Rich Schaus, Lead Contributor

Executive Director of Gospel Rescue Mission in Muskogee, Oklahoma. Rich is dedicated to personal growth for himself and hopes to bring others on the adventure with him. Like Gospel Rescue Mission on Facebook to keep up with the latest developments. Follow @grmmuskogee on Twitter to stay inspired to grow.

Articles About Motivation

7 Things To Remember When Everything Goes Wrong
Rich Schaus, Lead Contributor | 6 min read
You woke up late and then burned the eggs that you were going to have for breakfast. There are no more eggs because you never did...
Personal Development Articles

How To Listen To Your Soul and Find Peace
Rich Schaus, Lead Contributor | 6 min read
We live in a very loud world. Billboards scream at us as we drive down the freeways. Radio, social media, television, and movies all demand our...
Personal Development Articles

Why You Should Show Your Vulnerable Side
Rich Schaus, Lead Contributor | 4 min read
Learning how to show your vulnerable side might be hard, but others will appreciate it in more ways than one. I remember watching the first Superman...
Personal Development Articles

How to Develop Your Sense of Faith
Rich Schaus, Lead Contributor | 6 min read
What do you really believe beyond any shadow of doubt? Is there anything? We live in a world that seemingly questions anything and everything. Do you...
Personal Development Articles

7 Questions to Ask Yourself to Keep Your Character In Check
Rich Schaus, Lead Contributor | 7 min read
Being a person of character means living with integrity. This will enable you to stand strong in the midst of moral dilemmas and in the midst...
Personal Development Articles

How To Create a 5 Year Plan For Your Life
Rich Schaus, Lead Contributor | 7 min read
This simple guide on how to make a 5 year plan will help you move towards your goals and dreams, and ensure that you get there....
Personal Development Articles

How To Become Ready for Anything That Life Will Throw At You
Rich Schaus, Lead Contributor | 6 min read
Life is not predicable – and that is what makes it great! I don’t like predictable movies, so why would I want my own life to be...
Articles About Motivation

How to be the change you wish to see in the world (in small ways)
Rich Schaus, Lead Contributor | 7 min read
A great friend of mine, one evening after his kids had gone to bed, put into motion his plan to be the change that he wanted...
Personal Development Articles

5 Things I Learned From Overcoming Conflict
Rich Schaus, Lead Contributor | 8 min read
You will not experience this life without conflict. The sources of conflict are far too many to prevent them from coming up. When you take the...
Book Recommendations

10 Books That Will Change Your Life and Expand Your Thinking
Rich Schaus, Lead Contributor | 6 min read
Books are like mentors. They can guide, inspire, and motivate us to try new things. Below is a list of books that will change your life....
Personal Development Articles

How to Turn Every Challenge Into the Greatest Adventure
Rich Schaus, Lead Contributor | 7 min read
My children are nearly grown now. My oldest is planning her adventures of traveling the world without me. The boys are both taller than me, though...
Personal Development Articles

Should I Really Be Honest All The Time?
Rich Schaus, Lead Contributor | 6 min read
For those who want the cliff notes version of a blog post, the simple answer is YES. Honesty leads to trust, and trust leads to a...
Personal Development Articles

7 Rules of Life That Will Help You Gain Mental Clarity
Rich Schaus, Lead Contributor | 6 min read
The fog of battle is very real in our everyday world. It seems that the fog comes in often and prevents us from clearly seeing where...
Articles About Motivation

Everybody Dies, So Live Life To The Fullest
Rich Schaus, Lead Contributor | 6 min read
One of the habits that I am working to establish is a regular visit to the cemetery. No, I am not some freak looking for ghosts or...
Personal Development Articles

How To Overcome Regret and Not Create Them Again
Rich Schaus, Lead Contributor | 6 min read
If you have lived more than 20 minutes, you have regrets. It could be that time where you did not swing at the 3-2 pitch and...
Articles About Motivation

How To Stand Up For What You Believe In
Rich Schaus, Lead Contributor | 6 min read
Today, no matter what your political persuasion or social issue that you hold dear, there is a need for courageous people to stand up and be...
Relationships

