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By Mark Brown
It has been said that the only constant in life is change. One who doesn’t anticipate change of some sort—in careers, economics, home life, and more—is bound to be frustrated and possibly even angry when change comes his or her way.
Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your [...]

By Mark Brown
This little journey we’re on that we call life takes some interesting turns. Sometimes we reach a new summit and the view is breathtaking, only to later find ourselves in another valley, unsure of where the road is leading.
To end up on peaks of significance, the key is to take time and find [...]

What epitaph would you like on your tombstone?
Think with the end in mind and be proactive, not reactive.
Only then will you change and create using your imagination, conscience and willpower.

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By Carl Wooston
I was at the gym this morning and started into my standard thirty minutes on the elliptical machine.
Sure enough, less than five minutes into my workout I wanted to stop.
This urge has hit me consistently every morning since I started a new workout routine three weeks ago.
I’m glad to say I ignored it, [...]

By Greg Fullerton
So back in the days when I weighed 340…
“Oh, here he goes again on his ‘big’ days.”
I was in Panama City, Florida doing a training and I had some time to kill.
I was walking along the beach and I saw a guy parasailing. I had the crazy thought that I should try [...]

By Greg Fullerton
I’ve written previously on the importance of identifying your values through conscious introspection.
But not only is it important to identify your values, but you must also prioritize them.
In the classic movie “Chariots of Fire,” the protagonist Eric Little had three values: his religion, his love for his country, and his love [...]

By Mark Brown
Eric Hoffer wrote,
“In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.”
So how does one constantly learn?
Transformational learning starts with introspective curiosity. The most useful knowledge a person can gain is a knowledge of [...]

The two most fundamental commodities everyone has are time and money.
Interestingly, very rarely do we have them both at the same time. Usually we have a lot of time and no money, or a lot of money and no time.
The key is to optimize the balance between the two.
And how do we do [...]

In his essays on Self-Reliance, Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote something that has always stuck with me:
“In the world, it is easy to live after the world’s opinions. In solitude, it is easy to live after one’s own. But the great man is he, who in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness [...]