To make some changes in your life you are going to have to make daily changes. But to know what you want, you need to make a focused effort to find it. And the best way to do this is with a personal retreat. This episode ends our four part seri

Life Planning: Life on the Micro and Macro Level

Oct 7th, 2008

I believe we live and think about our lives at two levels. Sort of the high overview level and the lower day to day level. It is important when planning your life to take both of these levels into account. This episode explains what the two lev

Life Planning: Why Goals Don’t Work

Sep 30th, 2008

Goals are the cornerstone of personal development. But they don’t always work. How many times have you made list of goals, and not accomplished them?This episode of Distinctions For Life gives you two keys to making your goal setting profitabl

Life Planning: Know What You Want

Sep 22nd, 2008

Today we begin a series of videos on life planning. Life planning is the process of finding out what is really important in your life and determining how to make it happen. This first video talks about how to find out what you really want out

You Don’t Really Want Money

Sep 15th, 2008

Today Distinctions For Life goes to Glennwood Cemetery in Houston Texas to talk about money. We visit Howard Hughes grave and try and put money in perspective. Learn about finding what you really want and how to get it with or without money.Yo

It Will Take A Hurricane

Sep 12th, 2008

As I write this post, the wind is rushing through the trees outside my window. It sounds very peaceful.But isn’t going to stay that way. Hurricane Ike is about 200 miles away heading straight for us.Hopefully we will just get a lot of rain an

The Golden Rule

Sep 9th, 2008

You can’t live life to the fullest if you ignore morality, and the greatest teacher in the world on morality was Jesus. Today’s distinction looks at the sermon on the mount and short version, which is the golden rule. Learn a common misconcepti

Teleseminar On Change

Sep 4th, 2008

The first DFL teleseminar series on change ended this evening with a great interview with Jason and Melanie Van Orden of Jet Set Now. You can listen to a recording of the call here:Jason and Melanie VanOrdenYou can also learn Power Moves from

Anything Worth Doing Is Worth Doing Poorly

Sep 1st, 2008

On this episode of Distinctions For Life we learn about doing things poorly and why sometimes, even often, that is a good thing. Most of the time when we learn a new skill we have to do it poorly, not well. There is a progression of understandi

Personal Growth And The Significance Journal

Aug 25th, 2008

If we want to grow as a person and make a positive impact on the world, we need to keep track of what we are doing. Journaling is key to this, but most of us go about it in the wrong way. As a result we give up on the practice before it does us

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