We know that perceptions influence attitudes and your attitudes have a direct influence on your behaviors. Once behavior starts, the outcomes of those behaviors influence your attitude which in the end drives your overall perceptions. If perceptions are risks and behaviors are actions - then attitudes (your desire) serve as the direct connector between the risks you perceive and actions you take to address those risks. You see, attitude truly is everything!
I am a case book extravert. Very outgoing, you can read my thoughts on my face, and I enjoy being around a large group of people. I am intuitive, meaning I like to develop new approaches and when you say something will read between the lines. I am also a feeler, focusing on a process and looking more for harmony than candid truth. Finally, I am a judger - appearing to be very task oriented, focused and organized in my thought processes. Using the Myers-Briggs Personality Assessment, I am as ENFJ as it gets.
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When I was growing up, my friends would look at my dad and say, “He’s a big guy – scary too.” My dad has this vein in his forehead and when he is angry it shifts around. This feature is intimidating. However, my dad overcame a great deal in his life to be who he is today.
People are not born leaders. Leadership is something which is learned and shaped by the habits we develop in our lives. I believe everyone can be a leader. However, leadership is work and leaders usually find themselves alone while doing this work.
Did you know 19 people a day die waiting for an organ transplant?
My family and I helped a friend out and participated in a commercial highlighting my personal story. It took second place! Click here if you are interested in watching it.
So many people are looking for a second chance in life...Matching Donors is making some of those dreams come true. I hope if I ever need a hero - one will help save me and my family!
Webster’s Dictionary defines manipulation as one’s act of control or play upon by artful, unfair, or insidious means especially to one's own advantage. They define vaccine as a preparation of killed microorganisms, living attenuated organisms, or living fully virulent organisms that is administered to produce or artificially increase immunity to a particular disease. Let’s add influenza to the equation and talk about manipulation and flu vaccine.
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you’ve imagined.”
~ Henry David Thoreau
A poor child was given an assignment to write about what they wanted to be when they grew up. Being a son of a horse trainer, the boy had always dreamed of owning a ranch with several horses on a large plot of land. He wrote about this dream, drew a picture of the ranch, the home, and even some of the horses.
"When life does get tough and the crisis is undeniably at hand, when we must, in an instant, look inward for strength of character to see us through, we will find nothing inside ourselves that we have not already put there."
~Ronald Reagan
A young man was really angry. He had witnessed a serious injustice - someone who had intentionally hurt another individual. His father asked him to sit down and listen. "Son, I too have felt great hate for those who steal and lie, with no sorrow for what they do."
"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent."
Eleanor Roosevelt
There was a little boy who raised cows. He would herd them up a mountain every day and at the end of the day come back, tie them up, and leave them over night. One day, as he was tying up the cows he noticed he did not have a rope for one of the cows. The boy did not have any more rope and was concerned the cow would walk away during the night.
