I love palm trees. I think they are beautiful and love to watch them sway in the breeze. During times of hurricanes and storms, many palm trees get beat up and blown over... yet through the storm they still stand. We need to be like the palm tree. We too go through storms. We get blown around, have storms (life) hit us hard and get blown around in the winds that surround us. AND we need to always stay standing. The palm trees have learned to adapt to the storms. To be flexibl

Diamonds are beautiful but people forget that the process of creating a diamond is long and arduous. It takes years. Years of pressure, cutting, shaping and polishing. Life and business are the same. Success doesn't come over night, it also takes years. It requires pressure and failure, heartache, and setbacks . It also takes resilience, patience, courage and persistence. Many want the diamond but not all are not willing to do the work and wait for the results. Just li

Do you ever just want to give up? To throw in the towel and run away to a deserted island or just sell sunglasses on a beach someplace? Well you can.... You can just give up. But what about this instead.... what if you don’t give up on your dreams and all you have been working, on but you choose to give up: Fear and uncertainty Self pity and put downs The believe that you are not worthy We all have choice and we all can just give up. The question for you this week is what w

Every day, millions of people travel. It may be by plane, train, ship or another mode. They get on the vessel and without knowing the pilot or captain, they trust they will get to the destination safely. They willing climb aboard and just trust in a person they do not know... So then why do we not trust ourselves to get us to our own destinations? You see, everyday we travel too - it is the journey of our life. We jump on board and even though we are our own captain - we s

When a football player is running down the field ready to catch the ball, two thoughts can go through his mind... 1) I am going to catch this ball and make the play of the game! or 2) If I catch this ball, it will be followed by a body crushing slam to the ground that will take me days to recover. a focus on option #1 - an amazing play on #2 - a missed catch and an incomplete play We know that what you focus on expands. The challenge for many of us is that we focus on the