For a few years now I’ve had a crazy idea in the back of mind. I don’t know that it’s time to execute the idea yet, but I thought I’d post here and at least get some discussion going on the idea.
My History in the Boy Scouts of America and Activity in the Merit Badge [...]

I joined the Chair City Toastmasters club here in Thomasville North Carolina about a year and a half ago. After all that time, I’m glad to announce that I’ve finally earned my Competent Communicator Award.  This is the first step on my path to Distinguished Toastmaster. For those of you who know something about the [...]

For the past two years, I’ve been focusing on being more conscious of the words that I use and how those words reflect my own integrity. I originally wrote most of this blog post in April of 2006 and never published it. After reading personal productivity consultant Matthew Cornell’s post on Three indecisiveness phrases, [...]

Believe it or not, all the online information on Productivity, Organization, and Motivation isn’t available via RSS. Some of it is only available via email newsletters. I have one email address that I always use for subscribing to eNewsletters. I’ll frequently go weeks, and sometimes even months without checking it and then I set aside [...]

Day 31? Perceptive readers are asking, “Don’t you mean Day 33?”
No. It’s actually Day 31. The truth is that I fell off the wagon back on what would have been Day 24 and Day 25.
On Sunday, August 12th, I taught Sunday School at church, so I decided to polish my lesson that morning instead of [...]

I now have a rather impressive string of 23 paper clips hanging next to my office door. It serves as a constant reminder of how far I’ve come–for 23 days days in a row I have walked for at least 45 minutes. Actually, I’ve walked for nearly an hour just about every day and many [...]

It’s hard to believe that it’s been 9 days since I’ve updated you on my walking habit and tracking it with a paper clip chain. I haven’t taken my walk for today, but it is a high-priority task for this evening after it cools down a little. I didn’t get to walk in the cool [...]

I was going through my site statistics recently and noticed that I was listed in WhitePaper.com’s Personal Productivity Required Reading List: 100 Kick-butt Lifehacking Blogs.  I’m greatful to be included in these ranks!
If you’re into Personal Productivity and LifeHacking, you owe it to yourself to check out some of these links. You’re likely to find [...]

Since I haven’t posted in three days, you probably thought that I really had fallen off the wagon. Nothing could be further from the truth. The past few days have been quite busy and I had more important things to do than to blog about about my progress. I don’t feel like I need to [...]

Brad Isaac over at Achieve IT! has released his list of the Top 50 Blogs That Will Unleash Your Motivation and he has included the Ricky Spears’ Blog! I’m humbled and grateful to have made the cut–thanks Brad! If you’re looking for more motivational blogs to add to add to your feed reader, check out [...]