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- WakeUpLive.com presents: “Who Told You to Get Comfortable?” - by One of the biggest problems is that life is too easy. You don’t have to walk five miles for clean water; you don’t need to go hunting to feed you or your family, and you didn’t have to build your home with your own two hands. Some people still have to do this but not you. You are lucky with a ...
Views: 1090 - WakeUpLive.com presents: “A Passion for Wisdom” - by “Passion” and “emotion” are often confused. Unbridled emotion can easily take us off the track; passion for truth, life, and those we love will keep us focussed on that which is most important. Consider three acts of passion which kept emotion in check.
Can You Reap before You Sow?
Parenthood ...
Views: 1351 - WakeUpLive.com presents: “Passion for Your Purpose…and the Freedom to be Who You Are” - by By design we are as unique and individual as snowflakes. Even if you are an identical twin there will never be another person who is just like you. Though there are treasure maps hidden in the very structure of your body proclaiming who you are and how you will experience your world, you must ...
Views: 1348(1 vote) - WakeUpLive.com presents: “Never Give Up” - by Ten years ago I was had a difficult decision to make. To this day I believe it was probably the most difficult in my life.
My two daughters had moved to Los Angeles with their mother from our home in Boston. After a year of visiting my children, who were still young, I decided that I needed to ...
Views: 933 - WakeUpLive.com presents: “The Look That Changed My Life!” - by I was born in Kingston, Jamaica, to very poor parents who struggled to put food on the table. My mother was ambitious and dreamed of going to America and bringing the family there. When I was 14 years old, my mother fulfilled her dream. She was sponsored by a very kind lady who took her to ...
Views: 1005 - WakeUpLive.com presents: “Get Clear and Find Your Passion” - by I recently heard a story of a young lion cub that had been separated from his mother. As time passed he became very hungry but his mother had not returned. He cried out but there came no response. Once again he cried out in hunger but still there came no response. Finally he let out a bawl in ...
Views: 824(1 vote) - WakeUpLive.com presents: “Interpersonal Creativity; The art of Bringing the Best Out of Others” - by How does one live a life of passion? Life has taught me that I am most passionate when being creative. Having a passionate life involves actively designing my day, my week, and my year in a way that expresses who I am, my deepest values as well as my talents. We also have the ability to design ...
Views: 1102 - WakeUpLive.com presents: “Get Up Now”—The 3 Secret Steps to Success - by Like many kids, I was a dreamer and I was always “getting into things”. Luckily I was born with a great work ethic. At age 13 I was captain of my junior league football team and had worked full time for 3 summers cutting lawns. That thirteenth summer I was really motivated because I wanted a ...
Views: 982 - WakeUpLive.com presents: "Carpe Diem" - by What is your big dream? What do you feel passionate about?
What was the secret of all those famous people who succeeded and left great legacies?
It’s not what you do, your status, or money that make a difference.
It is about believing in yourself enough to put your whole heart into doing what ...
Views: 1063 - WakeUpLive.com presents: “The Overnight Golf Professional” - by At the age of 40, I became a golf professional “overnight.” My athletic life began when I was very young. At 10 years old, I was asked to train for the Olympics in swimming. At 25, I was a tennis professional playing on the Avon Futures Tour. I became a golf professional after I divorced, had a ...
Views: 1775 - WakeUpLive.com presents: Life is a Journey, Not a Destination - by My life has seen very few failures. However, the biggest failure was mediocrity.
I was brought up in the congested, yet middle class, surroundings in the coastal city of Madras in India. Since the time of my birth, my life seemed already to have been choreographed. All middle class kids were ...
Views: 898 - WakeUpLive.com presents: First Steps - by The life you live is a journey filled with snapshots of moments in time. It is not the moments that define your life! They are just moments; the life you live is not all bliss. For, without a comparative, bliss cannot be measured or appreciated. The life you live is a choice, only you can ...
Views: 827 - WakeUpLive.com presents: Package Your Success! - by Success comes in different packages for each of us. Some come overnight with fireworks–taking your breath away. Others come over a period-of-time after reflection and revelation. Mine came like that—reflecting back over the years. I am exactly where I am supposed to be and doing exactly what I’m ...
Views: 840 - WakeUpLive.com presents: The Longer You Laugh the More Beautiful Life Becomes! - by Baseball great Satchel Page, who pitched until he was nearly sixty, once said: “Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” I don’t mind my age because age means nothing to me. I can’t get old, because I’m working. I was old when I was 26 and out of work. As ...
Views: 1076 - WakeUpLive.com presents: Us and Them - by I came to America when I was 3 years old because of the dreams, hard work, and courage of my father. It was the archetypical “immigrant story”–he arrived in America with $15, not knowing anyone, and eventually succeeded in bringing the rest of our family here from India.
My parents did the ...
Views: 836 - WakeUpLive.com presents: Feeling Sensitive - by “The best part of getting a card from you is always the verse you write. Why don’t you design a line of greeting cards?” That is a question I hear often in the early 70’s from my close friends. Little did I know this is the beginning of a wildly successful greeting card line as well as a path to ...
Views: 1150 - WakeUpLive.com presents: Groove Your Way Towards Success - by What does it take to live a balanced, fulfilling and successful lifestyle, and for a good portion of your life? How do you actually “Seize Your Success,” anyway? How can you rapidly redirect your life to capture a desired success?
