To let you know how far I’ve come, let me tell you where I’ve been.

Not that long ago, there were nights I went to sleep in strange places praying I wouldn’t wake up. After another night of bad decisions, I’d lie down with my heart speeding inside my chest like it was about to burst through the skin. My thinking was clouded, and my talent was one day closer to being totally wasted.

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In my opinion, though in a time of sorrow and mourning, the eulogy Ted Kennedy gave for his brother Robert Kennedy’s memorial on June 8, 1968 at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, New York is an all time great. Personally, I’d dub it the greatest speech of all time, but I haven’t listened to nor have I [...]

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There’s been a part of my sub-conscious lately that, for some odd reason, keeps letting doubt creep into my mind! I hate it, I hate it, I hate it. Let me repeat that just one more time. I hate it! Now that that’s out we’ll move on. Many of you [...]

I found this truly inspirational story, personal account, of Tom Godfrey’s miracle on a cancer forum. You might be wondering why I was reading a cancer forum and no, I don’t have cancer. The company I work for owns a cancer forum that I was looking at analytics for and got sidetracked reading some of [...]

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“There’s a difference between interest and commitment. When you’re interested in doing something, you do it only when circumstance permit. When you’re committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results.”

In my last post “Put Two Feet In” I mentioned that we must be quitters at quitting. I will [...]

A few years back I saw this quote in a magazine and have had it written down and saved on my computer ever since. I wanted to share it with my readers because over the years it has served me with great motivation and inspiration every time I read through it.
Too often we are scared.
Scared [...]

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GoDaddy’s Founder and CEO Bob Parsons has a set of 16 rules he follows for success in business and life in general. They’re based off events and his personal experiences throughout life.
For those of you who don’t know what GoDaddy is here’s a little background. GoDaddy is a domain registrar [...]

When I woke up this morning I checked my emails in my bed with my iPhone (a habit that I’ve developed since getting one). Someone visited my site and used the contact page to send me an email. This morning was the first time, in a while, that I was able to start the day [...]

Being and staying motivated is difficult for many of us in today’s society especially when the economy is horrible. Many of us have lost a job or are currently unemployed, are strapped for cash, and everything we had planned for our future just isn’t turning out the way we had expected them to. I could [...]