Dr. Success Challenge: For the next 30 days, look yourself in the mirror and recite this first person adaptation of Marianne William’s famous passage. Keep track of changes in your personal confidence during the 30 days. Keep track of days it is easy to do, and days that it is difficult. Keep track of the...Read More

Some people refer to themselves as a life coach. I do not. I don’t like the title. Have never used it to refer to my work, nor is it a reference I have ever made about the work I do. I view myself as a life teacher. Before you get your bloomers all in a...Read More

When one question keeps showing up in conversations, I know its time to pay attention. This week in three separate situations the question of business ethics and more specifically, “Dose a business have ethics?” came up in conversation. (Yes, yes I know, I hang out with people who don’t really know how to have fun!)...Read More

In a December 2009 blog post, and on the December 2009 segment of AM Arizona, I featured a book, Whale Done Parenting. It is a story and guidebook of how to apply the positive psychology techniques used to train orcas at SeaWorld to the development of children. Last week an experienced, devoted trainer of SeaWorld...Read More

Dr. Success challenge: Review your checkbook and your calendar. What does how you spend your money and where you spend your time say about what you value in your life? Is the picture accurate? I have been working with the following questions this week: What do you value? Where do you put your priorities? Within...Read More

Recently I was sent a list of questions by a freelance journalist interested in developing an article for an artesian trade magazine. The article was about how to stay motivated during economically challenging times. What follows was the response I submitted: The things you do to stay motivated in a down economy are the same...Read More

The book Be The Hero by Noah Blumenthal has been a big part of my life the last ten months or so. On January 30, 2010, about 80 lucky people in Las Vegas got to hear Noah present his thinking which is incorporated in the book. As you would expect, we spoke about his presentation...Read More

Dr. Success Challenge: It is Valentine’s Day. Find someone you value and spend time with them, enjoy them and take care of them. “Life is difficult.” Three little words that literally and figuratively rocked my world. They are the first three words in M. Scott Peck’s now classic book, The Road Less Traveled. In themselves,...Read More

For nearly 5 years a concept that was originally used by a clairvoyant seer who lived in the mid-1800’s to describe his understanding of the soul’s journey after death – Law of Attraction – has been bastardized and morphed into a popular cliché used to describe everything good that occurs in your life and everything...Read More