Nothing stands still.  Things get better or worse.  Let’s make this more personal.  We are either getting better or worse.  It’s a universal principle – starting with the Universe itself –that which doesn’t expand, contracts.  We are either going forward or backward. Stephen Covey referred to this kind of thinking as sharpening the saw.  Just...Read More

Of all the lessons there are to learn in life, one stands out for me.  What is that lesson?  It’s learning to be myself. “Be yourself: everyone else is taken.” – Oscar Wilde I’ve discovered that learning the lesson doesn’t happen in a day, but it does happen daily. What being yourself doesn’t mean: It’s...Read More

What is it that you know about yourself that others don’t know about you? All of us have things in our lives that we are hiding.  And of course, they vary in degree.  The kinds of things hidden range from hardships, to personal challenges, to actions and attitudes that we keep submerged.  We keep a...Read More

What do you believe are the ingredients for personal and professional success? On your list should be community.  I’m not talking about a large community, like the ones we build on social media networks, but a small community that provides accountability – like a personal board of directors.  It’s a small band of brothers and...Read More

I was in Pittsburgh on December 23, 1972.  This is the day and place the term “Immaculate Reception” was given to one of the most famous plays in football history.  It was a game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Oakland Raiders.  The Steelers were trailing in the last 30 seconds of the game.  Terry...Read More

What makes us the most powerful creature on earth?  It’s our imagination!  With our imagination we are able to think into the future.  We create, plan and manipulate our environment. Because it is powerful, it also has the ability to pollute our lives and cause personal damage in the form of stress and anxiety. Add...Read More

I talk a lot about empowering people to live life on purpose.  This deals with your direction – your “why” for living.  It also has an intimate connection to the stresses we feel on a day-to-day basis. Understanding our purpose for living and aligning our schedules accordingly helps relieve some of the stresses we experience...Read More

Here Are 4 Stages You Will Encounter You have just come off the only holiday that celebrates the passing of time.  No other holiday does this.  So it’s natural at this time of the year to stop, reflect, take stock, and accelerate.  But what will make 2014 better than 2013? That’s a great question.  It...Read More

What robs us of that feeling of aliveness?  In a word — inauthenticity. Which can simply be an antiseptic way to describe the act of hiding secrets.  It’s been said that confession is good for the soul.  Being honest about mistakes, failures, feelings and fears leads to health and vitality – aliveness.  The opposite is...Read More