Tag: confidence

  • Grasshopper mentality causes problems

    More than three thousand years ago several million people were released from slavery and they traveled to a land that was promised to them. But because they had “grasshopper mentalities” (we are not tough enough or good enough,, we are like grasshoppers compared to them) they didn’t have the confidence to fight for the land…

  • Love is everything…

    After 53 years I finally figured it out. It’s all about love. Everything, I mean EVERYTHING. It’s all about love. The entire Bible can be summed up in one word—love. Every singer that was loved by many had one thing—love. They may have been stupid, low IQ. They may have been weak. They may have…

  • This method helps solve any problem

    If I had one hour to save the world, I would spend 55 minutes defining the problem and only five minutes finding the solution. –Einstein, Albert Once a Toyota executive asked a large group of employees how to increase their productivity they only gave him blank stares. He decided to change the question and asked them to tell him ways to…

  • You really can do just about anything!

    Are you facing a challenge in your relationships, career or in reaching your dreams in life? It is probably not as big a challenge as becoming the president of the USA. Cheer up, read on…. Where you finish in life isn’t determined so much by where you start as by whether you start. John Maxwell…

  • Everybody has to persuade people sometimes

    We all want to persuade people (our kids, boss, employees, spouse) to do certain things. The Pygmalion effect (also called the Rosenthal effect) is a phenomenon that has been proven to work very well by scientists, including Dr. Robert Rosenthal of Harvard University and UC Riverside. It has been shown that when you have high expectations…