The Foundation Of Total Success Living Workshop

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He looked like he was a throwback to the 1960’s here in the USA.  He had black curly hair and long sideburns.  He liked to wear grungy jeans and t-shirts. His handwriting was impeccable.  I remember that about him.  He was rather quiet and soft spoken.  I liked him.  I used to eat breakfast with him most every morning while we attended the small twelve hundred student college on the scenic Ohio River in Madison Indiana during 1982-1984.  I only saw his dad once.  He was a professional well-dressed man who carried himself like a doctor.  I learned later that he was in fact a medical doctor.  That would explain why he, I will call him Jim, was taking a pre-med major.  He did well in school but I could tell that his heart was not in it.  His dad was paying for college—though there were strings attached.  He wanted his sons to be doctors.  And he would pay for college so long as they stayed on that path.  Those strings ended up becoming ropes.  One of them ended up becoming a noose.

I saw Jim eating breakfast with his Dad at the school cafeteria one morning.  That was the first and only time I saw him.  It was the day after my brother found Jim alone in his dorm room.  He was barely breathing and could not be roused.  There was an empty bottle of sleeping pills and an empty bottle of Jim Beam beside him.  He never planned on waking up.  He did not want to wake up.  He had had enough of tests and finals and life.  So he tried to make his own final—breath that is.  And he almost succeeded.  He was rushed to the hospital where his stomach was pumped.  It was a good thing my brother found him when he did or he would have been another teenage suicide.

It was my first exposure to suicide and depression with someone I knew well.  All that day at school, I wanted to say something to him.  I wanted to tell him I care and that suicide was not an option.  I wanted to say those things.  But I did not.  I did not know how to say them to him.  It is not like you can just say, “So, I heard you’ve been depressed and that you tried to kill yourself the other night.  So how are you feeling today?”   Instead, I did what everyone else at school did.  We whispered about him and said nothing to him.  We were all cowards.  It takes courage to say you care.  It takes courage to connect with someone who is depressed and withdrawn from life.  It takes courage to open up.  But it only takes one.

The cycle of pain in that family continued.  I learned just a few years ago that his younger brother, the happy go lucky life of the party brother, had succeeded where his older brother had failed.  He created his own final—breath.  He hung himself one day.  He died from asphyxiation.  He must have been about thirty.  I knew him too back then.  He is dead now so I can use his real name.  His name was Stuart.  We called him Stu at college.  He was the last person you would have thought would have created his own final—moment.    It just goes to show you how well people wear masks.

I have read that suicide is the number one leading cause of death in college universities.  It is a little known fact that colleges do not like to publicize as it creates a negative public relations image for the school.

You probably know someone or several people who ended their own life.  What I know for certain is that you know many people who have wanted to and maybe even planned to.  You may be one of them.  If I have learned anything over six years of coaching some eight hundred people from a number of countries is that most people at some point in their life become depressed and many to the point of considering ending their own life.

Suicide is the final stop on the road of depression.  Not everyone makes it to that point but far too many do.  Depression is something many people have at various times in their life, but few admit to having.  There is a fear of being diagnosed as “depressed” as if it marks a person as being inferior in some way.  So many people just try to hide it.  I know—because I did for a long time.

Just the mere fact that I admitted that creates some angst in me.  You see I want you to see me in my best light.  I want to be viewed as strong, capable, competent, and lovable.  That is what we all want. And most of us go to great lengths to put on masks and create props to make us look good to each other.  And often the worse we feel about ourselves, the more props we need.  But I have arrived at a place in my life where I recognize and realize that if I do not truly love and value myself and see myself as strong, capable, and competent, then all the accolades from you or the synthetic mood alterations from prescription medications wont ever matter.  So I tell the truth now.  I tell it to myself and I tell it to you.  It takes courage to do that.  It takes courage for me to write this article and tell you these things.  But I am free from your perception of me by and large.  I am free to tell the truth.  And I hope by telling you the truth, that it gives you permission to tell the truth to yourself, and to me, and to others.  The truth is the only thing that sets us free, someone much wiser than I said that.

