It is 2018 and many of you have written New Years Goals. Things you want to accomplish, experience and ways you can make your life better this year. Let me offer a suggestion for adding just one more goal to your list. This goal when done daily will have more effect than all of your
Everyone talks about great ideas: ideas for their job, their organization or an exciting new innovation or invention. During research interviews I often hear about an individual’s great idea. When I ask what the response has been from sharing the idea with others and how they will implement or execute on the idea their eyes
One of the most important lessons I learned from my 17 years in large corporate is to not let others talk me into things that aren’t right for me. Have you ever been talked into doing something that you “just knew” wasn’t going to end up going well? (…and it didn’t!) I have, and I ended up
To be In Over Your Head means to be or become involved in a situation in which you do not have the necessary skills, knowledge, money or know-how to succeed. Sounds miserable, difficult and like it would require a lot of work to overcome. Who wants that? Most people don’t! Who wants to be a beginner and
Nothing comes easy in life. Nothing! Zip, Zero, Nada, لا شى (that’s Arabic for nothing). If something did come easy for you, hang on tight, because it most likely won’t be around for long. You rarely keep what you don’t earn. Excellence, talent, fame, and success rarely occur without hard work, extreme action and long
Why do so many individuals spend time thinking about and wanting to look young, look beautiful and to be rich? Personally, I think these thought processes are ridiculous. Why waste time on something that is going to fade and why invest energy into something that won’t benefit you long term? Guess what doesn’t
Derek Sivers the creator of CD Baby shared this advice and I took it. Most everyone I know has a dream, an item on their bucket list–something they want to accomplish, but they just don’t know where to start or what to do next. I liked Derek Sivers advice: Start to work backwards. Contact someone
February 27, 2017 I had been working with Executive Steve for about a month and he was having a difficult time realizing how his behaviors and emotions were keeping him from progressing in his career and personal life. (How his wife lived with him was beyond me!) The company he worked for was paying me
February 22, 2017 There are different ways we can make money. Since the vast majority of us earn our income from a job, one of the best ways to make more money is to get a higher salary. There are three main paths to getting a higher salary. Improve your skills at work, be great
I think it’s fun to be human, but it seems lately I run into humans who aren’t enjoying it. While waiting in line at 7-11 today I witnessed a human get angry when his lottery scratch off card didn’t win him millions. His vocabulary burned its way from one of my ears right through to the
