Why do we always focus on improving ourselves? Are we really that bad to begin with? For a long time I thought of myself as a work in progress. Tinkering here, fixing there, always striving…
I used to watch a lot of reality shows where people competed for prizes. In one of the shows, one of the contestants was worried that another person would take “her” prize. Nope. There’s no way that…
“Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.” -V.S. Naipaul Why do…
How many times have you wished you had enough money to quit your job? Or maybe enough money to inject a bunch of cash into your business start-up? Many of us have grown up hearing things…
Have you ever been told that dreams don’t matter? Or that they’re lame? Or that dreaming isn’t as important as doing? If so, it’s time to rethink that advice. 1. Dreams are expressions of your desires Whether…
Back in the 1980’s when I was a student at Douglass College (part of Rutgers University), Maya Angelou came to speak. She came early that afternoon to attend a reception at the student center. I was just…
There’s a lot of talk these days about being authentic. Especially in the entrepreneurial world it’s good for marketing if you can connect to your prospects as a “real” person. What’s so funny about it is that,…
Like a lot of people on the internet, I love to collect quotes. Right now I have a file on my laptop filled with my favorite quotations. Something about quotes can lift you up, make you think…
Setting goals doesn’t have to become an exercise in frustration. Once you have your vision in place (and that can take a bit of time) you have to take action. But what trips us up is taking…
“What do you want to be when you grow up?” Were you ever asked that as a child? During childhood we get the message that it’s okay to dream. It’s okay to imagine ourselves doing whatever we…