(An excerpt from the bestseller How to Completely Change Your Life in 30 Seconds, based on talks by Earl Nightingale) A Commitment to Laughter One of the enriching blessings of growing older all the time is that it has a way of improving one’s sense of humor – or at least it should. The person without [...]

(An excerpt from the bestseller How to Completely Change Your Life in 30 Seconds, based on talks by Earl Nightingale) The Profile of a Creative Person REACH FOR IDEAS The creative person realizes that his mind is an inexhaustible storehouse. It can provide anything he earnestly wants in life. But in order to draw from this [...]

Did you ever wonder where those human dynamos, those people who can pack as much work into one day as most of us do in two, get all the energy and drive that makes them go? Well, the source of drive and energy in human beings is known. It s the personal excitement that comes from [...]

You know, some stories are so good they never grow old, and one of them was the old story called Acres of Diamonds. No one knows who told it the first time – it’s supposed to be true – and of course it is, in that it’s happened thousands of times to thousands of people [...]

People who play it too safe take the greatest risks. Did you know that? In the long haul, the intelligent risk-takers develop the greatest security. It s a wise person who learns the importance of risk taking. During World War II, psychologist E. Paulo Torrance made a study of United States aces flying in the Pacific [...]

Opportunities and problems come in all sizes, from the very small to the very large. There s no such thing as an opportunity without problems or problems without opportunities; they re two sides of the same coin. But it s how we react to them that determines what sort of people we are and how serene or frustrated, [...]

The Stoic philosopher Epictetus taught, Adversity introduces a person to himself. On the occasion of every accident that befalls you, remember to turn to yourself and inquire what power you have for turning it to use. Opportunity beckons more surely when misfortune comes upon a person than it ever does when that person is riding [...]

Peter Drucker, the well-known management consultant on the subject of getting into the right kind of work, has said, People worry because they think a career decision is like marriage – to be broken only by failure or death. Well, this just isn’t so. You have to accept your uncertainties as normal. Only musicians and [...]

An accomplished woman musician gave a great piano performance for a woman’s club. Afterward, over coffee, a woman gushed to the virtuoso, I d give anything to play as you do. Whereupon the woman who had given the concert took a sip of her co ee and xed the red-faced, slightly perspiring matron with a cold gaze. [...]

Among the writings of Henry David Thoreau, I came across this statement, Many an object is not seen, though it falls within the range of our visual ray, because it does not come within the range of our intellectual ray. In other words, there are many things that exist in our world that we [...]