Work not Wishes

“We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service.” — Earl Nightingale As a dreamer in life I always wanted to be and do something special.  However, I continued to get in the way of my progress.  A short … Read more

Attitude is Everything

“The last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” — Viktor Frankl The three rules of a healthy attitude, rule number one, Always Be Positive, rule number two, Always Be Positive and rule number three, Always Be Positive!!! I can tell you … Read more

Daily Disciplines

Discipline; Training expected to produce a specific character or pattern of behavior, especially training that produces moral or mental improvement. — Dictionary.com I always try to keep my Blogs short and sweet.  Right to the point, so that people will read them without all the fluff!  In our Diligence Blog on 30 January 2010 we … Read more

The Strangest Secret

We become what we think about.  Earl Nightingale. In 1998 I was 10 years abstinent from drugs and alcohol.  My Spiritual relationship, my family life, my recovery, my career, all seemed from the outside to be clicking!  Yet I continued to have an emptiness inside.  Don’t get me wrong it was not a depression or  … Read more

Can You Cry Under Water?

I was recently asked this question!  Can you cry under water?  Got ya thinking huh?   I am going to assume that is exactly what they were trying to do.  Get us to think! In 1956 Earl Nightingale recorded the first and only Gold Record in the spoken word – self improvement industry, “The Strangest Secret”.  … Read more

Mark Yarrobino

Hello friends of The Last Resort, Yesterday I was honored to be a guest for Mark Yarrobino on his website blog, http://learntochangeyourlife.com/blog/?p=618 Besides the obvious gratitude I have for the honor I would like to point you to his site and blog. Mark has been a presence online for nearly a decade.  His blog is … Read more

Gratitude

“We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.”  -Winston Churchill In early recovery for quite a few years on Friday afternoon at 5:30 pm I attended “Happy Hour”.    Not the happy hour that I had learned to love in college.  A self help 12 step meeting called … Read more

Developing the Habit of Happiness

I have heard various numbers from 21 days to 90 days as the magic number to develop a habit or turn a bad one to good!  In the recovery aspect of life 90 days seems to work well.  I suggest you build confidence by utilizing 90 day bursts in your life.  I believe that part … Read more

Being Effective

“Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away.”   — Earl Nightingale Whether you are an entrepreneur, employee, investor or simply self-employed we all have ideas.  We have ideas for our lives, for our … Read more