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Those that know me think I'm a pretty happy fellow-and I am. I love a good joke, I'm quick with a smile, and I like meeting new people-that's why I chose sales as a career. But during fall and winter it was a real struggle to smile.

"How can I stop procrastinating?"This is by far the most frequent question that I get from graduate students and professors. As a dissertation and tenure coach, I’ve come to realize that everyone in academia, whether writing a...

Most of us have taken at least one walk down the aisles of Toys "R" Us. There's no better place than a toy store to observe these truths: Learning is fun. Learning is kid stuff.Kids are smart enough to reject anything they don't...

Are you an optimist or a pessimist? Do you often expect bad things to happen? Pessimists are like the fairy tale about Chicken Little. In the fairy tale, Chicken Little kept shouting, ‘Help, help the sky is falling'.

Want to be a lucky guy or gal? There are things you can do to become one. In fact, there are at least a dozen luck "techniques" that you can use. I have been using them for years, and yes, they say I'm a lucky guy.

Those who fail, follow the laws of failure. Those who succeed, follow the laws of success.It is impossible to reach success with a scheme of failure thoughts in your mind.It’s impossible to have good health with a scheme of illness...

When people ask me about my business, I tell them I’m in the learning business – that we help organizations, teams and individuals reach their potential through learning.

One of the important aspects in our life is motivation; we tend to loose our energy for many reasons quickly. Lack of energy diminishes efficiency, affects productivity, creates frustration, develops stress, makes you short temper and ends up with...

Create more magic by linking time management to intentions! Last month we explored creating more of what you want by defining and setting an intention to simply create more of it in your life. How is it working for you?

Every job has stress, but the workplace environment can seem almost unbearable when working for an over-demanding or unfair boss. You don’t have to like your boss, but you do need to be able to co-exist and co-operate with him for you to be...