Forget New Year’s Resolutions
Better a small promise kept than a larger one broken. Most New Year’s Resolutions fail because they are lofty goals with insufficient foundation. If it…
Dysfunctional Habits: Trapped By Your Triggers
Knowing your triggers, your short fuses, is crucial to learning and substituting new behavior. If you are not aware of (and alert for) what triggers…
The Fighter Within
What determines our fate? Perhaps it is Determination itself? One Hundred and Twenty-Nine Children were identified* as being “high risk for future problems, because they…
5 Predictors of Success
The Harvard Business Review Nov/Dec 2017 feature article was on “Launching Successful Leaders: How to Make Sure Your Most Promising People Reach Their Highest Potential”…
Are Entrepreneurs Born or Made?
Sam Zell (founder of two largest American REITs; Equity Office and Equity Residential) was recently interviewed and asked if his children had followed him into…
Waste Your Spare Time = Derail Your Success
“I don’t have time” or “I couldn’t find the time” are some of the most common excuses for not moving forward. The truth is, we…
Critical Thinking Skills and The Cycle of Inquiry
“There is very little difference between people but that little difference makes a big difference.” – W. Clement Stone One little difference that makes a…
Stop Sorting Gravel
Stephen R. Covey, author of “7 Habits of Highly Effective People”, used a dramatic illustration to teach the value of time and energy management. Covey…
Questions
How would you define financial freedom? Financial freedom is as much a frame of mind and an approach to life as it is state of…
Wanting is Not Enough, Everyone Wants
The real question is what are you willing to DO to get what you want? What actions will you take? What will you sacrifice? Invest?…
A Quick and Easy (and All too Common) Way to Sabotage Success
How do folks sabotage themselves? They habitually engage in “Delay Discounting”. Huh? Delay discounting? What’s that? Delay discounting is what behavioral economists call the human…
The Illusion of Half-Working
“Half-Working” is the time we spend being non-productive when we are supposed to be working. For most, it is close to 25% of their alleged…
The Lazy Guide to Success; Three Principles
Take Easy Baby Steps (Repeat ad Infinitum) Being basically a lazy person (I’m always looking for a faster, easier way) I figured out a long,…
You WILL Pay the Price…
Yes, we all get lucky now and then and something wonderful falls into our laps and that’s terrific. However, as a general rule, “wishing and…
The Time of Your Life
Someday you will run out of somedays… as in someday I will do this or someday I will do that or someday down the road…
Who Runs Your Life?
Are you really free if you are bound by habits/desires you fail to muster the willpower to shake? Habits are a fixed way of thinking,…
The Undisciplined Pursuit of More
Do you know you? Really, really know yourself? Understand your drives, motivations, triggers, deepest longings, most hidden fears? How self-aware are you truly? How much…
Le génie commence les beaux ouvrages, mais le travail seul les achève
“Le génie commence les beaux ouvrages, mais le travail seul les achève” translates as “Genius begins beautiful works, but only labor finishes them.” Or as…
Daily Decisions
We are smart. Boy, are we smart. We generally know what to do; what actions will move us forward. We are dumb. Boy, are we…
Juvat Impigros Deus
“Juvat Impigros Deus” is the motto on the coat of arms of the Ramsden family, who held the Manor of Huddersfield since the reign of…
Non-Perfectionism: Is it Right for You?
Perfectionism is like fire; helpful if contained and directed, dangerous if allowed to run amuck. Wikipedia defines perfectionism as a personality trait characterized by 1)…
Felt Any Zielschmerz Lately?
Zielschmerz is “the exhilarating dread of finally pursuing a lifelong dream, which requires you to put your true abilities out there to be tested on…
The Cycle of Inquiry
“There is very little difference between people but that little difference makes a big difference.” – W. Clement Stone One little difference that makes a…
Who ARE You?
More specifically, what is your self-concept? Who do YOU think you are? Who do you WANT to be? A self-concept is different from a Mission…
Plans are useless, planning is invaluable
Mr. Collier, Here is a question I’ve been pondering, would you mind answering it? Thank you so much for your time! Have you ever written a business…
How Strong is Your “der Wille zur Macht”?
der Wille zur Macht translates from German as the “Will to Power” or (in the context of Nietzsche’s philosophical work) the drive for achievement and…