Living With Passion When you’re ready to ride, don’t wear your sandals. Put on your boots and spurs, and let your horse know you mean to ride hard. Then – ride with passion. How many times have you thought of achieving a dream – only to spend more time in the dreaming and planning than in the doing?

Be Like ArkadIn 1926, George Clason introduced advice on thrift and financial success which were widely distributed by banks and insurance companies. He used parables set in ancient Babylon to make his points; The Richest Man in Babylon is familiar to millions.In the story was a very rich man named

Are You Traveling at Warp Speed?Familiar with the speed of light? According to science books, light travels at a speed of 186,000 miles per second. That’s been common knowledge for years. Now, however, scientists have discovered in experiments that light may travel many times faster. In fact, tests

Strike It Rich! From Commercial and Financial Chronicle (December 10, 1932) comes this quote from an article entitled “El Dorado”: “El Dorado, a country rich beyond all precedent in gold and jewels, lies at every man’s door. Your bonanza lies under your feet. Your luck is ready at hand. All is withi

How One President’s Day Became Presidents’ Day The United States began celebrating its first president when he was still a general. Nearly 300 years since George Washington’s birth, the holiday has morphed into a celebration of the presidency. George Washington was not a huge fan of celebrating his

Self Promotion Been chasing success? Have you caught it yet? Maybe you finally landed a big contract, got that promotion, or reached bonus level at work. Setting a goal and achieving it is gratifying, but it’s not usually the end of the journey. Most of us tend to set yet another goal, and take off

Let Your Horse Leap! Have you ever tried to accomplish something, but given up before your plan or actions have come to fruition? Maybe you’re just trying to organize a huge stack of paperwork, or perhaps you’re trying to build up your database of leads or increase your sales by a certain percentage

If you’ve ever heard real estate agents promoting the benefits of homeownership over renting, you may have thought they were doing it because they make bigger commissions when they sell a house. To be fair, they do typically make more money when they help a client buy a house than they do helping on

Where Do You Want to Go Today? With all of the unplanned minutes you will likely have this year, have you told yourself that there are certain goals you want to reach or master before December 31, 2024? Have you chosen a destination and looked carefully at the map that will take you there? A word of

Less Is More During an NFL matchup, one of the announcers observed that the favored team’s quarterback had been guilty of trying to do too much on the field. Apparently linemen, receivers, and running backs had not been pulling their weight last season, and the quarterback was feeling all of the pre

Fill in the blank… “I have a _________…” It doesn’t take a psychic to know what word you chose. Was it “dream”? Good chance it was. We all know this line from Martin Luther King, Jr.’s famous speech. So when we hear those first three words, it sort of naturally comes to mind. But what many people ar

The Sun Also Rises Have you lost sight of the big picture? Has every little detail, every little brush stroke, taken on such importance that you no longer remember what you set out to create? Here’s some news for you:  it’s going to be okay, even if today’s troubles seem overwhelming and insurmounta

The celebration of the New Year is an ancient tradition that dates back thousands of years. In fact, the earliest recorded New Year festivities are believed to have taken place in ancient Babylon over 4,000 years ago. The Babylonians celebrated the New Year in March, at the time of the vernal equino

As an African American and Pan-African holiday celebrated by millions throughout the world African community, Kwanzaa brings a cultural message which speaks to the best of what it means to be African and human in the fullest sense. Given the profound significance Kwanzaa has for African Americans an

It’s that time of the year again, the most wonderful time of the year – Christmas Day! A day that brings us closer to our loved ones, a day filled with joy, laughter, and love. For many, Christmas Day is a time to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, while for others it’s just a day to spread cheer

What About That Grindstone?Ever hear your parents or grandparents quote today’s Inspiration when explaining the secret to success? If so, they probably ended your education right there, leaving you totally in the dark about the meaning behind the expression.While there are many explanations of the p

Living Gratefully Being thankful isn’t just saying a prayer of gratitude on the fourth Thursday of November.  Living every day with gratefulness is a task many of us would have a hard time making a habit of.  It’s too easy to take for granted our material things, getting up every day in a warm house

Thanks, Nobody Who ever heard of an unsuccessful “self-made” man? Does anybody set out to become a failure? Well, of course not, but a lot of people who end up that way often end up finding fault with their circumstances or the people that surround them. What is so honorable about Joseph Heller’s ma

Thank you for your service!Veterans Day is a federal holiday that honors Army, Navy, Marine, Air Force and Coast Guard U.S. military veterans. It is celebrated each year on November 11th in recognition of the end of World War I fighting on November 11, 1918 at 11:00 a.m. Veterans Day was originally

When you list your house for sale, it almost always starts out hunky-dory and hopeful. But as time passes, and your house isn’t fetching offers, you might start feeling like your agent won’t be able to get it sold. Once you start to lose faith in your agent, you may start thinking about hiring a dif