Cut the Comparisons: 3 Ways to Embrace Your Unique Path

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A few weeks back, I checked a book of short stories out of the library—a book which had won many prestigious awards. Over the next few days, I read those stories whenever I got a chance, snatching moments out of my day when I probably should’ve been bathing my kids, or washing dishes, or ironing [...]

Why You Must Be Like the Lobster!

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Bit of a strange title for a personal development blog. Let me explain: Lobsters are part of a large family of crustaceans. They have a hard exoskeleton shell. In order for the lobster to grow, at various stages of its life, it must molt. In other words, it has to get rid of its old [...]

Failure Contest

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“I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” -Michael Jordan This quotation is so recognizable that it’s almost like [...]

Buckaroo Buddha

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From the time I could walk, there were two main things I was known for around our small Pennsylvania town. The first was my bright red hair, which sometimes brought teasing, and the second thing was my precocious knowledge of, and love for, horses. Anybody who knew anything about me understood that there was nothing [...]

The Walls We Build Around Ourselves

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I was speaking with Sharon, my wife, and a few friends,a few weeks ago, and we got around to talking about favourite colours, favourite flowers, favourite foods etc.  When one of my friends asked Sharon what was her favourite flower, Sharon replied ‘Well this week my favourite flower is the Orchid.’  When my friend questioned [...]

Tell Us More About You

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Over the last 5 years of writing this blog there have been exactly 18,925 comments on 695 posts, an average of 27 comments per post. Whilst this is great and we get to see some readers who comment regularly, it occurred to me that I don’t really know the people who comment, except for a [...]

How Doing Something Stupid Can Change Your Perspective

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I had never been so afraid to leave the house before. Could I really step out the door like this? Finally, I worked up the courage to turn the doorknob with the hand that was wearing a weight lifting glove, open the door, and step outside. This was it, no turning back now. What was [...]

How to Become Certain That You Will Reach Your Goals

I received another email this morning asking me how I keep motivated when I don’t know if my goals and dreams will ever be reached.  Well, instead of writing about it, which is what I had planned to do, I thought I would make a video.  So here is the video I made off the [...]

Are You A Trailblazer?

Today I have interviewed Jonathan Mead from IlluminatedMind.net Jonathan Talks about his story of quitting his corporate job to do something that he truly loves, which is helping others realise their potential. However, when he realised there were hundreds of other people who were tired of their jobs and wanted to go it alone, and [...]

Don’t Do These 15 Things If You Want To Turn Your Dreams Into Reality

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Ever feel like your dreams are never going to become a reality? It’s not like you’ve completely given up on your dreams. You occasionally think about how awesome it would be if you achieved them, but there are so many other things in the way. Your job. Your boss. Your kids. Your parents. Your finances. [...]