My Podcast Interview with Mike Vardy of EffTD™
I did a really fun and unique interview today with Mike Vardy of EffTD™. Mike’s satircal sense of style and humor was a real hoot.
The podcast will be up shortly.
January 29, 2008
Everyday Creativity and Personal Growth
If you don’t think of yourself as creative, I think you’re missing a great opportunity to grow as a person – to become who you really are and who you want to be.
January 29, 2008
Can We Get Better at Being Happy?
I don’t know how many articles I read on the subject of happiness last week, but, if I had to venture a guess, I’d say it was 30 or 40. The way I’d sum up the articles is, “The good news about happiness is that it seems to be a skill we can acquire and develop.”
The bad news is that most of us are not as happy as we could be.
January 28, 2008
How to Play Hard: Tips for Workaholics
by David Bohl “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.” This proverb, made famous in the 1980 horror film The Shining, is
January 26, 2008
If You Don’t Assume Responsibility, Who Will?
I have never been able to understand those people who always want to shirk the blame for a situation and claim it is someone else’s fault. Sure, it gets them “out of trouble,” but for myself, if I’m going to have a problem, I would rather that I was the cause of the problem.
That may sound pretty stupid on my part. I’d rather be the one at fault than have someone else be to blame? You’re probably wondering if I also carry around a baseball bat and offer people five dollars to hit me over the head with it.
January 24, 2008
Appearing Successful on the Outside
Many people who appear successful and together on the outside feel dissatisfied and disillusioned on the inside. This is because even though our life and careers are humming along at a breakneck speed, we frequently have no idea what direction we’re traveling in – or for that matter, why we ever agreed to go along for the ride.
January 23, 2008
Are You Living Consciously?
Most of live our whole lives, to some extent, in this half-waking, half-conscious way. More…We know what we’re doing, but we don’t think about it. We don’t stop to consider whether this is the right job for us, whether this friend is dragging us down, whether we need to spend more time on what we really love and enjoy.
January 21, 2008
7 Ingredients of Maturity
What do we mean when we say someone needs to show maturity – and even more so, are we mature in our own lives?
January 19, 2008
You Don’t Have to Yell to be Heard
Have you ever heard someone say, “You’re not hearing me?” They’re not accusing you of not listening. Presumably you are not only listening but responding to what they’re saying. The accusation is that you are not adequately processing and understanding those words and the emotions and situations underlying them.
January 18, 2008
What Can You Learn from Brett Favre About Leading with Humility?
Did you know that you can learn about humility from Brett Favre? Check out my content at Associated Content titled what can you learn from
January 16, 2008
Here Are 20 Success Traits You Can Use Today
Over at Dumb Little Man I’ve created a post about determining success. Check out 20 qualities for a successful life.
January 16, 2008
Create Your Own Paradigm Shifts By Dumping the Negative
How do you change the way you think? It’s easy – stop thinking negatively! Ok, so maybe it isn’t easy as all that, but for many of us we have way too many ways of thinking that always involve something negative. We just know that if we do something outside the box, we are going to fail miserably at it. You see what you are doing don’t you? You are using a negative paradigm to set yourself up for failure before you even attempted to do anything!
January 16, 2008
Too Many Choices and Alternatives
In today’s world, we’re faced with a perplexing amount of life choices, directions, options and alternatives. And the loyalty is simply not there anymore. Because of this relatively new, fend-for-yourself attitude, the only real structure or rules that exist in your life are whatever you lay down for yourself.
January 16, 2008
Conflicting Desires: Knowing That We Have Enough vs. Always Wanting to Better Ourselves
From a very early age most of us are taught that we should always work towards bettering ourselves – through education, through our careers and through our family. For many people, the drive to succeed is part of who they are and there is no doubt about it, that trait can be very beneficial to them throughout their lives. Yet, at some point in our lives many of us seem to wander off the path of leading a successful, fulfilled life and fall into the trap of always wanting to do more, earn more, or get more. We lose track of those life goals we have set for ourselves and instead we get caught up in the mind trap of “the more I have, the better I am!”
January 15, 2008
Build a Legacy You Can Be Proud Of
Do you have a real desire for your “fifteen minutes of fame?” Most people would answer this question yes, without thinking about it. Of course we want fame.
But do you really want fame, or do you want a legacy? They’re not exactly the same thing.
January 11, 2008
Action or Inaction: Which Will You Regret More?
How many times have you heard someone saying, “I sure wish I would have…” or “If only I had taken the chance and…”. Our lives are full of decisions. And a decision we make every day is whether or not to do certain tasks. The question is which will you regret doing more – an action that you took, or an action that you didn’t take? For most us, we end up regretting the actions we didn’t take far more than we regret those that we did.
January 10, 2008
See How Easily You Can Handle Change
You know, we all have change in our lives. Most of us detest change, dread change, feel change is a real problem to deal with. I’m talking here about major changes.
But if you take a look at the major changes in your life over the last five years, up to about six months ago, you’ll probably see that since you’ve moved away from those changes, you can see that they were really beneficial.
Difficult at the time? Sure. No one’s going to argue with you about that. Change can be tough.
But it’s important to keep change in perspective.
January 9, 2008
Now You Can Have Quality, Not Quantity
We’re living our lives the “right way” – upholding our civic duties, serving as the model employee, being the attentive husband or wife, family member, friend. And yet, we’re biting off more than we can chew – and what we end up with is quantity, not quality, in all of our undertakings.
January 9, 2008
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