What would change in your life if you had the discipline to see it through to fruition?  If you knew in fact that the path towards growth was a sure thing?

As your week begins and you look at the possibilities for growth both personally and professional that is in front of you, what aspect of what you see compels you create the action required? What allows growth and the change that it brings to actually happen?

I know this is a lot of questions to start your week. However, it’s the questions we ask ourselves and the subsequent answers that we then give and act on that makes all the difference on where we head each day.

Today marks that infamous money day most Americans dread – better known as tax day. Why is it that we put this date off so much? 1/3 of Americans don’t file until the very last minute… but why is that? You have to pay attention and honor the value of a dollar and what it can bring to you. 

When a “paycheck” is not an automatic function that happens every two weeks – those of us in the world of small business ownership know that you simply have to work hard and believe to make the seemingly impossible, possible. Positive reminders are a must to keep your sanity in remembering enough is enough...

When was the last time you gave a sincere and heartfelt compliment?

What is your reaction when you get one?

Do you brush it off, making excuses why it may not be true?

Or do you soak it up like a warm ray of sunshine : )

This was the topic for conversation in this week’s Courage to be the Difference Podcast.  I had the great opportunity to interview New York Times Best Selling Author of the book, Picture Your Prosperity, Ellen Rogin. 

Overwhelm comes in all shapes and sizes. Sooner or later it affects each of us.  This chaos occurs when the 24 hours in each day somehow gets out of balance between work, play, and rest.

It’s a term we seem to use a lot these days and deserves a deeper look to fully understand what it can mean. As with any emotion, if we look at it in the right perspective it can assist us towards finding our individual road to victory. 

One day last week in the early morning hours I awoke to send my daughter off to the airport.  My husband had graciously agreed to take her and we were all up at the ungodly hour to get her out the door by 4am.  Being an early riser, this was even a bit much for me. 

As I dragged myself out of bed, my brain started clicking along at a very fast pace wondering how in the world I was going to get all that was on my plate done in the day ahead. Suddenly, I was grateful that I had a two-hour jump on the day.

Yes it’s true! Spring has sprung and it’s officially time to start planting some seeds. 

Have you every focused too much on the wrong thing and sure enough the exact opposite of what you wanted was like a magnet and found it’s way right to you?

Sometimes - especially when we have something we want badly and we want it this minute – we fearfully keep imagining through fear the exact opposite result. By doing this we can in fact push the desired object or happening far from our life. 

With this morning bringing an extra hour of light than it did last week (due to daylight savings time yesterday) it seems appropriate to talk about sparking things up a bit when the darkness - whether expected or unexpected - comes into our lives. 

Since the inception of the Victory Letter many years ago, the number one goal of these writings has always been to celebrate our humanness. No matter the role we play in business, we are all human at our core. 

Probably one of my greatest achievements that I am celebrating this week is my ability to create a human being. Talk about humanness! That came in the form of my son, Travis Ruskus, who has not only been an awesome son but has also in the past several years fully stepped into his purpose as a contemporary artist.