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Throw Out Your To-Do List
There is so much to do. It’s a full-time job to make sure that nothing on the to-do list slips through the cracks. Peaceful showers, sound sleep, conversations, and romantic dinners are interrupted by a sudden thought about what you must remember to do later. Lists...
The 5-Star Role
Back in 2008, I received an email from an HR person who wanted to use my services to screen job applicants for her company using the DISC behavioral assessments. (I’ve been a certified DISC coach for almost 20 years.) In my conversation with her, I was very adamant...
When Prosperity Doesn’t Knock
Imagine inviting several guests over for a lavish dinner party. You’ve been planning it for weeks. The menu, shopping, selecting wines, table settings and after dinner games are in place. Everything is ready but your guests haven’t arrived. Hmm… the invitation said to...
Money: Story Time
We all have stories we tell about money. If not aloud, then in our head. Most of the time they’re in the background of our thoughts and we don’t pay them much attention. I am not talking stories like, “Hey Bob, did you hear about the time I tripled my income?” I’m...
Tough Conversations Turned Good
Have words escaped your lips that you later regretted or wished you had said differently? Have you felt you flubbed up a conversation with a potential client? Has somebody ever said something to you in a fit that really hurt your heart? Have you ever talked a subject...
Take It to the Extreme
Have you ever observed someone’s behavior or listened to their words and thought, “They’re so extreme!”? Did you mean it in a positive or negative way? Being extreme works both ways. You can be extremely poor or wealthy. You can be extremely negative or positive. You...
Hoping Is Not a Solution
I’ve caught myself many times hoping something would turn out the way I wanted. When I catch myself hoping more than once, on a specific outcome, an alarm goes off in my head. The alarm says, “Get out of hoping. Come back to the truth of who you are. You’re a person...
Turn Up the Heat
Have you ever thought up a really cool invention, offer, or book title only to see a few months later that somebody else has already created it? What about your idea to travel to a faraway exotic land only to never go? Or maybe you’ve come up with a brilliant business...
Focus on Prosperity
Why is it that when you need money the most, it seems the hardest to get your hands on it? The answer is because, most likely, you’ve got most of your attention on the fact that you don’t have enough money. It’s an instant log jam in the money-attraction process and...