Alain de Botton: A kinder, gentler philosophy of success. Enjoy this refreshing look at the nature of success from Alain de Botton. It’s just over 16 minutes long, but I think you’ll enjoy it!

Alain certainly provides a great way of thinking about success. Far too many of us are going through life searching for success that eludes us… searching for someone else’s idea of success.

When you take the time to reflect and discover what success truly means to you, life becomes infinitely easier and more managable.

No matter what area of life you are trying to achieve personal success in, you can boost your results by (read more…)

Decide to Succeed!

Are you clear about the direction you are heading in? Or are you simply taking whatever life throws at you? If you find yourself struggling everyday you are probably stuck in the first step of the manifesting process, which is deciding exactly what you want your life to look like.

Now, you might say that deciding what you want is not the problem, you know what you want… you are just having a hard time getting it to manifest in your reality, but the truth is that knowing what you want is not the same as deciding what you want.

We all have dreams. We all have wishes. We all have desires. But none of those will become a reality for you if you don’t (read more…)

Create Your Day!

You can learn to create your day, you can learn to improve the very quality of your day, simply by deciding to. You may not believe it but you are the one who is really in control of how you perceive your day to be.Are you having a good day today?

Or is today one of those days… you know, one of those days that seem to drag on and on, one of those days where one thing goes wrong after another, one of those days where you can’t wait until the day is finally over?

We all have those days, don’t we?

The problem is often that you have too many of them. It can feel like nothing ever goes your way… like the sun never shines.  It can feel like you have no power to control the quality of your day… stuff just happens ‘to you’ that brings you down and ruins your day.

Would you like to have less of those kinds of days? You can. Just by (read more…)

Bob and Donna

10 years ago last Saturday I went on a date that changed my life.

It was Sunday, July 18, 1999.

Donna and I had met online and after only a few emails we discovered that we had known each other in the past.

Actually, there is a little more to the story than that… Donna, it turned out, was (read more…)

Discover Your True Purpose Teleseminar

You probably already know that being in touch with your purpose can help you lead a more balanced, fulfilled life and allows you to focus more clearly on those things that are important to you.

But did you know that NOT being in touch with your purpose can be the root cause of many of your current struggles?

It’s true. When you are not aligned internally with your calling or your passions you can find yourself struggling to achieve, struggling to create, struggling just to manage the pieces of your day to day life.

Discovering Your True Purpose is the key to overcoming all of these problems and much, much more. Purpose can unlock the doors of opportunity within you and help you begin creating the kinds of changes that you want and desire.

I invite you to join me this Thursday evening, July 9, 2009,  at 8pm eastern, for (read more…)