I love to coach and inspire people to achieve the success they seek. I believe life is a playground and look at how to blur the lines of work and play each and everyday!
// July 30th, 2008 // No Comments » // Daily Insight
“If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.”
Oprah Winfrey
Television Host, Actress and Producer
// July 28th, 2008 // No Comments » // Daily Insight
“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
Nelson Mandela
South African Statesman and Nobel Prize Winner
// July 25th, 2008 // No Comments » // Daily Insight
Last winter a friend of mine at The Wealthy Attitude told me of a story of the amazing Dr. Randy Pausch. Randy was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2007, and while this would have “taken out” most people, he responded to it in a way that showed insight, courage, and an awesome caring for everyone touched by his story.
In the months following his diagnosis, Randy used his experience to create a learning opportunity for his students at Carnegie Mellon University. His “Last Lecture” went around the world at unprecedented speed. He appeared on The Oprah Show, sat before Congress, but more importantly he gave each and every person who heard his “lecture” an opportunity to reconcile their own passage through this thing called “life”.
This true “hero” passed away on the 25th July 2008. Here at The Wealthy Attitude we celebrate him.
Enjoy once again his wonderful piece from The Oprah Show.
// July 25th, 2008 // No Comments » // Success Tips
Many of us have heard about that saying Be-Do-Have, wow is it really that simple? I wanted to share a story of how we started this idea of Life is a Playground and our business Clark’s Playground. Just about a year ago we were like so many working, day to day raising a family and making the best of what we thought we had. The keyword is “thought”, however we started to question what we had. Is it really just about going to work and coming home, do-this, do-that? Is there really no control of what we want for our lifestyle and where we want to go? Is it really about going to work and hoping for 2 weeks off and getting away somewhere?
We decided no, we have a responsibility to live the lifestyle we want and also to demonstrate to our children, to live the life they want. Success can be so many different things to people. How we define our success is by living the fullest most prosperous life we can. It is our obligation to be prosperous in every aspect of our lives.
Clark’s Playground was born; we had to find a way to do it. We had made the decision that our life is about playing and prosperity. We started a home business and went at it. Then we asked ourselves, how can we play in 2007? What have we wanted to do that we always said we would do, but never took action. So we decided who we wanted to “BE”.
Then started to “DO” it, we went and spent the winter in Baja, we went to Australia, and we then came home loaded up and went to Northern Canada. We always said we wanted to be traveling and sharing experiences with our children and be able to make a multiple 6 figure income while doing it.
So my point is Be-Do-Have. We decided to “BE” whom we always dreamed of. Then we had to “DO” the action to make that a reality. Now we “HAVE” the life we have always wanted and share and mentor others to do the same.
I am grateful for it, I celebrate it. Every day is a gift, open it up and enjoy it because tomorrow you get another one.
Life is a playground, how do you choose to play?
// July 25th, 2008 // No Comments » // Daily Insight
Whether you play golf or not, you surely know the name Tiger Woods. So bear with me. This message isn’t so much about golf as life.
Almost a month ago now, Tiger outlasted Rocco Mediate in this year’s U.S. Open. Playing the course at Torrey Pines in San Diego, the two were tied after four days. They were still tied at the end of an 18-hole playoff. Tiger won in sudden death on the 19th. Some say it was the greatest U.S. Open in history.
No, the score wasn’t the lowest ever. No, it wasn’t won by an eagle from the fairway. No, there was no miracle shot that ended things. The miracle was that the man who won was able to complete the competition.
Tiger Woods played the tournament with a torn anterior cruciate ligament and two stress fractures below the left knee. As I watched part of the Open on TV, it was obvious that the world’s greatest golfer was in excruciating pain at times. His powerful swing would contort his whole body, wrench his injured knee in particular, and register quite dramatically on his ordinarily poised face.
Golf is only a game, but watching a professional athlete compete through such pain was inspiring. He could have simply withdrawn because of the injury. Fans would have been disappointed but would have understood. He could have played to his pain and hit the ball less aggressively. He might have fallen back into the pack and taken a high score and low finish. He would have none of it.
Tiger played through his pain. He wouldn’t quit. He gave his best on every hole. He insisted on playing to his full potential – even when the potential was putting both his body and mind under incredible stress. Hooray for him!
The winner of this year’s U.S. Open had successful reconstructive surgery on his damaged knee about ten days later. He will miss the remainder of this year’s PGA tournament events, of course, while he rehabs the knee. But few people doubt he will be ready to play the tour next year. He is, after all, Tiger Woods. He is the ultimate competitor. He doesn’t quit.
There are pains of all kinds. Physical trauma, broken relationships, failed ventures, consequences of wrongs done – all are different and all the same. And each of us has to decide about quitting, playing to the pain, or working through.
As you’re deciding what to do with yours, think about why so many people are speaking of Tiger Woods with such admiration these days – even the folks like me who hardly know which end of a golf club to hold.
True courage isn’t just outlasting difficulty but turning it into triumph.
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