Personal Development

How To Overcome Fear, Timidity & Self Pity

As a boy I struggled with all three of these giants. They particularly played a dominant role in my life when I was nine years old and my parents decided to invite a twelve-year-old boy to live with us. Being super-athletic, on the very first day he attended my school, he was challenged to race [...]

Whatever You Focus on Becomes Real to You

Post written by Justin Mazza. One thing that all of us have in common is the ability to focus on external objects or events. Today I was watching my beloved Baltimore Ravens play the Houston Texans for the AFC playoff hunt. Maybe you don’t care a lick about American Football and I am alright with [...]

6 Life Lessons Learned from Teaching High School

Post written By Ken Wert. “While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.” ~ Unknown As a 10 year veteran high school teacher, I’ve spent a lot of time working in the trenches with teens who struggle to find their way in life. I’ve [...]

Top 10 Most Read Motivational Memos

When you sit down to write another blog article, as a writer you really never can tell which posts are going to be the most popular and which ones are going to be the most read. So today I decided to look through all my posts and discover which posts had been read by more [...]

How To Be Unashamedly You

‘Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.’ Dr Seuss So many of us have lived our lives concerned about what ‘they’ say or think. But please allow me to join with Dr Seuss – the creator of such classics as ‘The [...]

How To Love What You May Become

‘Love not what you are, but what you may become.’ Miguel de Cervantes I have a simple question for you – ‘What would you do with this life that has been placed within your hands – your life?’ It’s a pretty powerful question to be posed to any human being. But the facts are that [...]

Why Change Happens When You’re Ready

Here is what Paulo Coehlo – the international best selling author had to say about change…. ‘It took almost 40 years for me to become a writer. Before that I always dreamt of becoming a writer, but I never dared to take the necessary steps.
I met my master in Amsterdam in 1982. He had told [...]

‘The Magic Of Thinking Big’ Giveaway

Some books come into your life that absolutely and utterly destroy every mediocre thought ever established in your mind. They’re rare, but they do appear from time to time in your life. The Magic Of Thinking Big was one of those books that impacted me in a BIG way. So for that reason I would [...]

3 Ways To Judge Your Own Life

‘Men are not to be judged by their looks, habits and appearances, but by the character of their lives and conversation, and by their works.’ Roger L’Estrange The good book warns us to ‘judge not lest we be judged’. But that is in reference to judging other people. But may I suggest that we need, [...]