Recent Articles from Theresa Szczurek
Live your passion
How can you turn a good life into a great life? Make a meaningful difference by aligning your passions with a worthwhile purpose and then persistently pursue it.
Five great tips to stay on the sunny side of life
During a week-long meditation retreat in the mountains led by Shinzen Young (www.shinzen.org), I walked the outside labyrinth. Merriam-Webster defines a labyrinth as a place that has many confusing paths or passages, something that is extremely complicated or difficult to understand. However, ht...
Cultivating intuition for success
Listen to yourself. Many of us recognize this as intuition, instinct, or sixth sense. Passionate Pursuers have the ability to connect with this inner voice. Messages from the wise self may be communicated through head, heart, or hands energy, as well as through intuition. This perception capabilit...
Seven tips to help you live to 100
My theme in 2015 is “Be a SUNFLOWER.™” Each letter of the word aligns with one of the traits of successful Passionate Pursuers. E stands for Energy.. From page 52 of Pursuit of Passionate Purpose, “The capacity to do work--energy--is a habit of vigorous activity and forceful expression. Your h...
The value of regenerating
We have all been there -- the place where we feel exhausted, depleted and lost in pursuit of a meaningful life. Before you take on the next year of Pursuing your Passionate Purpose, consider doing a "Ceremony for Beginning Anew." Why? It helps you regenerate. My theme in 2015 is "Be a SUNFLOWER."...
So, how are things going?
So at the beginning of a New Year, at the end of each quarter, and along the way, assess progress. You may have done this already in your life planning and in your work strategic planning. If so, take out your notes and review them now. If you haven't done so yet, it's never too late. Try these si...
Seven tips for a life well-lived
We met our 18-year-old daughter, Annie, now away at college in Ohio, for our annual family reunion in Chicago. We soon found out that Annie had been burning the candle at both ends at school, working hard and playing hard. She was staying up too late, getting too little sleep. When she finally too...
Four tips to improve the quality of your day
Life and work bring many surprises, opportunities, challenges and unexpected changes. It can be a jungle out there. Peace, health, and wealth may be illusive. You may wonder, “Over what do I have control?” In Simple Abundance, A Daybook of Comfort and Joy, Sarah Ban Breathnach provides guidance...
Going mobile
Every business must ask, “How do we support mobile sales and service?” How many of our customers have a smartphone and use it to access our mobile websites and to call our call center. Each company, telecom reseller, and solution vendor must ask, “What can we do to proactively support mobility?” C...
Winds of change: How-tos for successful transitions
You’ve been through it. We all have. It’s when the winds of change start blowing. Transition is coming. It may be in your personal life or in your professional life. These times are upon me now. Our daughter Annie is heading off to college. How could 18 years go by so fast? There is enjoying every...
Five tips to help conquer your mountain
Have you ever climbed a mountain? There's nothing better than standing on top of the world with a 360-degree majestic view. From here, you can see forever, and this is one of the real rewards. Of course, there are many other rewards, including getting physically and mentally stronger from challeng...
Four lessons from vacation
Annie had been raising money for two years to go to the India Centre in Sangam. She sold thousands of boxes of Girl Scout cookies and wrapping paper, led outdoor skills day camps as fundraisers and even won a scholarship from the Girl Scouts of Colorado Council. This council-wide trip to Sangam di...