If you have ever physically built a new home, and I helped build ours, you know it is not very exciting to see the concreate slab or a block foundation in place. However, as the home takes -- the driveway and sidewalks are finished and in place, the shrubs are planted, and the grass sown and mowed -- you can stand back and admire a thing of beauty. I share this as an analogy for what I am building here, with a step-by-step plan for helping to build greater success…

Hope you are having a good, rewarding and exciting week. Our next words are higher needs --those words that human beings seek after satisfying the law of self-preservation, the first law of nature. “My most important higher needs are companionship and spiritual growth.” Next is imagination -- a unique capability of the human mind to combine subconscious information to produce mental pictures. “The child has a vivid imagination – just look at the pictures she has drawn.” Next is income --what a person or organization receives from production, including moneyand…

There is one important quality that every true winner in life has learned, and that quality is persistence. I realize this review or learning these important words is not very exciting, but they are important to building a solid foundation, so I encourage you to stay the course. Our next word is commitment – a firm decision to perform or not to perform some action, involving a person’s total resources in the mental, physical, moral, and spiritual areas of life. “Marriage is a commitment for life. Without that foundation marriage…

With your blessings, I would like to begin this column with a promise. When you take the time and take a pair of scissors, clip out each of these columns, work to improve your vocabulary and then begin to use some of these words in your everyday conversations, you will notice a deep sense of personal satisfaction that makes life more interesting and exciting. It is the best way I know to stay out of a rut. As we continue with these concept words, our first one today is the…