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Your Success Author : Frank Schmidt
Success starts in your mind. Positive Thinking creates the advantage. Success comes with a good mood. Listen to your most preferred CD before an important meeting. Success is increased with a little attention. Give others something maybe a nice gesture is enough. Success comes when your body is healthy. Body and soul are inseparable. Success comes wit...

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Does Your School Teach You How to Achieve Financial Freedom? Author : Augustine Wu
Study hard, get good grades and you will have a bright future! I am pretty sure many of you have been brainwashed by your teachers with this statement when you were students. And your perception of a bright future is most likely to become a lawyer, doctor, engineer, businessman. whatever that promises a high salary. Your school helped you to achieve your goal. It equipped you with the necessary set of skills to thrive in your trade. But does you...

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Your Pot of Gold: Waiting for the Rainbow’s End Author : Steve Brunkhorst
An old story tells of a country pastor who had created a very beautiful garden. He had removed the old decaying trees and replaced them with healthy young saplings. He had dug granite stones from the hillside and built steps and walkways throughout the garden. A clear stream ran through the garden and supplied a sparkling pool. There were bright red roses, colorful flowering trees, and lovely fountains. One day, a local farmer came by and stopped...

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Seven Aspects of a Making Brilliant Decisions: The Relationship Between Work and Self Author : Connie Butler
Workwerk : an opportunity for discovering and shaping; the place where the self meets the world. Regardless of what business we are in, what projects we are working on or what interests we have in the world – we are all in the business of relationship building. In business we are always cultivating relationships with employees, with prospective clients, with colleagues. In our personal lives the place of relationship is often more obvious and mo...

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Name That Tune Author : Wayne and Tamara
Direct Answers - Column for the week of July 26, 2004 I have been married to a wonderfully grounded woman for nine years, and we have two young children. The problem? My mother-in-law lives from crisis to crisis. She claims to have a "plan," but it is always the wrong plan and my wife and I are constantly picking up the pieces. A one year experiment of her living with us turned into a stressful five year stay. We are financially stable, but ...

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Ethics in Speaking: A Practical Point of View Author : Stephen D. Boyd
Often managers have to deliver presentations with unpleasant content. The vice president has to announce that there is a hiring freeze or a downsizing. The human resource director speaks to the employees about a benefits package with fewer benefits. Because executives are often speaking in difficult situations, the more credibility they can develop, the more the content will be considered and accepted. Speakers will have little or no impact on au...

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Run Towards Fear: A Prescription For Success Author : Dr. Leif H. Smith
Fear, or negative anxiety, is the modern day bubonic plague, infecting millions upon millions of people. It spreads with viral effect, and leaves behind consequences of mediocrity and regret. This “plague” is partly due to societal influences (particularly in a post-9/11 era) and partly due to individual issues (the tendency to avoid confrontation of that which we fear). However, whatever the cause, a vaccine is available, and it takes the form o...

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“Is Your Career Your Calling or Just a 9 to 5?” Author : Yasmeen Abdur-Rahman
Do you remember your parents asking you what you want to be when you grow up? By the time I was in the 9th grade, my mother started asking me that same question until I graduated from high school. At that time I wasn’t 100% sure what career path I would take, but I had several ideas. Your calling is that passion that you have deep inside – the career that defines your purpose in life. Someone once told me if you find a job that you love you’ll ...

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What If I Fall Flat On My Face? Author : Skye Thomas
I hope you do. Sounds awful, I know. But I really think the best thing that can happen to you is for you to take a timid little leap and fall flat on your face. Then, I want to see you get back up, evaluate what you did wrong, and jump again. Keep on taking that leap of faith and learning from each and every mistake until you become used to jumping and used to falling. Then, you'll get over the fear of falling and you'll finally begin to con...

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Community after Tragedy Author : Dan Britt
To begin feeling that first spark of self-confidence within you, try as many of these as you like. It's important to enjoy yourself along the way. Have fun! 1. Correctly do 25 pushups, 50 sit-ups, or 1 cartwheel. 2. Learn all of the words to a fun new song on the radio and sing it aloud while driving down the road. 3. Open up your cookbook to a completely new recipe and learn to cook it well. 4. Learn how to say, "I love you" in two different l...

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