I have been focusing on filling my mind with only positive things and keeping the negative things out. I have read many books about this. Being an avid student of NLP has also helped me recognize negative communication and negative influences, and I just avoid these things or ignore them as much as possible. As a result, I have taught myself how to be positive the large majority of the time. It wasn’t an overnight process, it did take work and time.

I have been avoiding TV, newspapers, and the media for years! Many people think that I am crazy for admitting this. I have good reasons for this though, and I know that doing this has made a huge positive impact on the quality of my life.

I would estimate that 90% or more of (more…)

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Many people think I am too serious and respectable to be playing with LEGOs. THEY ARE WRONG!!!

I have always loved LEGOs since I was a kid. I used to have a lot of them. I was in Orlando a few weeks ago and I went to the LEGO store in downtown Disney. It was amazing!

I had a LEGO car building contest with my 10 year old cousin today. It was a lot of fun. LEGOs are a good creative outlet for me. We were at this for several hours. I am a perfectionist, and I had to search for all the right colored pieces in a large and disorganized LEGO box. My cousin built a race car and I built an offroad buggy.

Here are the results (more…)

I figured I would put a copy of this article up on my blog for all of you to read. This is an article I wrote on Goal Setting just before the new year (2008). I sent it out as an email to a bunch of people I know, and this was also published in a local Real Estate publication. Since its publication, I have received several emails and calls with praise for the article and how it has helped people look at the year ahead. I hope it will help you too!

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Many of you know that I have been (more…)

Time Management is something that I have practiced and learned to be pretty good at. We can all improve, but I used to be terrible at it and now I am actually pretty efficient. As usual, I read a lot of books on time management and applied different parts of them that I thought were the best.

One thing that I regularly do is (more…)