Archive for the ‘Self Improvement’ Category


When is Change Really Bad for Me?

Change can be a disquieting thing.  We have a picture, in our rec room, of the 1927 Saturday Evening Post cover with a cowboy affectionately called “Lonesome Luke”.  The caption underneath the pictures says, “Just when I learned the dance, they changed the music.” Have you ever felt like Luke? It seems our world is [...]

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5 Tips to Overcoming the Stress of Frustration

Each one of us has our own relationship with the emotion of frustration.  Here’s a little secret between you and me.  If you don’t learn how to deal with frustration it can stop all your attempts to become successful.  Do you think I’m being harsh?  Let’s think about it for a moment. Frustration is stressful.  [...]

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Does It Take More Than Goals to Engineer My Success?

I had a great day yesterday. I was pumped! I had a very productive Monday, a great start to my week. I felt like I was in alignment with the goals I had set for my success filled year. I received an email from someone who was talking about how yesterday, my productive yesterday, was being referred to as “Blue Monday”.

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The Upside of Failure

Everyone loves a success story. We all enjoy hearing them. They motivate us and reinforce our level of belief that good things can happen. But, there is an element in every success story we don’t often think about. In every success story, there is always failure.

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Why Can’t I Stick to My Goals?

Many of us have started our new year out with some pretty exciting goals. As we are drawing them up, they excite us. We know, if we can accomplish our goals for this year, we’ll be on way to having what we want!…Two weeks later, we’re dead in the water.

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Goals – Are They Only a Figure of Speech?

Many of us start the year with great plans, but as time goes on, don’t accomplish them. We start out gung-ho to lose weight, get a better job, earn more money, and by the second week, we are cruising down the same well worn path as before.

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The 11 Things That Blow Up My Goals!

There have been years, where I set my goals, and then one month, or less, into my goal period I fall flat. My great intentions are as deflated as a balloon trapped in a cold car. I am down for the count, frustrated and wondering if there is anything to this goal setting crap! Have you ever this way?

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