NAOMI OSAKA, MEGHAN Markle, Prince Harry, Meryl Streep and, most recently, Simone Biles, to list a few, have all come publicly out about their battles with depression. Just this week a friend told me about losing two friends to suicide from depression. Depression is...

WHILE WORKING ON my five-year-old laptop, I noticed that it was getting slower and slower. It wouldn't connect to the internet as fast, and moving from one program to another was taking more time. When I would start it, it seemed like it would take forever for the...

IT WASN'T UNTIL 1879 that man starting using electricity as a source of light. Prior to that, all the way back to Adam and Eve, man lived by the light of fire. And, since 1879, as our life got brighter, our focus got divided — and life became more challenging.I was in...

NO WIND IS favorable to a sailor without a rudder. The sailor is taken where he or she is directed, not where he or she selected. No life is favorable to a person without a purpose. The person is taken where he or she are directed not where he or she selected. Life...

THE SAYING GOES, "When the going gets tough, the tough get going." I say, when the going gets tough, the smart S.T.O.P.!When you find yourself in difficult times, the first thing you should do is S.T.O.P. Most people will react to a situation by jumping into action:...

WHILE VISITING NEW Hampshire last week, it came to my attention that Concord, Mass., was only a 93-minute car ride away. Not only is Concord the birthplace of America's democracy, but it is also the birthplace of transformational thinking. People such as Emerson,...

THE YEAR 1991 was the first time I went to Pamplona, Spain for the 10-day fiesta of San Fermin and the eight days of the running of the bulls. My time there was going to be four days. My only instruction came from a runner named Ron from Phoenix, and, as brief as it...

TO BE OR not to be is not a question; it is a choice.Every morning when you wake up you have a choice to make on how you are going to be for the day and impact the day. Every morning you are waking up to a brand-new, never-before-used, never-before-seen,...

"IT JUST SUDDENLY happened to me." How many times have you said that to yourself? Whether it was good or bad, it just suddenly happened. But nothing just suddenly happens.There is a cause and effect in everything you do, and you have been doing it your whole life. You...

"YOU DON'T HAVE to be great to get started, but you do have to get started to become great!"Smart advise from an associate and well-known motivational speaker Les Brown. You cannot become great if you're doing nothing about your greatness. And if you do nothing about...