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Beware the Twin Scourges: “Destination Disease” and “Someone Sickness”
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their mind to be. The twin scourges are two ways you can choose to put…
June 27, 2019The Label Becomes the Experience
The words we choose to describe a situation powerfully frame our experience of that situation. Words can either sting or sooth. One can be happy…
June 20, 2019Your Identity Drives Your Behavior
Who are you? How do you define yourself? How would you describe yourself? Do you like your answers? The words you choose, the associated mental…
May 30, 2019The Belief That Sets the Course of Your Life
Self Belief: I am enough, I can do it, I have (or can find) what it takes. Where there is a will, there is a…
May 9, 2019The Most Destructive Habit You Can Possibly Have…That You MUST Stop Right NOW
The most destructive habit you can possibly have is to allow negativity in your life for it has the potential to undermine so many other…
April 18, 2019Choosing to Find Peace Today
The mind, the ego, the subconscious often have multiple reasons why peace must be just around the corner. Or, why it is difficult/impossible because of…
April 11, 2019How to Master Your Moods
Our emotions arise from the thoughts we allow into our minds, from the world view we’ve chosen to adopt. Change your mind, change your life.…
March 21, 2019Resilience 101 “Consciously Building Your Coping Skills Before Life Tests You”
In life, it is inevitable that we will have valleys through which we must walk, times of despair, defeat and discouragement. These journeys will be…
March 19, 2019Don’t Be Your Own Biggest Problem: Three Ways to Freedom
I decided a long time ago that life holds enough challenges without the handicap of me not being fully on board, fully committed to loving…
March 5, 2019The Many Possible Riches of a Poor Memory
The first thing to understand is that far from being akin to a marriage of video recorder and a computer data bank, our observations tend…
February 26, 2019What Do You Tolerate?
What will you put up with before you move on? What are your standards, your acceptable minimum? Generally speaking, what we are willing to settle…
January 17, 2019Are you Watering Dead Flowers? Stop Watering Dead Flowers
Where in your life are you wasting effort and energy? With who or where is your life force not being valued? Sometimes you have to…
January 15, 2019An Entrepreneurial Trait Anyone Can Emulate
A key trait of entrepreneurs is that they are Self-Directed. While entrepreneurs may look to many sources for inspiration and guidance, they do not need…
January 8, 2019What You Link Pleasure to, What You Link Pain to: Shapes Your Life
I’ve a friend who is a work out fiend. No day is complete without a couple hours in the gym. Suffice to say they are…
December 20, 2018Nathan Collier’s Commencement Speech Sunday, December 16th 2018 at the University of Florida O’Connell Center, to UF Warrington School of Business Graduates
DEAN KRAFT: It is my pleasure to introduce our Keynote Speaker for this morning’s ceremony, one of our most successful alumni and my friend, MR.…
December 18, 2018Today, Your Thoughts Choose Your Future
Every moment is a moment of decision. Every act, every failure to act, shapes your future. And because your world view, what you choose to…
December 13, 2018My Why’s
My Why, my Internal Motivation; from whence does it come? Hard to truly know what drives me; humans have a habit of making up explanations…
November 29, 2018Count Your Blessings: Make it Truly a Day of Thanksgiving
Want to cheer yourself up? Find energy on even the darkest days? Count your blessings! Enumerate all the things you have to be thankful for,…
November 20, 2018Five Mindsets That Will Speed You Onward to Your Fullest Greatness
1. Own BFF Mindset: To achieve your best self, you MUST learn to believe in yourself, in your potential, in your inner greatness i.e. you…
November 15, 2018What is Your Belief System About Yourself?
What do you believe about yourself? Of what do you think you are capable? Who do you see yourself as? How do you see yourself…
October 11, 2018There is This Place
And then it happens… A morning dawns and you realize that all is good. All is as it should be. Your mind is calm. Your…
October 9, 2018Big Windshield, Small Rearview Mirror
There is a reason your car has a BIG windshield and a small rearview mirror: You are going forward, not backward! Where you are headed…
October 4, 2018Buttons
“Most of us respond like machines when life or people push our buttons. Freedom, wisdom, growth, maturity: they all lie in that space between…
October 2, 2018“…does no wrong hereafter.”
In the context of forgiveness and redemption, Abe Lincoln once said, “I think it is enough if the man does no wrong hereafter.” In this internet…
September 27, 2018The Demon Within
Simona Halep, #1 ranked in women’s tennis, flamed out in the 1st round of the 2018 US Open in Flushing Meadows, losing in straight sets.…
September 4, 2018“I Can’t Have That” v. “I Don’t Want That”
How we choose to see the world powerfully impacts our responses. The way we interpret events, the worldviews we select as our own, all come…
August 28, 2018