I confess. I’m addicted to the show, “The Biggest Loser.” I was never fat as a child - ever. In fact, when I wasn’t being recruited to be a child model by my aunt, people wondered if I was “too skinny” - since my knobby knees and pencil thin limbs made me look anorexic. In high school I was 5′ 3″ tall and weighed 115 and my parents called me “fat.” Looking back now I’d love to be that “fat” now.
In college I was an athlete. I was bench pressing …

Dear friends of mine,
Thanks for writing to ask me to proof your ebook, write a press release, tell you how to start your own online business or how to create a website. I’m charging $$ for those things now. Yep. I don’t do freebies anymore. I just can’t. I’m too booked with paying clients, the pro bono volunteer work I do (that plate is full too), and the down-time I’m taking to ensure I stay healthy. Yep. We all knew this day was coming and now it’s here! Yeah, it’s …

Tweet If you have a blog you’ll attract trolls. If you have an opinion, a position, anything - you’ll attract people who disagree, and a few who are violently or rudely opposed to you and your idea or input. If you comment on someone else’s blog, or participate in anyway online - you will encounter pinheads, jerks, trolls and flamers who have no lives and no goal in life other than to make you miserable.
I have some good advice for dealing with all of them. Respond ONE time …

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
Time. I think I’ve wasted 2/3’s of my life worrying about and fixing or trying to fix what other people think is urgent. I …

If you were raised to believe you weren’t “good enough,” as I was, then you probably have a hard time taking risks that may confirm to the whole world that what they thought about you was/is true - that you’re not good enough.
In my life I have rappelled off buildings, cliffs and towers and once out of a helicopter. I have been a raft guide and kayaked rivers that are deadly and that have literally killed dozens. I’ve hiked the Appalachian trail through three states by myself. I’ve lived …