Personal Growth: Comfort is NOT an Option

recliner Personal Growth: Comfort is NOT an Option Are you uncomfortable right now?

Comfort is overrated.  We should not be striving for comfort because personal growth requires us to move beyond our well-worn happy places.

If you haven’t made yourself uncomfortable lately, then chances are you have grown stagnate and complacent.  You are not pursuing life to the fullest anymore.

I say toss out the La-Z-Boy and the television along with it and make yourself uncomfortable!  Let …

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Coach Bob Stoops: Three Top Tips For Winning In Life

bobstoops Coach Bob Stoops: Three Top Tips For Winning In Life Do you win more often than lose?

Earlier this week, I heard Bob Stoops speaking about achieving success and winning.  For those of you that don’t know, Stoops is the head coach of the University of Oklahoma football team. 

During his ten years at Oklahoma, he has won 109 of 123 games, the most wins by any Division 1-A school during that period.  He also led the Sooners to …

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Unleashing Your Dreams: Living Up To Your Full Potential

dreams fly thumb Unleashing Your Dreams: Living Up To Your Full Potential Are you living up to your full potential?  Most of us would say, “No!” 

We go through life doing what has to be done, giving up on our dreams and living a mediocre life.  Why do we do this?

I mean really, why do we live so far below our potential? 

Why don’t we unleash our dreams and live life to its fullest every day?…

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Accepting Personal Responsibility For Our Fulfillment In Life

rainbow scene Accepting Personal Responsibility For Our Fulfillment In Life Is your life everything you want it to be?  Many of us are not experiencing the fulfillment in life that we desire. 

Who’s to blame for this?  The reality is we have no one to blame but ourselves.

Continuing to point the finger at your parents, spouse, boss, the government, this economy, your kids or anything outside yourself is a cop out.  It is choosing to remain right where you …

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Back To Basics: Establish A Personal Finance Emergency Fund

cutting loose Back To Basics: Establish A Personal Finance Emergency Fund There are always unexpected emergencies that pop-up in life costing us money.  Why are we usually caught totally off guard by these financial crises?  When it hits the fan, so to speak, and we don’t have any cash to handle it, we often resort to using credit cards.  This generally means that we end up paying even more in the form of interest to handle our emergency.  A better alternative …

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