I had a phone call today that I was not looking forward to and I had thought of putting it off until “tomorrow”. I had plenty of reasons why I could rationalize putting it off for another day, but I knew that the more I put it off the worse it was going to get. So, I made the time, and made the call.
Going into the call I was expecting a battle. The email that I had received beforehand was negative, accusatory, and disrespectful so I wasn’t excited to talk with this person. Amazingly enough, 10 seconds into the call the person on the other end was not acting ANYTHING like I had imagined they would.
I realized that what they thought they were communicating in email was not what Read More...
Getting over failure and finding success means taking 100% responsibility for your life. You have to drop your excuses and victim stories. You must take 100% responsibility for everything you experience in your life….good and bad.
Setbacks can sidetrack us with blame and excuses and we give away the power of personal responsibility. How can you Read More...
If you are having trouble with visualizations don’t worry you’re not the only one!
Visualization is the process of making mental pictures and is a powerful technique used to help you focus your attention what you desire. People often come to me expressing concern that they are doing something wrong because they are having trouble seeing what they want.
Not everyone has a wide screen movie theater on the inside of his or her eyelids. Some people close their eyes and see absolutely nothing! Just blackness or spots, but not a picture.
Whether you know it or not you can visualize. To practice, try visualizing something you already have. It Read More...
Sounds dramatic, doesn’t it? But so are the results experienced by myself and others who have put this simple, five-minute practice into action. The practice is called positive visualization. That is right, positive visualization. Some of you may think this sounds too simple, some of you may think this sounds weird, and some of you may be ready to start a simple exercise that has more power to impact your life immediately than almost any other exercise I have come across.
Before we talk about HOW to do this exercise most effectively, let’s talk about what the purpose is and why it works. The purpose behind visualization is to allow your life to be as good and fulfilling Read More...
Recently, a good friend of mine admitted that he was gay. Well he didn’t actually admit it outright, although he did clearly hint at it openly and jokingly. It was rather refreshing to see him breaking down some social barriers that surround us at varying heights throughout our lives. What’s amazing is I recall thinking, and have always felt, “whatever”! I love the guy and hope that he is a part of my life until the end. That message was crystal clear, unbiased, coming directly from my soul…
So it started me thinking about the whole concept of Read More...
The very first “motivational speaker” I heard as an adult was a gentleman named Mort Utley. I experienced his speech in May of 1989 in Nashville, Tennessee, at the end of a week of Sales School with the Southwestern Company.
I was 19 years old and had just finished my freshman year at the University of Wisconsin, and Mr. Utley’s speech was the final component of my formal training to sell educational books door-to-door for the summer. I was absolutely coming out of my skin with an indescribable combination of intense excitement and great fear. Mort Utley’s speech made one of the most “un-motivational” statements I had ever heard. He Read More...
Emotional health refers to your overall psychological well-being. People who are emotionally healthy handle stress well, deal with challenges as opportunities, have a positive self-image, and are able to sustain healthy relationships. Review the following tips on how to stay emotionally healthy.
1. Laugh often – Emotional benefits of laughter include feeling a sense of contentment and joy, shifting your perspective to a positive outlook, giving you more courage and hope, dissolving tense situations, and improving overall mood.
2. Do frequent feelings checks – Determine how you feel when you wake up in the morning. If the feeling is negative, figure out what’s Read More...
I want to share with you one of the quickest and easiest ways to give yourself quantum leaps in your energy level and it hardly takes any time.
What is it? It involves releasing the heaviest and most destructive emotion that you carry around with you. You know what it is? Sadness? No. Depression? No. It is anger.
Anger that you carry around weighs you down and sucks the energy out of your life. I am continually amazed how many people, and even kids, carry around anger for so long that is just unnecessary.
For some of you reading this, there is something that a boss or a co-worker said to you a week ago that ticked you off and you are still mad about it. For others, there is Read More...
Kicking off 2010, I’m inspired to share with you one of the best-kept secrets at Freedom Personal Development.
You may have attended one of our live workshops or read articles from our instructors. You’ve heard the stories about how our staff has accomplished some mind-blowing results in the past. To list a few they have:
- Wiped out 30K of credit card debt in a year
- Broken sales records that stood for 10 years
- Completed the Iron Man
- Stopped Smoking and/or kicked other addictions
- Lost 30 lbs and kept it off permanently
I could go on and on…
People wonder how they are able to do these things. And in almost every instance, they did it Read More...
Today I would like to revisit a concept that we have talked about many times, the concept of Be Do Have.
This is one of those concepts that you could think about everyday and everyday you would have a new or deeper insight. Be Do Have literally applies to every area of your life. It is the idea that before you can Have something like joy, health, or wealth you must first decide to Be the kind of person who has those things and then Do the things necessary to Have them.
The reason this concept is so vital to talk about is because most people think about Be Do Have in reverse order or out of order.
For example, many people believe that when they Have a promotion, Read More...
I had a phone call today that I was not looking forward to and I had thought of putting it off until “tomorrow”. I had plenty of reasons why I could rationalize putting it off for another day, but I knew that the more I put it off the worse it was going to get. So, I made the time, and made the call. 
Emotional health refers to your overall psychological well-being. People who are emotionally healthy handle stress well, deal with challenges as opportunities, have a positive self-image, and are able to sustain healthy relationships. Review the following tips on how to stay emotionally healthy.
