It's been an interesting two weeks in the land of dreams. While it’s not impossible to achieve our dreams, the achievement part of dreaming is definitely not for the faint of heart. I tell people, "Don’t expect it to come easily; expect it to be hard." Having the right expectations at the ...
As I begin to write, my first thoughts are of the people of Chile. Rocking a 8.8 earthquake must feel like the world is coming to an end. When mother nature decides to roll over in bed, we are thrown to the floor and shown how little we control. Catastrophes like this are a sober reminde ...
We live in a forbidding time. It seems like every time I turn around the news is talking about foreclosures and job loses. Financial consultants argue the commercial real estate market will be the next to fail, politicians fight about everything down to the color of dirt, while families hang ...
2010 is Year 4707 in the Chinese Calendar. Today is the first day of the Chinese New Year - the year of the Tiger. It is also known as the Lunar New Year, or Spring Festival. And it gives those of us that are off to a rough start in 2010, a chance to start the new year again. It's like rebo ...
Overnight success is a lie. It's true. To be good at anything we need practice, and practice takes time. The idea of an overnight success is ludicrous, even if the press lives to tell us differently. Those who have made it through to grab the brass ring say, "You’ll think you are on th ...
This week I have been thinking a great deal about motivation. For example, now that I know that we are almost 100 days from the Bay To Breakers, I am easily motivated to work out by walk/running every single day for about 50 minutes. It has been about 2 miles a day - sometimes a little more. ...
My dream is to discover the different ways people motivate themselves to achieve their dreams and write about it. To do this, I study the whys and hows of successful dream achievement. Why do some of us make it - while others give up and quit? What does it really take to achieve a dream? ...
This week I found something special quite by accident. Tuesday night I was having a coughing fit, so I made the decision to take some cold medicine and just go to bed. I turned on my TV to the local PBS channel to wait for the medicine to work. A funny thing happened on the way to ending my ...
I cannot believe I am still fighting this cold I picked up just before New Years. I was scared I had the beginnings of pneumonia - something I have overcome twice before. This cough and the symptoms I was having was sending off all kinds of bells and whistles that I should be very careful and ...
While resting and recuperating from this cold that has kicked several of the 8 Women Dream's proverbial butts, I had the opportunity to get plenty of sleep, look at where I want to be at the end of 2010 - and catch-up on a bit of Oprah. Lucky for me, she provided me with my video of the week. ...
While everyone is off enjoying the holidays with family, this week’s inspirational video is a reminder to take a meditative moment before you set your list of intended goals for 2010. It features Nature Whispers: Amazon Rainforest by various artists. The following video is 26 minutes, so fo ...
More than 2.2 million first time freshmen enter college each year and 25 to 30 percent do not return to their initial institution of choice for the second year. Institutions typically lose the greatest number of students in the freshman year especially in the first semester. Why? Studies sa ...
Each week I search for inspiration on the Internet for my Sunday night post. When I began doing this particular post on Friday night from my dining-room-table-turned-computer-desk-and-teenage-son-homework-table, I realized I am not writing what I do, or don't do each week to land this group on Op ...
It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen. - John Wooden. Saturday afternoon, retired UCLA coach John Wooden was on the bay area PBS channel 22, in a program titled John Wooden: Values, Victory and Peace of Mind. Luckily for me and my dream of understanding ...
What is self-sabotage? Dr. Larina Kase defines self-sabotage as "a state of mind and state of being which damages our belief in ourselves and our abilities to achieve that which we want to achieve. It is extremely common and it affects everyone in some way, shape or form. If you have not achieved ...
