Becoming Your Best Articles

       In my motivational sessions, I give six steps to living your life on fire.  The hardest step for me is step two – Staying Awake.  Maybe that’s hard for you too.  So I’m going to ask some questions to wake you up.      Do the people in your life bring you joy?  If […]

If you read these articles, you are one of my favorite people and I owe you a nice gift.  This year I will give you time:      1. Say no.  Say yes to fun, to learning, to joy, to anything that makes your life better.  Say no to everything else.  Definitely say no to guilt.  […]

     If there was one thing that could change your life for the better, just one factor that could impact everything, would you work hard to develop it?  Really?      There IS one thing – discipline.  Self-control.  I know, I say it like it’s easy. But I think we have allowed the importance of […]

Many of you know I spent November (yep, the entire month) in Australia and New Zealand. It was the trip of a lifetime, and like all great journeys, it taught me many things. Lesson One—turn pain into gain. I’d been talking about going to Australia forever, but kept putting it off. It was so far, […]

Less than half of all Americans make New Year’s resolutions. Few people (less than 5%) have written goals for their lives. We all seem to agree on the importance of planning and goal setting, but actually doing it for ourselves is a completely different matter. Making New Year’s resolutions is really just an annual goal […]