Why Aren’t You the Monarch of Your Mind?
When you look around at your life, do you feel like the ruler of anything? Most people don’t.
In fact, nearly no one feels powerful. The theory says that our thoughts form the reality we live in, but how many people are actually exerting conscious control over the circumstances [...]

Today I received a wonderful and thoughtful question from a long-time reader, who says:
In my email today were two messages with similar wording and very different conclusions, and yet both are on the same wavelength.
The first quotation, by Carol Tuttle, says:
“We each have our own room in heaven filled with everything we could ever want [...]

One reader’s question:
My annual review is coming soon, and I need an opinion from you about my ever growing battle for fairness from my company. As you may remember from our previous emails, I am looking much more intensely into my life situation lately.
I’m not a psychic, so I don’t have any opinions about [...]

Most of our beliefs are second-hand goods. We acquire the bulk of them, beginning at a very early age, from those around us, and then we spend much of the rest of our lives trying both to cling to them and shake ourselves loose from them.
We take our beliefs on so lightly, so full of [...]

RICHES, WEALTH AND FREEDOM FROM FEAR BEGIN HERE
As long as you try to change reality by battering away at it, you’re working on the wrong end of the cause-effect equation.
We’ve seen how all the things around you - all the situations, conditions and circumstances of your life - are formed from the inside out. Your [...]

Want more success? Then cultivate these twins, patience and persistence. They’re the legs your confidence will stand on - they’re your ticket out of ANY mess you’re in.

Helen Keller said:
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.
So you hate the hard times you’ve passed through? Maybe you need to think again.
Easy times never stretch us, never enlarge our strengths, never give us a [...]

Jason McElwain, a high school senior at Greece Athena in Rochester, New York, helps out with his high school’s basketball practices. He’s the manager, meaning he helps the players drill, always tries to help them stay excited and motivated, and just generally does support work all season long.
Oh, and Jason is autistic. A special ed [...]

Do you ever feel that some parts of yourself are fighting against your best efforts? That they’re holding you back from achievement?
The part of self that most people have the greatest problems with is the “border guard” in charge of keeping you inside your comfort zone. In fact, it’s common to hear people refer to [...]

The name ‘Bob Parsons’ may not be a widely recognized around the Internet, but his company certainly is. GoDaddy.com is one of the biggest domain registrars and has been a trend setter since its inception.
But if you’ve been around computers for a while, you may remember Parsons Technology, the company that sold bazillions of copies [...]

I like stories that feature a mind-set of success.
Today I ran across a very special story in the newspaper. You’ll see what I mean when you read it.
Toshiaki, aged 17, is a senior at Kanda High School in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, where he pitches for his school’s baseball team.
Toshiaki’s twin brother Toshihiro is the team’s [...]

Reader’s Question:
What should you do when you are not sure what you want? How do you become sure?
This particular struggle is so common that Mark Twain once wrote he could tell anyone exactly how to get whatever they wanted. “But,” he continued, I can’t find anyone who can tell me what they want.”
If [...]

Some would-be subscribers are defeating themselves before they start. I hope you’re not one of them.
Once you’ve subscribed, my mailing server sends you a confirmation email. But that email may not reach you… nor any of my newsletter mailings.
Every day I get notices like the following
I apologize for this automatic reply to your email.
To control [...]

When coaches get together, the conversation often turns to clients, and what makes one client fun to work with, while another is… well… not so much fun.
And it always seems to come down to one quality: Some people are more “coachable” than others. But what IS coachability? How do you cultivate it? Or can you?
In [...]