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That is a very good question! We are a microwave society and we want things to happen instantly. We would love to put our goals and our dreams into a microwave, set it for one minute and then…wholah…it is done!!! Well…things work in different ways… But…there is something we can do to rapidly speed up the process. The person that …

Persistence. How many times are you willing to try before you succeed? Depending on how much you want it. If you really want it, the answer is: Whatever it takes! I am sure you have been to Disney World or you have on your list that you would like to visit. But…how did that Magic Place come to existence? Walt …

There were many magnificent, brilliant people in the history of the human race that took theirs and other people’s lives to uncharted territory. There was Carol Benz who invented a horseless carriage that was the first car. By doing that he took the way of transportation to a completely new level, changing forever how we travel. There was Thomas Edison …

So, we set ourselves new exciting goals. Something new and something that we dream about. Now, we sit down and try to figure out how to achieve them. What would be the next step that we need to take in order to make our dreams come true? At that very moment, we might realize that…maybe our goals are too big …

If we want something more in our lives, we need to set goals on a different level. We need to go beyond how we used to set them in the past. If we go for the sky, we reach the sky. If we go for the moon, we reach the moon. When we go for the entire Universe…now we are …

HOW TO MAKE THIS YEAR THE BEST EVER New Year’s is here and we would love to make it the best year ever. We would like to take what we have achieved so far to a new level. Can we do that? Of course, we can!!! But… In order to achieve that, we need to look at everything from a …

There was a Christmas day and a family of three, father, mother and their fifteen year old daughter, were about to sit down to a Christmas dinner. The mother looked through the window and she saw three men sitting on a bench. It was cold and snowing and it looked like that bench was where they were going to spend …

People have businesses or careers that provide them with income. Whatever the income is, usually they want to make more. When we have a business, it means that we need to get more clients, make more sales, etc. When we have a career, we would like to have a promotion, or a pay increase, or maybe another more fulfilling job …

It is a good idea to have a role model. Someone we look up to and someone we would like to be. It can be someone we know or a historical figure, or a spiritual figure, etc. We need to be aware of the qualities that person has that we admire. Those are the virtues that we want to develop …

“I feel therefore I am”, are the famous words of a 17th century French philosopher Rene Descartes who made them the foundation of his philosophy. Feelings… Feelings are part of our lives. We feel something all the time. Our feelings define us. They tell us who we are and what is our mindset at this very moment. We think that …