Success Starts Here!

Most of us will be sending our kiddos out to get their Halloween candy this weekend while the actual holiday is Monday. Halloween is that one day of the year when we can all dress up as ghouls and goblins, sexy or scary, and have a little fun acting like children again. It is a special day in my mind because for one day adults, teens, and children are all on the same level. Just having some fun. As a society we don't do that nearly enough. I submit to you my friends that Halloween doesn't have to be the only day we play dress-up. While this day in particular is solely for fun, we can use the lessons of this day to help ourselves be successful the other 364 days of the year, if we'll only learn and apply those lessons. I've spoken of Napoleon Hill in many of my prior posts. To say he is a personal hero of mine is sort of an understatement. Mr. Hill spent a lifetime studying the wealthy and successful. One of the lessons he learned was many of them created themselves in

On this day in 1492, by mention in his own log, a man named Christopher Columbus discovered what would become the Americas. A place which had indeed already received European visitors from the likes of the Nordic tribes and ultimately, the original descendants of this hemisphere, the natives whose ancestors walked across the then land-bridge between Siberia and what we call Alaska today to populate every area from Alaska down to the southern tip of Chile. We all heard the story in 4th grade so I'm not going to get specific about the trip. What I want to focus on is the kind of courage it took a relatively regular guy, to make arguably the most important land discovery the world had ever known. It sounds so stupid today but let's face it, in Columbus' day, practically every human being on earth thought the world was flat. A large percentage of people believed the seas literally fell off a cliff in the horizons and went straight to hell. If this is all you know, if this is