Who’s really responsible for your future? Who’s really responsible for where you are now?
It’s been said that if you keep blaming other people for your condition you are in effect weakening yourself. Check it.
Your main opponent teaches you a lesson. The thing you’re most afraid of can deepen your faith – if you face it. Your weakest ability can encourage you to… ... Read more
See me? I ain’t taking that on!
Hmm… That’s the attitude most of us adopt when faced with difficult situations. We are intelligent, we are good people, but when we see something that’s clearly wrong, some of us would rather not make waves, we don’t want to rock the boat.
Of course we will complain about it to friends and colleagues, we may even… ... Read more
If something is to last it requires careful and constant maintenance. This is an age in which we like everything to be instant, remote controlled, automatic and disposable. Is it possible that we have forgotten or lost touch with some fundamental truths?
One of these is that if we want to create something of value be it a family, a business, a garden, a work of art or an… ... Read more
Recently I beat myself up so badly I didn’t recognize myself. Here’s what happened. I completed a job for a client only to learn I had made a mistake that caused a missed deadline. So I had to redo that portion of the project.
I got angry with myself for having made such a simple mistake – what was I thinking? For almost two days all… ... Read more
2010 marks 30 years I have been broadcasting and the other day I suddenly felt a wave of gratitude to the people who have corrected me over the years.
In the early days, I would make a number of mistakes on air (I still make some today) and listeners would call or write in – yes, write with a pen and paper – to point out my errors and set me straight. ... Read more
For all of us there’s a choice… we can accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
The place to start that change is in your mind, with your thinking, your attitude.
We know things are not easy these days, there are challenges that we never thought we’d have to face, but having identified the problems ... Read more
Some road paving was done on the highway recently and while it was pleasant to be driving smooth I noticed something disturbing.
Because the white lines had not yet been painted on the road surface, many drivers were finding it difficult to steer their vehicles in a straight line. Some were drifting over to the left, some to the right while others ... Read more
Taking the easy way out can rob you of the opportunity to develop special qualities, such as determination and faith in self. In so doing it eats away at one’s self respect.
It’s not easy to keep your integrity when all around you what was once wrong is now being given the stamp of approval. ... Read more
Some years ago, as part of a bigger plan, I conducted a few training sessions at a company undergoing change on many levels. A few employees were not happy about having to learn a whole lot of new stuff that they believed to be unnecessary. They demonstrated their opposition by not attending the training.
Well, needless to say the new plans went ahead. ... Read more
Belief is a powerful thing; of course it’s not really a thing at all.
What we believe shapes what we do, how we do it and some say even who we are.
What we believe about ourselves often results from other people’s opinions about us. We act in that manner and create circumstances that further reinforce those beliefs. ... Read more
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