What To Do When It Feels Like Your Relationship Is Falling Apart
Rich Schaus, Lead Contributor | 7 min read
If you feel as if your relationship is tearing at the seams, here's the best course of action to take...
Personal Development Articles

5 Reasons You’re Capable of More Than You Know
Rich Schaus, Lead Contributor | 6 min read
Most of High School I thought I was King of the Losers. While I was not the least popular guy in school, I always felt that if...
Articles About Motivation

Why Imagination is More Important than Knowledge
Rich Schaus, Lead Contributor | 7 min read
The eye can only see so many colors, but the artist using his or her imagination puts them together in ways that we never imagined and...
Articles About Motivation

10 Questions You Will Ask Yourself Before You Die
Rich Schaus, Lead Contributor | 7 min read
What questions will you ask yourself before you die? I used to visit a man named Ross at the nursing home. To be honest I was...
Articles About Motivation

5 Key Factors That Prevent People from Reaching Their Goals
Rich Schaus, Lead Contributor | 6 min read
No one that I have ever met has desired to fail reaching their goals. We set the goals because they seem important. On January 1 of every...
Personal Development Articles

The Truth Behind Why We Are Always Comparing Ourselves To Others
Rich Schaus, Lead Contributor | 6 min read
At the heart of most of our problems, both within and without, is fear and insecurity. We fear that if others really knew us that they...
Articles About Motivation

How True Love Can Completely Turn Your Life Around
Rich Schaus, Lead Contributor | 7 min read
True love is the most powerful force in the universe and when used in truth and integrity, it can change your life. Keep reading to learn...
Personal Development Articles

5 Ways to Overcome the Fear of Being Judged
Rich Schaus, Lead Contributor | 6 min read
What are you afraid of? Is it rational? How about the fear of being judged? According to many researchers, the ONLY natural fears that we have when...
Personal Development Articles

What Would You Do If Today Was Your Last Day?
Rich Schaus, Lead Contributor | 7 min read
Disaster has a way of clarifying priorities. When it looks like this day, this very day, might be your very last day on this Earth, above...
Articles About Motivation

5 Habits To Unleash Your Inner Beast and Calm Confidence
Rich Schaus, Lead Contributor | 7 min read
It is only those that know how to unleash their inner strength and be a beast that can muscle through the difficulty to get to the...
Personal Development Articles

Why Your Biggest Enemy Is Yourself And What You Can Do About It
Rich Schaus, Lead Contributor | 8 min read
Reasons why your biggest enemy is yourself. Discover why you are your own worst enemy. Who is your biggest enemy? “My greatest enemy is my inner...
Articles About Motivation

7 ways to improve the results in all areas of your life
Rich Schaus, Lead Contributor | 5 min read
I once had a friend who was an avid weight lifter. Unlike most of the men and women that I have known since this guy only...
Personal Development Articles

How to let go of your expectations
Rich Schaus, Lead Contributor | 7 min read
Should you let go of your high expectations? I tend to dream big and have great expectations for myself and for others. Normally this serves me...
Relationships

10 Romantic Things You Can Do To Make Your Partner Feel Special
Rich Schaus, Lead Contributor | 7 min read
In the beginning of your relationship, wowing each other was fairly easy. Your every desire was to win the heart of that special guy or gal....
Personal Development Articles

5 Delegation Skills That Will Help You Become More Successful
Rich Schaus, Lead Contributor | 7 min read
Over the years, I have worked with some incredible leaders who had a strong work ethic and accomplished many things. The best among them were able...
Personal Development Articles

5 Reasons Complaining Is Ruining Your Life and Crushing Your Happiness
Rich Schaus, Lead Contributor | 6 min read
It is easy to justify our complaining as simply venting. Or in more deluded minds, it might even be seen as a healthy way to motivate...
Personal Development Articles

How to fight laziness and get more things done
Rich Schaus, Lead Contributor | 7 min read
When I was born there were some complications at childbirth. When it was all over my parents were told not to expect too much out of...
How to Be Successful