I used to deal with depression and it’s twin brother or sister anxiety.  They often come together I learned. http://www.stresscenter.com/ I had my first panic attack in college at age nineteen.  One night while studying for finals, my heart began to race, I could not catch my breath, and I was certain that I was dying.  I literally stuck my head out the window of my second story dorm room in the middle of winter to try to breathe.  It was one of the most frightening experiences of my life.  I learned later that I had had an anxiety attack.  It was the first of many that was to last twenty years.

I kept it all to myself.  Sound familiar?  I did not want you to know that I had those bouts or that I wanted to sleep in because I did not want to face the world.  Some would say that it is because of my childhood.  It is true that I had a difficult childhood.  It was mild though compared to many others.  But the reality is that our childhood may be the cause of something, but it is our adulthood that continues everything.  As adults, we are responsible for our choices and actions, not mommy and daddy.  Playing victim only keeps us victims.  That is not the solution as some would advocate.  At some point we must learn to really appreciate and value ourselves even if our parent’s did not do it perfectly.  And none do it perfectly by the way.  It is our job to appreciate ourselves.  And we must learn to do it well.  When we seek from others what we refuse to give ourselves, we will never arrive at the destination of happiness or true joy.

I am not a medical doctor or mental health practitioner so my perspective is different.  And quite honestly I am very glad that it is.  I am not someone who advocates brain chemistry altering drugs as a solution to the problem of depression.  Most of those “solutions” are worse than the “problem” itself.  Do your research. http://www.fda.gov/cder/drug/advisory/SSRI200507.htm

You are more likely to commit suicide taking many of the anti-depression or anti-anxiety drugs than if you did not.  I could go on at length about the mental health system in this and many countries but I will not do that in this article.  What I will say is that you need to work with your doctor to wean yourself off of those medications if you are on them.  And yes it is possible.  But you do need to become educated about medications and the risks. Do not rely on others to do your research about what you put into your own body.

I never took a prescription medication.  I refused to go down that path.  I saw many who took that road and for me I did not like the results.  So I decided to deal with the cause of the problem and not the symptom.  I wanted to eliminate the cause of the pain.  I invested money in a Personal Coach and purchased a course that put me on the road to recovery.  It was not easy.  But it was worth it.  I have not had an anxiety attack now in six years.  I used to have them weekly.  And yes I ended up in an emergency room because of them.  I no longer let depression get me down or keep me down.  Sometimes I find myself focusing on the negatives in life and feel myself falling into that abyss.  But I catch myself now and I pull myself out.  So I know from experience that it is possible to make it past depression.

So I know from experience that it is possible to get on the other side of depression and anxiety and suicidal thoughts.  I have done it.  And I want you to know that you can do it too.  You need to do it for yourself, for your family, and for those who you influence in your life.  You deserve to live a happy, fulfilled, joyful life.  At the end of the day, we move towards and attract what we focus our attention on.  If we think about painful experiences over and over, guess what we are going to attract to us?  It matters not if you buy in to the notion at this point that you are co-creating your life and your experiences by virtue of what you place your attention on.  It matters not if you understand that your mind is a powerful tool that you use to daily construct the place you live in and the bed you sleep in.  It matters not if you understand or buy in to the idea that you will be treated by life in direct correlation to how you truly treat yourself.

What does matter is that you start telling yourself the truth.  If you are depressed, then be willing to face the reality of that fact.  If you have a question about whether or not you may be depressed then click on one of the resources below to determine the warning signs.  Pay attention to them.  And if you are depressed, or anxious or suicidal, then please get help.

If I can be of help to you then please contact me.  I would be glad to assist you personally or either one of our Total Success Coaches can assist you in the journey to life and joy.  No it is not easy.  But it is much, much easier than the other path.  Email:  support@totalsuccessinstitute.com

Choose to live while you are alive.

Live Bold

Cliff Stockamp

Founder of Total Success Institute LLC

Personal, Executive, and Business Coach

www.totalsuccessinstitute

RESOURCES:

Take a Depression Quiz: Depression Quiz

Great source of education and support: Depression Support

Depression Questions and Warning Signs: Warning Signs

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Total Success Living - The Foundation Workshop

A one-day innovative experiential workshop that will help you discover what you need to achieve a successful and fulfilling life.

