by stevengconnelly@aol.com | Aug 31, 2018 | Relationships
True happiness is is living a fulfilled life, yet many miss out on relationships which are taken for granted. This can lead to separation causing unimaginable pain. We all desire to be happy and live with the person we chose to spend the rest of out lives with. All to often though relationships end for no apparent reason, although some people do grow apart as they age, it should be noted we can also grow closer as the years go on. Today it seems like there are more and more folks splitting up, could be the loss of a job, an affair, money issues, nevertheless every where you look these days people are struggling to stay together. Some would say the economy is impacting peoples ability to cope with changing times, others would state it costs more to live which puts stress on families. All valid points, however if we get back to the basics of our relationships we’d have a better chance of success. I can remember a time when people stayed together, worked it out, and moved on. No doubt the world has changed, yet it’s the same. If you and I are going to live a fulfilled life we must understand what elements of healthy relationships to focus on each day. Why not stack the odds in our favor instead of the other way around? Key elements of a healthy relationship begin with love, we’ve all been in love, however the first person we must love is ourselves, in order for us to give love we must begin with how we see as well as the...
by stevengconnelly@aol.com | Aug 24, 2018 | Personal Growth
From time to time I’m asked a question which the answer might surprise you. How can you help someone become better? Improve skills and be the very best they can be? Could it be training? Read more books? Take online classes on improvement? No question self development is a great way to improve ones skills. However If you’re looking to help a person succeed you might consider working on your own self development first. Think about how valuable you’ll become once your skills improve. Imagine if your skills become 10 times better than they are now! Would your ability to lead by example help someone? You’ve been there and done that. A much easier model then just telling a person how to become successful. Have you ever been on a plane and noticed the instruction about the oxygen masks? It doesn’t say to help the person next to you firs, it states to put yours on first. How can you help a person if your not able to breathe? Same is true in real life, we must help ourselves improve before we begin to help another. In sports a valuable coach is one whom has been on the field playing the sport. In life same is true, a good doctor has made many diagnoses, an experienced sales person has been around the block sort of speak and has the ability to sell. An experienced person within their field is an asset to any company. In some sense I wish parents would take that same advice. You hear story after story of parents helping out their kid so they can...
by stevengconnelly@aol.com | Aug 18, 2018 | Success
Today at the gym a person I’d never met asked me a question? Why is it the people who don’t look for opportunities get them handed to them? I paused and didn’t say a word, have to admit I was totally caught off guard. What I was missing was a guy at the other end of the facility was talking to a man in a suit. Looked like he’d singled out this person and was offering him something. When I’m working out my headphones are on and the music is playing, so I miss out on many conversations, I like to concentrate on my routine and not get caught up in distractions. The guy why asked me the question was just amazed by what just happened. Although strange, opportunities are all around us each day if we look hard enough. His question was real, but he missed the first part of why this man began offering this guy in the gym an opportunity. It’s no secret hard work pays off in the long run, keep your head down and focus at the task at hand, opportunities will come right? Well, that’s not always the case. Truth is you can chase opportunities and never find success. However if what you do creates value, you’ll attract opportunity. After observing what went on in the gym, I thought what was it which made this man to come to the gym late in the day and make an offer to this man. What did he do? As it turns out this guy was a licensed electrician and the owner of the gym was...
by stevengconnelly@aol.com | Aug 11, 2018 | Personal Growth
Is wealth linked to happiness? Can a person who has never been wealthy learn to become financially free? Does more money make your life better? Many would say having enough money to pay your obligations and still have some to spend would say yes! But if we keep doing what we are currently doing how can life change for the better? In reality if more is what is desired then more is what you must become. The universe rewards the greater good. If we take from it the universe takes from us, if we give we are rewarded with the same. To understand the link between success and failure we must first understand the elements in conjunction with “Assembling The Puzzle Of Personal Development.” Our first assignment is to evaluate where we are in the world, what we have to add to the greater good and what we need to do to become more. For me personally this was one of the hardest assignments I’ve ever had to do. Determining what my strengths were and what my weakness were and how to address them became quite the experience. On paper it looks like no big deal, however once I began the journey I discovered how challenging it was. Life is nothing more then an assembling of experiences, yet along the way we tend to miss out on the message life is sending us. It’s not what we get in life it’s what we become along the way. Our view of where we are in life manifests through our own thoughts, our internal blueprint is obtained and designed by the...
by stevengconnelly@aol.com | Aug 4, 2018 | Success
Today if you’re looking for information the internet is a great place to start, there’s and endless supply of resources to obtain just about anything you can think of. With just a few key strokes a website is in front of you…But… Ever notice when you click on more info, a page comes up looking for you to enter an email or subscribe in order to gain access to the remainder of the info? There are fewer and fewer places to go where information is free. For most of us we rely on the internet for a majority of what we “don’t know.” Not to say we are all looking for free info all the time, people need to earn a living also, however when someone shares their knowledge with the world many benefit from what is written. It can impact and change a person’s life for the good. Don’t be afraid to share with others what you know, it can help make a difference. If what you know is helpful to one chances are it can help many, if you tell one person one time it is repeated only once, yet if you tell 12 people you’ll repeat it a dozen times, not only have you helped 12 people you’ve reviewed the info twelve more times! This can have a unique impact in your personal life, there is power in giving. We sometimes forget giving does not always in the physical sense it can be sharing an idea or a helpful way to solve a problem. Imagine the impact if your helpful idea was transformed into something which...
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