10 habits that will help you reach your goals
Rich Schaus, Lead Contributor | 7 min read
Every motivational speaker and leadership development expert will encourage you to set goals. These are critical to your overall growth. Setting goals becomes a habit that can...
Relationships

10 Things Happy Couples Do Differently
Rich Schaus, Lead Contributor | 8 min read
When I envision my successful life, I will typically take my mind to a special event that will take place when I am nearly 75 years...
Articles About Motivation

7 Inspirational leaders who did what was right and not easy
Rich Schaus, Lead Contributor | 7 min read
Being a leader comes with having to buck the system sometimes. Often times leaders make decisions that are not very popular at the time but turn...
How to Be Successful

Focus: the #1 Key To Success for Achieving Life-Long Dreams
Rich Schaus, Lead Contributor | 7 min read
What’s the ONE key to success? It starts with clearly defining what success means to you. It’s focusing on your goals and not giving up, no matter...
Life Advice and Skills

10 Harsh Realities That Only Low Income People Will Truly Understand
Rich Schaus, Lead Contributor | 7 min read
It was with a judgmental attitude that I began working with those in poverty about 15 years ago. I figured that I could inspire and motivate...
Personal Development Articles

How Can You Push Yourself To The Next Level
Rich Schaus, Lead Contributor | 7 min read
There are athletes that show incredible talent even in grade school. Some of them will demonstrate skills and even make a name for themselves in High School...
Personal Development Articles

How To Regain Focus When You Feel Overwhelmed
Rich Schaus, Lead Contributor | 6 min read
In the midst of the battle smoke and confusion, you can lose sight of all that is around you. The noise is deafening, and it seems that...
How to Be Successful

How To Increase Your Dedication To Work That You Love
Rich Schaus, Lead Contributor | 6 min read
Hopefully, you have discovered work that you really can love. If not, then I would recommend that you quit reading and evaluate what you should be doing....
How to Be Successful

Why You Should Avoid Anything That Is Too Easy
Rich Schaus, Lead Contributor | 6 min read
“We choose to go to the Moon! …We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things not because they are easy, but because they...
How to Be Successful

How You Can Set Yourself Up for Success In 2017
Rich Schaus, Lead Contributor | 6 min read
We have entered a New Year and with that come new opportunities. As we prepare for a year of historical firsts, tragic events, and unforeseen breakthroughs...
Personal Development Articles

Secrets Behind Setting a Successful New Year Resolution
Rich Schaus, Lead Contributor | 7 min read
According to Statisticbrain.com, the average success rate of a New Year resolution is 8 percent. Wow, that does NOT seem like good odds. What are those 8 percent of successful...
Personal Development Articles

4 Huge Decisions We All Have To Make In Order To Live the Life We Dream Of
Rich Schaus, Lead Contributor | 7 min read
Living a life of dreams often feels like a rollercoaster ride. Is this life even real? From time to time, it feels so close that you can smell...
Personal Development Articles

10 Benefits of Reading That You’ve Probably Forgotten
Rich Schaus, Lead Contributor | 7 min read
It is so commonly said that “Leaders are Readers”. It’s a truth that cannot be dismissed lightly. With the tyranny of the urgent pressing upon us, who...
Articles About Motivation

How To Get Back on Track When You’ve Been Lost for a While
Rich Schaus, Lead Contributor | 7 min read
They say in the Army that you can’t spell lost without an LT (Lieutenant). As a cadet, I had not done well in land navigation during...
Articles About Motivation

5 Real Life Ways To Become a Great Leader
Rich Schaus, Lead Contributor | 4 min read
Do you know what peoples’ worst fears are? According to studies public speaking comes first, followed closely by meeting new people, and only then by the fear...
Personal Development Articles

How To Stop Being a People Pleaser And Finally Be The Real You
Rich Schaus, Lead Contributor | 7 min read
Are you a people pleaser? It feels like a lifetime ago but there was a season of my life where I would sit with a bowl...
Personal Development Articles

5 Steps to Overcome Doubt
Rich Schaus, Lead Contributor | 6 min read
What if you believed in your dreams, the same way you believe in your doubts? I really do hate to be the one to burst your...
Articles About Motivation

