“Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
If you’ve already positively grown in some way today, keep growing. Build on that momentum and you will stay green and growing. If you’ve encountered nothing but stress, frustration and disappointment today, keep growing. Sometimes in order to bring yourself to the point of positive growth, you will have to think and push through periods of challenge and uncertainty. Through it all, positive growth benefits you most.
A good example of positively growing through a period of challenge and uncertainty is the Aesop’s Fable on “The Crow and the Pitcher.”
“A crow, about to die of thirst, flew with joy to a pitcher, which he saw at a distance. But when he came up to it, he found the water so low that with all his stooping and straining he was unable to reach it. So he tried to break the pitcher, then to overturn it, but his strength was not sufficient to do either. At last, seeing some small pebbles at hand, he dropped a great many of them, one by one, into the pitcher, and so raised the water to the brim and quenched his thirst.”
I hope Aesop’s Fable was as refreshing and satisfying a read for you, as it was for me. Why? It leads back to my ultimate point that positive growth benefits you most. It doesn’t matter if you’re having a good day or a challenging day, when your commitment to life is to continuously and positively grow—you can and you will.
It was Eric Butterworth who said it best when he said, “Don’t go through life, grow through life.”
Can you identify – right now – where you’ve positively grown today?
Did you start your day off in a much better mood and mode than you have in days past?
Did you focus and learn from a mistake you made today or yesterday?
Did you choose to exercise, eat right and drink the number of glasses of water you promised yourself that you would months ago?
Did you forgive someone who may have hurt or wronged you in any way?
Did you tell a family member or close friend that hasn’t heard you say those three special words in a long time that you love them aloud?
Time will pass and keep on going no matter what you do. You can settle on being a do nothing person or being an ever positively growing person. Your best strategy is to keep on going and growing, too. Benefit from and make use of every moment.
I encourage people all the time by saying, Do not be afraid of growing slowly; be afraid of not growing at all while you watch countless hours pass you by.
When your day is great, keep growing! When your day is exhausting from challenge, uncertainty or disappointment, keep growing! In every unique and pivotal moment, commit to keeping yourself growing forward. And as you grow, the positive possibilities will grow ever more significant in your world because—Positive Growth Benefits You Most.
About the Author: Ty Howard,
Mr. Untie the Knots®,
Freeing Maximal Business, Performance & Human Potential Daily!
Ty Howard is an internationally recognized authority on organizational and managerial practices that optimize employee performance and success. He is the creator and lead facilitator of the trademarked “Untie the Knots® Optimal Performance Process,” and the author of Untie the Knots®: Improving Habits, Choices, People, Relationships, Performance and Results, as well as dozens of published articles on employee and organizational performance and development worldwide. For information on his programs and services, visit: http://www.tyhoward.com.
The above video clip is of Ty Howard, Renowned Motivational Speaker & America’s Untie the Knots(R) Consultant, speaking at an Institute of Supply Management (ISM) Maryland Association meeting in Hanover, Maryland.
Ty is speaking on “Discovering and Unleashing Your Creative Genius.” Watch and enjoy as he connects, interacts, motivates, inspires and empowers the creative hearts and minds of the wonderful supply management professionals of ISM Maryland from beginning to end.
Ty Howard of http://www.tyhoward.com is one of America’s TOP and in-demand business and motivational speakers on the circuit.
Ty Howard, Mr. Untie the Knots(R), is an internationally respected authority on self-development and business-development. He is a habits consultant, relationship expert, teacher, success coach, and professional development consultant who has dedicated his life to teaching knots-free living and relationship-building to organizations, individuals, and families around the world. Ty is the author of the best-selling book Untie the Knots(TM) That Tie Up Your Life: A Practical Guide to Freeing Yourself from Toxic Habits, Choices, People, and Relationships.
When doing a story on any aspect of Achieving Success, Motivation, Overcoming Life’s Challenges, Employee Morale, Balancing Work & Life, Relationships, Fatherhood, Habit Development or Breaking within People, or Professional or Personal Development…
Contact Ty’s Business Office: Maryland, nationwide by arrangement and via telephone; available for keynote speaking engagements, and radio / television interviews…(also available for last minute radio / television interviews). Toll Free Phone: 1 (800) 385-3177 (Maryland / USA)
You’re never too old to utilize and energize your life with the creative genius you were born with. To achieve better and do better come your every tomorrow—discover, connect with and soar with your creative enthusiasm and love for life. ~ Ty Howard
Ty Howard of http://www.tyhoward.com is one of America’s TOP and in-demand business and motivational speakers on the circuit.
