Third Power Life

"If you don’t take time for your wellness, you will be forced to make time for your illness" Read that again… I have known for over a decade that I needed to get my weight under control. I always wanted to do it, even did several temporarily successful "diets"..  But they were hard to maintain and there had to be meal plans, and I had to get buy in from my family, and I got cravings, and, and...

"Adulthood is saying 'After this week, things will slow down a bit' over and over again until you die" That meme cracked me up WAY too much today. It has been a REALLY rough week at work. I realized I might not be the only person this week to experience the same feeling. So I wanted to share what I do when I get just stressed out at work. How can we get past the pressure and overwhelm? Hopefully t...

There are always things that happen to us that we wish did not. The question is: Which is easier to change, our opinion of what happened or the event itself. I remember in 2001/2002 in a 4 month period I lost my family (divorce), I lost my job, and I lost my father…  It was a horrible time…  I can look back now and see the lessons I needed to learn in my life, and I can almost look back...

“Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes” ― Benjamin Franklin I love this quote.  Yesterday, I talked about taking time out and making sure we take the time to recharge. It is vitally important… But it is also important to remember not to stay there.. :) We have to make progress on our true dreams. When we find our Quest, our powerful Personal Purpose, we need to make sure we are p...

This episode is best watched on YouTube or on Spotify video… (YouTube: https://youtu.be/RIvEBisiQ6w ) I was working on my 'The QUEST: Find your Personal Purpose' program this weekend.. I finished up one part and immediately, almost anxiously, started looking for what to do next.. It was stressing me out. I realized I was getting out of balance... There is this strong pressure on us to always be do...

The language we use, especially in our inner talk is critically important. I have been a dreamer all my life. However, I have NOT always been a doer. I have been waiting for "one day" to come along for a LONG time… Here is a secret, it will never come. You have to go to it! That is the difference between "one day" and "day one"… "One Day" is waiting on some magic fairy or lottery ticket to make ou...

Halloween: A Day When We Get it Right. Strangers come to us beautiful, ugly, odd or scary, and we accept them all without question, compliment them, treat them kindly, and give them good things. Why don’t we life like that? --Steve Garnaas-Homes #love #inclusion #nojudgement #kindness #thirdpowerlife

Self-Improvement is near and dear to my heart. It has been a passion for many years.  However, I was reading my Daily Stoic the other day, and it talked about how important the why behind your self-improvement is. Do you want six-pack abs to challenge yourself and achieve a difficult goal, or do you just want to look good with your shirt off? Do you want a nice car for the safety and comfort,...

Our subconscious does not understand negatives.  For instance if I tell you not to think of a blue elephant, you immediately think of a blue elephant. For negative thoughts, negative emotions, and negative habits, we cannot stop them by saying "don't do that", we have to oppose them with a stronger positive version! #positivity #goodhabits #goodemotions #gratitude #thirdpowerlife

Great insight from creating a program I did this weekend. I modified my "Path to a Breakthrough" program with an insight: "Your mental state is a direct reflection of how closely you are fulfilling your Personal Purpose" Our Personal Purpose is so important to how we feel. #Purpose #personalpurpose #inspiration #thirdpowerlife

After a stop at Burger King, and in my classic "over the top" greeting of "thank you sir" I realized that I was assuming the employee's gender.. And in today's world, that is not ok…   So I was asking my son if there was a gender neutral formal greeting, and he said his generation doesn’t do formal… (he is 16) I asked my daughter, and she pointed me to something new! There IS a formal gender-...

My reading from the Daily Stoic today was all about Love. The quote that stood out for me from the excerpt was "There is almost No Situation Where Hatred Helps".. It really struck me.. Then I thought that we can replace 'hatred' with 'stress' in that statement.. There is no situation where being stressed out is going to help you.. So let it go… and just love yourself… #loveistheanswer #hatrednever...

So finally got the doctor's approval to go back to the gym. It is amazing how much I missed it! I share how it felt to get back to the gym..  Even after I questioned "why did I do this to myself??" #backtothegym #exercise #takethetime #thirdpowerlife

I have been going through a training for Russel Brunson's clickfunnels 2.0 launch. One of the speakers today was Garrett White, and he was giving advice to one of the participants about how they need to publish/go live every day.  He shared his 4 part framework for a quick (5 min) podcast, and I absolutely loved it… What happened? Why was that significant? What was the lesson? How can they ap...

There are so many pressures on us in this world today, and most of them are trying to have us conform our standards to what "society" or "corporate culture" or even our friends/family thinks we should be. Why I push so hard for finding your Personal Purpose is it helps you set standards for yourself and hold to them. #standards #purpose #personalpurpose #thirdpowerlife

Great quote by Zig Ziglar "Lack of Direction, Not Lack of Time, is the Problem. We all have 24 hours in our day" We have all said "I don't have time". The reality is, we all have time, it is what priorities we use to allot our time. #direction #enoughtime #priorities #zigziglar #thirdpowerlife

We all get inspiration.. And we say to ourselves "I will remember that"… No.. No you won’t.. This is why I keep a journal with me at all times. Every time I get an idea, I write it down! Capture all your inspirations! The more you capture them and follow through with them, the more you will be given! #inspiration #journal #writeitdown #thirdpowerlife

Liminal Spaces… Liminal space is a place of transition, a threshold between two points, signaling the end of one time or space, and the beginning of another.  The space between what was and what is to come.. In horror movies, the scariest part is not where the bad guy/thing jumps out at us.. It is in the lead-up… the tension builds… Following our quest is the same.. In order for us to make pr...

I love spending time in airports… I alyways get to meet interesting people. One of the people I met on Friday was a nice lady headed back to Florida.. She was on the standby list and I could access the standby list on my Delta app… (She was the last one on the list) We started talking about work, and how she would really like the ability to work remotely, but right now she just works at a big reta...

Imagine trying to break through a wall… If we get a really bright light bulb, even with a lot of energy, we are not going to make any progress. But, if we take all that energy and focus the light into a laser beam, we can burn through it in short order. When we try to do many things our energy is dispersed and we do not make any real forward progress. We need focus. #focus #energy #breakthrough #t...

In the corporate world, and the world in general, there is constant pressure to be busy. We are inundated with (mostly) pointless tasks. My biggest challenge is around email and online meetings. We need to make sure we are asking every day, and with every task, "is this truly important, and am I adding value?" In this video I give a few tips for how to be more effective, rather than just busy. #bu...

"Your job is not to plug the holes, your job is to steer the ship" One of the bigest challenges I have faced is the desire to "do it myself". Delegation is hard at first. As you grow through your organization you are rewarded and promoted for your ability to "patch the holes". But there comes a point where your role is no longer to do the patching yourself, but to help others grow in their ability...

After my hospital stay last week, I was physically spent and sore… I knew there was going to be a healing process for my body, and that I would be not 100% for a few weeks.  What I was NOT prepared for was my emotional/mental healing process that was (and still is) needing a similar time. My message is simple. Give yourself permission to heal. You are allowed to feel some self-pity. Just don’...

So I have spent the last two days in the hospital, and it really brough home to me how grateful I am for many things in my life, and how some things that seem really important, fall away when faced with our own mortality. So take the time to truly count your blessings. #hospitalStay #blessings #countyourblessings #thirdpowerlife

One of my grandfather's favorite phrases "Bird of a Feather Flock Together".. He used to tell me that when talking about the importance of choosing friends. The same is still true as I have grown up. Your circle is critically important. I have heard many times you will earn very similarly to the 5 people you hang out with most. Well, I'm here to tell you it is not just money… it is spirituality, e...