It is important to any successful life to take time away. I am back at my desk for the first time in a week. We just got back from a relaxing week in Cocoa Beach, Florida. It is crucial to have times of relaxation, and I have to admit that when I am in a [...]
May 18, 2012
Dr. Ruby on Self-Awareness
Most of you know I am a champion of the concept of life-balance and the fruit it can bear. Part of the challenge of enjoying the fruits of a balanced lifestyle is our thought-life. Here is a terrific article from Dr. Laura Ruby related to the topic: Dr. Wayne Dyer is a internationally renowned author and [...]
April 1, 2012
“All my rich friends are dead”
There is no amount of money that is worth losing your health. Yesterday I was in Cleveland Ohio speaking at a wellness seminar sponsored by our leader in the Cleveland area, Linda Bogle. At the end of my portion of the presentation Linda had several people stand up and share their stories about how [...]
September 13, 2011
The End of the chapter…The I-beam
I once sat in a seminar many years ago that was conducted by Hiram Smith, time management guru, while he talked about the I-Beam. This fictitious beam stretches from the top of one (no-longer existing) World Trade Center tower across to the other. This is more than a thousand feet in the air and somewhere [...]
September 12, 2011
Chapter One continued…A Message for high achievers
Those of you who are already high achievers in business may struggle with some of these concepts initially, because you may view your lack of balance as a key factor in the business success you have achieved. You are surrounded with the fruits of your labor, and can easily point to these fruits as justification [...]
September 11, 2011
Chapter One continued…Beginning the change
Obtaining a balanced existence is difficult because we are all conditioned to be unbalanced. We grow up in unbalanced households and therefore have been role-modeled to be out of balance. We’ve grown accustomed to living frantic, crisis management style days. It started with watching our parents rush around because they were late and led to [...]
September 9, 2011
Chapter One…More about Bob and Productivity
Balance is imperative in order to have a high quality of life. Through the pages of the chapters that follow you will understand why balance is so difficult to reach, but also how making the effort to reach it will add joy and fulfillment to all areas of your life. You are substantially more productive [...]
September 8, 2011
Chapter One Continued…Meet Fictitious Bob
When we live out of balance we will tend to have multiple areas of our lives that are suffering the strain of neglect and are therefore teetering on the edge of crisis. As soon as a crisis occurs, be it self-inflicted or externally generated, we suddenly become focused on the crisis, because that is simply [...]
September 7, 2011
Chapter One continued…”The Butterfly Effect”
The final neglect, which takes something from an impending crisis (which we may or may not know is coming) to a full blown crisis that now has our undivided attention, is what I call the “Butterfly Effect” neglect. (1) If you are not familiar with the Butterfly Effect, it is the scientific theory that the [...]
September 6, 2011
Chapter One from “Live Full, Live Well” Continued
The turmoil that we all create in our lives as a result of living out of balance is what I call self-inflicted crisis. Before I expand further on this concept, it is important to recognize that what constitutes a crisis is a completely individual thing. A college student who has an exam tomorrow and hasn’t [...]