Ty Howard, Mr. Untie the Knots(R), is an internationally respected authority on self-development and business-development. He is a habits consultant, relationship expert, teacher, success coach, and professional development consultant who has dedicated his life to teaching knots-free living and relationship-building to organizations, individuals, and families around the world. Ty is the author of the best-selling book Untie the Knots(TM) That Tie Up Your Life: A Practical Guide to Freeing Yourself from Toxic Habits, Choices, People, and Relationships.
When doing a story on any aspect of Achieving Success, Motivation, Overcoming Life’s Challenges, Employee Morale, Balancing Work & Life, Relationships, Fatherhood, Habit Development or Breaking within People, or Professional or Personal Development…
Contact Ty’s Business Office: Maryland, nationwide by arrangement and via telephone; available for keynote speaking engagements, and radio / television interviews…(also available for last minute radio / television interviews).
Ty Howard of http://www.tyhoward.com is one of America’s TOP and in-demand business and motivational speakers on the circuit.
Ty Howard, Mr. Untie the Knots(R), is an internationally respected authority on self-development and business-development. He is a habits consultant, relationship expert, teacher, success coach, and professional development consultant who has dedicated his life to teaching knots-free living and relationship-building to organizations, individuals, and families around the world. Ty is the author of the best-selling book Untie the Knots(TM) That Tie Up Your Life: A Practical Guide to Freeing Yourself from Toxic Habits, Choices, People, and Relationships.
When doing a story on any aspect of Achieving Success, Motivation, Overcoming Life’s Challenges, Employee Morale, Balancing Work & Life, Relationships, Fatherhood, Habit Development or Breaking within People, or Professional or Personal Development…
Contact Ty’s Business Office: Maryland, nationwide by arrangement and via telephone; available for keynote speaking engagements, and radio / television interviews…(also available for last minute radio / television interviews).
Ty Howard of http://dynamicyouthspeaker.com, is the author of the best-selling book Untie the Knots™ That Tie Up Your Life: Freeing Yourself from Toxic Habits, Choices, People, and Relationships, and the forthcoming teen character enrichment and empowerment book You Were Born to Be G.R.R.R.R.E.A.T.!!!!™. He is recognized around the world as a highly sought after consultant and expert on youth enrichment and teen empowerment. Ty teaches young people and the professionals who work with and develop them, how to defeat toxic habits, maintain a positive attitude, and achieve true greatness. With over 16 dedicated years as a Dynamic Professional Speaker for Youth & Teens, Ty has a proven track record for delivering inspiring and engaging programs that bring forth immediate positive change, desired outcomes, and real-life results.
Contact Ty’s Business Office: Maryland, nationwide by arrangement and via telephone; available for keynote speaking engagements, school assemblies, educational sessions, workshops, leadership conferences, diversity conferences, youth – teen conferences, bullying awareness and prevention programs, professional development programs for educators (administrators, guidance counselors, teachers, etc.), teen camps, teen retreats, and radio / television interviews…(also available for last minute radio / television interviews).
Toll Free Phone: 1 (800) 385-3177 (Maryland / USA)
The above video clip is of Ty Howard, Renowned Motivational Speaker & America’s Untie the Knots(R) Consultant, speaking to the Faculty and Staff of ROSS Education, LLC at their Professional Development Day Retreat in Livonia, Michigan.
Ty is speaking on and sharing Professional and Personal Success strategies for peak performance, improved team productivity, better outcomes, and organization success. Watch and enjoy as he connects, inspires, motivates and empowers the hearts and minds of wonderful trade school professionals from beginning to end.
Ty Howard of http://www.tyhoward.com is one of America’s TOP and in-demand business and motivational speakers on the circuit.
Ty Howard, Mr. Untie the Knots(R), is an internationally respected authority on self-development and business-development. He is a habits consultant, relationship expert, teacher, success coach, and professional development consultant who has dedicated his life to teaching knots-free living and relationship-building to organizations, individuals, and families around the world. Ty is the author of the best-selling book Untie the Knots(TM) That Tie Up Your Life: A Practical Guide to Freeing Yourself from Toxic Habits, Choices, People, and Relationships.
