Retreat to Success: A Book Review

June 22, 2012June 22, 2012 Paul Sposite Education, Improvement, Leadership, Life, life coach, Self, selfhelp accomplishment, actions, Amber, Ambers, article, author, authors, Bill, blog, book, Catholic, chapter, COLLECTION, continuation, difference, dollar, dollars, educators, example, exhaustion, fact, friend, goal, husband, ideas, Improvement, journal, leader, leaders, leadership, legacy, lessons, Life, manner, measures, Mexico, million, money, Moyer, needs, nugget, nuggets, paper, parent, person, places, read, readers, relevance, retreat, Review, room, Self, Stephen, three, time, truth, unit, Whose, wife, wire, word, words, world

Anyone who has read my blog or knows me, knows that I love to read. You would also know that I love to read all different types of books, from Catholic to Stephen King and everything in-between, reading is the elixir of life, books are your friend when no one else it, books are the … Continue reading Retreat to Success: A Book Review

Road to Redemption: How to Overcome Feeling Sorry for Yourself

May 17, 2012May 17, 2012 Paul Sposite Called by God, Change, Education, Faith, Freedom, Improvement, Life, life coach, Love, Prayer, Religon, Salvation, Self, selfhelp, Works acceptance, action, actions, archive, attitudes, author, basket, bearer, blog, bones, Carnegie, christmas, cleaver, communion, Consider, Dale, desires, destruction, Emotion, energy, event, fact, failure, Faith, freedom, friend, gift, gifts, greatest, habit, human, imperfections, interaction, items, journal, keyboard, knowledge, learn, liberation, Life, Lord, magazine, mist, moment, moments, Nation, nature, needs, Notice, obligation, outlook, output, Overcome, pain, paper, participant, perfection, person, possibilities, pray, Prayer, preform, reaction, read, receiver, recipient, redemption, rejection, requirement, road, salvation, Self, Some, sorry, spirit, Thank, think, Through, ticket, times, trust, vessel, words, world, Yourself

Feeling sorry for yourself, and you present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have. -Dale Carnegie What can we do about this, how can we change our own outlook on our own life? How do we stop feeling sorry for ourselves, stopping the self-pity and self loathing? … Continue reading Road to Redemption: How to Overcome Feeling Sorry for Yourself

My Detroit

May 3, 2012May 3, 2012 Paul Sposite History, Just for Fun, Michigan accomplishments, actions, advantage, alliance, allies, American, Anne, Anthony, Antoine, apostles, architecture, area, areas, Augustus, auto, Avenue, avenues, Érie, Battle, beginnings, Belestre, Belle, Berry, better, Boulevard, boulevards, Bréhant, brick, Britain, british, Cadillac, Canada, Canadians, Capital, Cars, Carver, Casson, cathedral, Catholic, Center, century, Charles, Chicago, Chief, chimneys, church, Circus, Clair, COLLECTION, Commander, Commerce, consumption, context, Cream, culture, Davison, Death, deception, destruction, detroit, Detroiter, Diamond, District, Dollier, Drugs, Edison, emblems, encouragement, Encyclopedia, Enfant, expedition, expressway, Fair, Falls, fame, father, Faygo, feet, Flag, fort, forts, François, France, freeway, French, From, frontier, Gabriel, Galinée, General, goal, Gogh, Gordy, Gothic, government, Grand, great, Greenville, Griffon, heart, Hemisphere, Hennepin, heritage, Hispanic, Historic, History, hotel, Huron, idol, immigrants, Indian, Indians, industry, innovation, Institute, Island, Isle, James, Jefferson, Jonathan, journal, justice, kids, lake, lakes, leader, Life, location, Louis, Made, Main, Major, mansions, Many, Marie, Marine, Marriott, McNichols, michigan, midwest, Mile, minister, Mission, missionary, Model, Montreal, Mothe, Motown, motto, Murder, Nation, National, Nations, Native, news, newspaper, North, Northwest, notes, November, numbers, office, officer, oldest, Orleans, Ottawa, outpost, Paris, parish, park, parks, path, Picoté, pieces, Pierre, places, Ponchartrain, Pontchartrain, Pontiac, Portrait, Potato, pride, priest, Proclamation, rail, Rangers, Rape, rebellion, region, Register, Renaissance, René, response, restrictions, revitalization, revival, revolution, Richard, River, road, roads, Robert, Rogers, Roman, Royal, sales, Salle, Sanders, Sault, Self, settlement, settlers, Several, Siege, soda, Soldiers, State, Statue, strait, streets, Stroh, Sulpician, system, territories, territory, theater, Thomas, thoroughfares, three, Timbers, traffic, transportation, tree, trees, tribes, Tunnel, Twelve, Vernor, Vernors, Vincent, warehouse, Warren, Washington, Waterworks, Wayne, weapons, West, Westcott, Western, Wikipedia, Windsor, Woodward, world

