Recently I heard Les Brown speak at our Send Out Cards convention. He has been one of my favorite speakers for years. I know Les as a fellow National Speakers Association member.

I have always been of the opinion that if I could take just one idea from a speaker and implement that in my life, that would be better than all the pages of notes I would put in a file drawer.

Les gave me that one idea.  I now keep it on a sticky on my computer desktop. Read the rest of this entry »

Several days ago I called a friend whom I had not spoken to in some time. I had been thinking about her and her birthday was also right around the corner. A birthday card was already in the mail, and I had a prompting to call her. I left her a voice mail message.

Today she called me. We had a conversation and talked about when we might see each other. Then I mentioned that I knew her birthday was in a few days and I wanted to sing Happy Birthday to her. I love singing Happy Birthday to people, it is something that many people don’t get the opportunity to experience. Read the rest of this entry »

It’s so interesting to remember how I thought my life would be when I had adult children. Have you ever thought about that concept? My experience is not at all what I expected. I have 4 children, I guess I really should say I have 4 adults or perhaps 2 adult men and 2 adult women would be even better.

Each one has been instrumental in my growth. And the way I thought it would be, well that was a good thought. And then there are grandchildren. That is different from what I imagined as well.  Read the rest of this entry »

Have you ever had someone recommend a book and when you heard about it you were very interested in it? You may have written down the title of the book and then forgotten about it, that’s what I did. I used to have that happen often. As a result I missed out on a lot of good ideas. Along the way I chose to develop a new habit.

Whenever someone tells me about a book now, I take steps that I did not used to take. Read the rest of this entry »

Remember that phrase? I learned a lot more about water from Dr Robert Young than I had ever known before. The primary idea I got is that is important to drink 1 liter of water for each 30 pounds of weight. Doing pretty good with that habit for several years, for some reason this spring I got way from it.

When I began to experience decreased energy, exhaustion and difficulty breathing, I looked at what I was doing differently. Read the rest of this entry »

Have you heard the phrase, it only takes one pessimist to pull 6 optimists down, and yet it takes 6 optimists to pull one pessimist up?

Negative energy is a powerful force in our world. It is everywhere, and so subtle. I imagine that most of us really don’t even realize how much negativity is affecting us. It like dust, we don’t realize how it is covering the furniture until we don’t look at the furniture for several days. Negativity is like dust on our soul. Read the rest of this entry »

Today is the second day of my experience at the Millionaire Mind Intensive. An amazing experience to be grateful for!

It’s not only being in the energy of people who are focused on growth, it’s also being away from things like the news which is not focused on growth. Read the rest of this entry »

Every morning when we wake up, we begin by doing a number of processes, brushing our teeth, for me putting in my contacts, eating breakfast etc. Those processes are all part of the systems we have for our lives. These actions become so routine we can almost do them in our sleep.

By noticing what systems are already in place we can create new systems for doing anything we want and have those systems support us in accomplishing everything. Read the rest of this entry »

My former husband Joe and I have know each other for 33 years. Our friendship/relationship has had many forms. Friends first, we were married for 16 years and have been divorced for 12 1/2 years. Today we have what I experience as the best relationship we’ve ever had.

In addition to being in business together during our marriage, we also co-founded the Colorado Chapter of the National Speakers Association. We wrote books together and taught classes together. And we just could not make it as a married couple. Read the rest of this entry »

When I was a young girl growing up in Kansas and wanted some information on a particular topic, I had 2 choices.  I could either ask someone for the answer and pray that the information was correct, or find someone with a set of Encyclopedia Britannica, we didn’t have a set. How could one ever feel confidant about information with such limited resources. Read the rest of this entry »