September 2010 Blog Posts (205)

All individuals partake in the communication process to satisfy our interpersonal needs. The art of…

Wounds are those experiences you’d rather forget. Experiences that had a profound effect on you, on your heart. Experiences that shut down a piece of your soul. Maybe it was a father or mother who called you stupid, or a teacher who told you you’d never amount to anything, or a coach who told you to give up. Maybe it was a failure you brought on yourself, by yourself or with a “friend”, a crime or embarrassing event that has followed you ever since. Maybe it was the absence of something or…

Are you stretching yourself everyday or living like a coke bottle bobbing in the ocean?

There are 168 hours per week....are you intentional with them? Are you intentional with how you spend your money? Many times we get frustrated and just throw our arms up in disgust and say “screw it!”

I’ve been there many times. Feeling overwhelmed with life and tired of getting beat down; It sometimes feels good or even the right thing to say “screw it” and then go medicate yourself while…

Your Partner In Success Radio Show

Jon Hansen has an amazing story.

In May 2001 Jon sold his company for $12 million dollars – mostly shares and debentures, only to see the dot com bust erode away his personal wealth to practically nothing by 2007. This, as it turns out was…

Heard it again today on the radio.

“I have no money, can’t afford groceries, and certainly can not afford my (upside down) house payment.....but I am so worried about my credit

score!”

I almost swerved into a telephone pole when I heard this......

Stop the insanity!

Are you kidding me?

So you want a better score so you can borrow more?

Look, if you can not afford to eat, then WHY ARE YOU SO CONCERNED ABOUT A STUPID CREDIT SCORE?!

• If you…

Season of the Harvest 9-29-10

This is my favorite time of the year, the fall, when things cool down and the sky is clear and one of my favorite past times begins, hunting season. We have had a long HOT

summer this year, over 118 days at 90 or above. It was way above 90; heck 90

was a cool…

When I was in the corporate world we had the hard workers, and the not-so-hard workers. Of course, for the most part you could tell who enjoyed their work, and who did not by the effort and heart they put into it. There was a lot of complaining. Whether you worked hard or not, there was always something wrong with how someone else was…

When I first started playing music in a band, I loved band practice. Getting together with my bandmates in my parents' basement and rockin' out for a couple of hours, making the throngs of screaming fans (in my head) faint. We were always pretty serious, mostly because of my drive to "make it" professionally. So, we would tweak the amp tones, fight over levels of distortion on the lead guitar, and practice the same parts over and over until they were perfect, or so we…