If I didn’t know before that when one door closes, many more fling wide open, this latest experience of creating a book of prayers has sealed the deal for me.
When my agent told me that the publisher I’m currently working with would not publish the manuscript I’d written, containing 30 prayers, I was discouraged. I [...]
Part 2
Yesterday I spoke of the first 5 Faces of Fear in the post titled The 9 Faces of Fear: Part 1, and how I was able to overcome my fear of public speaking to do what I do now, which is being an inspirational speaker.
Today, we’ll talk about the next 4 Faces of Fear [...]
It seems almost everyone wants to be successful, but so few actually are, somewhere between 5-20%. The other 80-95% will never reach the levels of success they say they want. I’m intrigued by humans and what we do, so I’ve been exploring this question for years from different angles.
What creates success?
I’ve talked to hundreds of [...]
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What is coaching?
I get asked this question pretty often, and I sometimes get stumped on exactly how to answer it, not because I don’t know what coaching is, but because coaching is so many things that I don’t know where to begin.
So, I’m writing this article for my own benefit just as [...]
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How are you influencing the people around you?
Each of us influences the people around us. Likewise, each of the people around us influences us.
Understanding how we affect the people around us is vital to success and destiny living, just as it’s key to understand how the people you consistently associate with affect you.
I know this [...]
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The other day I was conducting a coaching call with a client when it struck me that most people who have succeeded to a great degree have a Stuff Management Process.
What’s that? To me, a Stuff Management Process (SMP) is a technical term for:
1. Learning what keeps me from moving forward (hereby known as ‘my [...]
Today I was talking with a coaching client when the subject of process came up. Something came to me that I thought I’d write about here:
Life is 90% process and 10% payoff.
I’ll be climbing Mount Kilamanjaro in February of 2009. It would be wise for me to prepare in advance for the climb. When mountain [...]
Right now, there are several opportunities before me that I can take advantage of. I could do this, or that, or that. Then again, I could do that…
The problem with this predicament is that I’m a Libra and don’t make decisions quickly or easily. Even choosing one pair of shoes over the other takes more [...]
I was sitting comfortably in bed, propped up on pillows, reading Simple Abundance while sipping a warm cup of Celestial Seasoning’s sweet coconut thai chai, when I remembered that I hadn’t posted to my blog today. Oh forget it, was the first thought that came to mind, I’ll do it tomorrow.
There was a time when [...]
Today I am feeling happily satisfied with myself for a job well done. For the past two years, I’ve been a student at Inner Visions Institute for Spiritual Development. Yesterday, I graduated.
The night before we graduated our class put on a gala, to which we invited friends, family and the public. It was phenomenal. We [...]
