You become what you think

Some of the most successful people will tell you that their achievement was fast tracked by learning from someone who had already achieved success in what they wanted to do. It is also true that you become your environment, if you surround with people with low aspirations… who moan and complain all the time, then that is what you will become. People like that are toxic to your own happiness and success.

Many successful people will tell you that they found the most benefit by being in a mastermind group of like-minded people they could bounce ideas off and feel inspired by!

The future

What will you do with your future? This might make a difference in your day . . . and maybe . . . just maybe . . . the rest of the year!

The power of acknowledgement

I'm writing you today because you are a leader in a position to make a huge difference within your circle of influence.

I'd like to thank you in advance for a few moments of your time to introduce you to a true story we've portrayed in an online movie that we hope will change lives.  It is a reminder to us all to speak those compliments and acknowledgments as we are thinking them and not hold back because we just never know when … Our Presence May Be The Very Present Someone Needs.

Also on the note of bullying, if you're a Star Trek Fan (who didn't abandon ship when Next Generation begain airin), then you'll remember little Wesley Crusher.

His real name is Will Wheaton, and at the Denver Comic Con in 2013 he was asked by a little girl if he was ever bullied because he was a nerd, and if so, how did he deal with it.

His response was powerful and BRILLIANT advice for all of us - adults and children. I know I'll be saving this video for anytime I know somebody who gets bullied simply because they love things that are different than the mainstream.

The most beautiful way to stop bullying

That's what I call talent

That's what I call talent

When hyocrisy looks like piety...

When hypocrisy looks like piety
American composer Carlyle Floyd retells the story of the biblical Susannah in his opera set in rural Tennessee. Susannah is accused of bathing naked in a river, a sin in the eyes of “Christian” men who spy on her. Distraught, Susannah asks her brother, Sam, “What’s it all about?” “It’s about the way people is made, I reckon,” he responds. “An’ how they like to believe what’s bad. / How short they are on lovin’ kindness. / It must make the good Lord sad. . . . / At seein’ how men treat one another / An’ say they’re doin’ it all fer His sake.”