Some children grow up with confidence and self-assurance, while others appear to be meek and self-conscious. Have you ever wondered…

Life truly is a mind game! It's in our minds that we see ourselves being successful at something or failing at something. It's in our minds that we preview an upcoming challenge, an upcoming test and see ourselves …

Life! – with its infinite personal possibilities, its enthralling natural order, its captivatingly beautiful scenery should have us so in awe that…

If we have set too many goals, we can sometimes become confused about which ones to pursue first, and which to put off until later. Since our time is limited and we cannot …

Are you enjoying your life? Are you generally happy? Are there things that you are eagerly looking forward to? These are important questions for all of us to ponder. If you could not answer…

So many of our young people today seem to be obsessed with what other people think of them. Social media's powerful influence in their lives should be very concerning to…

Life truly is our ultimate teacher. Sometimes it gives us a test and then from that we learn the lesson. Sometimes it gives the lesson first through wise counsel from…

On life's exciting and challenging road, we all pick up some hitchhikers from time to time. Some of them are only going part of the way with us, while some will make the total journey at our…

Making a better future is about focusing on where we want to go and not how we are going to get there. The key ingredient is…

It is really unfortunate that most of us don't even get to write our own music, let alone get to sing it. There is such beauty within each one of us, beauty that rarely even gets…

Most of us seldom reach the point where we realize that the conformity-jacket we've been wearing is not a one size fits all, as we were led to believe. While conformity may be good for an orderly society, that same society also gets…

I must respectfully disagree with Sir Winston in his assessment of attitude as a "little thing. " Of all the things that influence our success or…

When you decide on what your next life goal is, leave plenty of stretch-room because you will find that some of the skills you currently have will require stretching before…

It takes a lot of courage and determination to change things about ourselves that need to be changed. If we are trying to overcome a tendency to procrastinate, forcing ourselves to …

The true measure of how strong your desire is to achieve something, can easily be measured by how much opposition you are willing to…

Many of us grown-ups have been battle-tested by life and are therefore capable of withstanding and overcoming its many challenges. Numerous other adults were shielded from many life challenges and appear to be less…

Observing myself and other people has been a lifelong hobby of mine. It has been interesting and enlightening to notice how some of us seem to…

A good memory can be a blessing, or a curse. Likewise, a poor memory can also be a blessing or a curse. The ability to recall the name of every person who ever slighted me or mistreated me handcuffs me…

Our view of ourselves is a great determiner of how high we aim in life. Some of us were fortunate enough to grow up in a family situation where we were encouraged to do well and perhaps learned that we actually could do well. Some of us were not that fortunate and maybe…

For all of those future champions out there, I would just like to encourage you to keep clawing and scratching and dragging yourself forward until…