Little Gifts - Are you Ready for Christmas? How many times have you been asked "Are You Ready for Christmas?" And how many times, more often than not, is the reply "Ug, NO!"  First thing that comes to mind after being asked that question is shopping to buy gifts for everybody, then wrapping all the gifts and remembering the extra gift to take to the Christmas party at work, or the secret Santa gift. Oh No! I'm not ready! I'd like to put a twist on being ready for Christmas. What about the true Read more [...]

Do You Have a Trouble Tree? In trying to get inspired, I was searching the net (as usual) and ran across this very cool Life Lesson! The author is unknown and it's called the Trouble Tree. Hopefully it helps you get rid of what bothers you. Enjoy! The carpenter I hired to help me restore an old farmhouse had just finished a rough first day on the job. A flat tire made him lose an hour of work, his electric saw quit, and now his ancient pickup truck refused to start. While I drove him home, he Read more [...]

John is the Kind of Guy You Love to Hate John is the kind of guy you love to hate. He is always in a good mood and always has something positive to say. When someone would ask him how he was doing, he would reply, "If I were any better, I would be twins!" He was a natural motivator. If an employee was having a bad day, John was there telling the employee how to look on the positive side of the situation. Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day I went up to John and asked him, I don't Read more [...]

Rising Above Adversity I was looking for a story to share about rising above adversity. I found this story from 2003 on a web-page of inspirational stories. There was no author so I'll say "Author Unknow".  Hope you enjoy it as much as I did. The only survivor of a shipwreck was washed up on a small, uninhabited island. He prayed feverishly for God to rescue him, and every day he scanned the horizon for help, but none seemed forthcoming. Exhausted, he eventually managed to build a little hut out Read more [...]

How many times have you been using Google to find a picture or a phrase and it leads you to a site that just grabs your interest? That's happened to me today. I was searching for something to do with success, ladder to success or partner in success. Something like that. I ran across this great blog called Leadership Freak - Helping Leaders Reach Higher in 300 Words or Less. The post I landed on was   entitled "You not Them" by Dan Rockwell.  "You not Them". That's what grabbed my attention. After Read more [...]

My friend, Fred Raley, posted this on his blog. I wanted to share with you his Life and Business Lesson! Here's what he has to say. "If you are proactive in making your life as big a success as possible, you may frequently feel like the lone ranger. Others mock you, your ideas don’t quite work out like you thought, you seem to be all alone in your quest. It is your drive and zeal for making your life a success that WILL make it so. Watch this guy… heaven knows he may not be pursuing excellence Read more [...]

This life lesson was forwarded to me in an email by a very dear person in my life who had just found out they were being forced to leave their job. As most of us would be heart broken at that kind of news, this person saw through the disappointment and sent this story to me. After I read it, I thought "Wow". I can learn a life lesson here. I don't know who originally wrote it, so who ever you are, thank you very much! "One day a farmer's donkey fell down into a well. The animal cried piteously Read more [...]