Lorna's Blog
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...
5 Signs You Are in a Toxic Office
If you’ve been a cubicle-dweller any length of time, chances are you’ve experienced an office culture that stinks: Unhappy workers, cheerless managers, and a generally dismal vibe. And what is toxic for the office is toxic for you if you work in the environment. Kevin...
What is your GPS programmed for?
This is one of those topics that I could write about all day every day. Goal setting, goal achieving, goals goals goals! We all have goals. Each and every one of us. Some of us think we gave up a long time ago and don’t have any but we do. Every day we wake up with...
Attitude Determines Altitude
Attitude is the one thing all human beings have complete control of and yet many unknowingly choose a negative attitude. If we understood the power of our own attitude in our lives, most of us would change it immediately. How many times have you been told to change...
Increase Productivity by Decreasing Complexity
The 80/20 rule sounds like a mathematical formula and in some ways it is but don’t fret, this isn’t a lesson on statistics. The rule came from an Italian economist, Vilfredo Pareto, who stated that 80% of the income was earned by 20% of the population. What this...
What’s Your Ding?
In 1997, Steve Jobs proclaimed to the world, “I want to make a ding in the universe.” And he did. He changed the way we look at computers. He changed the way we listen to music. He changed the way we use our cell phones. All because he began with his why: Everything...