When doing a story on any aspect of Achieving Success, Motivation, Overcoming Life’s Challenges, Employee Morale, Balancing Work & Life, Relationships, Fatherhood, Habit Development or Breaking within People, or Professional or Personal Development…
Contact Ty’s Business Office: Maryland, nationwide by arrangement and via telephone; available for keynote speaking engagements, and radio / television interviews…(also available for last minute radio / television interviews). Toll Free Phone: 1 (800) 385-3177 (Maryland / USA)
Knots Free Media Launches Online Magazine, MOTIVATION
Knots Free Media Pleased To Announce The Birth of MOTIVATION, The New Online Publication MOTIVATIONmagazine.com
BALTIMORE, Md., Feb. 17, 2012 /Knots FREE Media/ – Ty Howard knows a little something about motivation; he’s been a professional motivational speaker for over sixteen years. He is also the founder of MOTIVATIONmagazine.com, the new online publication that is destined to set the standard and tone for "What Green & Growing People Read."
Published by Knots Free Media, the magazine providing "Everything MOTIVATION" hit the World Wide Web this month with Howard as the founding Publisher and Editor-in-Chief.
"Our new online magazine is here to give a big boost of MOTIVATION to a world in great need of encouragement, increased hope, practical strategies for success, and solutions to achieving and living better," Howard said. "It gives us a chance to explore new topics and formats. This isn’t a rehashing of motivational and self-help information that you can already find elsewhere on the Internet. The magazine and the website are well integrated, and will consistently deliver a balanced dose of motivation, offering readers insightful, fun, interactive, precise, and up-to-date information and strategies."
Regular topic categories (Channels) on MOTIVATION will include personal, professional, business, entrepreneurship, finance, relationships, education, health and fitness, and service.
"It’s going to be the most comprehensive and reliable source of motivation on the market," says Howard. "We’ve taken a unique ‘motivation’ approach that will enlighten, engage, entertain, inspire and energize people from all walks of life—no matter what educational or socio-economic level they are currently on."
The inaugural quarterly issue — which spotlights Howard on the magazine’s cover — will set the tone for MOTIVATION moving forward with its team of twenty-two expert writers. The Winter 2012 issue’s theme is "The Pursuit of MOTIVATION: Getting & Staying Motivated."
Editorial features that span the first issue of the online magazine include:
• Find Your Motivation and Use It! Ty Howard says sometimes when we struggle and we lose our motivation, we have to find some type of source or connection to get it back again. List 5 strategies on how a person can find their motivation and use it.
• Get Your Finances on Track: Not satisfied with the current status of your finances? Do you desire or attempt to make changes but don’t get the end results you were hoping for? Stacie Price lists ways for you to get your finances back on track.
• Leap to Sustainable Motivation: Sylvia Baffour says a common challenge that employees face in the workplace is staying motivated and productive amidst common distractions such as, procrastination, co-worker back-stabbing, missed promotions, office gossip. Learn how to surround yourself with encouraging and energizing co-workers at work.
• Get Fresh: Get fresh, it’s not illegal. There is a need for companies to offer fresh customer service, says Michael D. Brown, the author of the book Fresh Customer Service.
• Get F.I.T. for Life: I bet you can think of two people in your life who are the exact same age but live a completely different quality of life, health and attitude. One is grumpy, sickly and struggles to move their body. The other is vibrant, optimistic and stays extremely active with sports or other activities they love. Who do you want to follow?
• Mentoring Teens: For years, I fought the text messaging movement, believing it was impersonal and would only lead to a generation that could not spell because using acronyms has become the communication dubbed as cool, taking the place of Pig Latin which was cool back in the day. Learn from Ian Humphrey how you too can mentor teens using cell phone text messaging.
• Pursue Motivation & Happiness: Grand Master Jhoon Rhee believes that the universal purpose and values of human life are the first three things we must teach children. The three universal values are "TBL," which stands for TRUTH, BEAUTY, and LOVE. Truth, Beauty, and Love are good values, because they lead us to find the purpose of life, motivation, and happiness.
"With the endless need for encouragement, hope and inspiration increasing more and more each day, millions of people are turning to the Internet hoping to find a quality source for a boost of motivation," Howard said. MOTIVATIONmagazine.com — MOTIVATION — will help people seeking quality motivational information, and personal and professional development resources to get and stay Green & Growing."
