Creative Success Depends on Long View
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Four Things to Consider When Taking a Risk in This New Year
You may have already begun taking the steps to see your New Year’s resolutions come to fruition.
Perhaps you finally got around to joining that gym, or maybe you were able to confront a friend about something on your mind that’s [...]
What Sports Taught Me about My Business Plan and Yearly Goals
You’ve probably read plenty of headlines hawking that you need to plan your year wisely with success in mind.
You’re told to make new resolutions that fix challenges, and you’ve heard the pumped up messages intended to inspire change [...]
Be Free In The Problem
Problems! Everybody experiences them.
You might call “life challenges” your classroom for living. If you notice—every movie, play, sitcom, drama, thriller and adventure story features problems for the protagonist to face and overcome. [...]
Loneliness Is Merely an Attitude You Can Abolish Today!
Nobody — whether single, in a long-term committed relationship or anything in between — is completely immune from that often-painful feeling of loneliness.
That is, however, until you can see it for what it is: an attitude that’s [...]
Wishing Everyone a Civil 2016
The New Year always brings the opportunity to reflect on the past and potential improvement for the following year.
New Year’s resolutions typically include losing weight, quitting smoking, joining a gym, or even saving money. One thing to [...]
Your Destiny Sings In Your Ears At the Darnedest Times
Each time I stand up in front of an audience, I invite every person in the room to accept himself or herself unconditionally.
“You are a one time miracle of the universe,” I boldly state. “Accept your height, weight, build, looks, hair, [...]
Divorced or Separated With Kids? Here Are 3 Tips for Helping Them Through This Holiday Season
The holiday season seems to come upon us earlier and earlier each year.
Even before Thanksgiving, I started to notice all of the signs — colorful lights strung in front of houses, a glimpse of lit trees through windows and cheerful holiday [...]
Dementia’s Terrible Legacy For Her Kids
At 93, my mother Vivien lives daily on the edge of the “long sleep” awaiting her after a dynamic life of work, dancing, sports, travel, golf, gardening and raising her children.
While her body continues its earthly journey, her mind leaves [...]
Do You Find a Way to Win or a Way to Lose? There May Be an Inner Browns Fan in All of Us
It’s not easy being a Browns Fan. We have endured a change of coach every 2 and a fraction years.
The Browns have had 13 starting quarterbacks since 1999, 22 quarterbacks that have played in parts of games, and 3 different owners in 16 years. [...]
Podcast: Changing Your Life Despite Your Circumstances
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Zelda Hayes is also known as LadyZee, author of Jezebels Last Dance: It’s Every Woman’s Story, which sets the stage of how trauma from childhood to adulthood play a huge part in the choices we make in love and life itself.
Changing [...]
Podcast: How To Choose Happiness
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Happiness Engineer and Gratitude Consultant Pas Simpson, specializes in helping people move out of their own way to follow their passion, define what success feels like to them, while building a lifetime of happiness. Pas is [...]
The Voluptuousness Of Living
“Everything is downhill from here, ‘cept what’s up…it’s all in your attitude.” Katie Lee, 95, Jerome, Arizona, singer, environmental activist.
Long ago, before modern communications, before electric lights, before mobility—people [...]
Pulling On A Life-Coat That Fits Your Aspirations
Too often, countless Americans stumble out of high school into ill-suited jobs, incompatible relationships and no plans for the future.
They hang with discordant jobs in order to write checks for food, rent and car payments. Without using an [...]
LeBron Knows: Do You Know What You Need to be Successful?
In Game 5 of this season, LeBron tore the sleeves off of his jersey while on the court at Madison Square Garden.
He knew what he needed to do to be successful. Kevin Love rolled up the sleeve of the jersey on his shooting arm. Perhaps the sleeves [...]
Living In The Conversation of Your Life
Six days a week, I wake up early, pull on my jeans and head to the recreation center where I commit my body to a two hour workout.
I swim a half-mile, lift weights, run, bicycle and meditate along with stretching in the hot tub. Why? I engage [...]
Podcast: The Talk You Should Have With Your Daughter
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Inspirational Speaker and Mentor Norma Joyce Dougherty is the author of the new book Island Girl: A Triumph of the Spirit, a memoir detailing her journey of self acceptance. Norma Joyce is passionate about helping young girls, [...]
You Are Valuable During Each Life Session
You are a blank slate as of this breath, neutral.
Whether you were very kind to many or you forgot to be, or became scared to be, you are loved. You are valuable. Whether you succeeded at your most yearned for endeavors, or fell short, or were [...]
