Life Lessons Articles

       In my motivational sessions, I give six steps to living your life on fire.  The hardest step for me is step two – Staying Awake.  Maybe that’s hard for you too.  So I’m going to ask some questions to wake you up.      Do the people in your life bring you joy?  If […]

     I know you’re thinking – “What a lame clique!”  Not jaded much, are we?  Every cloud really does have a silver lining IF you choose to look at it that way.  Bad things are going to happen.  Let’s take the worst possible – the death of a loved one. How could THAT have […]

     If there was one thing that could change your life for the better, just one factor that could impact everything, would you work hard to develop it?  Really?      There IS one thing – discipline.  Self-control.  I know, I say it like it’s easy. But I think we have allowed the importance of […]

Many of you know I spent November (yep, the entire month) in Australia and New Zealand. It was the trip of a lifetime, and like all great journeys, it taught me many things. Lesson One—turn pain into gain. I’d been talking about going to Australia forever, but kept putting it off. It was so far, […]

You read everywhere that the world has changed; things will never be as good as they were; we have to get used to the new reality. Get faster, do more with less, implement more technology—run, Forrest, run! I’m not so sure about that. I think the basic principles for success are the same as they […]