Lorna's Blog
Be an Overnight Success
Patience. Not my strongest trait. I don’t even have the patience to wait for the kettle to boil for tea. I use the microwave. My need for speed is fed daily by the internet and encouraged by the media. The headlines scream 'Make Millions Overnight' and 'Lose Weight...
The 7 Factors of Influence
In an ideal world, our ideas and projects would be accepted on their own merit. People would easily see the value that they bring and accept them as a way to move forward. But that is not the case in reality. As much as I dislike it, as much as I wish it were...
How to be Head and Shoulders Above the Rest
Real leaders are always trying new things, always looking for ways to grow. Why is that so important? Our world is not static. It is in a constant state of change. I think you’ll agree that the rate of change is increasing every year. Unfortunately many see training...
4 Steps to Mastering Persistence
Be A Weed If you knew what 500 of the world’s wealthiest people knew – would you do as they do? Napoleon Hill dedicates an entire chapter to Persistence. Your paradigms will shift when you consistently feed your mind with repetitive information. Hill describes the...
Do You Stick Your Neck Out?
Fear Fear is critical to our survival. It keeps us protected from legitimate threats and danger. If we only had life threatening fears, we’d be a very different society. Instead we have additional irrational fears based on traumas, bad experiences, or those all too...
4-Step Method to Overcoming Challenges
Challenges So many people wish life was easier, with less challenges and obstacles but without challenges, life becomes stagnant and we stop growing. Challenges help us uncover who we are and it allows us to become better people. Let’s examine a very simple 4-step...
How to Change Your Results
Change If the facts don’t fit the theory, change the facts. ~ Albert Einstein I love that quote! Change is that scary word that most people shy away from. I don’t want to change. Why should I change? Why doesn’t everyone else change to accommodate me? If I...
All Success Involves Risk
Risks You set that lofty goal and you are ready to go for it but something holds you back. Something inside you says, hold on, what do you think you are doing? Fear steps in and you become unsure of that goal now. You aren’t ready. This isn’t the time. Tomorrow, yeah...
Are You Comfortable Being Uncomfortable?
Comfort On Wikipedia, comfort is defined as a sense of physical or psychological ease and a lack of hardship while uncomfortable are people lacking in comfort. I disagree! I am hung up in the word “lacking”. I think people who are comfortable are lacking. Let me...
The Purpose of Life is a Life with Purpose
Purpose: Why am I here? What is my purpose? What am I supposed to be doing? These are ageless questions. Some people don’t believe there is a purpose and that doesn’t mean they won’t find their purpose, it only means it will take a little longer for them. To learn...