The Real Estate market is changing. Prices are declining for the first time in years. Here in California, the prices are coming down from the stratosphere. Houses are still selling, but are taking months instead of days. In my Toastmasters club we have quite a few people that are involved in the Real Estate business. For some this is the first decline they have ever seen. For …
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The Daily Frog
I picked up a great audio book over the weekend, entitled "Eat That Frog," by Brian Tracy. Many people have told me that this little book has changed their lives. From the opening chapter, Brian is an unpretentious host. His humble background and day laborer school of hard knocks lays an interesting foundation. This guy is the real thing.Brian starts off with the premise that …
Eat Dinner for Breakfast and Lose Weight
As I walked into my local Barnes & Noble bookstore, I was confronted by the New Year assortment of diet books. They were all lined up on the front table, their covers bright and shiny. Being curious by nature, I decided to look through a few and see what the latest diet buzz was all about.There were the usual over-hyped titles where you supposedly can lose a lot of …
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The 5 Percent Diet Club
My wife Joyce is starting a new diet challenge at her work this week and they have come up with a novel approach. Instead of losing a pre-determined amount of weight over a time period (such as 10 pounds), they have set it up as a percentage of their total body weight.They have set their time period at 12 weeks and the goal weight loss percentage at 5 percent. They weigh in …
10 Powerful Quotations
As I put the book down, I came away with the feeling that I needed to take something away. I needed to capture the spirit of the book. I knew from past history that the "Giant Erasers" would soon be wiping away the memories of this profound work. I took out a pen and wrote down the quotation from page 35 on the back of a business card.As I viewed the quotation, the chapter came …