Life | Personal Leadership

Is it greedy to want to get more out of life? More success, more money, more things, more life, more, more, more. Everywhere you look, and much of what you view or read is about getting more. If it’s so wrong to want more, why do so many continue to seek it?

What if we could find the good in more instead of vilifying it? Is that possible? Let’s take a closer look at both the positive and negative sides of getting more.

“There never was a person who did anything worth doing who did not receive more than he…

Life | Personal Leadership

How do excuses show up in your life? Before saying you don’t make them, weigh your words carefully. Human beings, by nature, are excuse-makers. It is a habit we learn when young, and while we may grow into making fewer excuses as we mature, It is doubtful we can ever eliminate them completely.

Reasons we make excuses

A poll of 2000 Americans indicates the average person makes 2190 excuses to validate their decisions each year. That is an average of six excuses a day! You can find the results of the poll here. The poll contains quite a bit of interesting information so check…

Writing

What would a writer be without readers? A journaler or personal diary keeper, perhaps? Outside of writing for personal use, most of us write for others, or at least one other person.

Those of us who write find many advantages in doing the work. Some love writing to enhance their learning and understanding about specific subjects or to get clear on their thoughts. Others write for the pure enjoyment it brings them, or they may write with the intent of creating part of their legacy.

Then some are in it for the money. The thing about writing for money is…

Life — Personal Leadership

How do you view the important people in your life? Do you see them as a partner, or do you view them as lesser than or more than yourself? Are you aware that how you view people affects how you deal with them and how they deal with you? Did you know this perception you have of yourself and others applies to entities as well?

More importantly, the results you create in your life significantly increase when you partner with someone or with an entity.

For example, your view of the company you work for can dramatically affect the results…

Life | Personal Leadership

Do you realize you carry your entire world with you, wherever you go, all of the time? This is true for everyone. Because your thoughts create your world, your world consists of your thoughts. You may have heard this or something similar said in many different ways. Let’s see if we can take this concept a bit further.

What led me on this path of exploration of our inner and outer world was some wisdom from the famous French writer, diplomat, and historian François-René de Chateaubriand. He wrote:

“Every man carries within himself a world made up of all that…

Life | Personal Leadership

Do you feel like you have a handle on yourself? In other words, do you have command of who you are, who you are becoming, and what you do each day? How can you gain this kind of control in your life? Do you know the limits of control you have over yourself? How about over others? Let’s answer these questions and more.

Where do you have dominion in life?

Have you ever attempted to control someone else? Not a good idea, is it? As a parent, you have influence over your child or children, yet how much do you actually control them, especially as they age?

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Writing

When you purchase something, do you buy it because you want it, or because you need it? This question has one of those “It depends” answers, doesn’t it?

In this discussion of products and customers, the most important product to me is what I write, and the most important customer is the one who reads this — you! You are the one I want to provide the most value I possibly can. Why? To keep you coming back to read more of my work!

I ran across an old quote by a famous American inventor the other day, and it…

Inspiration

Would you like a fresh start in life? There are times when most of us would jump at a chance to make a fresh and new start in our lives.

What if I told you, you could have a fresh start, and it is closer and easier to obtain than you can imagine. “How can I do this,” you ask? A little background first!

The difficulties of life

Life can be difficult. This can be especially true when we fail to live up to our expectations. And we all fail to live up to them at times, don’t we? …