How Gratitude Turns Dreams Into Reality   A Thanksgiving Message by Alfredo Bala – The Motivation Guy™ 🌱 The Foundation: A Dream Worth Fighting For Before the Pilgrims ever stepped onto the soil of this new land, they wrote the Mayflower Compact, declaring their...

A Dream Born on a Tuesday Night in November of 1980   Tonight, as I sit here looking at my American Airlines account showing 3,997,398 miles, I’m not thinking about upgrades or points or airport lounges.I’m thinking about the journey behind those miles — and the...

Success isn’t created in a microwave. It’s slow-cooked. It’s built over time, simmering through the small, intentional actions we take every single day. The ingredients? Your habits. Your mindset. Your consistency. Most people want instant prosperity — overnight...

Motivation. We chase it, we crave it, and we curse ourselves when it seems to vanish. How many times have you started a new project bursting with energy, only to see that enthusiasm evaporate after a week? How often have you set a bold New Year’s resolution only to...

From 1991 to 2007, I had the privilege of being mentored by one of the greatest leaders I’ve ever known — Bill Britt. Bill didn’t just teach me business strategies. He taught me something far more powerful: belief, resilience, and vision. He wasn’t just a leader — he...

Today, I celebrate my 65th birthday, not just as a marker of time, but as a moment of deep reflection and profound gratitude. From the early days of my life in Dakar, Senegal, where I first learned to dream in French, to the bold leap of immigrating to the United...