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Don’t Wait for the Perfect Moment to Take a Risk and Grow! Success Often Happens in Tough Times
IN THE MID-1930s, at the height of the Great Depression, there weren't many people with the foresight and courage to start up a new company. Yet the...
Remington: We Should Celebrate Our Successes More — and Learn Not to Obsess Over Setbacks
IN 1903, BRITISH philosopher James Allen wrote As a Man Thinketh. Some of its wisdom has been meaningful for well more than a century.“Man is made...
To Fly High, You Must Understand — and Work Against — the Inevitable Pull of Gravity
NINE-TENTHS OF a rocket’s fuel is used to break free from the gravitational pull from the Earth.All that energy, just to get the capsule 55 or so...
Resolve to Evolve: Answer These Questions and Turn Your New Year’s Resolution into Lasting Success
WHAT IS IT that you would really love to have in your life? A relationship — or an honest, loving, communicative, unconditional, faith-based and...
Remington’s New Year’s Primer, Part Two: Make Your Resolution a Revolution
YESTERDAY, IN PART One of this essay series, I wrote about how choosing your New Year’s resolutions wisely and thoughtfully is so important. Once...
Step One of Remington’s Three Steps to Making Successful New Year’s Resolutions: Resolve Wisely
I WAS RAISED a Catholic, went to Catholic elementary school and catechism and experienced my first confession, confirmation and receiving of the...
As in a Bulb, the More Your Positive Side Resists Negative Energy, the Brighter Your Light
WHAT CONTROLS YOUR thoughts becomes your fate, your god, your path in life. What you focus on becomes your destiny. Every word you speak, every...
Want Overnight Success? Buy a Lottery Ticket. Real Success Requires Grit, and Faith in Yourself.
IT IS YOUR divine right to be successful.All faith-based readings tell you this, that faith, determination and patience play a very important role...
Remington: Life Is Your Coach. Look for its Lessons.
SOME SAY, "LIFE is a bitch and then you die." I say, life is a coach and then you thrive!Since you were born, life has been coaching you. Life...
Remington: You Meet Goals Like You Climb a Ladder, One Thoughtful Step at a Time
"BEGIN WITH THE end in mind" is Stephen Covey's second habit in his groundbreaking book, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. It is the...
Yes, It’s OK to Not Be OK. But It’s Not OK to Not Be OK and Do Nothing About It.
NAOMI OSAKA, MEGHAN Markle, Prince Harry, Meryl Streep and, most recently, Simone Biles, to list a few, have all come publicly out about their...
Remington: You Were Born Perfect! You Just Weren’t Programmed That Way.
WHILE WORKING ON my five-year-old laptop, I noticed that it was getting slower and slower. It wouldn't connect to the internet as fast, and moving...
Everyone Gets Distracted by Trivial Things. Remington Has a Plan to Stay Focused on What Matters
IT WASN'T UNTIL 1879 that man starting using electricity as a source of light. Prior to that, all the way back to Adam and Eve, man lived by the...
Remington: ‘Passion’ Is Wonderful But No Substitution for ‘Purpose’
NO WIND IS favorable to a sailor without a rudder. The sailor is taken where he or she is directed, not where he or she selected. No life is...
Take It from Gandhi and the Bible: First You Must Clear Your Mind and Silence Your Demons
THE SAYING GOES, "When the going gets tough, the tough get going." I say, when the going gets tough, the smart S.T.O.P.!When you find yourself in...
Remington, Inspired by Thoreau’s Ageless Wisdom, Says Dream Big and Build ‘Castles in the Air’
WHILE VISITING NEW Hampshire last week, it came to my attention that Concord, Mass., was only a 93-minute car ride away. Not only is Concord the...
Get off the Sidewalk, and Run with the Bulls — and Life Itself — in the Middle of the Street!
THE YEAR 1991 was the first time I went to Pamplona, Spain for the 10-day fiesta of San Fermin and the eight days of the running of the bulls. My...
Remington: It’s Your Choice How You Greet Each ‘Never Before Used’ New Day
TO BE OR not to be is not a question; it is a choice.Every morning when you wake up you have a choice to make on how you are going to be for the day...
Nobody ‘Suddenly’ Becomes Successful: You Must Plant the Seeds Today
"IT JUST SUDDENLY happened to me." How many times have you said that to yourself? Whether it was good or bad, it just suddenly happened. But nothing...
Remington: Overcome Your Self Doubt and Find Your Greatness Right Now
"YOU DON'T HAVE to be great to get started, but you do have to get started to become great!"Smart advise from an associate and well-known...
Work before Play
Good Morning! Work before Play “The sluggards craving will be the death of him, because his hands refuse to work.” Pr. 21:25 Work is not difficult....
Strength – Wednesday June 10, 2020
Good Morning! “Those of us who are strong and able in the faith need to step in and lend a hand to those who falter, and not just do what is most...