Of course you’re thinking of Christmas gifts. Aren’t you? Well, I don’t usually, but this year I am because I want to tell you about a wonderful idea for a gift to your family, but this one you have to start early.

Present them with a family memoir. A memoir is like a biography or autobiography. It’s a way to be remembered, to honor your experiences, and to pass along your reflections. It’s a way for family members to get to know their siblings and their ancestors.

I had an opportunity to live with my maternal grandmother for a short time just before she passed away. She was anxious to talk and she was probably thinking a lot about her youth. I regret, now, that I wasn’t more attentive to her and asked her more probing questions. I wish I had recorded what she had to say.

The same is true of my mother and of the many members of the rest of my family.

So for Christmas this year, why not give a gift that the whole family can enjoy for generations? Give the gift of memories. Read more

Do you find yourself coming up with ideas, but not focusing to get any of them finished? Do you feel as if you’re procrastinating? Are you a perfectionist? Do you sometimes get down on yourself and think you aren’t living up to your potential?Learning to focus or prioritize your ideas facilitates your progress on the road to success. 

As one of my new projects, I have launched a product of Mike Stewart interviewing Jim Edwards, “Bypassing The Roadblocks to Your Success” . In this Interview, Jim lists lack of focus as one of the 10 roadblocks to success. He says that when he first started out, he had it imprinted above his computer, “Whenever anyone thinks of an ebook or consultant they can hire for $1500 a day, I want Read more

On May 3, 4 and 5 I attended a really spectacular seminar. It was the Speakers’ Summit here in Los Angeles, presented by Speaker Services, owned by Susan Levin.It was a fun, profitable, learning experience. What more can you ask when you come away from a seminar having had a lot of fun, enjoying the presentations, bonding with other participants, and having learned a great deal. 

Susan Levin, Jack Bernard and all of the other presenters really made this Speakers Summit an exceptional experience. Read more

I hope you had as nice an April as I did. Went to my daughter and her husband’s for Easter. We had a great time. This is the first time none of the children were there. No Easter Egg Hunt or anything.When I was thinking about what I wanted to write in my Blog, I was beating myself up a little for being inattentive to it. I guess I belong to that “I’m scared of something new” bunch. I managed to procrastinate a lot in getting this done, so I’m going to have to take my own advice found in my new product at www.SuccessGuideOnline.com. It’s a CD and the transcript of how Jim Edwards overcame his own personal roadblocks to become the successful Info Marketer he is today. 

That brings me to the subject for today which is repurposing, make everything you do count more than once.
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Want to have fun some evening or Sunday afternoon — besides going to be the beach?Want to do something nice for your family? 

You know all those photographs you have sitting around, some in shoe boxes, some in photo albums. Some have something written on the back, some not? Oh, what a pain that’s going to cause you and your family one of these days when no one can remember when the picture was taken, why or of whom.

Sit down with your digital recorder and start recording helpful information about the photographs. Number the photographs, or in some way catalog them so they correspond to the recording, transfer the digital recording to your computer, burn it to a CD and include it with the photographs.

Not only can you give the name of the person in the photograph, but you can tell something fun or informative about when the photograph was taken, add a little history to it — like, “This is my niece. She and her sister look so much alike you have to be sure to put the name and date on the photograph or you’ll never be able to tell them apart.”

You get the picture — no pun intended. You can have fun remembering about the photographs and do something for you and your family in that future date when no one can remember about the picture.