All things considered, I’m happy with how this week went in terms of food intake and exercise. I spent three days in a management training class where they just kept bringing snacks into the room and attended a going away party for a friend. Rather that sweat trying to resist, I indulged a little. The [...] Read more>>
Cooling Out on Credit: When I Realized It Was Net Worth It
A couple nights ago, I started the process of getting my finances in order. As I mentioned earlier this week, I’ve been spending first and asking questions later for way too long. Basically, I’ve been buying what makes me happy…on tilt. Not quite the way to go if I wanna achieve the financial freedom I [...] Read more>>
Give Me Free: The Motivation Behind My Lifestyle Change
On Friday, I mentioned how I’m thinking more and more about being able to quit my day job and focus on my passions — running websites, career coaching, and writing to name a few — on a full-time basis. I spent a good portion of the weekend thinking about a conversation I had with my [...] Read more>>
How to Come Up With New Year’s Resolutions That Stick
It’s time to make resolutions again. We’ve reflected on the year with all its ups and downs, know what we look like and who we are in the mirror, and we’re ready to go forward with new goals. Unfortunately for a good number of us, we’ll relapse back to where we started within the first [...] Read more>>
Listening: Are You as Good at It as You Think?
Listening is one of the most overlooked skills in existence. We often think we’re doing a great job of it, but don’t realize we’re losing points with someone without even knowing it. What points am I referring to here? I’m talking about trust points. Think of listening as a product or service and trust as [...] Read more>>
You Are What You Spend. Who Are You?
Back in October, I set out to do the impossible. Something so crazy that everybody I told either said “good luck” or “that’s really aggressive.” I wasn’t sure I’d make it either, but it’s something that I’ve needed to do for a long time. And after giving it a go, I realized that even though [...] Read more>>
Are You Robbing Yourself of Happiness?
People talk a lot about what they love, where they wanna be, what they believe, and what they wanna accomplish in life. But when you look at how they’re living, things often point in the opposite direction. And more often than we’d like to admit, those people are us. We make proclamations about being devout [...] Read more>>
