This holiday will test everyone’s patience and strength. Along the way will you choose to punch forward and plow through the challenges and difficulties or will you choose to grumble, complain, and lose your way? You have a choice! Choose to be great and make the best of every day. Find ways to win and [Continue]

We all face curveballs during our lives and how we face them shapes our futures. In light of Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game and week, I wanted to share the story of Jim Abbott. His life will inspire you to face any curveballs thrown at you. Your growth as a leader will benefit from these [Continue]

Hey! We all face our share of difficulties and obstacles along the way. That’s life. Get over it and keep plugging away, right? Well, some folks face intense challenges in their lives and through strong wills, passion, and perseverance they ride on. This is the case in the story I want to share with you. [Continue]

The success equation is not that complex! It takes hard work and I mean hard work. If you want to succeed, you must pay the dues. Does that mean work longer or more? Not necessarily but, yes, definitely sometimes more work is necessary. The drive to work — as much as needed — must be [Continue]

GUEST POST BY BRAD RICHARDS! Good stuff Brad and thanks for contributing. If you are interested in writing a guest article, please contact me at tthompson@dailyvoicemaildealio.com. 1) Everything begins with the person you hire. If you want outgoing, engaging, friendly, energetic people then you have to hire it. These are non-negotiable for anyone [Continue]

DOES YOUR ATTITUDE EFFECT YOUR RESULTS? Absolutely! Every day is a new chance to have an amazing day and your attitude will play a large part in whether you do. Here’s the thing: You only have this one chance to have the day you want to have today. 24 hours! Game over. Kris Allen, 2009 [Continue]

“MOST STRESS IS CAUSED BY PEOPLE WHO OVERESTIMATE THE IMPORTANCE OF THEIR PROBLEMS.” Michael LeBoeuf, Ph. D. Really? You are stressed about that? Stop! We stress ourselves out over things we can not control, things that do not matter, things we can not stop, things that will never happen, just things. Take all of that [Continue]

There are so many great stories and lessons in history.  As you go into this weekend, know that you can make it happen.  Just think of one of these great sources of inspiration and charge on to extraordinary results.  Many people told them along the way that they were nuts and it could not be [Continue]

What do you have that most other careers can not match? A NEW CHANCE TO WIN and be successful every day. A new chance to win and be successful every week. A new chance to win and be successful (and in most cases financially rewarded) every month. What other career has that?  Not many.  Do [Continue]

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Carpe diem is a phrase from a Latin poem by Horace (See “Source” section below). It is popularly translated as “seize the day”. Carpe means “pick, pluck, pluck off, gather”, but Horace uses the word to mean “enjoy, make use of.” In Horace, the phrase is [Continue]

Let’s talk about potential.  How high can you jump? Flea trainers have observed a predictable and strange habit of fleas while training them.  The fleas are trained by placing them in a cardboard box with a top on it.  The fleas will jump up and hit the top of the cardboard box over and over [Continue]