About The Publisher & Editor-In-Chief: A Maryland native, Ty Howard, referred to often as America’s Untie the Knots® Consultant and Coach, is a full-time professional motivational speaker (for over 16 years), the founder and owner of The Baltimore Worldwide Speakers Bureau (for over 10 years), and the best-selling author of the book Untie the Knots® That Tie Up Your Life: A Practical Guide to Freeing Yourself from Toxic Habits, Choices, People, and Relationships. Howard is an internationally respected authority on self-development and business-development. He is a habits consultant, relationship expert, teacher, personal and professional development expert, and author who has dedicated his life to teaching knots-free living and relationship-building to organizations, individuals, and families around the world. His solid research and practical strategies background have made him a trusted source for professional and personal development guidance on five continents.
About Knots Free Media: Knots Free Media is a part of the InspiraGen Institute, LLC conglomerate, both owned and operated by Ty Howard. Its goal is to quickly become a new healthy and positive energy force in the magazine industry. The company now has one new title under its helm, MOTIVATION, and is looking forward to January 2013, when it will launch the digital applications side of MOTIVATION magazine for iPhones, iPads, iPods, Androids, Kindles, Tablets and other capable digital technologies for sales across the globe. The magazine will be published four times annually, with two additional mini special editions, by Knots FREE Media. MOTIVATION is produced in partnership with Knots FREE Media and is sponsored by InspiraGen Institute, LLC. Knots Free Media is based in Baltimore, Maryland.
Ty Howard of http://www.tyhoward.com is one of America’s TOP and in-demand business and motivational speakers on the circuit.
Ty Howard, Mr. Untie the Knots(R), is an internationally respected authority on self-development and business-development. He is a habits consultant, relationship expert, teacher, success coach, and professional development consultant who has dedicated his life to teaching knots-free living and relationship-building to organizations, individuals, and families around the world. Ty is the author of the best-selling book Untie the Knots(TM) That Tie Up Your Life: A Practical Guide to Freeing Yourself from Toxic Habits, Choices, People, and Relationships.
When doing a story on any aspect of Achieving Success, Motivation, Overcoming Life’s Challenges, Employee Morale, Balancing Work & Life, Relationships, Fatherhood, Habit Development or Breaking within People, or Professional or Personal Development…
Contact Ty’s Business Office: Maryland, nationwide by arrangement and via telephone; available for keynote speaking engagements, and radio / television interviews…(also available for last minute radio / television interviews).
These T.I.P.S. (Techniques, Ideas, Principles and Strategies) are for everyone—especially those who want to elevate themselves to a better and higher level in the Year 2012 than they reached in the Year 2011. Internalize, apply and practice the concepts daily, and you will elevate your life, relationships, health, finances, knowledge, family, business, and career to a better and higher level than you had before.
The T.I.P.S. listed below are not based on any intended ranked order. They are shared for you to learn and master the healthy habits of Reciprocity and Elevation in the Year 2012, so you too can soar daily to new levels of success in all areas of your life.
From my heart to yours, here are 14 Growth & Prosperity T.I.P.S. for the Year 2012. Let’s ALL move significantly forward through Reciprocity and Elevation:
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1) Release Those You Have Tolerated in Years Past. This is the year you say “No More!” No more will I accept or entertain those that I have tolerated. You need and want people in your life where the two of you elevate one another—not tolerate one another. Look at the relationships in your life right now (personal, family, business, career, school, and community) and identify the individuals that you’ve been tolerating in years past. Release them! You cannot and will not be able to create and live a healthy and vibrant life if you’re life is being eroded by negative and toxic people day after day. Quality, vibrant and healthy living starts and grows through Reciprocity and Elevation.
2) Evaluate and Elevate the Current State of Your Healthy Relationships. In order for your healthy relationships to stay vibrant and growing, you must make sure that all parties involved are giving just as much as they are receiving. Yes, that includes you too! The fastest way a positive and healthy relationship can turn bad or toxic is when one person begins to neglect it or becomes ‘just a taker’ in the relationship. Make it your personal commitment to evaluate and elevate all of the healthy relationships within your life. Call your people before they call you; return calls promptly; send birthday cards; send get well cards; update your people on how your life is going; share pictures; return emails; hangout when possible; and make yourself available to listen when someone needs you most.