Augustus Woodward's plan following the 1805 fire for Detroit's baroque styled radial avenues and Grand Circus. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I’m a Detroiter, I was born in the city, and I love the city. I no longer live in Detroit, I now live about 30 minutes outside of the city, but still consider myself a Detroiter. … Continue reading My Detroit

McLeadership

April 26, 2012April 26, 2012 Paul Sposite Change, Education, Improvement, life coach, Media, Self, selfhelp acceptance, action, appointment, archive, atmosphere, attention, Audio, blog, Change, church, coach, consumption, conversation, development, differences, digestion, dollar, effort, entertainment, Faith, fast, food, friends, generation, germany, glass, gourmet, great, guru, habit, health, ideas, Improvement, individuals, industry, journal, leader, leadership, Life, lifetime, McDonalds, McLeadership, meal, meals, messages, method, moment, moments, multi, Over, Paul, peace, person, preparations, presentation, purpose, restaurant, result, results, retention, Same, scarf, Self, seminars, shirt, skills, Some, Sposite, status, Stephen, talks, theses, topic, True, truth, wife, word, work, world

McDonalds' sign in Harlem. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) What is Leadership? What makes a leader? How does one become a leader. Theses are questions that many people ask, and for everyone person who asks, there are dozens of books, seminars and blog sites like this one with answers. But how do you know who is right. … Continue reading McLeadership

How to be Creative–WSJ

March 22, 2012 Paul Sposite Change, Improvement, life coach, Self, selfhelp action, adam, adhesive, Adolphe, advantage, afraid, airplane, Alcohol, Although, angels, Another, apple, Archimedes, area, areas, Arthur, article, articles, artists, assignment, associates, associations, assumption, aSTG, attention, Away, backdrop, background, Barbara, bathtub, battery, Beeman, beer, beginner, benefits, bicycle, biology, Bloch, Blue, brain, Brin, brothers, Bruce, Bull, California, calligraphy, categories, category, cello, cells, Chat, Chemists, Chicago, child, Chocolate, choir, chord, church, citations, colleagues, Color, Columnist, combinations, comedy, comments, composer, composition, Compound, computer, computers, concepts, conference, connection, Consider, context, Crab, Crazy, creative, creators, cubicle, culture, data, Daydream, didn, directors, Doesn, door, Drunk, Dylan, Earlier, editions, Einstein, employees, energy, enlightenment, epiphany, equals, events, Everybody, expertise, factors, failure, Fashion, features, feelings, Feynman, food, foot, friends, Galinsky, Gary, Generic, Genes, geniuses, gifts, Glaser, Google, graduates, Greece, Groggy, Gutenberg, Harcourt, hardest, Harvard, heart, Hemisphere, Here, Highlights, History, Houghton, house, human, hundreds, ideas, Illinois, Illustrations, image, imagination, Imagine, Indiana, InnoCentive, innovation, inspiration, instance, Instead, Institute, instructor, instrument, internet, intuitions, inventors, Johannes, John, Jonah, Jonathan, journal, Juilliard, Karim, Keep, knowledge, Kounios, Lakhani, laptop, Larry, laugh, leadership, LEHRER, lesson, lessons, Life, logo, love, machine, manufacturers, Many, March, margins, Mark, Martin, mass, Mathematics, metaphor, method, Metropolis, Mifflin, Milton, moment, Montgomery, move, music, Myth, needs, news, Nietzsche, Note, Numerous, office, organization, Outside, outsider, outsiders, Page, paper, peers, performance, perks, person, Philip, Physicists, piece, pieces, Pine, places, players, plays, pong, possibilities, post, posters, preconceptions, presentation, priest, principle, problems, product, products, professor, proposal, prototype, Quick, React, reader, readers, Recent, region, relationships, relaxation, Research, researchers, residue, restructurings, result, revelation, Richard, Robin, room, Rosen, rotations, Ruef, Santa, sauce, school, Schooler, science, scientists, search, Serge, Sergey, sermon, Sheldon, Silver, skill, slogan, solution, Solutions, Sometimes, specialization, Stanford, status, Steve, stop, street, students, subjects, tablet, taxi, Temptation, Theory, think, thinkers, Though, times, tools, tourist, traffic, trait, triad, tribute, typeface, Under, verbs, version, volunteers, Wall, warmer, Whether, white, Williams, winter, wisdom, Women, word, words, work, workers, Works, workspace, world, York

