The Ignite Blog

My son is a senior in high school as I write this and plays varsity basketball. I live 400 miles from where he does but try to make as many games as possible. About the time that he asked me to make sure I could attend Senior Night, I started to think about the reality…

So many people have asked me how I wrote “Change Your Thinking, Ignite Your Life: What Are You Telling Yourself?” but very few have asked why. The reality is that the why drove the how. I had to have a strong enough “why” to make me want to find out “how”. Had my “why” not…

Yesterday while meeting with one of my friends, I overheard the discussion amongst a group of people about how great things were in the “good old days”. They discuss how much easier things were before everything was online and how they used to call and actually talk to people and not machines. Hard to argue…

Since you can’t control the passage of time your actions are the only thing that can determine the outcome of the changes that happen in your life. This is the hardest thing to accept because we want to have control over everything. We want what we want when we want it and that when we…

Today I have been inundated with wishes for a Happy and Prosperous New Year! And reminders that we now have 365 New Chances for Happiness! Admittedly, these wishes frustrated me at first because on page 122 in the Chapter “Change: A Process That Leads to Progress”, I point out that ” Every day is the…

Like others, life still presents challenges for me. And even though I know what I would tell others to do to help them through these life situations, sometimes it’s difficult to take my own advice. Last week I went through a situation that was almost identical to one a friend was experiencing. I advised him…

In the Introduction, I ask the question, “If you are what you say you are then why would you tell yourself you are anything less than you want to be?” This seems so logical yet how many people think about this? I can’t begin to tell you how often on the golf course after hitting…

The one question I’ve been asked more than any so far, is “How’d you do it?” The short answer to paraphrase the Beatles is “with a lot of help from my friends”! Years ago in my 20’s I remember saying that I wanted to write a book, but I had no idea what the topic…

Welcome to the Ignite Blog, where I will share ideas and solutions to the challenges you may face that are preventing you from living your Desired Life. I welcome questions that can be the topic of future Blog Posts as well as feedback on other solutions and suggestions that I may have already shared. If…