It’s interesting what indicators the average person uses to label themselves or someone else successful, isn’t it? In America, it’s typically a certain number and type of vehicles, a certain sized home, style of dress, and any number of outward expressions of materialism. In the age of social media, success has morphed to include the...
Mass media’s fixation on fresh-faced youth and all that’s hip, trendy and new, brainwashes us a bit, doesn’t it? Sayings like, “Forty is the new twenty” (or thirty, or anything BUT forty, as long as it’s younger), are meant to be empowering and suggest that we are more active and vibrant than those who reached...
OK, so… why do we love to fixate on and get behind the rich and famous? Mega-entertainers, (oh Lord… those dreaded Beyoncé ‘Beyhive’ followers…), athletes (pick a team, any team), politicians (I promise: will say NO more), folks with insane wealth (I love you, Oprah!) What makes us call them “influencers”? Their visibility? Words? Money?...
Over the years of fighting my own excuse-addiction and working with people heavily addicted to their own, I often heard the ‘need to wait’ as a common reason to not move forward with acting on some “very important” goal. Hearing it always tells me it’s really a way of saying, “I’m not sure.” Of course,...