I trust everyone had a wonderful and blessed Thanksgiving holiday with family and friends!
Hopefully our November’s contest spurred some interesting conversations over Thanksgiving dinner on what outside of the box people, places and things your loved ones were grateful for.
Thank you to everyone that participated in our Outside the Box Thankfulness Contest.
It was an amazing experience for me to read each comment and it is so evident how gratitude (yours or someone else’s) is incredibly contagious.
To everyone who shared something they were thankful for, I loved Read More...
Happy November! As Thanksgiving is several weeks away, this month’s contest focuses on gratitude.
When it comes to giving thanks and being grateful for the people, places and things in our lives, there are some obvious items that are usually ranked first on most people’s lists. Family, health, food, clothing, housing, job, church/spirituality and good friends regularly top the lists.
For this year’s contest, we want to go past the obvious and explore some the lesser-mentioned items that we are grateful for.
The question to answer this month is:
What 3 “outside of the box” items are you truly thankful for and Read More...
Thank you everyone who participated in our What Would You do if Time and Money Were No Concern Contest. I know that I felt inspiration just reading your answers, so I can’t imagine how good it felt to write these.
In coming up with a Top 3, I faced a daunting task. If it were possible, we would make you all winners.
Let’s be very clear here, if your response isn’t in the top 3, you should know that just about everyone of them was a tie, and the ones chosen as winners had some points for a different way of saying things that others also said, or had Read More...
Many of us are bogged down in our day-to-day life with too many concerns. Not enough time and definitely not enough money.
This month’s contest is based on a very easy question. But this question has led many people to profound answers and discoveries of things that they did not even know about themselves.
If you decide to participate in this contest, you will gain some clues into what your purpose is on this planet and where truly meaningful goals will come from.
The question is:
What 5 Things would You Do if Time and Money Were No Concern?
(enter by posting a comment below)
Really let your imagination run wild, but one guideline Read More...
With students returning to the classroom this month, we wanted to focus this month’s contest around education.
Education is the cornerstone to professional success and if you continue to invest in education over the course of a lifetime, constantly improving your skills, the heights you will reach personally and professionally are limitless.
So, the question to answer for this month’s contest is:
What is the most important concept you learned in school and why?
This could be anything that you learned in grades K-12. It could be a particular subject that has served you in adulthood, a life’s lesson a teacher taught you or a kernel of knowledge that has Read More...
If you are a reader of this blog, you more than likely have a goal. You took the time to carefully plan it out. You made sure it was meaningful to you, specific, measurable, had a due date, the right size, written down and reviewed. But now that you are halfway through the year you realize you haven’t made the progress you were hoping for.
Some obstacles may have come up, aka roadblocks to your success. They might have been big or small, you may or may not have had control over them, but one thing is clear. To reach your goal you must overcome them.
So for this month’s contest, we want to know:
What is your biggest obstacle towards hitting your goals and how do you overcome Read More...
Of all of the contests we have had on the Freedom Personal Development blog, this was by far my favorite! With over 40 entries, I spent a bunch of time laughing as did other members of the Freedom Team.
Watch the blog next Tuesday as we will be posting the top 10 videos that made us laugh.
But now for the winners!
First Place
Winner of an “Expect Success” Book, Freedom Personal Development Water Bottle and Calculator is #13 by Mary Ellen Shown.
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The benefits of a good laugh are endless: it improves your attitude; decreases stress and depression; it is a workout for your abdominal muscles; it increases oxygen to the brain and your muscles; it strengths your immune system; and laughter makes you more attractive.
Here is an interesting fact for you: On average, adults laugh 15 times a day. Children on the other hand, laugh over 400 times a day!!
So, what makes you laugh? That is what we want to know for this month’s blog contest.
Enter by simply entering your name and email below with either: a link to a video, a joke, a picture, a story, part of a movie or a situation that cracks you up. We are Read More...
The Freedom Team had a very difficult time narrowing down all of the books that were submitted for the Best Business Book Contest. There were so many great ones to pick from AND a ton of great recommendations I know our team will be reading this summer.
I complied all of the entries so you can have an easy to reference ”to-read” list. One aspect of this list I found interested was that not all of the books submitted would be found in the business section of a book store, but the information in the books can be directly applied to your professional life.
The Best Business Books as Voted by our Read More...
As a company, we are all voracious readers and always on the look out for great books. We believe that the books you read have a tremendous impact on your attitude, success and quality of your life.
So, for this month’s contest, we want to know:
What is your favorite business book AND what is one thing you learned from it?
To enter, post your answer as a comment below. Feel free to enter as many books/insights as you would like.
Winners will be based on the quality of the insights they learned from the book.
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