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  Rizzo-Isms are “Attitude Adjustment Strategies” that will take you to a better place in Business and in Life. They are designed to help you to reduce stress, acquire a positive attitude and to create habits for success and happiness.   If you get your words and attitude going in the right direction you will […]

  Anyone can tell you that one key to living a happy, successful life is having a positive attitude, especially during adverse times.  I know that sometimes there just isn’t justification for all the unfortunate things that happen to us.  But I also know that we all have what it takes to deal with misfortune […]

  I know how easy it is to play the victim when times are tough and it seems that your world has run out of saviors. It’s easy to blame outside circumstances for interfering with your plans and goals. There are a host of convenient scapegoats that are all too easy to give a role […]

Allow me to let you in on a little secret. (No, it’s not Victoria’s Secret.   Victoria really doesn’t have a secret. Have you ever seen the merchandise in that store? It’s obvious the secret is pretty much revealed.) Are you ready? Here it is: Happiness is a choice, that’s it. It’s a little secret, right? […]

If you’re always thinking about how badly life is treating you, and telling whoever will stand still long enough to regret doing so about how you can’t get a fair shake, you will always feel miserable. Ever hear anyone say, “Misery loves company?”  Being miserable doesn’t exactly attract good things to you.  Get it?  If […]

Rizzo-Isms are “Attitude Adjustment Strategies” that will take you to a better place in Business and in Life. They are designed to help you to reduce stress, acquire a positive attitude and to create habits for success and happiness.    You can experience unease, sadness and pain at times and still be happy overall. Your […]

  Rizzo-Isms are “Attitude Adjustment Strategies” that will take you to a better place in Business and in Life. They are designed to help you to reduce stress, acquire a positive attitude and to create habits for success and happiness.   It isn’t necessarily the details of a particular challenge that weigh us down, but […]

  Last week I was on a flight from Los Angeles to Orlando Florida. The woman next to me asked me what I did for a living. I told her that I was a motivational business speaker who challenges the attendees to shift their way of thinking so they can discover increased productivity, greater enthusiasm […]

The great poet Milton said, “The mind is its own place and it can make a heaven of hell or a hell of heaven.”  What a powerful statement and how true it is.  The mind is its own place, but it’s important that you understand that your thoughts both emanate from your mind and influence […]

In 1992 I was sitting backstage at the Sands Hotel in Atlantic City. I had just finished the rehearsal for my SHOWTIME comedy special that was to take place the following night.  Woody Harrelson, who was hosting the show, approached me and asked me how I wanted to be introduced.  I thought for a moment […]