On AOL the other night I read an article about the keys to success. These keys could easily be part of one of my Choicefullivingseminars presentations. All the essential aspects about our success and happiness begin with our way of thinking. Is that too simple? Do you want it to be more complicated? Making it more complicated […]
Our attitude about what is happening in our lives is perhaps the most critical aspect of our happiness. If we feel things are moving too fast, there is too much work to do, our lives are boring, our kids hate us, that is exactly what we will experience. We set the stage for how we
For three days this past week it seemed there was not an electronic device I could safely touch. E-mails did not go out as I thought, websites were unavailable, passwords ceased to work, I am pretty sure when I walked past my computer it said “don’t touch me”. Am I paranoid or just
You step into the street and a car misses you by less than a foot; you are driving along and another driver pulls in front of you unexpectedly, you are in the kitchen making dinner and drop a knife which lands right next to your foot. All three of these things are examples
I’ve got an idea! This is the greatest idea ever, it will save the company (or our family, or our program) so much!, then you present the idea and it falls on deaf ears, it is like we are speaking a dead language. How deflating that can be, and often we respond with anger, or
Today at the All American is car repair day. Every single car, every single washer, nut and bolt has been inspected. If a car has something wrong, a mistake if you will, today is the day they are taken care of. The cool thing is that once that mistake has been rectified, the car
No, this blog is not about the number of returns being sent to the IRS, it is about how we can find ourselves working longer, and getting less from the effort. In a few days I will be heading to Akron, Ohio to work with the All American Soap Box Derby, one of the truly
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I bet you have heard that phrase; “back in the good old days”. So my question is, just when were the good old days? Were they five years ago, ten, twenty, fifty years ago? Our memories have this wonderful way of redefining the past; highlighting those things which we like, downplaying those which are uncomfortable.
In my forthcoming book It’s All About Me, the Involved Observer, I write about teachers in our lives. Those we had in the classroom, and those teachers who are around us every day. The every day teachers might look and sound like great irritants in our daily lives. Yet these are the most powerful teachers
