Do your possessions make you?
Does money, power and a good name make you who you are? Over the years I’ve made people my hobby. You are saying what are you taking about? When I say that people are my hobby, it is because I …
Are you an eager learner?
What do you do with what you’ve learned? I ask these two questions because I’ve recently been made aware of a quote by Leonardo da Vinci. He stated; “I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not …
Does your business truly stand out?
What makes it different than your competition? Anita Roddick the founder of The Body Shop made this statement many years ago; “Whatever you do, be different – that was the advice my mother gave me, and I can’t think of …
Does imposing your rules help?
Does it help the other people? Probably not! But we humans like to think we know it all. We also like to control all of the situations in our life. When you consider imposing our rules on others and then …
Are you living life as a fake?
Or are you letting your true self become known to others? I think you would agree that many times in our life our true self has not been the person we would have liked to have been shown to others. …
Where do the best lessons come from?
Isn’t failure the best opportunity to get a valuable lesson from? As Bill Gates has said; “It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.” What is the biggest failure you’ve ever had? …
Do you ignore the rat race?
Have you noticed that your life has a lot of meaningless nonsense in it? Yes, the meaningless nonsense and the rat race are related. Do you have people in your life that are in constant turmoil? They are the rat …
Do you pay yourself first?
Are you investing in yourself and your future? Years ago I was in the financial service industry and there was a slogan about ‘paying yourself first’. In other words make a deposit in your retirement account before you spend the …
What is better to create or to buy?
Wouldn’t it be better to create, that is create your future? I write this blog because we’ve made a decision recently. In our household we have gone to the basic cable T.V. package. We know that by reducing the amount …
How do you handle your time-wasters?
Do you put up with them or are you trying to get rid of them? I want to take you on a visualization exercise right now. Think of a time 30 years from now. I want you to think of …