Make Life Magic!

Picture this: You know someone personally who has a thrilling, exotic life. Some friend of yours – maybe your sister, or your spouse – teaches in Japan, or writes in a cabin in the Rockies, or flies to Hamburg to make a deal with Mercedes-Benz. You daydream about how great it must be to live [...]

Leisure is one of those luxuries that’s best in small portions. When it’s all there is to life, it’s as boring as being locked in jail. Leisure presents a terrible quandary for people with money. Either they don’t have enough of it because they’re always working, or they don’t work at all and are drowning [...]

In the business world, relationships are an integral part of success or failure. Most people don’t know that when Thomas Edison’s laboratory and factory burned down, he was 67 years old and carried no insurance. Before the ashes were cold, Henry Ford handed Edison a check for $750,000 with the words “no interest” written on [...]

There is a great difference between what a person intends to say and what a person may actually say. An implicit message is one in which communication is not plainly expressed. It is implied. Implicit messages can entangle the real or intended message. Implicit, or unspoken, messages can cause others to feel frustrated, confused or [...]

Goal setting is the process of making a dream come true step-by-step and the sooner your children can learn about setting goals the more quickly they can become successful in life. Just imagine how further along your life would be if our parents would have done the same and taught us about goals. Here are [...]

Becoming successful by obtaining a goal can obviously be a positive experience. You can also block your own success with feelings of being overwhelmed once you get close to the goal. If you allow yourself to become dominated by these unproductive feelings, your state of mind affects your actions. Allowing your feelings to affect you [...]

You have been told the hard and simple truth: if you aren’t getting much out of life emotionally and financially, then you must look at what you bring into life. Clearly, to get more out of this world, you must make some changes in your life. Now for the pleasant truth; success has little to [...]

Efficiency is often a mental trap. You think that, because you’re so busy and moving so quickly, you must be getting somewhere. In fact, the reverse is often true. The “I-have- never-worked-so-hard-and-got-so-little-done” feeling is an indication that results are not being produced even with the effort expended. You will achieve your goals on schedule only [...]

1. Show respect by encouraging your children to make choices. When it is time to make a decision, give them a choice of two alternatives that are acceptable to you. This gives practice in making choices and makes children feel they have control over some things. For example, say, “It’s 7:30 and bedtime is eight [...]

Monitor your language. Listen to the way you respond to questions and situations. Make a conscious effort to develop a positive charge. You will find that people respond more eagerly to you. Do you know people who tell you their whole life story even if you don’t ask? Well I hitched a ride with a [...]