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The Power of Goal-Setting: Unleashing Your Power, Fulfilling
Your Dreams

Developing and maintain yearly goals, in the context of a long-term strategic life plan is undeniably THE most powerful and important structure for creating the life you want to be living. In order to develop a solid goals plan, you need to know a few basic things about goal-setting and implementation.

THE COMPONENTS OF GOAL-SETTING:

I developed an acronym for goal-setting that can help you focus your energy and efforts more effectively. The ...

Discerning Your Financial Beliefs

In order to experience financial freedom, you need to understand what true freedom really means. There are many very wealthy people who have no freedom when it comes to money whatsoever. I also know numerous people of very humble financial means who have total freedom regarding money, spending, owning and what money can provide. So what is this quality of freedom? It is a matter of consciousness and your beliefs about money are central to your ...

Are you crazy busy or meaningfully productive?
Four Simple –But Not Easy– Steps to Mastering Productivity

People are quickly getting back into the swing of things as the summer fades into sweet, yet soon distant memories. Days are growing shorter, school is back in session, and the pace of life seems to pick up like a fast-flowing river.

Before you know it, you’ll get swept up in the no-time, washed-down cultural stream called “crazy busy.” Crazy busy has an ...

Have you ever noticed that everyone is too busy? When an experience is pervasive in our midst, it’s what sociologists call a “cultural conversation.” That’s a sophisticated way of saying that an experience is so inherent in our way of life that it has become a “given”. It’s something that everyone feels and experiences without much, if any, conscious awareness. Creating a life beyond a “cultural conversation” requires awareness and discernment.

The place to begin is by discerning your current relationship ...

If everything is energy, including you, then it is prudent to be mindful of the energies you are exposed to and consume. The vast majority of mainstream media culture is geared toward “lower energies” such as violence, competition, anger, greed, blame and so on. According to research done by Dr. Bruce Schneider, founder of the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching, the Average Resonating Energy Level of “mainstream America” at 2.4 of a 7 point scale. Dr. Schneider’s research found ...

Dr. David Hawkins, a consciousness researcher and one of my favorite spiritual teachers, suggests that the best way to make your life a living prayer is to choose just one or two simple spiritual tenets or high-consciousness attributes and apply them in every area of your life, at all times, with no exceptions. At services last Sunday I discussed what this might look like. If we each take on one attribute of the higher levels of consciousness – ...

Some may say that there has been too much talk of purpose, mission and vision. I say there is not nearly enough – not enough depth of dialogue and far too little implementation of the wisdom discerned from doing the work of crafting a meaningful purpose, mission and vision.

Purpose, mission and vision, and the goals that follow, are the most elemental and essential component to any business. They provide the context inside of which a business operates. When ...

If everything is energy, including you, then being mindful of the energies you are exposed to and consume can only serve to enhance your experience as an energetic being. When one begins to understand the intricacies of human consciousness, or energy, then it becomes increasingly obvious that living in and consuming large amounts of low consciousness, low energy media is as destructive to our spiritual well being as smoking is to our physical well being. That may seem like a ...

The One Thing That Can Change Your Life

If you had to choose one thing that you think would make the biggest, most sustained difference in your life, what would it be? Most people think it’s more time or money. Both would be helpful, perhaps, but they will not produce a sustained difference. Others have told me that they want a partner or a spouse, indicating that more love or companionship would make a significant difference in their life. ...

How are you ever going to fulfill your dreams if you don’t have any!? Do you know that most people never get clear on what they want in life. That’s what I call living a life by default and not by design.

Creating a vision for the next five years, and then turning that vision into a set of goals and action steps is perhaps the most important thing you can spend your time on, yet how often we just ...