Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Improving yourself
Monday, September 17, 2012
Believing in yourself
Friday, September 14, 2012
Removing doubt and fear
Thursday, September 13, 2012
Looking at what can be done
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Getting junk out of the way
Wednesday, September 05, 2012
Branding yourself
Author and Speaker
Tuesday, September 04, 2012
A grateful heart
Author and Speaker
Monday, September 03, 2012
Doing remarkable things
1950-2006, Playwright
When the only way is up
Novelist
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
How to succeed
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Giving love
Thursday, August 16, 2012
Counting your blessings
Monday, August 13, 2012
A secret to winning
Thursday, August 09, 2012
Gratitude
Wednesday, August 01, 2012
Don't quit so soon
Monday, July 30, 2012
Putting others down
1902-1993, Concert and Opera Singer
Thursday, July 26, 2012
Understanding others
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Listening to your heart
When you think something might just work ...
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
The happiest people
Wednesday, July 04, 2012
Overcoming the obstacles
Monday, July 02, 2012
Changing the world
1901-1978, Anthropologist, Writer and Speaker
Thursday, June 28, 2012
How to get stuff done
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Going after what you want
Author and Speaker
Monday, June 25, 2012
Facing life head on
1924-1987, Novelist, Playwright and Poet
Thursday, June 21, 2012
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Making your life happy
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Who to get even with
1883-1970, Author
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Deciding to win
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
What The Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast
Mornings are a great time for getting things done.
You’re less likely to be interrupted than you are later in the day.
Your supply of willpower is fresh after a good night’s sleep.
That makes it possible to turn personal priorities like exercise or strategic thinking into reality.
Monday, June 11, 2012
Believing in yourself
1889-1977, Comic Actor
Thursday, June 07, 2012
Where you are today
Author and Speaker
Wednesday, June 06, 2012
Planning your life
1930-2009, Author and Speaker
Tuesday, June 05, 2012
What peace is
Monday, June 04, 2012
The one trait you need for success
Co-founder of Amway
Thursday, May 31, 2012
Getting from here to there
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
When you feel sorry for yourself
1888-1955, Author and Speaker
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Action and results
Monday, May 28, 2012
Thursday, May 24, 2012
Being and Doing
1928-2003, Creator of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
Thursday, May 17, 2012
What makes for success
1906-2004, Entrepreneur
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Doing great things
1850-1924, Author
Sunday, May 13, 2012
Leaving a Legacy for the Future
Friday, May 11, 2012
3 Things Professional Women Should Stop Apologizing For
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Tuesday, May 08, 2012
Why Amendment One Passed
That campaign idea was a good one. Rather than viewing those who supported the amendment as enemies, it viewed them as friends and co-workers and relatives who could perhaps be persuaded to change their minds.
I have no idea how many of these proposed conversations happened. But in the wake of the amendment’s passage, it’s worth looking at some of the reasons why it passed. Because I think that this amendment’s passage gives a lesson for the future. There were crucial mistakes made by this amendment’s opponents. Both of them were problematic. Together, they were fatal.
The first mistake was to view those who supported this amendment as bigoted, hate-filled people. In any legislative process, those who support and oppose do so for a variety of reasons. We are fortunate that most people in North Carolina are neither bigoted nor hate-filled. But over and over, the amendment’s opponents made these charges. It happened in person, in newspapers and magazines, and online. I witnessed an exchange in a restaurant where an amendment supporter made a quiet, thoughtful case for the amendment, and an opponent proceeded to scream that the supporter was “hateful,” “evil,” and “bigoted.”
Monday, May 07, 2012
Saturday, May 05, 2012
Affordable online school: New Charter University
Tuesday, May 01, 2012
Finding a way to achieve
Sunday, April 29, 2012
Prostate cancer and life expectancy
Saturday, April 28, 2012
Does Sunshine Actually Decrease Dangerous Melanoma Skin Cancers?
Thursday, April 26, 2012
5 Simple Tools That Make Email Suck Less
Is breakfast the most important meal?
Attracting good stuff
Psychiatrist, Physician and Researcher
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
“Paleo” Nutrition Blogger Will Go to Jail if He Does Not Recant
State Threatens to Shut Down Nutrition Blogger
Nutrition board says he needs a license to advocate dietary approaches
On being thankful -- and its benefits
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Helen Keller sunglasses
10 Ways To Craft Your Resume For Ultra-Short Attention Spans
What to do in stress
Saturday, April 21, 2012
World's best coconut cake ... maybe the world's best cake, period
I don't say that easily. Coconut has long been (from childhood) a favorite of mine, and it remains so. This cake is moist, flavorful, and full of good coconut taste. Not a quick cake (as I pointed out yesterday, you have to start it 48 hours ahead of time!) but a good one. One that you make for an Occasion. A birthday, anniversary, or just when you want to show Somebody Special that you love them. Here's the recipe, again.
