Entries Tagged as 'Aspirations'

Monday, August 22nd, 2011

50 Ways to Waste a Life

If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never get it.  If you don’t ask the right questions, you’ll always get the wrong answers.  If you don’t take a step forward, you’re always going to be in the same place.  Life is a journey full of choices.  Here are 50 wasteful choices to avoid.

Spend […]

Monday, August 8th, 2011

12 Ways to Get a Second Chance in Life

“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning,
but anyone can start today and make a new ending.”
-Maria Robinson
We all need second chances.  This isn’t a perfect world.  We’re not perfect people.  I’m probably on my 1000th second chance right now and I’m not ashamed to admit it.  Because even though I’ve failed a lot, […]

Saturday, June 18th, 2011

How To Be Bigger Than Yourself

What We Live For
Once upon a time a wise man asked a group of people who he cared about to convene.  A month later twenty of us are assembled on the front porch of a log cabin near the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.  Most of us don’t know each other, as we are […]

Sunday, May 22nd, 2011

How To Make Good Things Happen

This guest post was written by Diggy, author of Upgrade Reality.
When wild animals are first captured and put into zoo cages they try everything to get out of that cage.  They bite it, run into it with their full weight, and claw at the cage.  They persist for weeks and months and they take any […]

Monday, April 18th, 2011

18 Things My Dad Was Right About

Fifteen years ago, when I was a freshman in high school, my English teacher gave my class a homework assignment entitled, “Advice for a Younger Generation.”  The concept of the assignment was simple:  Each student had to interview a person who was over the age of 25, gather enough information to write a basic biography […]

Monday, March 28th, 2011

50 Things You Need To Give Up Today

When you stop chasing the wrong things, you give the right things a chance to catch you.
So starting today…

Give up trying to be perfect. – The real world doesn’t reward perfectionists, it rewards people who get things done.  Read Getting Things Done.
Give up comparing yourself to others. – The only person you are competing against […]

Monday, March 21st, 2011

12 Steps to Make a Dream a Reality

No fluff.  No frills.  No filler.
Here are 12 fundamental steps for turning the dreams and ideas in your mind into realities in your life.

We all have our own life to pursue,
our own kind of dream to be weaving.
And we all have some power to make wishes come true,
as long as we keep believing.
- Louisa May […]

Monday, February 28th, 2011

60 Inconvenient Personal Development Truths

I know you want to be the best you can be.  We all do.  But sometimes we look for success in the wrong places or we try to achieve it in the wrong ways.
Here are 60 inconvenient truths about personal development to help you stay on track.

The acquisition of knowledge doesn’t mean you’re growing.  Growing […]

Monday, February 21st, 2011

6 Steps to True Happiness

This guest post was written by Chris Gaddis.
I want to thank Marc and Angel for allowing me to be a guest on their blog.  Marc was nice enough to appear on a radio show I host in New York (download my radio interview with Marc here).  He knew I was starting my own blog at […]

Monday, October 18th, 2010

Why Winners Win and Losers Lose

We all want to be winners.  We all want to succeed.  So why then do so many of us struggle indefinitely and come up short?  It has something to do with how we think, what we focus on, and how we live each moment.
Here are a few ideas on why winners win and losers lose.

Losers […]