Why you should not cry because it’s over but smile because it happened
Rich Schaus, Lead Contributor | 6 min read
Real life comes with emotions. Only the dead have no fluctuations in how they are feeling. Live your life with the excitement and joy that comes...
Articles About Motivation

How to go from merely existing to living life fully
Rich Schaus, Lead Contributor | 6 min read
For over fourteen years I have had the privilege to work with men and women who are experiencing homelessness. Throughout those years I have been duly...
How to Be Successful

How to work under intense pressure to succeed
Rich Schaus, Lead Contributor | 6 min read
Intense pressure can either crush a piece of coal and turn it into dust that is good in furnaces of industries like steel producers or if...
Relationships

Who is wrong, you or your friends?
Rich Schaus, Lead Contributor | 7 min read
We live in a deeply divided nation and this often means that we end up disagreeing with sensible people that simply think different than us. Too...
Articles About Motivation

How to use mind mapping to become more productive
Rich Schaus, Lead Contributor | 7 min read
I have always looked for hacks in how to become more productive. Reading voraciously, watching videos or listening to podcasts, I sift out ideas to become...
Personal Development Articles

5 methods to make new friends
Rich Schaus, Lead Contributor | 6 min read
The book “Healthy at 100” by John Robbins makes the point that one of the keys to living (not just existing but really living to 100...
How to Be Successful

How to prepare for a job interview
Rich Schaus, Lead Contributor | 7 min read
After leaving the United States Army I had thought that I would easily walk into a long list of jobs and would have a challenge trying...
Articles About Motivation

10 things you can start doing that will pay off in 5 years
Rich Schaus, Lead Contributor | 7 min read
Life moves pretty fast so you better plan ahead so that you are not caught off guard when the rest of the world is struggling and...
Articles About Motivation

How to see opportunity even when life is full of problems
Rich Schaus, Lead Contributor | 7 min read
I once knew a woman who did everything that she could so that she could live life in her recliner and never have to get up. ...
Personal Development Articles

How do I stop getting distracted so easily so I can get things done
Rich Schaus, Lead Contributor | 6 min read
It has been said that the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. We know the things that we ought to do but we don’t...
Articles About Motivation

5 Ways to feed your dreams
Rich Schaus, Lead Contributor | 6 min read
Sitting on my porch I hear birds chirping and squirrels playing games. They are living the life they were designed to live. I know that there...
Personal Development Articles

5 ways to protect yourself from getting manipulated
Rich Schaus, Lead Contributor | 7 min read
It happens to the best of people. You go to simply shop for that new car. Before you left you vowed that today would not be...
Relationships

7 signs you have an amazing family
Rich Schaus, Lead Contributor | 8 min read
I was just seventeen years old. Christmas morning had so far been a bummer. While I had many packages under the tree they were all clothing...
Articles About Motivation

10 Reasons You Need To Read More
Rich Schaus, Lead Contributor | 7 min read
Leaders are readers. We know that. But we often forget this all important statement in the midst of the insanity of our busy lives. What are...
How to Be Successful

How to turn inspiration into a detailed vision
Rich Schaus, Lead Contributor | 6 min read
You just woke up in the middle of the night. It was so real. The solution to all of the problems of mankind came to you....
Articles About Motivation

How small actions can make a huge difference
Rich Schaus, Lead Contributor | 7 min read
Back when I first joined the Army we did not have the privilege of using any high tech gadgets to help us find our way through...
Personal Development Articles

4 tips for dealing with fear in your daily life
Rich Schaus, Lead Contributor | 7 min read
Airborne school at Fort Benning, Georgia is designed to prepare soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines to jump out of airplanes and silently fly through the air...
Articles About Motivation

How great leaders inspire action
Rich Schaus, Lead Contributor | 7 min read
Nearly every man that I know can almost quote Mel Gibson from Braveheart, “They may take our lives but they will never take our FREEDOM!” With...
Personal Development Articles

How to be patient even when you’re not that way
Rich Schaus, Lead Contributor | 6 min read
I live a very excited life, anticipating great things happening every day. I expect that my hopes and dreams will come true by the time the...
Articles About Motivation

5 fears that are blocking you from expressing your gifts
Rich Schaus, Lead Contributor | 6 min read
I am convinced that more success is lost due to fear than to any other factor. We know that we must work hard to win but...
Personal Development Articles

How To Use The News To Get Involved With Issues You Care About
Rich Schaus, Lead Contributor | 7 min read
Many years ago, a genius marketer came up with the foam brick. It seems that the news was making so many people angry that they were...