Friday, April 20, 2012
Is this the world's best coconut cake?
I'm not a big cake fan. Most cakes that you get are dry (over-relying on cake mixes will do that for you, as will trying to avoid any butter in the cake -- contrary to what people tell you, applesauce is not a good substitute for the clean taste of butter), cloyingly sweet, or just lacking taste in general.
But I do love coconut cake. Growing up, there was a woman at church who made an incredible coconut cake: moist, full-flavored, and redolent of coconut.
The problem? Finding a recipe that really, REALLY replicates that full coconut taste.
A few months ago, we found this recipe in Our State magazine, a good publication devoted to things North Carolinian. And since this cake isn't quickly put together (it requires starting 48 hours ahead of serving!) my wife saved it for my birthday.
Which is tomorrow. So she began on Wednesday, because we're having our children and their friends for dinner tomorrow. I'm doing pork and chicken Chinese recipes, and while cake doesn't go with Chinese, we all need an inconsistency or two. Here's mine. I'll report tomorrow on the outcome of the cake.
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Put This Food on Your Hair for a New Level of Luster
Looking for good
"If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul."
Harold Kushner
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Where do I go from here?
"Making a decision usually means taking one of two roads. One is doing the right thing. To take the other road, you have to sit back and spin a story around the decision or action you are taking. If you find yourself thinking up an elaborate justification for what you are doing, you are not doing the right thing."
Wayne Sales
Friday, April 13, 2012
Why Being A Meaner Boss Will Help Your Company--And Make Your Employees Happy
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
The clarity of the teachings of the Scriptures
What great minds have
"Great minds have great purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them."
Washington Irving
1783-1859, Author, Biographer, and Historian
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Newest book idea
Monday, April 09, 2012
Sunday, April 08, 2012
The best articles online
Thursday, April 05, 2012
Today
"Look well to this day. Yesterday is but a dream and tomorrow is only a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well therefore to this day."
Excerpt from an ancient Sanskrit poem
Tuesday, April 03, 2012
Beginning with confidence
"If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
106 BC - 43 BC, Roman Philosopher and Statesman
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
When to start doing
"When you have talked yourself into what you want, right there is the place to stop talking and begin saying it with deeds."
Napoleon Hill
1883-1970, Author
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Making your life
"Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens."
John Homer Miller
1910-1944, Teacher
Monday, March 26, 2012
Thursday, March 22, 2012
How to get through hard times
"A difficult time can be more readily endured if we retain the conviction that our existence holds a purpose - a cause to pursue, a person to love, a goal to achieve."
John Maxwell
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
The key to success
"I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up. Most people in this business gave up and went on to other things. If you simply didn't give up, you would outlast the people who came in on the bus with you."
Harrison Ford
Actor
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Making dreams come alive
"We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort."
Jesse Owens
1913-1980, Olympic Gold Medalist
Thursday, March 08, 2012
Not fretting the small stuff
"Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest."
Beatrix Potter
1866-1943, Author and Illustrator
Wednesday, March 07, 2012
Where winners live
"Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future."
Denis Waitley
Monday, March 05, 2012
Making a fool out of yourself
"When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap."
Cynthia Heimel
Playwright, Television Writer, and Author
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Success and courage
"Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act."
Maxwell Maltz
Monday, February 27, 2012
Getting what you desire
"The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat."
Napoleon Hill
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Take action!
"Life is too short to waste. Dreams are fulfilled only through action, not through endless planning to take action."
David J. Schwartz
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Strength in difficulties
"I am grateful for all of my problems. After each one was overcome, I became stronger and more able to meet those that were still to come. I grew in all my difficulties."
James Cash Penney
1875-1971, Founder of J.C. Penney Stores
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
What love is
"Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you."
Wayne Dyer
Monday, February 13, 2012
Looking at the goal
"You've got to walk right into what you want and not look at what you don't want. Stay focused on the goal."
Calvin LeHew
Thursday, February 09, 2012
What courage does
"Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says, 'I'll try again tomorrow.'"
Mary Anne Radmacher
Thursday, February 02, 2012
Get started!
"Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy."
Dale Carnegie
Wednesday, February 01, 2012
Achieving something great
"Nothing great has ever been achieved except by those who dared to believe that something inside them was superior to circumstances."
Bruce Barton
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Noticing people
"The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity."
Thomas J. Peters
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Choosing pain
"Each of us must experience one of two pains - the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. Which pain will you choose?"
Jim Rohn
Monday, January 16, 2012
True security
"When you know that you're capable of dealing with whatever comes, you have the only security the world has to offer."
Harry Browne
Financial Advisor and Writer
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
How to make your life better
"Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning; they are an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of life."
Harvey Mackay
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
The power of concentration
"Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets."
Nido Qubein
Author and Speaker
Monday, January 09, 2012
Seeing the future
"See things as you would have them be instead of as they are."
Robert Collier
1885-1950, Author