Work Towards Your Dreams, Work Even More and Work Right…
Dreams never will happen unless effort is applied towards making them happen. It's the same with any goal or anything worthy. Whether it's losing weight, becoming wealthy or even attaining a college degree, it take work. Every great success story was preceded by a...
What is Your Lifestyle? Healthy or Unhealthy?
Recently I went to have new professional pictures taken and as I was waiting a Marine Corps veteran came rolling in his wheelchair. This was outside the building. He had both an American and a Marine Corps flag attached to his wheelchair. And he was wearing a...
Life is About Change
Life transitions lead to change. Wherever each of us is at right now, it certainly is different than it was last year. Change happens and it will always happen. Even if you don't believe it will, it certainly will. Heck, if you were to look at picture of yourself 10...
Past, Present and Future
I was reading the Los Angeles Times online and found out that the old LAPD headquarters known as Parker Center had closed its doors. Since 1955, this institution was the familiar face of the LAPD. The old Dragnet series, starring Jack Webb, had shot many scenes...
Adjust and Get Fit
Life is about making adjustments. Years ago I learned from my father parts of this lesson. He had this oscilloscope in which he would do certain electronic projects at home. He demonstrated how a simple adjustments (which he called calibration) led to a different...
Our Closest Associates and How They Affect Our Behavior
In every part of society we see people that will congregate with others that are like-minded. In a sense, it's easier for our brains to do that. Things that are familiar to us tend to lead to the actions we take. And that is true of those we associate with the...
Commit to Succeed
How many remember the movie, 'The Pursuit of Happyness'? It was a story about Christopher Gardner which starred Wil Smith as the hero. Gardner had a traumatic childhood that included a violent, abusive step-father. His mother was imprisoned for the attempted murder...
Traveling the Right Way
Several years back during one of my hikes, I came across a divided path. Each path led to a certain point and as I did not have a map with me, I had no idea which way to go. I thought to myself, "Was I lost?" That thought quickly vanished when I realized all I had...
Manifest Your Dreams with an Actionfest
Over the last decade, the Law of Attraction and its cohorts have told people to visualize intensely your dreams in order to manifest it. The movie "The Secret" came out and really turned it around in the sense that it showed that all one had to do was believe...
What is Your Personal Narrative?
From the time each of us was born, we started the story of our life. Every story has a beginning, middle and end. Throughout our life there will be ups and downs, failures and successes, excitement and boredom. Like a good story, there will also be some drama. ...