Does it take money? Does it take healthy friendships? Love? ...
Views: 806 - WakeUpLive.com presents: “Honk,honk,”-Wake up to live! - by At age 63, two experiences woke me up to live again.
It was March of 2004. “Honk, honk!” I vaguely heard in the distant background, as I stood on the road talking on my cell phone.
“Honk, honk!”—the sound began to penetrate my brain. Phone to my ear, I was preoccupied with my call and ...
Views: 716 - WakeUpLive.com presents: Kindness Speaks All Languages - by An early memory of the lemon tree is the first memory I have of the fairies and earth spirits. My little brother and I were sitting on the wild grass that grew under the tree, and I was telling him what I saw. Filaments of energy—light moving and playing around the tree. Then we felt a warm puff ...
Views: 708 - WakeUpLive.com presents: Success! - by Success is like the golden rule: often misunderstood and, too often, inappropriately applied. No one but me can tell you how I want to be treated–and no one but me can define my success. Since I cannot tell you what success should be for you, I cannot tell you how to achieve it. I can however, ...
Views: 857 - WakeUpLive.com presents: Sometimes You Have to Be Pushed into Greatness - by Upon hearing the frightening news that I would be downsized from a job where I was an impact player, to say the least, I felt betrayed. I was told that both my immediate supervisor and I would be replaced by a single person, probably for less pay. In the past, I had offered up ideas and created ...
Views: 826 - WakeUpLive.com presents: Applaud Your Success - by Success knocks at your door everyday! Are you prepared to identify it, capture it and use it to your advantage?
One of the keys to seizing success is the ability to recognize success when you have achieved it. Congratulate yourself for each achievement. Small successes are important and give ...
Views: 929 - WakeUpLive.com presents: Veteran's Victory - by After three decades, I couldn’t see my life any other way. The Navy told me how to walk, talk, dress, where to go and what to do. I didn’t have to plan my career; it was planned for me. I never worried about a paycheck or wondered what the amount would be. All my needs were met. I was happy with ...
Views: 747 - WakeUpLive.com presents: The Power of Restroom Networking - by Have you ever reflected on your success and reminisced about how you arrived where you are today? Did you recognize that there were key individuals or organizations that helped you during your success journey?
Maybe an individual said a simple encouraging word: they believed in you. Perhaps ...
Views: 733 - WakeUpLive.com presents: Even Eagles Need to Re-focus: Re-focus Your Life Today! - by I have always enjoyed watching the soaring of an eagle up in the sky—always so elegant. It is an awesome sight! There are times they can’t fly and most of us have never seen them during these times. Eagles do get sick, and sometimes become immobilized. They become weak and depleted.
When an ...
Views: 853 - WakeUpLive.com presents: Transforming Family Dynamics into Dynamic Families - by My mother’s unexpected death came as a shock. We had spoken only two days before.
“You’re not coming to see me, are you?” she asked.
“No, I can’t afford to fly to New Jersey.”
“I didn’t think so,” she replied.
Since my move to Hawaii, the conversation was always the same. I was overwhelmed ...
Views: 872 - WakeUpLive.com presents: Carpe Diem - by I was hosting a nationally syndicated sports radio show, but as time went on was experiencing more and more boredom in my role. I felt I had gotten all of the satisfaction I could get from doing it and no longer possessed the drive necessary to maintain a high level of performance. I wanted to ...
Views: 935 - WakeUpLive.com presents: Personal Success - by Breathe Esther, breathe! As my turn to speak drew near, my sense of self became smaller.
Several years ago, I was invited to a seminar at Oberlin College in Ohio, where I had spent my sophomore and junior years.
During the reception, the host made an unexpected request of the guests, asking ...
Views: 759 - WakeUpLive.com presents: Can You Type? - by Thirty years ago, I was the mother of a toddler named Nancy, expecting my second child, in the process of a divorce and working as a secretary earning less than $8,000 annually. This was not the life I had envisioned for myself. I wanted to be the woman behind the successful husband, the ...
Views: 841(1 vote) - WakeUpLive.com presents: Raising Great Children - by Every parent dreams of raising great children, but raising a great family doesn’t just happen. It evolves from dream, to plan, to action, to accomplishment. It begins with a fuzzy and vague thought. We ponder, think, make notes and talk about it. Slowly, the idea becomes clear and sets our ...
Views: 745 - WakeUpLive.com presents: Building a Winning Team - by Training and preparation are fundamental to the individuals who make up a winning team whether it’s a family or a business. For an athlete, you have to be at your best. You build your body up and get it strong to take the pounding. So, when it’s time to play the games on Sunday, you know, as an ...
Views: 794 - WakeUpLive.com presents: From a Rocky Start to a “Rocky” End - by The rocky start began before I entered the world; I had only just been realized. My mother was three months pregnant when she had to have a disk removed. The doctors encourage her have an abortion, but she refused. Her refusal saved my life, but threatened hers. Fortunately, both of us were ...
Views: 892 - WakeUpLive.com presents: The Decision - by By the time I was nine, I was already overweight. I didn’t feel like I was as good as the “thin” girls. By age 14, I had started the “dieting roller coaster.”
I tried diet after diet but was never able to permanently lose weight. With every failure, my self-esteem dropped lower. I kept ...
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