You’re at home and suddenly you realize you need to go grocery shopping. You grab the keys to your car and head out. Once you get back home and start putting away the groceries, you realize you bought a lot of what you don’t need and not much of what you really needed. What happened? For all major grocery stores, everything in the store is made to lead you into buying certain things, often things you don’t really need. This…
We all have a similar story when it comes to trying to add something new to our day. Maybe we’re trying to start exercising, maybe it’s spending more time with the kids, parents, or grandparents, maybe it’s working on something we’ve been putting off for some time. And we talk about it and say we’re going to make time for it but it never seems to happen. Why is that and what can we do to change it? During a…
“One summer day, a man by the name of Nick Sitzman was doing his usual job on a train crew. The train crew were informed that they could quit an hour early in honor of the foreman’s birthday. Accidentally, Nick was locked in a refrigerator boxcar, and the rest of the workmen left the site. Nick went into a panic as soon as he found out he was locked in. He banged and shouted hoping to get someone’s attention. No one heard him. “If I can’t get out,…
Your moving along in your journey and come up to a cliff in your path. You can clearly see the other side, not too far away, and can clearly see that there is no other way to get to it. You start approaching the cliff, to see if you can jump to the other side. As you step closer, fear kicks in. You start getting nervous. You get close enough to see what’s below and when you see there’s nothing…
To the people who post: There’s a quote by John Paul Dejoria, a self-made billionaire who is best known as a co-founder of the Paul Mitchell line of hair products and The Patron Spirits Company, that goes something like this, “If you have something bad to say about someone, say it to them face to face, behind closed doors. If you have something good to say about someone, say it out loud!” He mentioned this when answering a question about how…
If you find yourself stressing out about things like missing a sale at your favorite store or about your favorite TV show being cancelled, about losing a parking spot that’s four cars closer than other empty spots, about why a certain person didn’t “like” the picture you posted on Facebook; if you’re stressing out about any of these things, chances are you don’t have much going on in your life. OK, lets let that sink in a little before moving…
Do you put yourself in a position for growth? Do you accept that you will not always be right? Do you surround yourself with people that can tell you when you’re wrong? Is your level of certainty low? Is your level of comfort low? Do you wake in the morning looking forward to the challenges that may come up instead of hoping for an easy day? If you answered “yes” to questions 2-6, then your answer to the first…
Money is something most of us don’t like to talk about much and we usually don’t spend enough time in understanding our own financial situation. Below are some tips that I believe are some of the most impactful and are shared by some of the most successful people like Warren Buffet and Ray Dalio, both among the wealthiest people in the world. I will keep this one very simple as anything involving finance can often get complex and overwhelming. Save…
“Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.” – Viktor E. Frankl, neurologist and psychiatrist, and a Holocaust survivor This brings the question; do you ever achieve happiness by pursuing it? “Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.” – Eleanor Roosevelt It is in finding your purpose and being active towards that purpose where happiness will find you. And if you don’t know your purpose, be…
When I arrived home one evening, my son let me know he had received a gift from his piano teacher. The gift was one of those blocks you excavate to find a surprise toy inside. He showed me the brochure it came with, and it showed that the surprise toy could be one of six dragons, with one being “rare” and another being “super rare”. He of course couldn’t wait to dig out the toy to see what he was…