Posts Tagged ‘Possible’

Steve Siebold tells us in his book, 177 Mental Toughness Secrets of the World Class, that we achieve happiness from “being and becoming” not “acquiring and possessing”.  Frederick Koenig, a German inventor, wrote, “We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.”

The average person is on a hunt for happiness.  That’s just not how it works!  The average person tries to create happiness from the outside in.  This type of happiness is short lived…a good meal, a new item of clothing or engaging in a pleasurable activity. Read the rest of this entry »

Your rewards in life are determined by your contributions and service to others. Some people are paid minimum wage and others earn millions. There are no limits on how much you can earn. Limits are determined by your thoughts and beliefs.

As a child, wanting to be liked by others was a very powerful motivator. In school kids begin doing what they see everyone else doing. Acceptance is their focus. They want to dress like everyone else. They laugh when others laugh at a joke, story or subject matter…even though Read the rest of this entry »

The grass isn’t necessarily greener on the other side of the fence…it may merely be your perspective. Before you run off to try something new, take a hard look. Make sure your pasture isn’t just as green…or even greener! Or, perhaps your neighbor’s pasture is just getting better care?

Russell Conwell, the founder of Temple University, is best known for telling the story, Acres of Diamonds. According to the true story, an African farmer sold his farm to go prospecting for diamonds. He wandered the continent his entire life and eventually, broke and miserable, he threw himself into a river and drowned. Meanwhile, the property he sold turned out to be the most productive diamond mine on the African continent. Read the rest of this entry »

Today, I want to ask you two very serious questions:

1. What is it that motivates you to change?

2. If you don’t like the results you are getting, what will motivate you to change the actions you are taking?

If you ask a smoker to quit his 10 year long habit and not smoke anymore for the rest of his life, you probably will get much resistance. Until the smoker experiences something drastic in their own life, he probably won’t be willing to quit. It would take something like seeing a friend pass away from lung cancer. Or maybe the smoker doesn’t want to see their own children Read the rest of this entry »

Every once in a while I come across a story that really makes me feel great….here’s one of them. Ricardo Gonzales, Executive Director of Bilingual America, has started the Claro Initiative…a program that provides critical social need providers with high-quality Spanish training materials at no charge. By equipping medical staff, ministers, teachers, law enforcement officials and others with Spanish he aims to create an environment in our country for greater depths of influence in the Latino community. Read the rest of this entry »