Today I read a few interesting articles, so I thought I would share one with you. This is from the WSJ, I hope you enjoy it and find some use out of it. God Bless & Happy Lent Paul Sposite Guided Insight Life Coach BY: JONAH LEHRER Creativity can seem like magic. We look at … Continue reading How to be Creative–WSJ

Job, Me and Lent

February 24, 2012February 24, 2012 Paul Sposite Uncategorized acceptance, bible, book, Catechism, Catholic, children, church, coach, conviction, convictions, cross, curse, devil, Earth, fabric, Faith, formation, friends, gems, Grace, job, journal, Just, Lent, lessons, Life, Lord, maybe, Mosses, nature, Note, oxen, Paul, shall, speech, Sposite, text, the book of Job, tomb, vision, wife, woman, words

I have written several religious formation books for use in the classroom, I have tackled Mosses and the flight from slavery, I have looked at the Book of Acts and even delved into the Catechism of the Catholic Church, but the one book I have always wanted to take on was the Book of Job. … Continue reading Job, Me and Lent

How to Achieve your Goals and Create your own Mount Rushmore

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Image via Wikipedia Our ability to succeed is truly all up to us. We are the masters of our own destiny, and we decide if we fail or not. All to often we allow others to decide for us, we listen to the negative inputs from others, allowing that cancer of negativity to eat away … Continue reading How to Achieve your Goals and Create your own Mount Rushmore

What Fred Astaire can teach you about New Year Resolutions

January 2, 2012January 3, 2012 Paul Sposite Change, Education, Faith, Improvement, Just for Fun, Self, selfhelp Astaire, caption, coach.new, computer, dollar, Enter, fred, friends, From, goal, goals, guidance, Here, Instead, journal, journals, leaders, Life, Look, luck, observations, online, paper, pencil, Resolution, series, strength, tools, world, you, YouTube

Image via Wikipedia When working on your New Year Resolution this year, try this. Instead of just relying on your will power, try relying on your will power plus a little extra help. Be it from friends or family, support groups, ministers or other religious leaders. There is no shame in asking or seeking help, … Continue reading What Fred Astaire can teach you about New Year Resolutions

Why New Years Resolutions fail… And what you can do about it…

December 31, 2011December 31, 2011 Paul Sposite Change, Control, Faith, Life, Prayer, Self, selfhelp April, beginnings, behavior, cant, Celebrate, counselor, create, December, doctor, Eliot, Faith, feelings, goal, goals, guidance, help, Here, inspiration, January, journal, Journey, Keep, language, learn, Life, LITTLE, Look, make, March, maybe, member, operation, path, Paul, perseverance, person, pray, read, results, Rourke, Seek, series, Sure, times, truth, words

For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning. ~T.S. Eliot, "Little Gidding Good words to start the New Year with. It never fails to amaze me, all the work-up to the year's end. Truly I don’t get it, … Continue reading Why New Years Resolutions fail… And what you can do about it…

Priority 7: Faith in Vocation

August 3, 2011 Paul Sposite Change, Education, Faith, Improvement, Life, Self, selfhelp articles, Association, author, bridge, Bronson, career, chronicles, cleanup, college, conclusions, data, destiny, determination, direction, doctors, documents, dreams, Emerson, energy, environment, epiphany, equipment, examples, Experience, factor, Faith, farmer, fatigue, fears, feelings, From, golf, government, heart, ideas, insomnia, investment, journal, Latin, lawyers, Life, magazine, Many, message, misconceptions, Mission, moment, notes, obstacle, obstacles, occupation, Often, options, owner, passion, path, person, presentation, profession, prototype, purpose, Ralph, Real, sales, scenarios, Self, seller, Should, Sometimes, spouse, street, therapist, times, trainer, truth, USGA, vacation, vocation, waldo, Wall, wisdom, York

I have posted several “work-in-Progress” documents for my up-and-coming talk, The 7 Priorities. The talk is next week, I have completed the presentation, but I thought I would post one more priority, its all the notes and back ground data I used to create the document. I hope you enjoy…And I hope to have a … Continue reading Priority 7: Faith in Vocation

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