The greatest revenge is massive success.

“If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, “thank you,” that would suffice.” ~ Meister Eckhart

Yahooey! I love Thanksgiving Week, spending time with family and friends and expressing my gratitude for everything around me. Of course, the fast pace of life and its demands can make it all too easy to forget to give thanks each and every day. Thanksgiving season serves as a lovely reminder that if I just pause to think, I’ll always have cause to thank, and therefore smile.

Every day is a new day. When you wake up each morning, how do you feel? Are you excited… anxious… worried…? Whether we are experiencing hardships or whether things are going fantastic, there’s always a reason to be grateful. So why not wake up each morning with a sense of victory? Know that you are big enough and capable enough to handle whatever challenges that will come your way. Anticipate obstacles. Welcome them with open arms. If you do this, there will be no such thing as “bad news.” Instead, all news will always ultimately be good news.

Thomas Edison used to say that his deafness was his greatest blessing – a blessing because it saved him from having to listen to reasons why things couldn’t be done.

Count and give thanks for your blessings every day. If you are grateful, your positive mind will be one that naturally anticipates happiness, joy, health and success, as well as rise to any occasion. Whatever the mind expects, it finds.

Happy Thanksgiving.

If you didn’t happen to catch last night’s episode of Celebrity Apprentice, you missed some seriously ugly reality-show moments as Melissa (and mom, Joan) Rivers reacted to Trump’s latest firing. Check it out:

“Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.”
~ Thomas Jefferson

In the game of The Apprentice and in the game of life, poise comes through maturity. When we get it, and can keep it under pressure, we will have a decided advantage over others. John C. Maxwell once wrote that panicking or acting out usually has a negative effect on a situation, but remaining calm and cool enables us to think and act more intelligently. The Rivers duo clearly let the best of their emotions get to them.

Melissa’s firing should come as no surprise, however, as she plainly declared what her fate was going to be well before the boardroom scene. Let’s go back to scenes from the task:

She is proof that what you say about comes about. She speaks about what isn’t, as if it were. And, as you know from the ending, she continues to act as if and goes until that which she spoke about became reality!

Her “woe is me” banter and circumstance-blaming got her exactly what she deserved. There is no such thing as circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want. And if they can’t find them, they make them.

Melissa: Stop playing victim. Stop proclaiming entitlement. Stop seeking to be rescued. Stop blaming.

Bottom line? Get out of your own way.

A son asked his father, ‘Dad, will you take part in a marathon with me?’  The father who, despite having a heart condition, said ‘Yes’. They went on to complete the marathon together. The father and son went on to join other marathons, the father always saying ‘Yes’ to his son’s request of going through the race together.

One day, the son asked his father, ‘Dad, let’s join the Ironman together.’ To which, his father said ‘Yes’ too.

For those who don’t know, Ironman is the toughest triathlon ever.

The race encompasses three endurance events of a 2.4 mile (3.86 kilometer) ocean swim, followed by a 112 mile (180.2 kilometer) bike ride, and ending with a 26.2 mile (42.195 kilometer) marathon along the coast of the Big Island in Hawaii .

The father and son went on to complete the race together.

Watch this video.


Nothing can stop you if your REASON WHY is strong enough.

What’s your reason why?

Think of all the obstacles that bombard you on a daily basis. Add to those the incidents or circumstances that truly test your strength and will – which inevitably force you to make a decision. Do I take the path of least resistance and give in to my situation? Or do I choose perhaps, to push through, face things head on, and take a shot at winning?

Even though it certainly doesn’t feel like it when we are facing it, adversity is what defines us. It is easy to have a great attitude, a strong work ethic and a positive outlook when things are going great. But how do we stand up during tough and seemingly unbearable times?

Consider the phenomenal achievements and life stories of Jim Maclaren and Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah, who chose not to take the path of least resistance, when faced with tremendous adversity.

Whether our life on earth lasts 20 years or 110 years, we are guaranteed to not make it out alive. So, if your life today isn’t exactly going exactly the way you’d hoped it would be, how about taking a different approach? Albert Einstein once said, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.”

We become what we think about. This is one of the greatest laws of the universe. If things aren’t right in your world, change your thoughts. Change your life. And why not? The worst that can happen is you will die trying. Just do it. Quit going through the motions and start designing your life the way you want it to be.

“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.” ~T. Roosevelt