Dr. Peter Senge author of “The Fifth Discipline” describes the difference between “commitment” and “compliance.” To illustrate his point he uses the late President John Kennedy’s quote that the United States should set as a goal "landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth" by the end of the decade.

One of my mentors and teachers was Dr.Ron Hering. As I was going through his program, to become a certified trainer in Accelerated Behavior Change...we would discuss the process of making decisions or not making decisions.

Have you ever felt nervous about making a decision that could affect the rest of your life?  Who hasn't !

My hobby is racing and I’m an amateur race car driver. One day I was sitting in my race car ready to go out on the track before a race. As I was sitting there going through my mental check list was the car ready?, was I ready?...it came to me. I realized something.

The most important thing ...

A friend of mine said to me the other day. “I wish we would make new mistakes...instead of making the same mistakes.” I started to think about what he said and realized the lesson we could all learn from this statement.

Have you ever held back on doing ...

Growing up I was told by many people why I would not succeed...but I decided to take charge of my life. How about you?  Are you ready to take charge of your life? To help you on the path I have a few questions for you.

• Do you have the ability to accept the things you can change and the things you cannot change? 

When you are feeling under the whether all the time perhaps it is because you are stressed. Stress alone can cause major psychological and mental problems. In fact, stress can cause self-induced exaggerated problems. Stress causes confusion, since it targets your physical, emotional responses, and psychological aspects while causing you pain. Stress is the leading problem that everyone in the world faces at one time or another.

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When the tragedy of the Costa Concordia started to unfold my wife and I had in September taken a cruise on Costa Cruise line to visit the Fjords in Norway.

As I watched I noticed the side of the ship that was in the ocean was the side our stateroom was on. All I could do ...

"If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought” Peace Pilgrim 

In life, you are always filled with choices. You may opt to have a pessimist’s view and live a self-defeated life or you may decide to take the optimist’s route and take a challenging and fulfilling life.

Strange as it may seem, our life is made up of a series of “sales presentations”. Sales may not be your gig, but if you’re the boss you’re making  presentations everyday. Be it a pitch to your Board, announcing a policy change to employees, selling an idea to  your spouse, or just trying to win others over to your point of view – you need to punch up your people skills for winning pitches.