The first step toward being AWESOME is: Acceptance and Awareness of things as they actually are. This is crucial in obtaining a comprehensive and accurate understanding of where you are in your journey forward and in how you are accepted (or rejected) by those around you. Given your power to Atrract and/or Repel opportunity the […]

Any reader (or listener) of mine already knows how much I believe in Dr. David Burns, MD, and his book "Feeling Good! The New Mood Therapy" where we can learn about "thinking ourselves well." One of the strategies I find most useful to eliminating cognitive barriers to success, you know, how to avoid the things […]

Like most things in life and business; big problems often start small! The proverbial "800 pound Gorrilla"… the problem or competitor that is ever present; that dominates your thoughts and actions and never seems to go away probably started out as a small monkey.  The biggest barrier to success is usually within an organization (or […]

Do you remember where you were when Willie Stargel and the Pittsburgh Pirates road the Sister Sledge Anthem "We Are Family" to baseball’s World Series title over my Baltimore Orioles?   Willie took his "family," and this song, all the way to number one on the Disco and Baseball charts in 1979. Okay, okay, I’m an […]