The notion that only peak performing professional or Olympic level athletes need to be in top physical condition is out-of-date and a mistaken notion. High-level executives, parents, teachers, nurses all need high levels of physical energy to build and sustain the enthusiasm, creativity and the passion that drives these high performers over the long term. Read More

This is a wonderful time to be alive. More than at any other time in American history has there been a time more ripe with opportunity and possibility for advancement and growth. For the creative and driven individuals, there has never been a more fertile time for the achievement of their goals and aspirations. Regardless Read More

Anger is perhaps the most destructive of all negative emotions. Uncontrolled anger ruins marriages and relationships, destroys the personalities of growing children, loses jobs and careers and causes more unhappiness than any other emotion and the remarkable thing is that it is largely unnecessary. Simply put, anger is a response that you choose to a Read More

Too often people attempt to live cautiously in the safety of established patterns. They don’t feel fulfilled, yet they’ve found a formula…not of success…but of avoiding failure. For me, this is the living death…when security becomes the overarching goal. It’s as if they sell out for the promise of security by being so careful and Read More

Some people, rather than change bad habits and negative thinking try to hide their flaws and weaknesses. I’ve learned the hard way and through a lifetime in Taekwon-Do that no matter how hard we work to hide the flaws, they will remain hidden but for a short time and then ripen and come forth with Read More

The challenges and difficulties of life are great and the battles we have to fight to live and grow are fierce indeed. Our goals, our dreams, the rewards of life are all uncertain and like smoke in the wind sometimes…so much so that people are cracking under the pressure and strain. If your aim is Read More

I’ve often talked of the advantages of being decisive, but indecisiveness has some advantages, as well. For one thng, you get to live in your own little fantasy world. Even if you’re doing nothing, you’ve made a decision to do nothing. When you’re putting off making decisions you’re allowing the world to make your decisions Read More

If you really don’t know what you want, you must first discover who you are. Goal-setting is a journey into self-discovery. Perhaps you’ve been living someone else’s life. If you have been living your life only to make someone else happy, you may wake up one morning to realize that…not only are you not happy…you Read More

A goal is a dream with a time limit. This is a key element. If you don’t set a deadline, you tell the universe that you are not very serious about your goal and have no sense of urgency to get it accomplished. You prove your insincerity towards your goal. If you talk in terms Read More

A person doesn’t really live until they learn to discipline themselves. Discipline means; “To do WHAT you should do, WHEN you should do it, WHETHER you like it or not.” A person whose inner life is undiscipline and chaotic eventually MUST display this confusion…through their behavior… to the world. Before a person can accomplish anything Read More