1. While modern technology can be life-changing in many beneficial ways, there is an aspect of this technology that greatly interferes with our lives and relationships.  Do not be so addicted to a screen that you miss out on the opportunity to enjoy real life unfolding in front of you.  Learn to disconnect.  Learn to slow down.  Give people your full and undivided attention.  Do not seek mindless stimulation on a screen for no reasons, and refocus on nurturing real human connections.

We sometimes allow the wrong people to take up too much space in our heads and hearts.  We meet energy vampires. These individuals will try to get to you – they will try to influence you and become a part of your life because they find their own life to be mundane.  They already poisoned their own lives and now they are looking to poison yours.  Don’t let them get to you. Avoid them as if they have a DIS-ease.

We all want to achieve success, but we need to remember that success is not a specific achievement. Success is not crossing over some arbitrary finishing line. It’s the ability to fight the good fight day in and day out. Success is strength – the strength to keep pushing and to keep living your life on your own terms. Success isn’t an end result. It’s a state of being. You don’t win success. You are a success every day.

1. Do not be a constant complainer.  It doesn’t help you and it certainly doesn’t help your relationships.  If you do not like your current situation, work towards changing it, but don’t just sit around complaining about it.  Complaining will only make others nearby not want to be around you.  Be someone that looks at the positive aspects of situations.  And if you do find a problem that needs to be addressed, be someone that suggests a solution.  The bottom line is that you will never get to where you want to be by complaining about where you are now.  Each step in your life is preparing you for the one that comes after it.

An interesting thing happened the other day that I want to share with you.  Within an hour of each other I received telephone calls from two doctors I work with as their coach.  They practice a few  miles apart in the same city.  One doctor couldn't wait to share GREAT NEWS with me.  Seems he had just completed his biggest day in  four years of private practice .   His  numbers have been climbing.   The other call was not that pleasant.  That doctor was depressed with his numbers which haven't seen significant growth.   He told me he was so discouraged that he was even considering working nights and weekends selling furniture or something like that.

The doc with the growing practice raved stating that "all he was doing was what he had learned."  He went on to say that he  was doing everything "EXACTLY THE WAY IT WAS PRESCRIBED.” He told me about his  ENTHUSIASTIC CA's and about their EXCITEMENT OVER THE PRACTICE. In addition to experiencing the opportunity to HELP MORE PEOPLE GET WELL AND STAY HEALTHY, The two CA'S will now reach their BONUS LEVEL for the third straight month. You have to admit, that is a lot to be happy about!    

Now to the other Doc.  I reviewed with him several things that we had earlier agreed were needed to move him forward and guess what,  he still hasn't done them. Has replaced his front desk CA twice since the first of the year and he is collecting only about 65% for services provided.    There's more, the doctor is still not doing much of anything, is not making long term recommendations on a regular basis  and has had only one referral this month.   Is this one hard to figure out, or what? NOT J

I am always frustrated to hear of any doctor that is struggling but It is even more frustrating to realize it doesn't have to be that way. EVERYTHING THAT IS AVAILABLE TO DOCTOR NUMBER ONE IS EQUALLY AVAILABLE TO DOCTOR NUMBER TWO.  Could it be a bad attitude, loss of focus or purpose or could it be that deep down inside this one person wants it more than the other?   What I teach you is not based in theory but rather in actual day to day application in every economic environment.  SIMPLY PUT, IT WORKS!!!!   Hopefully you identify with Doctor number one....  

Life is change.  Everyone has gone through something that has changed them in a way that prevents them from being the same person they once were.  This is a very good thing, as long as you keep learning and stretching yourself, change is growth.

Sometimes you have to accept the fact that things will never go back to how they used to be, and that this ending is really a new beginning.

People who have the greatest potential for renewed happiness seem to have specific “aha” moments that totally change the trajectory of their thoughts and behaviors.  Once this “aha” light bulb goes off in their minds, they awaken to a new reality that motivates them to never go back to their old way of doing things.

In short, these “aha” moments mean they got it.  Whatever it was they were doing or thinking that was holding them back, is now a lesson learned and a thing of the past.

1. Nothing is ever as bad as it seems.  Nothing!  There is a benefit and a blessing hidden in the folds of every experience and every outcome.  Consider the possibility that the little obstacles in your life’s path are not obstacles at all, but stepping-stones to amazing places.