So often we don’t get what we want, but as the song says, we should never despair because as often as not we will get what we need.

People are always talking about the importance of selling yourself but there’s an aspect to that a lot of people don’t take into account - marketing yourself.

So many people are so concerned with the go-go-go of their lives they don’t slow down enough to consider the importance of stop-stop-stop. Sometimes people need a brain break.

The waiting place is that place you find yourself while you’re waiting for something else to happen. For the approval you’ve been waiting for on that report you sent in. On the funding you’re hoping to get for your new project. For the meeting you’re trying to arrange with the person you want to be your mentor. 

No matter what your goals, big or small, you’re going to have to take concrete steps to get them out of the wish zone into the fulfillment zone.

Although it’s important to make a good impression to be liked and appreciated by others, you certainly don’t have to make the same impression as everyone else.

No matter what the size of your task, whether you’re prepared to do it or would rather put it off indefinitely, there’s a little trick that can completely change your perspective on it.

Whether you’re at the very bottom rung on the ladder to your goals or near the top, there is a single thing you need to do everyday, and that is your absolute best.

The words you choose speak volumes about you and at the same time influence how others perceive you.

Are you more excited about new projects than the ones you do everyday. Do you put things off? Do you get the things you like best off your plate first?

Ever wonder how you can get more done everyday? Here’s something you might not realize, the higher your positivity, the higher your productivity!

As one of eight children in an incredibly poor family, who on Earth would have thought that Alice Walker had any power at all?

Life doesn’t bend its will according to effort or the good intentions of the people living it. Sometimes, a lot of the time there’s someone else more qualified or with better connections or who just happened to be in the right place at the right time to grab away that thing you were trying so hard to get.

Big projects can be a horrible scary daunting pain. Thinking about all the steps and all the work something will take, can be a bit overwhelming.

The one constant inside and outside of everything that happens to you, is you. So it makes sense, to fix your problems, you need to reassess how you approach them.  

If you climb ten flights of stairs you will be fatigued (most of us anyway).  We all know about physical fatigue because it’s so easy to see the cause and effect. Spend twenty minutes on a treadmill and there’s no question what tired you out. Did you also know you can get decision fatigue? 

You might be inclined to wonder how the advice of someone how lived in the first century AD could possibly pertain to someone living in the twenty first century. The fact is, all the advances we’ve made over the past two thousand years affect the outside of our lives. How we travel, how we acquire and share information, how we communicate etc, but none of that affects how we tick internally.

We are always being told to “chase” our passion. And as amazing as it is to be on the run following that great, inspiring passion of ours, it would be even more amazing if we could catch it!

If you have a dream or a goal, the only way you’re going to get where you need to go is to strap on your running shoes and get into the race. You might not win, but at least you raced, and racing is always better than standing on the sidelines!

Ever feel like some people are just plain luckier than you? Like success bumps into them while they were sitting around sipping a soda at the ice cream bar, while it keeps walking by you?