Workshop: The Foundation Of Total Success Living  [ limited to 40 ]

Presenter: Cliff Stockamp, CEO of Total Success Institute

Date: Saturday, November 8, 2008

Time: 9:00 am - 4:00 pm

Place: Greater Minnesota Credit Union - Community Room, 17035 Yale Court NW, Elk River, MN 55330

Cost:

*VIP Ticket includes 1 on 1 Session $ 129.00 US

General Admission Ticket $ 79.00 US In advance

General Admission Ticket at the door $99.00 US

VIP Repeat Attendees $90.00

Repeat Attendees $40.00

*VIP Tickets include a 45 Min. Total Success Coaching Call Post Workshop ( $ 200.00 US value)

Includes: Catered Lunch, Workbook Register

Register:

to Register for VIP Ticket $ 129.00, includes 1 on 1 Session

to Register for General Admission $ 79.00

to Register Repeat Attendees $40.00

to Register VIP Repeat Attendees $90.00

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Total Success Living - The Foundation Workshop

A one-day innovative experiential workshop that will help you discover

what you need to achieve a successful and fulfilling life.

Workshop : The Foundation Of Total Success Living

Presenter : Cliff Stockamp, CEO of Total Success Institute

Date : Saturday, November 01, 2008 (Not far from Kennedy Airport).

Time : 9:00 am - 5:00 pm

Place :La Bella Vita, 106-09 Rockaway Boulevard, Ozone Park, NY 11417, USA

Cost :*VIP Ticket includes 1 on 1 Session $ 129.00 US

General Admission Ticket $ 79.00 US In advance

General Admission Ticket at the door $99.00 US

Repeat Attendees $40.00 US

VIP Repeat Attendees $90.00 US

*VIP Tickets include a 45 Min. Total Success Coaching Call Post Workshop ( $ 200.00 US value)

Includes :Catered Lunch, Workbook

Register :

to Register for VIP Ticket $ 129.00 includes 1 on 1 Session

to Register for General Admission $ 79.00

to Register Repeat Attendees $40.00

to Register VIP Repeat Attendees $90.00

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At age 13 I learned a valuable lesson about success. I learned that IQ had nothing to do with success as I experienced the death of my grandfather who had a certified IQ of a genius at 160. When he died, he was alone, in an alcohol rehab center with only a plastic red wallet and social security card in it. He was broke and broken.

I made a decision at that time that I would not repeat the mistake he made of being given so much talent and then squandering it and dying with his song still in him.

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
Henry David Thoreau

You too know many people who have not let their song out don’t you? You know people who are frustrated with their career or business, their finances, their relationships or their health and who live well beneath their God given talents and gifts. You may be one of them.

I created Total Success Institute LLC to empower people to sing their song, and design the life that they can and want to live.

I want to personally invite you to come and learn more about how you can design and live your best life and how we may assist you in doing so.

It will be seven hours that will be for some the most valuable seven hours of their life because they will make choices that will alter their lives forever. It will not be like any other lecture or workshop you’ve been to.

You are always one decision away from an amazing life.

Make the choice to come and experience what it’s like to begin living a Totally Successful Life. Invite a friend or a spouse. I look forward to meeting you in person.

If not you then who? If not now then when?

Cliff Stockamp

Founder of Total Success Institute LLC

Personal, Executive, and Business Coach

www.totalsuccessinstitute

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Warning: It’s Probably Not What You Think
© 2007 Cliff Stockamp

“We are all on a life long journey and the core of its meaning, the terrible demand of its centrality is forgiving and being forgiven.” Martha Kilpatrick

“Without forgiveness there is no future.” Desmond Tutu

He was a college student. I could tell by his frumpy disheveled brown hair, his loose fitting khaki shorts, and t-shirt and by his well worn camouflage back pack that bulged from his back as he walked ten feet in front of me at the Charlotte airport. His backpack had written on the back Virginia Tech in bold black letters. My mind filled with questions. It was just four days after the Virginia Tech massacre that shocked our country and the world when our paths crossed or nearly crossed in that place. I tried to make them cross. I picked up my pace to try to catch up to this young stranger as we both weaved our way through the mass of humanity to our separate destinations. I felt a kinship with this young man as if I knew something about him and his life created by the media exposure. I wanted to ask him about his experience of the shooting. I wanted to hear what he saw and felt. I wanted to touch the hem of his conscience. I formulated my opening question as a way of creating dialogue: “You must be going home. I saw that you go to VT.”

