Crack may not grow on trees, but it cannot dim the light of greatness. Picture this: panhandler on Fremont Street holding sign which reads:  Crack Does Not Grow On Trees I shook my head but the sign made me smile and I said to the young man holding the sign, “You have a good sense...Read More

Comparison kills your spirit.  Comparison kills your motivation.  Comparison kills your ability to be creative. Dr. Success Challenge:  Reflect back through your day and focus specifically on your thoughts.  Do you remember having any thoughts where you compared yourself (negatively or positively) to another person?  Be honest.  Think about the woman who walked by who...Read More

I hate to break it to you, but if all goes well you will be 80 soon. Actually, sooner than you can accurately imagine.  Many a research study has been devoted to the gap between chronological age and a person’s psychological impression of their age. Remember, if all goes well, you will be 80 sooner...Read More

If someone was willing to tell you the way to joy, would you take the path?  When one of my most admired psychologist, @MarthaBeck recently tweeted “If you sense that joy, freedom & love lie in a direction, go that way no matter”, I had to pause.  My greatest challenge is not attracting joy.  My greatest...Read More

By Andrea Goeglein Step 1 To Having It All:  Make a list of everything you want to achieve, then focus on one thing at a time. You can have it all, just not all at once.  That is the advice Arianna Huffington gave voice and Gabby Bernstein has amplified to a striving generation of young...Read More

By Andrea Goeglein Do you think no one understands you?  Have you ever thought: “I suppose the one problem I haven’t figured out a good solution for—the one that keeps coming up again and again—is how I come across to other people.  I get the feeling that sometimes people think I’m being critical, or aloof,...Read More

I am not talking that ‘first’ time.  I am asking you to think back on the first time an idea, opinion, or spark of inspiration entered your consciousness.  For me, many of my ‘first’ times come as the result of reading an article or a book.  Just as many times, I have a creative idea,...Read More

by Andrea Goeglein Comfort zones be damned.  Comfort zones are not nearly as comfortable as they are potentially claustrophobic.  This post will hit my blog late in February, but it is being written on February 4, 2015.  In four days I leave for a trip to Nicaragua to attend a yoga retreat.  Anyone who knows...Read More

Being 17 years old allows for a view of the world I, and many I work with, would benefit from revisiting.  At 17 years old you have lived long enough to experience the full range of human emotions and challenges, yet not old enough to think you cannot positively impact your future. On this past...Read More