How 21st Century Are You? Or Are You Stuck in the 80’s?
I loved my Daytimer. Perhaps you loved your Franklin planner.
I was more efficient with my beloved Day-timer than I am with my Smart phone, smart as it is. Even though I could take out my Day-Timer and make an appointment faster than those at [...]
Thinking: The Source of All Struggle
It’s thinking that gets you in trouble.
It’s your thoughts that cause your stress. The habit of living in your left brain has you thinking that you’re going insane and your life is a mess!
There’s a very simple solution to end the struggle [...]
Podcast: Single But Not Alone
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Pastor Linda Marie Abu-Hamid is the author of Single But Not Alone. She draws on her own experiences as a single mother to share how you can always find support when you have faith, and that strength can help avoid heartache [...]
Bottled Lightning: Skin Your Knees On Eternity
At the beginning of my presentations on “How to Live a Life of Adventure” at high schools, colleges, civic clubs and church groups, my first words exclaim, “I live a spectacular life!”
After the audience digests such brash words, I invite [...]
Balance: It Is Not What You Think
Many people speak about creating a balance in life, one that allows you to enjoy both your personal life and also your professional life.
I do not believe in trying to balance the two. Making a conscious effort to schedule X amount of time for [...]
What A Saying On The Venice Boardwalk Has To Do With You
“Cool story babe, Now make me a sandwich.”
The boardwalk in Venice, California is filled with every cliché imaginable. That includes people and product! The woman looks normal until she starts talking about the impending invasion. [...]
Success: Getting Out Of Your Own Way
Having worked with hundreds of successful people as well as those who find being stuck to be more comfortable, I offer seven ways to free your energies for success.
I teach what has worked well for me over several decades.
When you make a [...]
Has Your Image Faded?
I write and blog about all aspects and topics related to creativity.
Recent trend reports have placed the words creative and innovative on the undesirable list. It’s getting harder to make my points without using these words. But there is [...]
Podcast: Inspiring Creativity For Positive Change
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CathyAnn Sarra is the Principal & Managing Partner of SOCii Media Marketing and co-creator of The Prayer Mitten Book Series with Daryl Lynn O’Connell which is designed to bring learning to children, inspire creativity and [...]
Women: The Ambassadors of Change
As women, change is second nature.
It’s starts in the beginning. Sometimes before we even hit the double digits of age, barely finished playing with dolls, the transformation begins and suddenly why does my chest look different? Wait, are [...]
Your Creative Mind: Unpredictable Collision of Thought and Circumstance
How do ideas strike you?
When do they hit? Have you heard of the phrase, “Stroke of luck…flash of insight…eureka moment!” Creativity involves anticipation mingled with uncertainty. For the record, ideas grow out of your brain through [...]
Podcast: The 11 Laws of Likability
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Michelle Tillis Lederman is the author of two books; The 11 Laws of Likability and Heroes Get Hired. She is an expert in relationship networking, career advancement, and work place communications. She has been on NBC, FOX, [...]
Arguing Your Point
I’ve never been on a debating team; my ability to come back with a “zinger” is questionable; and having a soft-spoken voice has probably lost me some points in a heated discussion.
Perhaps this is why I write: to get my point across more [...]
Find a Safe Place to Dance
In your life, someone cheated you out of something.
Another lied to you. Others gossiped about you. At some point, you suffered the loss of a friend, parent or spouse. Someone hammered you on the tennis court, chessboard or the boardroom. A [...]
Podcast: A Blind Man’s Guide To Success
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Born into a family of carnival owners in Texas, Maxwell Ivey lost his sight at age 12. Having a natural gusto for life, Max graduated college and became heavily involved in the Eagle Scouts. He also worked in the family business [...]
Podcast: Life Is Meant To Be LIVED Not Endured
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Michael Jenet is the author of ASK: The Questions to Empower Your Life, which offers the final piece of the puzzle in how to get the most out of life.
Life Is Meant To Be LIVED Not Endured
Why are QUESTIONS the answer?
Why [...]
Forget What You Have Lost
Sometimes, our lives can change swiftly.
Aside from the death of a loved one, change may actually be a good thing. If you are moving out of a long-term relationship, such as divorce, changing jobs/careers or retiring, dealing with a midlife [...]
Podcast: Persuasive Push vs. Shameless Shove: A New Parenting Paradigm
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Siah Fried is a health and nutrition professor at a local community college and author of two books, Tales from Swankville: The Town May Be Fictional But The Problem Is For Real and her latest, Persuasive Push vs. Shameless [...]
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