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Today I am going to “ try “ to get my video completed! Whenever I say something like that I know I am not committed to it.  You see, there is no such thing as “ try”; yet it is a word we use every day without blinking an eye! I will try to get this blog written! Well, I will either do it or I won’t. If I say: “ I tried to get it done yesterday”, did I really? What exactly did I do to try? How trying is all this? OK, I know I am getting carried…

Today I received this quote in my e-mail inbox. “ How you make others feel about themselves says a lot about you!”  As I pondered this quote, I asked myself a couple of questions: 1. First, can I really make someone feel a certain way? 2. Secondly, if I truly can, then I am very powerful? Don’t get me wrong. Sometimes we share quotes without thinking a whole lot about what we are saying. Sounds good right?  If we “ make “ someone feel bad by the behavior we choose then yes, it says a lot about me.   Here…

This past weekend I was thinking about influence. We see a lot of articles about influencing others but I started to ponder some of the influencers in my life. I guess it started when I saw a video post from Tony Robins who spoke of giving his last cent to a young boy so he could take his mother to dinner. He was so impressed with the boy who was about 8 he gave his last cents away not knowing where the next penny was coming from.  The next day, he received a letter in the mail from someone who…

What are your biggest fears? I have learned that most people say their number one fear is public speaking. They say they would rather die than speak in public! What is this about? I am an accidental public speaker! Sometimes life gives you a challenge that leads you to where you are meant to be in order to share your innate talents. If someone had told me I was meant to be speaking in public I would have told that person that I thought they were on another planet. That is exactly what happened! Many years ago, I was the…