Entries Categorized as 'Motivation'

Give Yourself Permission to Suck

Date November 21, 2007

Failure is funny. It likes to masquerade. One of the biggest reasons for ?failure? isn’t really failure at all. So many people wallow in their failure, when the truth is that they made no attempt at all. They haven’t failed at anything, they haven’t done anything at which they could possibly fail. We’ve got a [...]

Fitness Affirmations: How Your Mind Can Take You From Fat to Thin.

Date October 29, 2007

If there is one key to fitness, one thing that can take you from ?so-so shape? to ?rock-hard and lean? it has to be, hands down, your mind-set. Now if you’re a regular reader of my site, this should come as no surprise to you. When you think about it, there exists nothing n the [...]

How to Be More Creative: Kicking Your Cleverness Into High Gear

Date October 25, 2007

?Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.?
–Theodore Roosevelt

Yes, there is indeed one, rock-solid rule for being more creative than you’ve ever been in your life. We’ve all brained stormed, we’ve all sat there staring at a blank page and waiting for inspiration. Forget it! Those days are gone. You [...]

Is Your Inner Child Proud of You?

Date October 23, 2007

So often we spend all of our lives asking ourselves questions about our purpose in life. We talk about finding our passion, about discovering why we are here on this Earth. We want to know why we are here and what we are supposed to be doing, but deep down inside there is a little [...]

10 Strange Methods for Becoming More Proactive (or How to Leave the Cult of Reactionism)

Date October 19, 2007

As I write this I’m in the middle of Atlanta, Georgia, where we are making this the summer of reactionary thinking. Georgia has been in the middle a drought for the last few months with our average rainfall down 16 inches. What makes this situation reactionary thinking? Well, you see, our water reserve, in the [...]

How to Find Your Life’s Purpose (and Whether You Have One or Not).

Date October 17, 2007

Let’s face it, life is full of unanswerable questions. Is there a God? What is our purpose in life? Well, I can’t help you much with that first one, but I think I can give you a great answer to that second question. It might not be the answer you were expecting, or an answer [...]