The Photogenic Mind

So we are all familiar with the saying, "Keeping up with the Joneses." If you're not, it means keeping up with something you believe to be great/perfect. I believe all of us strive to keep up with someone or something in life. At some point, we might feel like we trying to "Keep up with the Joneses." The Joneses are not a bad thing. However, constantly wishing to be like someone/something and not getting there can be frustrating. Well what if we were to flip this and become the Joneses in a certain area of our lives? Instead of trying to "keep up", we become the bar. How much better would you feel if you woke up in the morning, looked in the mirror, and told yourself, "I am the Joneses!" Fireworks just might go off (I recommend keeping a fire extinguisher handy). Now I am not saying not to be inspired by something great. I am a firm believer that a person should always be striving to be great at something. I am saying that you are only as...

I am not an expert when it comes to setting goals. I have been the king at saying I am going to do something and never doing it. One day I found myself thinking,  I need to start doing more with my life. All I do is work, come home, eat, sleep, then hit repeat.  How many times have you told yourself that you were going to do something and never followed through with it? As we all know, it is so much easier to talk the talk, but often times difficult to walk the walk. As the new year approaches, many of you have probably found yourself saying, "This is the year I will (fill in the blank). Did you find yourself saying these same words at the beginning of 2010 or at some other point in your life? Why didn't you fulfill these tasks? The answer: DISCIPLINE! You made the choice to not have discipline and therefore you are setting the same goals once again. No one ever said that setting and following through with goals was easy. As the saying goes, "If it was easy, everyone wo...

When was the last time you gave a sincere compliment? Who was the recipient: a stranger, friend, coworker? Here's a short (real) story about a person complimenting me the other day. During a routine trip to Wal-Mart, I was purchasing a yo-yo when the cashier asked me, "Are you a champion yo-yo master?" I responded, "Not yet, but there's always a possibility!" A man behind me then said, "I love your attitude! You could have have responded no, but you didn't. If everyone had an attitude like that, we'd all be successful!"  I was floored! I left the store feeling on top of the world. I began thinking about how a complete stranger gave me a compliment. On top of that, he sincerely meant it. That's pretty powerful! He impacted me in a way that he will never know. So I challenge you, reach out to someone today and give them a sincere compliment. You never know how it may impact their life!