Over the course of 30 years, I worked with kids of every description: profoundly delayed preschoolers, autistic kids, language delayed kids, institutionalized kids, natural leaders, high risk teens and more. No matter what the challenge, I was constantly blown away by their sheer resiliency and spirit. Everything I teach, write and speak about has its roots in what I learned [...]
Continue Reading →Sometimes your only available transportation is a leap of faith.
~ Margaret Shepherd
Did this quote (thank you gratefulness.org) resonate with you? Me too!
I don’t want to say too much about it, as it is one of those ideas that is powerful all by itself. But I do want [...]
Continue Reading →This video kind of blew my mind.
This 108 year old woman, a survivor of the Holocaust death camps, still plays piano three hours a day, wrote a book when she was 104 and is the picture of vitality and joy. She admits that she was born optimistic [...]
Continue Reading →Marketing guru and author, Seth Godin, wrote a wonderful little tome titled, Purple Cow. In it, he tells the story of driving down the road, looking at the many brown and black cows in the field. It wasn’t long before he just stopped [...]
Continue Reading →“What you see is what you get.”
I love the elegant simplicity of this thought. It’s the whole thing, the whole enchilada, this entire journey boiled down to one simple idea with so many different meanings you never stop discovering them.
But it doesn’t work for everyone, so here are seven different ways to [...]
Continue Reading →I know. I know. Life happens. The kids need you. Your mother was sick. Your partner was going through a hard time. The economy tanked just as you…
Honestly, how many years has it been since you set the intention to: start a business, leave your job, visit your sister, get in shape, [...]
Continue Reading →Man, you started reading this one fast! Everybody wants to know how to make it happen now: feel better, be more successful, get what you want, change the way you think, and connect with that feeling that you are way more than what you allow each day. And why not? It feels so much better [...]
Continue Reading →Yesterday, I wrote a beautifully crafted article called “Are you afraid of being more?” After a couple hours of editing and review, it was really, really go-o-o-d! And I did it all on my ipad – in a new app – that I had not yet tested. (You can see where this is going.)
Today, [...]
Continue Reading →You know the answer to this question! Truth always resides in the seam of paradox. It’s the same kind of question that comes up with Eckhart Tolle’s work: Is life about living in the here and now or having something to look forward to? Or goal setting: Am I perfect as I am or ripe [...]
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