How to Live Life to the Fullest: A Step-by-Step Guide

paradisewalk How to Live Life to the Fullest: A Step by Step Guide Want to super-charge your life?

A great life doesn’t just happen.  It is created.  If you want to live life to its absolute fullest, then you have to make a plan.  You’ve got to take specific steps to make it happen.

It is your choice.  You can sit there and do what you have always done and get the results you’ve always gotten or you can start today …

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Arkansas Hiking Photo: The Week of Paradoxes

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Shores Lake Hiking Photo

This week’s photo was taken along a beautiful hiking trail that heads off into the woods from the Shores Lake Campground.  Shores Lake is located about 15 miles north of Mulberry, Arkansas in the Boston Mountain Ranger District of a national forest.  As you can see, it is a gorgeous place to take a hike.

I love this photo because the scenery behind me looks …

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Amateur vs Pro: An Important Choice for Success

decision Amateur vs Pro: An Important Choice for Success Are you an amateur or a professional?

This is a crucial question to answer.  It defines your behavior and your behavior defines your success (or failure).

If success is what you desire as an entrepreneur, artist, salesperson, student, accountant, writer, public speaker or whatever, then you need to understand the differences between an amateur and a professional and choose which you will be.

I think we often fail to make …

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Living in Denial: Don’t Let Your Inner Pig Win

pigmud Living in Denial: Don’t Let Your Inner Pig Win Are you living in denial?

It never ceases to amaze me at how good we are at ignoring obvious problems in our lives.  We seem so willing and able to deny and rationalize the very things that make us miserable.

Now, I’ll be the first to admit that self-improvement is hard, but what’s the alternative?  Are we going to simply wallow in our bad behavior forever?

Living life to …

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Puerto Vallarta Sunset Photo: Summer Is Here

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Welcome to my second photo of the week posting!  This week I’m featuring a photo I shot on the beach in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico looking out over Banderas Bay.  The sunsets in PV are real events.  Hundreds of people gather in establishments along the beach to wish the sun farewell for the evening.  It even receives a round of applause as it dips below the horizon.  I hope you enjoy …

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Despicable Me: 3 Reasons Being a Villain Doesn’t Pay

despicableme Despicable Me: 3 Reasons Being a Villain Doesn’t Pay

Are you a villain?

Maybe we all have a little villain inside of us.  To one degree or another, we all want attention, power and respect and aren’t these the very things that villains strive so hard to get?

I’m not talking about the criminals you see on the evening news.  I’m talking about movie villains.  You know the ones that you see in animated flicks like Despicable Me

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Boldly Stumbling Into a Simpler Life

This is a guest post by Hugh DeBurgh

hughphoto Boldly Stumbling Into a Simpler Life Dear Friend,

You never know where a particular life path might take you.

My family’s path took us in a direction that we never imagined or even knew of.

Our Story of Simplifying Life…

My family really loves to travel.

And we love adventure.  Right now we’d love to travel more overseas. But six plane tickets, big hotel rooms and oversized rental …

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