INTERNATIONAL SPEAKER / AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR

Lazy people are underrated. How many Shark Tank products and services are a result of laziness? A lot. People aren’t looking for harder...

Susan Sarandon said about getting older (I’m paraphrasing) it doesn’t matter so much how you look anymore, it’s who you are that counts....

We just returned from Kauai and it was awesome because we beat the crowds. Hawaii (and Kauai in particular) have been very strict in how...

Often when we see others who are rich, famous, and successful we think, “Ahhh, they’re just lucky.” Sure, if luck is where practice,...

When you think of Dave Grohl, (Nirvana, Foo Fighters) the first thoughts that come to mind are all good. He’s talented, successful,...

I knew the most amazing person named Barbara Blake—everyone called her Sunshine. Despite being abandoned by her parents, widowed three...

What do superheroes do that we don’t? Glad you asked. Let’s see, the Wonder Twins had each other, Batman had Robin (and Alfred), and...

We did it. Ellen Goodwin and I met at the Waffle Spot for breakfast four years ago and came up with the idea to do a podcast on...

For each of our twice-monthly Sunshine Club Zoom meetings I give the members something to reflect on and then share with the group. Since...

One of my fears is if I share a set of my slides someone will steal my ideas. Since the slides I am sharing are on facing your fears (and...

“It goes by so fast.” That’s what everyone said about raising kids. They were right. Summer is like that, too. It starts slow and then...

I think it was Zig Ziglar who joked that people scoff at motivational materials because they believe the effects won’t last. He went on...

This monthly blog has been updated consistently for over ten years—starting out on Wordpress in 2002. With three or articles a month,...

I realize not everyone cares that baseball season has started, so I wanted to tell a few stories that go beyond the game that everyone...

It would be easy to write our life story in 1,000+ words. Maybe even 500. But can we do it in 250 words or less? I’m going to try. Then I...

In many fields there are unwritten rules—expectations of how we are supposed to act, and what we should do, and not do in certain...

When Meg Ryan said, “I’m difficult. I’m too structured, I’m completely closed off,” it was funny, because it was in a funny movie, When...

What parent doesn’t dream that someday their child will play high school sports, get a college scholarship, and maybe make the pros. The...

Nobody would choose to be sick or injured. We would choose feeling fine—or better than fine—if we could. The good news is, most of us...

Some people . . . you meet them and think, “Now here’s someone I’m thrilled to work with.” I just started working with April (great name,...