Thank you to all those who contributed to last month’s contest. I really enjoyed reading and learning from the advice given. Time sure allows for great insight and I believe our 18-year-old selves would have been even more amazing to learn from such wisdom.

Here are our winners for the contest:

3rd Place and winner of a Freedom Personal Development Water Bottle is comment #6 from Ginni Hoinacki:

I would tell my 18 your old self to not take yourself so Read More...

Who doesn’t love a good movie? Watching a movie, we can see people fight battles, travel through time, realize they are married to a spy, etc. However, all along, we know they are just stories. We enjoy the emotion they bring for a couple of hours; if they’re really good they get us thinking, we learn something, and then we continue on with our own life.

However, I find it interesting how easy it is to get wrapped up in a story when it is my story. I think back to the parable of the Chinese farmer, watching the ebbs and flows of his life, remaining calm and Read More...

Last year I hosted the contest Hindsight is 20/20 and wanted to do similar contest this year, but with a twist.

Imagine you could go back in time and have a conversation with yourself at age 18. Turning 18 is an exciting age – you are finally a legally recognized adult, you can vote and the world is full of possibilities. Knowing what you know now, what would you tell your younger self?

Perhaps you would pass along a few words of wisdom. Maybe there was an opportunity you wish would have taken, or a mistake that you wish Read More...

Thank you all for the great answers to our Hindsight is 20/20 contest. I had a very difficult time narrowing it down to 3 choices, but feel these 3 captured the essence of all the answers.

Here are the winners!!

First Place winner is John Neyer. He has won an “Expect Success” Book AND 3 Private, One-On-One, Personal Development Coaching Sessions with Renee Shupe, The Redhead Coach www.redheadcoach.com

This was John’s Read More...

Do you ever judge people? I know for me, there have been many times when I have judged my clients for not buying, my contact for blowing off my call, my colleagues for doing something I didn’t agree with, my spouse for not doing something I wanted, my kids for throwing their food, myself for many things…I have found that it’s not very helpful.

How about you? I get frustrated and negative. And you know what? Sometimes those things that upset or frustrated me were blessings in disguise. This brings me back to the old Chinese proverb about the farmer:

An old farmer had an old horse for tilling his fields. One day the horse escaped into the Read More...

You have heard the saying “Hindsight is 20/20.” Looking back in the past, we all see situations we would have handled differently, opportunities we should have taken and mistakes we wouldn’t have made.

We can’t go back and change the past and there is no benefit of regretting what already has happened.  We CAN learn from the past, share the lessons learned and adjust our actions and decisions in the present to ensure a brighter future.

For this month’s blog contest, I am curious to know what advice you would have given yourself (or another in similar situation Read More...