4D Success

Life Under Construction

Todd Dayton — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 14:00:09 +0000

Twice per year many people take the time and look at their lives and see what corrections to path or new goals should be made. January 1 is full of New Year resolutions and the other one less popular is July 1. Our lives are in a constant state of flux, we make daily adjustments

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New Priorities Defined

Todd Dayton — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 18:54:00 +0000

If you read last weeks post we discussed the changing of BIG Rocks in our life jar. I had several emails regarding how to go about defining what BIG Rocks really are our priorities and how to define them in our lives? We all take for granted what our priorities are in life, some it

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Changing your BIG Rocks

Todd Dayton — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 15:03:30 +0000

6YEZD8A8UFYA Most people have heard the story of your BIG rocks in life and your life jar! You begin by adding the large rocks to your jar that represent (Husband, Father, Volunteer, Work, etc.) The process continues as you add smaller rocks, sand until you believe the jar is full. The speaker then takes two

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Sensory Overload

Todd Dayton — Mon, 28 May 2012 14:27:09 +0000

We spend so many days and hours with the same sensory inputs from our home to our place of work. We get lulled into a sense of complacency with the environment and our overall day to day lives we miss much of the wonderful details as they blend into the world. Right this second look

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Running on Empty, 10 things to fill the tank!

Todd Dayton — Mon, 21 May 2012 11:05:01 +0000

There is an old Billy Joel song called “Running on Ice” that always seems to be showing up on my Ipod at the most interesting times in my life. How many times do we get so engrossed in what we are doing that we discover we are making absolutely no head way and running like

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Perceptions of Reality

Todd Dayton — Mon, 14 May 2012 14:00:31 +0000

Do you like puzzles? Not necessarily the puzzles that you put the pieces together to make a picture, more a visual puzzle or oddity to the brain when you look at it different ways. Everyone has seen this visual of the “old woman and young woman” , this one we have seen so many times

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Celebrate Everything!

Todd Dayton — Mon, 07 May 2012 14:00:48 +0000

Depending on your upbringing and personal beliefs we celebrate many things from birthdays to religious holidays! What we fail to celebrate is the smallest of achievements and personal accomplishments to their max! We need to stop and celebrate everything! it is these celebrations that carry us to the next goal and the next step toward

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Get comfortable with being uncomfortable!

Todd Dayton — Tue, 01 May 2012 01:05:56 +0000

We all have comfort zones, our special place that allows us to feel safe and familiar with our decisions and our surroundings. In the last few years most of the comfort zones at work have been torn down and replaced with anxiety and fear of the the next day or shoe to drop. Change has

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People in our path

Todd Dayton — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 13:26:47 +0000

People and experiences shape our companies and our lives whether we want them to or not. Since the day we were born we have had people cross our paths from; our parents, to our teachers, to our friends and cohorts. What is amazing is when these memories and thoughts come back into our mind when

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No wedding but definitely an engagement!

Todd Dayton — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 19:00:27 +0000

How many times have you been engaged? How long was the engagement? Was there a wedding? Not all engagements lead to weddings….hold on is this a blog or a soap opera? What about your clients? Engaged them lately in conversation, in planning, in idea generation…in anything other than this is what you pay for and

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