I picked up my pace more but like a college student late for a final exam after an all nighter– he moved quickly and purposefully. I didn’t know if he was running from the tragedy or running to home-or both. It was probably both. I decided to end my pursuit and let the young man go to where he was going without my selfish inquiry.

I like many others have tried to make sense of the actions of Cho Seung-Hui who destroyed the lives and futures of at least 33 students and then justified his actions on video recording. He presented himself as a martyr for the good of his “children and brothers and sisters” as he states in the video.

What has emerged from the unholy saga was a young man who chose the path of hatred, death, and unforgiveness as opposed to forgiveness, life, and joy. He represents in the extreme of what happens to a human being that chooses to hang on to and collect a lifetime of hurts, betrayals, and experiences that all human beings are heir to on a planet filled with some 7 billion people. There is a part of each of us that is like Cho Seung-Hui though we may not ever take it to the extreme that he has done. There is a part of us that wants to play the victim and hang on to hurts and wrongs and betrayals and then justify why we can’t have what we really want in our lives because of what they did to us. I have that part of me that lives and so do you.

Having coached now over 1000 clients from ten countries I want to share with you what I have found to be one of the biggest keys to unlocking your true potential and creating the life, health, wealth, and relationships that you deserve but may be pushing away unknowingly.

Let me first of all say that everyone I’ve met and coached have people and things that have occurred that they’ve not forgiven and the vast majority of them aren’t aware of it. Unforgiveness will cause you to keep attracting and creating the same results and painful experiences over and over again in your life in some or several areas of your life. And that pattern, not matter what it is, will continue until the day you die if you do not stop it at its point of origin. That point of origin exists in your memory of the experience and your perception of yourself and the people involved. And that memory can only be altered through forgiveness. When you forgive rightly, then your life and results will change to reflect true forgiveness. If your patterns and results have not changed, then no matter how much you may try to convince yourself and others that you’ve forgiven someone-you have not in fact forgiven them.

Your life results, i.e. the fruit on your tree, determine how well you have chosen to forgive. And it is the only accurate barometer to measure your Forgiveness Quotient by.

Forgiveness Quotient: Def. The degree of forgiveness present in a person’s psyche based on measurable and observable phenomena.

The first step in increasing your FQ and thereby increasing your joy and health and wealth and relationships is to first identify what you’ve not forgiven. This is the first and most difficult step for people to take. Why is it difficult? It’s difficult because we all grossly overestimate our ability to forgive and to have forgiven. We aren’t honest with ourselves and we often don’t even know that we aren’t being dishonest. Very few people want to admit that they carry grudges or seek revenge in some capacity. Yet every person I’ve worked with does it. And I’ve done it repeatedly in my life.

So how do you determine if there is someone or some experience that you’ve not forgiven? Answer: You do it by looking honestly and objectively at the mirror of results in your life in each area of your life and taking an honest inventory to discover repeating patterns that do not serve you.

Look at your Physical health. What pain, discomfort, dysfunction, disfigurement exists in this area of your life?

Look at your Family health. What pain, discomfort, dysfunction, disfigurement exists in this area of your life?

Look at your financial health. What pain, discomfort, dysfunction, disfigurement exists in this area of your life?

Look at your Career/Business health. What pain, discomfort, dysfunction, disfigurement exists in this area of your life this area of your life?

Look at your Social health. What pain, discomfort, dysfunction, disfigurement exists in this area of your life?

Your past will tell you with complete accuracy what needs to be forgiven and what patterns you keep creating in your life. Our past never lies. A very wise person once said “you’ll know them by their fruit.” Translated he was saying, you can judge the quality of a person’s ability to forgive based on what they have and don’t have in their life. (For a very insightful Living Inventory Quiz: Click Here)

Now from experience, this concept and notion will seem acceptable to most people on an intellectual level. But when the barometer of Forgiveness is applied authentically to a person’s life, what often emerge are all the justifications for why their life is what it is and why it must continue on that path.

I had a total success coaching call with a woman last week who gave me permission to share this part of the experience. Her experience is a metaphor for everyone’s life in some way.

This woman has been single for some 20 years and alone and often lonely. She originally told me that she enjoys her independence and being single and does not need a man in her life. She then got honest with me and herself and admitted that she would like to have a partner in her life to travel with, to play with, laugh with and to love and be loved by. We all want that. She does not have that in her life and has never really had it. So I simply looked at the fruit on her tree objectively and saw the lack of fruit i.e. results in that area of her life (Family) and I knew that something had happened and that she had not forgiven others for and herself.