Rich Schaus, Lead Contributor

7 Things To Remember When Everything Goes Wrong

How To Listen To Your Soul and Find Peace

Why You Should Show Your Vulnerable Side

How to Develop Your Sense of Faith

7 Questions to Ask Yourself to Keep Your Character In Check

How To Create a 5 Year Plan For Your Life

How To Become Ready for Anything That Life Will Throw At You

How to be the change you wish to see in the world (in small ways)

5 Things I Learned From Overcoming Conflict

10 Books That Will Change Your Life and Expand Your Thinking

How to Turn Every Challenge Into the Greatest Adventure

Should I Really Be Honest All The Time?

7 Rules of Life That Will Help You Gain Mental Clarity

Everybody Dies, So Live Life To The Fullest

How To Overcome Regret and Not Create Them Again

How To Stand Up For What You Believe In

What To Do When It Feels Like Your Relationship Is Falling Apart

5 Reasons You’re Capable of More Than You Know

Why Imagination is More Important than Knowledge

10 Questions You Will Ask Yourself Before You Die

5 Key Factors That Prevent People from Reaching Their Goals

The Truth Behind Why We Are Always Comparing Ourselves To Others

How True Love Can Completely Turn Your Life Around

5 Ways to Overcome the Fear of Being Judged

What Would You Do If Today Was Your Last Day?

5 Habits To Unleash Your Inner Beast and Calm Confidence

Why Your Biggest Enemy Is Yourself And What You Can Do About It

7 ways to improve the results in all areas of your life

How to let go of your expectations

10 Romantic Things You Can Do To Make Your Partner Feel Special

5 Delegation Skills That Will Help You Become More Successful

5 Reasons Complaining Is Ruining Your Life and Crushing Your Happiness

How to fight laziness and get more things done

10 habits that will help you reach your goals

10 Things Happy Couples Do Differently

7 Inspirational leaders who did what was right and not easy

Focus: the #1 Key To Success for Achieving Life-Long Dreams

10 Harsh Realities That Only Low Income People Will Truly Understand

How Can You Push Yourself To The Next Level

How To Regain Focus When You Feel Overwhelmed

How To Increase Your Dedication To Work That You Love

Why You Should Avoid Anything That Is Too Easy

How You Can Set Yourself Up for Success In 2017

Secrets Behind Setting a Successful New Year Resolution

4 Huge Decisions We All Have To Make In Order To Live the Life We Dream Of

10 Benefits of Reading That You’ve Probably Forgotten

How To Get Back on Track When You’ve Been Lost for a While

5 Real Life Ways To Become a Great Leader

How To Stop Being a People Pleaser And Finally Be The Real You

5 Steps to Overcome Doubt

Why you should not cry because it’s over but smile because it happened

How to go from merely existing to living life fully

How to work under intense pressure to succeed

Who is wrong, you or your friends?

How to use mind mapping to become more productive

5 methods to make new friends

How to prepare for a job interview

10 things you can start doing that will pay off in 5 years

How to see opportunity even when life is full of problems

How do I stop getting distracted so easily so I can get things done

5 Ways to feed your dreams

5 ways to protect yourself from getting manipulated

7 signs you have an amazing family

10 Reasons You Need To Read More

How to turn inspiration into a detailed vision

How small actions can make a huge difference

4 tips for dealing with fear in your daily life

How great leaders inspire action

How to be patient even when you’re not that way

5 fears that are blocking you from expressing your gifts

How To Use The News To Get Involved With Issues You Care About