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A New Year’s Resolution… Or A Bucket List?

Another year has come and gone and so often many of us use this time to make New Year’s Resolutions… but why? Can’t we just create a bucket list? I mean what’s the real ...<< MORE >>

The Power Of Words... Or Is It Tone?

Regardless of the era from which you were raised, you may have heard your parents or another adult say, "it's important to go to school so you can get a good job." But, what you didn't hear as often, if at all, was how to handle the power of words, the richness of tone, and the camaraderie of bullying "within the workplace." ...<< MORE >>

Obstacles are Inevitable - So Embrace Them

Having obstacles is a fundamental part of life. It's fundamental because within each challenge you have the rare and unique opportunity to create, grow, and build on your identity, your character and your strength. You have the innate ability to decide how you are going to ...<< MORE >>

What's Love Got To Do With It?

The word "LOVE" overtime has been so misused and misunderstood on so many different levels that many are afraid to use the word anymore let alone trust that the very word means anything at all. Is it "LOVE," when you're in a relationship yet still venture off to - other pastures - whenever the mood is ... << MORE >>

Happiness is...

I ask the question, what is happiness really? Do YOU know? If you could define it in technical terms, how would you describe it? The answer is simply this. It just is... Because happiness can mean ...<< MORE >>

Character vs Reputation

What's more important to you - your character or your reputation? Living in the public eye, you may venture to say your reputation, concerned about what others say and think about you, while on the other hand struggling to find that happy medium of allowing your emotions to venture outside your comfort zone. Containing your emotions creates another side of you that ... << MORE >>

Should Celebrities Have Privacy...

The question begs should a celebrity be entitled to their privacy? I think it depends on who you ask... People fall into this "elite" category becoming celebrities for different reasons: << MORE >>

What's Really Going On... In Life?

What's really going on?  We moan and whine about our financial situation, stress at home and work, kids, spouse and/or significant other, the economy, the community, etc... yet we take minimal action to assist in changing the current situation. Instead, we choose to gripe and complain exhausting any and all excess energy into limitless, menial conversation. We individually may love politics yet we don't vote, don't advocate, ... << MORE >>

What Side Of The Fence Are You On?

What side of the fence are you on? Regardless of your background, we all have the opportunity to live up to our "true" potential. It's how we choose to invest, learn from our challenges and misfortunes, and seek resources that will determine our outcome. We can choose to blame our parents, our circumstances, or our first grade teacher for our current situation if the result we're looking for is stagnant, futile and motionless. << MORE >>

What's In A Word...

How many times in your life have you heard someone saying the words, "I Can't"... probably more than you can count. "I Can't" because I'm too small; "I Can't" because I don't know how; "I Can't" because... Using the words "I Can't" is not something that you generated on your own but rather someone, at some point in time, told you you can't do something for one reason or ... << MORE >>