Providing that you didn’t fail miserably on the first task that I set out for you in my previous article (See Becoming Successful: Getting Started) , you should be on your way to starting your new venture. As we discussed earlier, this venture does not necessarily have to be a business. It could be that you want to start or become more involved in a community or charitable organization, start a new hobby that you want to become great at, or possibly just learn something new. Regardless of what your venture is, when you sat down to create your first task list and approached those tasks over the last week or so you probably ran into my most common complaint, “I just don’t have enough time”. Click here to read more.. »
As I write this tonight, the stock market has taken another plunge, the government is debating a bailout of the auto makers and gloom and doom seems to be coming at us from every direction. The dire financial news of today is likely to become the dire financial news of tomorrow and quite frankly for the forseeable future. The problem is that we cannot allow it to control our lives. Too many of us have connected out financial success to happiness. My thought for today is this. Celebrate life.
November 1st marks the beginning of the Holiday Season for me, from this point out the year is focused on celebration. Thanksgiving is just around the corner, holiday sales, football games, parties and other events seem to get endlessly strung together from now thru the end of the year. While the constant taunting of “buy me, buy me” coming from the stores comes earlier each year, I will make a point this year of turning my criticism of this into celebration of it. No, I won’t shop any earlier or buy any more than I usually do, but I may have friends over for dinner this November, or have a pre-holiday party. Click here to read more.. »
Posted on November 12th 2008 in Family, Personal Growth
“I’m going to the store, can I get anyone anything?” That’s how most Mrs. Gravocks visits to our house started when I was younger. It seems that even though we think of our youth as a “simpler time in life”, people were always on the run. The difference however was that they announced it ahead of time. Every trip that was taken, whether to the corner store or into the next town, was broadcast along our little row of neighbors before anyone even thought of leaving. Sometimes it was foretold of the day before such as “I’m running into Hamburg tomorrow morning, do you need anything?” Click here to read more.. »
