Author RSSThe 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People
Copyright (c) 2012 Scott F Paradis
Stephen Covey in, "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People", lays out a road map for excellence. In concert with Aristotle's declaration, "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit." Co...
Salesmen Rule
Copyright (c) 2012 Scott F Paradis
Every few years we engage in an extraordinary ritual of grand political theater - a government sale. The electorate gets to entertain the salesmen. The ultimate power game is on. At the end of the fracas the people...
The Ultimate Boardroom Lie
Copyright (c) 2012 Scott F Paradis
America is locked in a relentless struggle against a toxic, pervasive idea. The idea infects seemingly thoughtful, intelligent individuals ultimately setting those people and their organizations on a course to self-d...
What Is Your New Aim In Life?
Copyright (c) 2011 Scott F Paradis
Are you where you want to be? Are you as accomplished as you had hoped to be at this point in your life? Are you pushing beyond your comfort zone? Are you striving valiantly and giving generously? Are you more than co...
Leveraging The Universe
Copyright (c) 2011 Scott F Paradis
In the newly released "Leveraging the Universe", Mike Dooley offers seven steps, as a bridge of sorts, to help readers move from old-school methods of growth, namely goal setting and positive thinking, to supercharged...
America's Choice: Poverty Or Prosperity?
Copyright (c) 2011 Scott F Paradis
Recognizing, "All achievement begins with thought." We Americans are left to ask ourselves: "What were we thinking?" We have set ourselves on the fast track to ruin and the best we can muster, politically and persona...
Thoughts Are Things
Copyright (c) 2011 Scott F Paradis
Be careful what you think and say, wrote Prentice Mulford in his 1889 classic: "Thoughts are Things", thought runs in currents as real as those of air and water. What you think in mind and empower in speech you attrac...
The Secret
Copyright (c) 2011 Scott F Paradis
No eye has seen, no ear has heard, nor mind conceived what splendor is prepared for those who know. For the ones that understand a secret, soar like eagles, journey without tiring, and laugh with earnest abandon all t...
The Law of Success
Copyright (c) 2011 Scott F Paradis
"Success" is a concept not often associated with law. Success has too many variables. Success is dependent on luck or fate or conditions beyond control. Not so, says Paramahansa Yogananda. Success is as reliable as gr...
The Law of Success
A wedding is a fresh beginning, the set up of a new adventure, so when writing a wedding card it is appropriate to wish the couple a plenty nice things along with wishes.
Wedding cards are one of the easiest cards types of greeting cards to write. Wedd...
How To Win Friends and Influence People
Copyright (c) 2011 Scott F Paradis
We would like to think people have changed, we have evolved. We're more sophisticated, intelligent, and magnanimous then people used to be, but we'd be wrong. Though technology has advanced and society become more com...
Who Moved My Cheese?
Copyright (c) 2011 Scott F Paradis
When confronting change are you likely to sniff out opportunities and scurry into action, adjusting your attitude and your habits to the new circumstances? Or are you likely to hem and haw, rail against the change and...
Ask and It Is Given
Copyright (c) 2011 Scott F Paradis
"Ask and you will receive; seek and you will find; knock and the door will open. For the one that asks, receives; the one that seeks, finds; and the one that knocks, opens." Matthew 7:7-8.
When you are burdened an...
Secrets of Success
Copyright (c) 2011 Scott F Paradis
Deep within you is the voice of your eternal Self saying, "Remember me? I am the source of all you need." This single statement summarizes the "self help" volume that is Secrets of Success. Sandra Taylor and Sharon Kl...
It's Not About Jobs
Copyright (c) 2011 Scott F Paradis
With government reported unemployment hovering around nine percent and the real unemployment rate much higher, those with constituencies to please are talking off a script intent to create jobs. Along a commuter route...