Kompot French Bakery Odessa Ukraine

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LIVE from Odessa Ukraine it’s Rick Butts! Notice the American Christmas music playing in the background of the video. Why is this particularly interesting? Because it’s January 5th. Ukrainians celebrate Christmas on January 7th (their big holiday is New Years – a lot more like our Christmas traditions with family, gifts, and warm seasons wishes. [...]

Living In Ukraine Live Webcam

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We are running a live webcam for LivingInUkraine.com and I thought you may want to see what we are up to. I can’t predict what you’ll see at any given time as we are both running live cam footedge from the street outside the window, to meetings we have in cafes in Ukraine. Today we’ll [...]

Happiness & The Feeling Of Control

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Part 1 Part 2 “People feel happy to the degree we feel in control of our lives – but we give away our happiness by blaming circumstances we cannot control.” Rick Butts The “Feeling of Control” concept was the centerpiece of my Control – Clarity – Courage triad of points for my keynote speech. The [...]

Hot Tub Time Machine

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Clarity Part 1

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Click here for the Goal Setting Rocket video. Clarity In a world of too many choices, we need to boil our lives down to the things that matter most. Are you are overcommitted to the wrong priorities? Why is it that we fail to use what works so very well in business, in our personal [...]

Goal Setting Rocket

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How To Set And Achieve Your Most Important Goals

Rachael Butts Rides With A Vengeance

My daughter was a champion barrel racer when we lived in Texas. I found this video and came up with the idea to merge it with her skateboarding. The announcer, noticing how fierce she was as a competitor said that after she got dropped from competition accidentally last week she had been “riding with a [...]

Happy Birthday To Me

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Happy Birthday To Me! December 22 – Here’s the link to show your love for me http://7littlechoices.com LOL – I know sometimes I exceed my own maximum of cheeseballness. But, honestly friends, I get these ideas. They come to me like fun little friends and invite me to play. So, today I started humming happy [...]