Subscribe to NSCBlog
Subscribe to NSCBlog
What you Focus on Expands!
The human mind is an incredible, powerful thing. If you focus your thoughts on your goals, your energy flows that way. If you make a…
May 5, 2008Can you summon your talent at will?
In a movie called “Devil’s Advocate,” Al Pacino is the devil in human form attempting to tempt Keanu Reeves, both of whom play attorneys. Pacino…
April 29, 200830 Methods of Influence
Listed here are Thirty Methods of Influence from Stephen R. Covey’s “Principle-Centered Leadership,” (Simon & Schuster, pp. 119-128). I could easily write a blog on…
April 28, 2008“I am the one I’ve been waiting for…”
Every now and again I find that I’m waiting for something or someone to come along and resolve something or make something happen. This desire…
April 22, 2008Rationalize = Rational Lies
Often our attempts to explain or analyze a failure to reach a goal devolve into rationalizations. And often those rationalizations are nothing but rational lies…
April 21, 2008Three Kinds of People
One of the mental exercises that people seem to love is to break down the world into different kinds of people. Here is my go…
April 17, 2008Feelings Buried Alive Never Die
In 1969, Swiss-born psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross wrote “On Death and Dying” and popularized the concept of the grief cycle: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and finally…
April 15, 2008Never Major in Minor Things
The New York Times recently reported “In a magazine article seven years ago, the chief executive of the Journal Register Company, the publicly traded newspaper…
April 14, 2008Guarding the Gates of Change
Each of us guards our personal gate of change, which only we can open. No one can open the gate of another. Oh, external behaviors…
April 7, 2008“To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift”
“To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.” – Steve Prefontaine How good do we have to be? How much…
April 2, 2008Four Tools of Discipline from “The Road Less Traveled”
“The Road Less Traveled” (RLT), by M. Scott Peck, has sold more than 7 million copies and spent at least 598 weeks on bestseller lists.…
March 31, 2008