When I dug deeper, what I found was this. Her last husband had died of a heart attack all alone. She had taken a 10 step recovery program which he supported and helped pay for. She left him at the conclusion of the program. Six months later she flew back into town, hired an attorney, filed for divorce without telling him, and cleaned out the bank accounts then flew out of town. Shortly thereafter he died of a heart attack. He had no living family or relatives. She was contacted as the next of kin when he died. In our call she was full of justifications for her actions which were at best cold and heartless and at worst cruel and calculating. She has confessed that she never saw herself or the situation accurately and always justified what she had done. She now looked honestly at what she had done and she did not like what she saw. She is now beginning the process of forgiveness. Only when this happens will she ever find true love and a healthy relationship.

Your situations may not be as extreme as Cho’s or Michelle’s. But you do have areas of your life that require honesty and forgiveness. You have only to begin this journey and your life will begin to change. You may need help in this journey. If so please seek competent help.

You were born for greatness. Make it so.

Cliff Stockamp B.A.

Founder of Total Success Institute LLC

Personal, Executive, and Business Coach

www.totalsuccessinstitute

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In the back of my yard is a trampoline which my ex-wife and I bought for our children about seven years ago. It has since become the neighborhood playground.  On any given day you can see several kids bouncing and enjoying the weightless thrill that only a trampoline can provide.

Last weekend, while working outside in my yard I overhead one of the neighbor boys of about ten years ask another boy his same age who his parent’s were.  That’s a pretty typical question kids ask each other.

The boy stopped jumping, came to rest, turned to his friend, and then said after a moment of deliberation as if to engage the wheels in his brain: “I’m my dad’s girlfriend’s son.”  He then nonchalantly started jumping again trying to touch the clouds.

When I heard the question I stopped landscaping and I listened carefully for the answer.  Clearly the boy had given a lot of thought to that question before it was ever asked.  The boy, like all of us, had given thought to who he was, whose he was, and how he fit into the world of humanity.  Every one of us has asked those same questions.

Having coached clients around the world, I have seen the enormous cost of the breakdown of the family unit. So few children today grow up with a clear sense of identity and linage about who they are, their place in the world, and with lasting values that can best be imparted through a family setting.  I have observed the challenges and the pain that my own two children have had to go through over the last three years as they became part of another man’s life and had to learn how to live with step brothers in the same home shortly after our divorce.

I grew up watching “The Walton’s” on TV here in the US, which was all about a traditional family of parent’s and children who lived, laughed, loved, and struggled in family relationships in a rural mountain setting.  Those kinds of value based TV shows aren’t on TV or cable anymore and have been replaced by shows that model quasi-committed relationships with transient and point-of-use values that are often self serving.

As I repeated the answer again in my own mind “I am my dad’s girlfriend’s son” I couldn’t help but wonder how that boy would grow up over time and how his identity or lack thereof would affect him and his life choices.  To know who we are, we must know where we’ve come from.  A firm sense of identity is grounded in our history.

You may be asking yourself how it is that I came to be divorced if I believe so strongly in family values.  And it is a very valid question and one I can explore in a later article.  I am a firm believer that everything happens for our benefit if and only if we are willing to learn the lessons from those experiences.  I have learned a great deal about forgiveness, love, and acceptance through my divorce experience.  I am also of the opinion that many painful lessons in life can be avoided if we are willing to live within the boundaries of true values and principles.

I have built a company and am building my life on six life changing values and success habits.  Discovering those values and working to live in alignment with them has been life changing for me and far from easy. And I have a long way to go.  I am a work in progress and far from perfect and I have learned not to judge others but to accept people for who they are even if I don’t agree with what they do.  And I am learning to accept and love myself on this amazing journey called Life.

Today I have excellent relationships with my two amazing, loving, gifted children and with my ex-wife and her husband.  I have learned the value in saying “I love you” and saying it often to my children.  I have learned that family is more than a word, it is a place where children call home and it is the sanctuary of their souls and a place where they learn how to be who they are.  Whatever you do, work to make home a place where your kids get the values you want them to have.  Be involved.  Be real.  And be honest with them.

