Posts Tagged ‘Potential’

Will you have any regrets when you arrive at the end of your life?  Bronnie Ware worked for many years with patients who had gone home to live their final days.  She shared the last three to twelve weeks of life with many individuals.

Bronnie pointed out in her blog that people grow a lot when they are faced with their own mortality. There were phenomenal changes. Each experienced a roller coaster of emotions but every patient found peace before they departed. She questioned them all about any regrets they had or anything they would do differently. Here are the most common five answers: Read the rest of this entry »

What would you say to your 16 year old self if you could lovingly look back on the way you were and offer yourself some advice?  That’s exactly what dozens of people (most of them recognizable to everyone) decided to do in the book Dear Me:  A Letter to My Sixteen-Year-Old Self.  The advice was pretty amazing…

“You will literally wake up one day and realize you don’t have to impress anyone to have them like you.  Don’t try so hard, and things will get easier.” ~Seth Green Read the rest of this entry »

The inability to comprehend what is being said, rather than simply opening our ears, is becoming a prominent problem in our society. According to eHarmony, an online dating service, the number two cause of breakups and divorce in the United States is lack of communication. Intimate relationships with our fellow human beings are destroyed because we do not know how to listen to one another! In addition, effective communication skills are valued in employees. The number one reason people are fired is not their inability to learn, but their inability to communicate.

Our ability to selectively hear not only keep us consciously unaware, but also hurts our relationships to the point of decay. Listening can help us in our relationships, our Read the rest of this entry »

Are you on the right path? Should you quit or stick it out? Are you frustrated thinking you’re working and working and, yet, not accomplishing anything? Should you keep going…persevere? Or, would it be better to give up. Maybe the universe is giving you a sign that you’re going in the wrong direction.

Well, those are questions that have come to my mind recently…and, frequently as I pursue my entrepreneurial path and financial goals. I get up each morning with a well-defined “to do” list. I accomplish each of those tasks and cross them off one by one. I get up 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 »