by John Carpenter Dealey | Mindset
Are you mad at or upset with someone? Has that ever happened to you? What did you do about it? Did you carry a grudge, ignore it or just let it go? Holding on to bitterness, disillusionment and feelings of betrayal will make your life miserable. Most likely, the...
by John Carpenter Dealey | Personal
Do you greet people when you’re walking down the street? How about the lady at the checkout counter at the grocery store? What about the cab driver? If you’re like most of us, you probably don’t pay much attention to people you don’t know....
by John Carpenter Dealey | Mindset
Brian Tracy teaches: “Happiness comes when you believe in what you are doing, know what you are doing, and love what you are doing.” With those thoughts in mind, ask yourself this simple question: Just how happy am I? If you are like many of us, you may...
by John Carpenter Dealey | Success
One of the life lessons Dr. Norman Vincent Peale taught in his classic and best selling book, The Power of Positive Thinking, is: “Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously and never...
by John Carpenter Dealey | Mindset
What Are You Thinking? “What I think about, I bring about. The thought of success will foster success. The thought of love will foster love. The thought of security will foster security. What am I thinking about today?” This quote, question and philosophy...
by John Carpenter Dealey | Personal
Have you ever watched a television show and thought, ” Wow! They sure do have a lot of producers!” While multiple producers work on one television show and they get all their names listed in the credits for the show, if you look closely, there are also...
by John Carpenter Dealey | Mindset
“Attitude is Everything!” Ever hear that phrase before? You’ve probably heard it a lot because it happens to be true. One of the great things about attitude is that you can choose it. No matter what the external circumstances are, you can choose how...
by John Carpenter Dealey | Personal
Ernest Holmen once said “Today I live in the quiet, joyous expectation of good.” That’s good advice for all of us. Generally speaking, we find what we expected to get. So, when you got out of bed this morning, what kind of day were you expecting?...
by John Carpenter Dealey | Success
There are many marvelous lessons in life that we can learn and benefit from. This article is about two that are very closely related: accuracy and planning. Doing things the right way, at the right time, with proper planning will give you much greater accuracy. One of...
by John Carpenter Dealey | Success
Change is a constant in today’s world. Recently gas and oil prices reached record highs. Stock markets set record declines. Job losses and home foreclosures are major problems. There are wars going on in a different countries around the globe. Events like these...
by John Carpenter Dealey | Success
Where did it go? Have you ever reached the end of a day (or a year) and wondered where all the time went? You know you’ve been busy and working the whole time. But somehow it doesn’t feel like you did much – or anything – at all. Effective time...
by John Carpenter Dealey | Personal
Loss often comes quickly and unexpectedly. No matter how prepared you think you are, if something or someone you cherish is suddenly gone, you can find yourself feeling crushed, desolate, hopeless and lost. Can you get beyond the pain? Will it ever be possible to move...
