Most people’s affirmations don’t get past the end of their nose.
Mine never used to. There was a point in my mid-thirties when I had read so many books, with so little results, that I finally and firmly determined to grab my affirmations and MAKE them work.
I set up a work space, got a 3-ring [...]

Although the details vary, there’s really only one way to influence the future — the active and vivid imagining of events.
If we’re imagining desirable events, we call this attraction work, doing affirmations, praying, doing requests or programming our minds.
Whichever term you use, this is the method you’ve been trying to master for some time now.
But [...]

Are you getting what you expect? And if not, do you pout when you’re disappointed?
My wife and I have just moved to Thailand, and while I’ve eaten and enjoyed Thai food for years, being in the source-country of all that goodness has brought me a few surprises.
Take milk for example. At the grocery yesterday I [...]

A lot of the folks I know are setting new goals for 2008. But others, like my friend Patricia Zulkosky, have sworn off new year’s resolutions entirely.
Patricia started 2007 by announcing she was adopting a theme for the year rather than setting goals. In other words, she’d be moving toward a direction, rather than a [...]

Anger causes a lot of problems. But the underlying motivation for anger is the urge to break through real or perceived communication blocks.Flaring tempers are a sign that we don’t think we’re getting through to someone else. So anger doesn’t necessarily CAUSE problems, but it is a sure indicator that there ARE problems, and it [...]

Recently I stumbled upon Donald Latumahina’s excellent Life Optimizer blog, and this article in particular grabbed my attention:
15 Tips to Stay Positive in Negative Situations
Though it’s not easy, it’s important to stay positive in negative situations. Latumahina recommends 15 positive things you can do so you don’t succomb to the negative that may be going [...]

My friend Walter once told me that every summer evening he’d go out in the front yard and sit and wait for a UFO to come pick him up.
As far as I know, he never got the ride he was waiting for.
I also know a LOT of people who’re waiting around, just like Walter, for [...]

by Dave Navarro
Problem: “I know I have potential, I’m not as insanely successful as I want to be.” - You
Solution: “I am not the smartest, but I surround myself with competent people.” - Henry Ford
I think it’s safe to say that Henry Ford had more than a mild degree of success. Love him or hate [...]

Tom “Bald Dog” Varjan calls himself an Organisational Provocateur.
You or I would call him a consultant - he’s the guy who walks into companies, at their invitation, and stirs things massively till they get better.
Tom is exceptionally good at stirring. He’s called in when others are finding results hard to come by. He’s a hard-ass [...]

Some things in life repeat. One of them is the weather.
Today, here in Japan, we’re looking down the 100-mile-wide barrel of a typhoon, and it’s aimed straight at the Japanese islands. It has already ripped across the southern island of Kyushu, dropping half a meter of rain in some places and causing the evacuation of [...]

On July 2nd, at 12:00 noon, half the year will be behind us, half still ahead.
I’m writing this on Friday. On Monday, just three days from now, we will have reached the middle day of the year.
So let’s talk about the things you intended to get done this year. How’re you doing with them? Just [...]

Some changes are sudden - you know the instant they occur that something has happened. Mine was slower, and it wasn’t until later that I realized anything had happened. This was the change, however, that reshaped me from failure to success.
I stepped off the airplane at the Tokyo Narita Airport and instantly plunged into something [...]

Patricia Zulkosky’s blog is inspiring in an unusual way.
A few days back she wrote:
“I am noticing that I often lead my life like it is a run-on sentence. No punctuation. No beginning, no clear end point, and no time to take a breath.”
Her blog, titled “Why Do I Love My Life So Much?”, is an [...]

How much life do you have left?
Think back with me for a moment, back to the days of our youth, and recall how you felt about all those things you’d surely do in your lifetime. The books you’d write, the fortunes you’d make, the fame, the empires, the travel.
In the years since then, have [...]

It’s a great story… by now you’ve probably received the email a dozen times over, or seen it at one of many, many websites.
I’m talking about the experience of Charlie Plumb, the Navy fighter pilot who was shot down over Vietnam and survived six years in a prison camp.
The story starts out like this:

Let’s face it… Do-It-Yourself is failing you
You’ve been studying, reading and learning self-help for ages now. And although you know all the techniques for helping yourself, you’re not executing them consistently enough nor determinedly enough to get past your own foot-dragging.
Goodness knows, you’ve given yourself enough time to try and bootstrap yourself out of the [...]

A question that I frequently receive concerns being surrounded by negative friends, co-workers or family members. A few days ago, I got another such email:
“My husband just doesn’t get it - I try to explain the laws of attraction, but he always rejects the idea, and sometimes ridicules me for my gullibility. How can I [...]

The email was practically flaming… some of it was unprintable, but a cleaned up, less blistering version went:
“I bought the book you recommended in your blog, and have been doing the exercises exactly like the author said. When am I going to start seeing results? It’s been six whole days now - I haven’t gotten [...]

FIRST DAY IN HOLLYWOOD
Here I sit in my hotel room, just two blocks from Hollywood Boulevard (yes, the famous one), with hurting feet, tired back and drooping eyelids.
We’ve been on the road for a few days now, my wife and I, first to visit my Mom in Kansas, and now to see Tinsel Town, [...]

I was young and had newly arrived in Signal Mountain, a small town up the hill from Chattanooga, so I took the first job offered to me… pumping gasoline.
It was low pay, uninspiring, and my feet hurt like crazy most of the time, but even in a spot like that, I managed to keep learning [...]