One of the most important decisions we make in life is who we choose to be around. In fact, there is an old proverb that reads, “Show me your friends and I’ll tell you who you are.” Quite often we become like the people we’re around. Based on that, we must be cautious...

Our lives require a certain degree of routine. For some people, routine helps them keep order to their day. For others, it lowers stress in their life. And still for others, it is required to get them out of bed in the morning.

No matter how faithful you are to a routin...

This world has no shortage of negative information. We are surrounded by it. If the media isn’t in your face sharing all the bad stuff happening throughout the country and your community, you have friends, family, and co-workers who will eagerly unload all their challe...

Well, the weekend is over. It’s Monday — back to work for those of us who work Monday to Friday. For way too many people, it is the start of a five-day countdown to the next weekend. They’ll drag themselves through this week in search of Friday. While some people will...

It finally happened. I had a feeling it would, and I’m pretty excited about it. Most people seem to dread it, but I’ve embraced it. After all, milestone birthdays don’t come along all that often. You see, this month I turned 50 years old!

I’ve often wondered why people...

Most of us work a regular job. Somewhere along the way we found something we could do or something that seemed interesting. Someone hired us to do it, and we took the job because we needed the money. While some people left those jobs to pursue a passion, many others lo...

This past week I got a call from a client. Before I could say a word upon answering my phone he said, “Sorry it’s taken me so long to get back to you. I have been busy, busy, busy!”

Some people are busy all the time. They never slow down, yet they complain to anyone who...

American author Bill Vaughan once wrote, “An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.”

I’m sure there are plenty of you who stayed up on New Year’s Eve in celebration of bringing in a New Year, hangi...

There are some lessons we learn in life that stick with us forever, while others require constant reminders. For me, one of those lessons that requires a constant reminder is the power of choice.

It becomes so easy to think we are simply a victim of our situation....

Day-to-day life can be rather boring. We often look forward to the exciting plans we make because it’s an opportunity to do something outside our routine. We get out of bed in the morning, go through our morning rituals, fight the traffic, go to work, deal with our cha...