“Choice, not circumstances, determines your success.” -Author Unknown             Consider there are multiple realities, alternate universes if you will. In addition to that, consider that we can drift in and out of each one from moment to moment depending on the choices that we make. We may stay [...]

“A great man is always willing to be little.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson Consider these notions: Those who are great want to be amongst the people, those who are not want to be above them. Those who are great understand that no matter how much knowledge they have accumulated, there’s an infinite amount still to learn. [...]

So I’m about to embark on the longest journey of my lifetime…and I’m not freaking out. Quite frankly, the fact that I’m not freaking out is kind of freaking me out a little! Well not really, but I think it’s a bit strange. Mostly because everyone around keeps asking me if I’m excited, nervous, anxious, [...]

“Real difficulties can be overcome, it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.” –Theodore N. Vail I’m going to be bold enough to state that in any given person’s lifetime, (s)he will have 100 times more imaginary difficulties than real ones. What do you think? If we go through a typical week and imagine [...]

  “Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.” -James Thurber This is the essence of living in the present moment. The past has gone, the future has not yet arrived, but the present will always be here. You can create something out of nothing when you “look around [...]

“To have a great idea, have a lot of them.” -Thomas Jefferson We all tend to think our ideas are brilliant, but that really doesn’t matter unless we’re creating something solely for own enjoyment (meaning an idea that is not to be shared with others). Businesses, however, are about the customers, books about the readers, [...]

“A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities, and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.” -Harry Truman It’s easy to complain about life. It’s even easier to complain about our circumstances and struggles. It’s even easier, believe it or not, to complain about everything that was wrong with today. [...]

“Do something every day that you don’t want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.” -Mark Twain We all have those things that we really don’t like to do, like chores around the house, going to work, or spending yet another Saturday at your kid’s [...]

Okay okay, here’s what Honest Abe actually said: “I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.” Close enough, no? Well anyway, this quote reminds me of another – “Slow and steady wins the race.” Both of which are WAY outside of my reality, and that’s not good! This has always been a challenge for me, [...]

We all have our heavy duty bucket lists that include skydiving, scuba diving a shipwreck, and other big crazy fun events. What about the small things that you want to do on a daily basis? Those are just as important. In fact, I’d say they’re MORE important than the big ones because let’s face it, [...]