3) Consistently Communicate Honestly and Transparently. We live in a world today that is demanding and screaming for more consistent honest and transparent communication. For Reciprocity and Elevation to sustain itself within a healthy and vibrant relationship there has to be consistent honest and transparent communication. This year make it a new healthy habit to consistently let people know how you honestly and transparently feel. Try your best to do this in a good-nature and non-hurtful way, if you can. When you consistently communicate honestly and transparently, you will increase the level of trust, respect and value you bring to all of your relationships.
4) Ignite Your Passion to Give More Than You Receive From Others. Passion is—as Passion Does! Do not allow yourself to be the person who stands back waiting and wanting others to give to you first, before you start giving; or to be the person who chooses to go ‘tit for tat’ when it comes to being a carefree giver. Ignite the passion within yourself to give more than you receive without worry or hesitation. Think positive. Think healthy. Think Reciprocity and Elevation. Margaret Cho (American comedienne, fashion designer, actress, author, and singer-songwriter) says, “If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and range of love’s reach.”
5) Participate in and Have More Fun in Life. It’s a fact, life is short. We cannot pre-determine our fate or how long we will live. Too many people today are over-worked, over-stressed, failing in relationships, and our “fun meters” have been turned-off or turned down real low. Participating in and having fun in life is not only for kids. It’s for you, too! This year, make it your business to stop at least twice each week to add more participation and fun to your life. A participatory and fun life becomes a vibrant, positive and healthy life! It also becomes a life that lasts longer, stays healthy, and attracts other vibrant, positive and healthy people to do fun things with.
About the Author: Ty Howard,
Mr. Untie the Knots®,
Freeing Maximal Business, Performance & Human Potential Daily!
Ty Howard is an internationally recognized authority on personal and relationship development. He is the creator and lead facilitator of the trademarked “Untie the Knots® Personal Performance Process,” and the author of the best-selling book Untie the Knots® That Tie Up Your Life: A Practical Guide to Freeing Yourself from Toxic Habits, Choices, People, and Relationships, as well as dozens of published articles on relationships, healthy habits development, empowerment and peak performance worldwide.
To learn more about Ty Howard’s consulting and professional speaking services, visit: http://www.TyHoward.com.
The above video clip is a short compilation video of the dynamic professional speakers who presented at the Motivational BOOMTM Seminar (Fall Event) on Monday, October 24, 2011 at the Four Points by Sheraton BWI Airport Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland.
The theme of the event: “Re-Igniting Passion for Growth & Success.” It was a Day of Motivation & Professional Development for Everyone! Watch and enjoy as one Baltimore Worldwide Speaker’s Bureau speaker after another motivates the hearts and minds of all in attendance.
Is your company, like many other companies today, struggling with and fighting to get ahead of the many challenges eroding employees, sales, the company, and ultimately, the bottom line?
Challenges like —
• Attracting Good Talent
• Keeping Good Talent
• Filling Jobs
• Controlling Your Brand
• Keeping Up Communication
• Creating Opportunities
• Excelling in Creativity & Innovation
• Selling in a Tough Economy
• Keeping Leaders Motivated, Focused & Committed
• Improving Employee Morale
• Sustaining Peak Performance
• Combating Gossip & Other Negative Behaviors
• Keeping Out Ethical & Legal Issues
• Building Efficient Work Teams
• Keeping a Healthy Workforce
• Making Excellence the Norm
If your employees start the day in a good mood – a motivated mood – it can have a huge impact on the company’s performance! It can be the difference between your company continuing to miss one desired outcome after another, or celebrating the successful accomplishment of one desired outcome after another.
To create and maintain a company culture where every employee is committed to and Excelling in Excellence will require more than a single executive or manager rallying the troops. It will require an experienced group of professionals who know how to motivate and empower professionals on all levels to continuously peak perform, and make Excelling in Excellence “the norm.” This is where and why you should register your entire office and yourself to attend the Motivational BOOMTM Seminar (Spring Event) on Friday, May 25, 2012 in Baltimore, Maryland.
The Motivational BOOMTM Seminar will give you and your employees proven strategies to sharpen your business skills, ignite your motivation, effectively communicate and work as a successful productive team, accelerate your efficiency, cope with and embrace change, do passionate and meaningful work, boost you back to performing at your peak, continuously increase sales, achieve desired outcomes, and help you to increase your income. This BOOMING seminar has a consistently positive reputation for getting and keeping executives, directors, managers, supervisors and employees (on all levels, and from all professions, industries and educational backgrounds) — Green & Growing!
Toll Free Phone: 1 (800) 385-3177 (Maryland / USA)
