Get In The Conversation Fast? Build Your Own On Ramp
We kind of take the entrance ramp for granted.
We are so used to getting on the ramp that we fail to see its value.
Think about the purpose of the on ramp. Its purpose is to facilitate a car going from street to expressway as quickly as possible. [...]
True Story: House Guest Accidentally Reveals Secret Of Success
Do you know why your clients love you?
What makes you different from your competitors?
You should, or you just might change what is making you successful.
Here’s how it happened.
I came up with a bright new idea for my home office. But first, [...]
Bullying And Brain Damage
Did you know that being stressed out could cause brain damage?
These are the findings from Dr. Klaus Miczek, a Tufts University psychologist. He found a way to replicate bullying for rodents. By placing a larger and aggressive rat in a cage [...]
Ever Think Of Your Friends As “LIFE-SAVERS?”
In our busy, frantic world of today, a girl’s night out is now considered following doctor’s orders.
Maintaining close ties to your friends can be as important for your health as working out, eating the right diet and balancing career [...]
Worm’s Eye View Versus An Eagle’s Eye View
Worm’s Eye-View
During my high school years, quite a few of my classmates hung out in the parking lot—smoking, drinking and wasting time doing nothing. They didn’t complete their homework assignments. Many dropped out to work as tire [...]
Australia: Dancing With Dolphins In The Water
“Let’s cage ourselves and let the animals run free.
Let’s find new stars and new songs to follow.
Let’s build some foundations under our dreams.
For if we have the prowess to destroy the earth,
then we can surely save [...]
Unconditional Love: The Soul VS. The Personality
Some confusion nowadays is the result of the mixed messages between loving everyone as a function of becoming spiritual versus feeling emotionally angry with a person’s actions or beliefs.
Our world seems full of people in the news – [...]
Cycling Nepal: Face To Face With A Cobra
“The sublime and the ridiculous are so often nearly related, that it is difficult to class them separately. One step above the sublime makes the ridiculous, and one step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again.” Thomas Paine
Mount [...]
Leap For Death Or Leap For Life
Heading east on Route 92 out of Provo, Utah, Sandi and I cranked hard through the afternoon.
Above us, craggy 10,000 foot peaks poked into a cloudy sky. We sweated our way through deep canyons. We stopped for a rest area at a turnout.
“Sure [...]
Dialing Down The Distress: The 1-Minute Breathing Box Meditation
Everyone can use a simple method for going within, getting in touch with your deepest self and finding a bit of serenity when life gets too intense or seems crazy.
One of the best methods I’ve found is a simple breathing technique that provides [...]
Will You Live Or Die On An Adventure?
Mark Twain said, “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
On my first trip to Alaska as a young adventure-seeker at 24, I woke up in my tent on the Russian River of the Kenai [...]
Your Edge Equates to Maximizing Yourself
No matter what you learned in your youth, good or bad, you can change that orientation by understanding what happened to you.
With understanding, you can rewrite the hard drive in your mind. You can decide to take action. You can move toward [...]
Bullying From the Bully & Victim Perspective
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Author Roy Dimond’s exciting new novel, I, Bully addresses the serious issue of cyber bullying. What makes this story unique is that it is told from the perspective of both the bully and the victim. Roy worked at all levels of [...]
Keeping Or Redoing Your 2017 Resolutions and Succeeding!
It’s that time of the year, the fresh start, you know the one that you have been waiting for to get it right “this time”!
Drum roll please…Time for the latest episode of: ‘These are your New Year’s Resolutions [...]
A Karmic Tie: The Story Of Carrie & Debbie
Recently, I watched an HBO tribute documentary on the lives of Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds, called “Bright Lights”, published on January 3rd
Carrie Fisher died on December 27th, Debbie Reynolds passed a day later, on December 28th.
Carrie [...]
What Does It Mean To Be An Adult?
Most people think they know exactly what it means to be an adult:
Pay all your bills on time, do your own laundry, and don’t get fired from your job. Or if you’re a little more rebellious, it may be something like: hire someone to [...]
Princess Leia Asks: Do You Have Grit?
Whether or not you were a Star Wars fan, there is no doubting the effect and influence of the Star Wars movies and the franchise.
After Carrie Fisher died, I was reminded of women’s status in our real world and the world of Darth Vader in [...]
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