Motivation

Whether things are going well or going badly, sometimes we all end up in some kind of a rut. It’s easy to get into because it’s a lazy way of going about your days; it feels comfortable. If things are going well, who wants to mess with a good situation? When things are going badly, […]

The end of 2011 is pretty much here and it’s time for my annual look back and look forward. I’m changing some things up this year. I’m not going to go through my 2011 goals because I didn’t come close to hitting any of them. Frankly, they were pretty audacious, and in retrospect I realize […]

Brian Tracy tells the story of a company that needed a repair person to come in and help them diagnose a problem they were having with some of their equipment. The man came in, spent a day going over everything, then the next day came in and put a big “X” on a gauge. He […]

Everyone has a period in their lives when things aren’t going quite right. I had that period from May through early September when I had three major things going on in my life, two of them financial, one of them personal. I’m not a religious person, so I don’t have religion to fall back on. […]

“When you know better you do better.” ― Maya Angelou I was watching the program Oprah’s Life Stories last night, but not the live show she had on. Instead I watched an episode I had taped where she had brought back some former white supremacists that had been on her show in 1989 and had […]