Success

The surest way to be unhappy is to pursue HAPPY! This quote from Henry David Thoreau sums it up: “Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.”

This is the great paradox of happiness: The more you focus on it, pursue it, strive for it, and think about it, the more elusive it becomes, and the more frustrated your life becomes.

I have yet to meet someone who did not want to […]

I chose the “Right Way” in 11th grade when I enlisted into the Military. It was the Right way for me because I needed a lot of discipline and strict superiors who would give me a good kick in the hind quarters!

Unfortunately, that was the last of my Right Way decisions for a while. For the next six years, I chose the Easy Way. The Easy Way is all about ME – how do I do as little as possible? This is the path for those who never take any chances, live their lives without success as their […]

You are a movie star! You have been in more movies than Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts combined. Your string of ongoing movies is called Theater of the Mind, and you are the lead actor in it. Every day you replay the film in your mind of events you have faced, are facing, or will face.

You are not only the lead actor, but you are also the writer, producer and critic! YOU decide every day what your movie will be: action, romance, drama, success or failure, comedy or tragedy types of movies.

Whether you like it or […]

How desperate do you have to be to take a “Field Bath” out of your helmet, standing naked in a field in Germany when it’s 40 degrees outside? We were on a 5-day field exercise (playing war) with no facilities except what God provided in Nature.

After living in a foxhole, marching with a 50 pound ruck sack, digging, running and building defenses for 3 days, you could smell me coming from the other side of the world! I was RIPE, and so were the other 80 men who were out there with me.

I could […]