There are two kinds of pain: the pain of discipline and then there is the pain of regret. You do not get to choose a life of pain or no pain. Instead you get to choose if you will feel the pain of disciple or the pain of regret – there is no other alternative – but the choice is yours to make.

When you are committed to growth, in your life, career, bank account etc, you will experience pain. On one hand, the pain of discipline hurts a little and when you experience it, it makes you stronger, healthier, and tougher. The pain of regret on the other hand hurts a lot and, when we feel this pain, it can injure or crush Read More...

Entitled “The Fun Theory” it aimed to see if everyday commuters would give up using the escalator to exit the train station, and instead choose to use the stairs.

Turning the stairs into an Read More...

7 Habits of Highly Effective People author Stephen Covey on the role choice has in accomplishing and attracting what we want.

Can people truly change? Revinent themselves into more balanced, caring, productive individuals? Stephen Covery says, “Yes!!”

Covey’s first lesson to leaders is thay they are the productive of their own choices.

For instance, when asked, Read More...

Freedom:  The capacity to exercise choice.

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Jack Canfield discusses the importance of your attitude aka how you CHOOSE to view your world in this video. Being optimistic WILL change your life.  Jack Canfield is the author of the best selling books Chicken Soup for the Read More...

Many people often struggle with what joy is. How does joy affect your everyday life and how can you make sure that are pursuing it? Joy is a word that’s taken for granted and often gets confused with happiness. So stop and think about it for second. What’s the difference between joy and happiness?

Well, I would argue that happiness Read More...

Everything in my life that I was experiencing was of my making, and I had the Power at work within me to create a new Life. I decided I wanted happiness, Abundance, meaningful work, energy, GREAT relationships, a healthy body, and I decided that I wanted to be giving, energetic, LOVING life, Read More...

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Event + Response = Outcome. It seems like a simple formula doesn’t it? I guess it is-however, the complexities of how this “simple” formula affects your life are significant!

You’ve probably heard it said, “life is 10% what your given and 90% what you make of it.” Maybe you don’t agree with the percentages-maybe I don’t either-but I think most of us agree that the outcomes that we receive are determined not only by the circumstances we find ourselves in but also by how Read More...

As a natural part of our evolution, we are faced with constant changes. In addition to our biology, the world around us is also changing offering a wealth of opportunities and choices.

Every morning when you wake up, you make a choice – you choose to grow or you choose to die. Now I am not suggesting that Read More...

These are common questions that many people hear after they do something that to the outside world would appear to cause pain or suffering of some sort. Things like climbing a mountain, or hiking the Appalachian Trail, or competing in an IronMan triathalon, or adopting twins are just a few of the events that come to mind.

I know this because I have either asked these questions or heard them myself. Personally, I have climbed Mt. Elbrus in Russia, Mt. Kilimanjaro in Africa and just completed my first IronMan this fall.  And the answers can vary from person to person but I wanted to share with you my favorite answer.  My Read More...