Get Rice: Ronnie O'Brien Rice, Ph.D., Lawyer

Given all the issues one has to deal with during life, there are a lot of things that can distract you from your purpose in life. But, you most stay firm and don’t let the other things deter you from your purpose. For example, children, spouses, jobs, bills and friends’ can get in the way of following your true purpose. Some times, letting others and things get the best of you seems like the easier thing to do because life can seem so difficult at times. But, you must stay focus on your calling and purpose in life. For me, I meditate, study the Bible, keep my quiet time carved out and break my goals into minor steps. There are other methods to staying focus, but the ones I just mentioned are the ways that keep me focused. 1.   Meditating allows me to disregard the negatives in life and maximize the strengths regardless of the many issues that I have going on at that time. Meditating has given me peace, strength, motivation and passion in just one sitting. It can take hold of...

One of the ways to ensure that you reach the top is by surrounding yourself with others who motivate you in some kind of way to do the right thing and being more successful. One of the skills I have developed over the years is putting people around me who feed into my goals and overall plans in life. For example, I have a great friend of mines who is about 10 years older than me who tells me the ins and outs of living a healthy life while staying focus on the things that matter. Let me say, you don’t need a lot of ‘yes’ men in your life because they can get you into a lot of trouble. However, you don’t need a lot of people who shot down every idea you have to become more successful. A good balance is someone who sees where you want to be and critiques your lifestyle to ensure you still achieve your goals. If a person always talks about how hard something is or discourages you from doing anything, you need to let that person go or be very limited with the details you provide them about...

My wife recently asked me, what was the monumental point in my life that made me who I am? My response was that there were multiple points in my life in which I felt help shape who I am today. However, I call these moments self-evaluation ones in which I see something I want, I research what it takes to obtain it and I get to work. I encourage anyone who is looking to change their situation to set their goals, find out what you are doing that is counter productive to those goals and make steps to changing those behaviors to obtain these goals. Yes, it does sound simple and it is easy, once you set your mind to achieving those goals. First, defining your goals is the most critical aspect of your monumental point, meaning you must know where you want to go in order to get there. One way to determine where you want to be is to meditate and day dream where you want to be in your life right now. Picture your life exactly how you want it be with little to no hindrances to obtaining thos...