Attitude is everything and more

A book recommendation: You can’t send a Duck to Eagle School, by Mac Anderson. Absolutely great book for business owners, managers and anyone else in life. Here are 10 gems of info I pulled from the book.

#1 Survey of 1 million people were taken who thought they had the best boss. The most popular answer was.. Boss was willing to listen to what they had to say. Hello….Are you listening????

#2 Keep it simple. Red Auerbach and Vince Lombardi, 2 of the all time most famous coaches, only has 3-7 plays, but practiced and practiced them to perfection. Simple enough?

#3 Southwest Air CEO was asked HOW he gets such nice employees. His answer was that he hires people with nice, positive qualities. You can’t teach people enthusiasm, motivation and to smile. It makes all the difference in the world.
Seems so simplistic, yet it makes perfect sense!

#4 Attitude is everything.  We all have down days and tough stuff. Just deal with it and BOUNCE BACK. Read more

Some thoughts on happiness

Good morning to all and a spectacular Saturday. Taking a little longer to awaken this morning and I am in need of a power nap (after work it will come).

On my drive to work this morning I was listening to the audio book (Automobile University) “Blink” by Malcolm Caldwell. I recently read “Outliers” by the same author and found the book to be very insightful regarding some of the explanations for peoples success and failure. We do measure many things in our lives as a success or a failure. The explanation is not so simple as it may seem, as to why some have success and others don’t.

In Blink, one of the stories Malcolm shares is about a car salesman, suggesting that we never prejudge people (we shouldn’t even prejudge auto sales people). As many of us have heard, the clothes and the faces may not tell the whole story. By simply training ourselves to take the time to listen and learn we can give all people the positive and kind energy each and every one of us desires and ultimately deserves. Read more

The Great Transformer, loving what you hate

Hatred can be irrational, and it has a greater impact on the individual who hates than the person or object being hated. Yet overcoming hatred is difficult because hatred reinforces itself and causes greater enmity to come into being. The most powerful tool one can use to combat hatred is love. Deciding to love what you hate, whether this is a person, situation, or a part of yourself, can create a profound change in your feelings and your experience. There is little room for anger, dislike, bitterness, or resentment when you are busy loving what you hate. The practice of loving what you hate can transform and shift your emotions from hatred to love, because there is no room for hatred in a space occupied by love. Read more

Happiness strategies

Happiness is a continuous creative activity. -Baba Amte

10 Things Science Says Will Make You Happy:
In the last few years, psychologists and researchers have been digging up hard data on a question previously left to philosophers: What makes us happy? Researchers like the father-son team Ed Diener and Robert Biswas-Diener, Stanford psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky, and ethicist Stephen Post have studied people all over the world to find out how things like money, attitude, culture, memory, health, altruism, and our day-to-day habits affect our well-being. The emerging field of positive psychology is bursting with new findings that suggest your actions can have a significant effect on your happiness and satisfaction with life. Read more

Dream Board Workshop Invitation

Please join the our group Conscious Creators at this fun workshop on Wednesday, October 8th at 7pm at the DeWitt Library in the Shoppingtown Mall. We will provide poster board, glue, and lots of magazines Read more

A moment in the universe to talk to a friend

On a beautiful day in August, 2008, at the Ben and Sally Taylor concert in Skaneateles, NY, I met a friend. Although I had just met Father Charles for the first time, I knew right away the connection we had was positive and eternal. Read more

Dancing in the rain

There once was a woman who woke up one morning,
looked in the mirror,
and noticed she had only three hairs on her head.
“Well,” she said, “I think I’ll braid my hair today.”
So she did and she had a wonderful day. Read more

Thoughts on the Universe and Work

Work, the energy transferred by a force, the place of employment. Read more

Dr. Rob to appear on Food for Thought TV July 4th

Dr Kiltz wants to welcome everyone to view the Food for Thought TV series on WCNY (channel 12) this Friday at 12:30 PM and again at 10PM. He invites you to join in the upcoming segment with Chris Xavier and George Kilpatrick. Read more

Dr. Rob’s Intention of the day, June 10th, 2008, Response

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