Are You a Risk Taker
“Hold up your cup. Here is some positive tea that I want to pour out for you”. What is a Risk? You can say it’s a dark tunnel before you reach the end of it. It’s a storm before you can see a rainbow. In other words, it’s a path of uncertainties and insecurities before […]
Take “Never” Out Of Your Vocabulary
“Hold up your cup here is some positive tea that I want to pour out for you”. “I give up! I’m not going to bother anymore!” You’ve said things like that at some point, I’m sure. So have I. When you just can’t seem to get something right, it seems a waste of time to […]
Be the Change
We all talk about change all the time. But what does change really mean? And can we really change? I mean, really change? I think we mean well, we talk big, but changing is much harder than we realize. The question is, once we know what it takes to change, will we really want to? […]
Don’t Let the Monster In
“Hold up your cup here is some positive tea that I want to pour out for you”. It is so easy to start thinking about all the things that are bad in the world from our economy to deranged killers in our world. How can we not have negative thoughts or feelings most of the […]
U Gotta Believe!
I live by and teach a saying that I coined at Florida State: “U Gotta Believe!” There’s no easier way to put it. You cannot ACHIEVE if you do not BELIEVE! Believe means “to have confidence in the TRUTH”. When you believe in something it gives you CONFIDENCE. People who lack belief will always mistake […]
Fill Your Cup Up With Positivity
How can you make your New Year resolutions stepping stones to a positively blazing and joyous year ahead? To start off, you can resolve to approach them positively. Negativity is painful. It drains your ability to get things done and makes you doubt everything, even yourself. Negativity affects a person’s wellbeing drastically. So, this year […]
Throw Forward
A popular weekly feature on social networking sites such as Twitter and Instagram is “Throwback Thursday” (#TBT). Every Thursday people around the world, including me and my kids, post old pictures of themselves or photos that bring back memories from the past. Throwback Thursday has gained so much popularity that #TBT has become one of […]
The Ghost of Christmas Past
One of the most well-known Christmas stories is the tale of Ebenezer Scrooge in Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. Scrooge is a Christmas-hating miser who is visited by three ghosts the night before Christmas to get him to change his ways. The first ghost to visit Mr. Scrooge is “The Ghost of Christmas Past”. This […]
Strength to Stand
The one thing we can all agree upon is that life is filled with challenges and adversity. The greatest challenge in life…is facing the challenges of life. Everyone is challenged, but only the SUCCESSFUL stand up to their challenges. One of the defining characteristics of success is the ability to stand up to challenges. There […]