If you took some time to relax between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day, good for you! Now you’re back in the thick of it. With urgency on more things than any one person should have to deal with. Oh, there’s this goal you dreamt up in December while you were chilling out – oh, forget that now! It’s never going to happen. No time to deal with that. Really? Just like that you’re going to toss it in? Give up before you even start? B.S. to that idea! If this dream, this goal, was … [Read more...]
Happy New Year 🥳 🍾
Everyone in the world is looking ahead to a great year ahead in 2021! Let’s all do our best to make it a reality! This year we may be apart – next year we’ll all be together. “Last year’s words belong to last year’s language. And next year’s words await another voice." - T.S. Eliot "Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties." - Helen Keller "You’ll never get bored when you try something new. There’s really no limit to what you can … [Read more...]
Did You Give Up Too?
Have you noticed no one is talking about New Year’s Resolutions any longer? Did you give up too? Well it is the middle of February and this means more than half of the people who made that New Year’s Resolution to lose weight, go to the gym, eat healthier, quit smoking, save more money – have either not even started or have already stopped. Did you give up too? How can we resent the life we've created for ourselves? Who's to blame, who's to credit, but us? Who can change it, any time we … [Read more...]
Happy New Year 2019!
"Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step." ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. "Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each New Year find you a better person." ~ Benjamin Franklin "You’ll never get bored when you try something new. There’s really no limit to what you can do." ~ Dr. Seuss "We will open the book. It’s pages are blank. We are going to put the words on the pages ourselves. The … [Read more...]
A Certainty Is Time Will March On
It is the end of the first quarter – the first three months – of 2018. Let’s warm up with a little talk about time. One of the great equalizers is time. No matter who you are, where you are from, where you live, how educated you are, how much money you have, how connected you are, what title you have, how many trophies you have, EVERYONE has the same amount of: hours minutes seconds IN EACH DAY. The difference maker is clearly something else. It is what you do with your … [Read more...]
Setting Your 2018 Goals
If you have not set goals yet for 2018 – what exactly are you waiting for? “Insanity is doing the same things over and over again and expecting different results.” – Attributed to Albert Einstein We all know we must set goals for ourselves, our family and in our careers or business. This should never be a once a year activity. In reality we have our why – our big dream or wish. Our goals should be set to help take us toward our why. My good friend, Paul Martinelli, the President of The … [Read more...]