Until next time— Carpe Diem!

Cliff Stockamp
CEO and Founder of Total Success Institute LLC.
Email me your comments:  cliff@totalsuccessinstitute.com
www.totalsuccessinstitute.com

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Like many of you, I’m currently a single father of two amazingly bright, talented, athletic and usually responsible children whose current ages are 13 and 19.  (and yes a father can brag about his kids!)

Last Friday night I received a phone call from my thirteen year old daughter who was quite upset.  I was talking to a female friend at the time but took my daughters call as it sounded important.  As a divorced father, I have always tried to talk to my kids every night when they are at their mothers if for no other reason to say good night and say I love you.  I think it’s important.  And no I’m not a perfect dad.  But I think I’m a good one.

On this night, my daughter was upset about a conversation we had had a few nights ago in front of her friend.  I’ll call it more of a low grade argument .  I was in a hurry to make it back to the office for a client call and we needed groceries.  I took my daughter and her friend along to the store and I quickly went from Isle to Isle (and no I wasn’t Island hopping) to get what I thought was needed.  Now I need to confess that I’m still not a very good grocery shopper.  Upon leaving the grocery store my daughter, who was talking and playing with her friend the whole time, asked me “Dad did you get something to eat for tonight?”   My answer was,  “yes, but did you get something to eat for tonight?”  Well that started off the controversy.  She said “You are my dad and it is not my responsibility to get things to eat for myself, it’s your responsibility.”   So I have to admit that rubbed me the wrong way because I had just taken them to the store with me and had picked her up from an all day tennis camp I had signed her up for and I had a full night of client calls ahead of me.   I informed her that she was perfectly capable of finding food to eat at the store for herself and her friend and not rely on me to do it and further I was not going to be making supper but she could.  Well we went back and forth all the way home and neither one of us was going to back down.  Now that may not be the best parenting but I can tell you that being a single divorced dad and running a business from home and running around for my kids is not easy and anyone who says it is  is lying.

So on that Friday night, she called and told me she had been thinking about the conversation a few days before and she was not going to “bury it” any more and was going to tell me how she feels.  Well I encouraged her to tell me and I listened trying to hear her.  Her friend had agreed that it was “my responsibility” as a parent to buy and cook and do all the parental things.  As it turns out, her friend also came from a divorced home.  One thing I have seen repeatedly is how parents often go overboard and over parent a divorced child often out of their own sense of guilt.  That’s a no win situation.  I’m sure I’ve been guilty of this myself.  Recently however I had drawn a line in the sand and had told my son and daughter that I was no longer going to be spending so much energy and time and money on them and doing with out but was going to be making my own needs as important as theirs.

There were other family dynamics at play that I’ll withhold for now but what I will share is a concept about responsibility that did wake me up.  My parents were very hard working, coupon cutting, frugal, non-new-car-buying, live within our means, if you want it work for it kind of parents.  I never went to any sports camps or had the life of ease my kids have.  Believe me my children have had a very good life so far and I have worked hard to instill responsibility in them as well.

What I heard my daughter say is that it was my responsibility as her legal guardian to buy all the food, and cook it and do all the things that most parents do.  Except that I am a single father and work in the evenings doing client calls and so I do not have time often to cook and clean up. I informed her that my job as a parent was to help teach her to be responsible in her life and teach her how to do things herself and not rely on me for everything.  She is at an important child-to-young adult threshold and learning how to make the bridge.

I think we do a disservice to our children when we buy into the notion that we owe them most everything.  My parents did extremely well without any hand outs or bailouts from the government or family members and they have raised responsible kids as well.  I used to complain some about their approach.  But I find that not teaching kids to be responsible for their choices, and their rooms, and meals and laundry is teaching them how to rely on someone other than themselves.  Now anyone who knows my kids would tell you that they are hard working and responsible so don’t think they are spoiled and lazy.  Well, maybe sometimes.

How much further ahead would we all be if we were all responsible for our lives and results in each area of our lives as well and didn’t require someone else to take the heat for our choices?  I know we’d have a lot less crime, a lot more healthy families, and a lot better employees and employers.

Until next time— Carpe Diem!

Cliff Stockamp
CEO and Founder of Total Success Institute LLC.
Email me your comments:  cliff@totalsuccessinstitute.com
www.totalsuccessinstitute.com

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