Subscribe to NSCBlog
Currently Viewing Category:
Goal Setting
Subscribe to NSCBlog
Where in YOUR Life is GREATNESS Seeking to Emerge?
Greatness is in ALL of us, in one form or another. Inchoate perhaps, embryonic maybe, but a seed of greatness lies within us, ready to…
January 7, 2016
Thoughts for the New Year
What Do I Want to Be When I Grow Up? What Do I Want to Learn Most/Next? WHO Do I Want to Be? How Good Do I Have to…
December 31, 2015
Mentor’s Reply to Young Entrepreneur’s Questions (Part III)
Hello Mr. Collier, I hope everything is going well with you. Would you mind answering the below questions? When looking at purchasing a property what…
December 24, 2015
Sidestepping Subtle Slips on the Stairs of Success
Life can be complex and the easy stuff got done a long time ago. The further you go, the more subtle and nuanced the distinctions…
December 15, 2015
Brook’s Law: When More is Less
Brook’s Law: Adding manpower to a late software project only makes it even more late. Software programming is multi-faceted, difficult to successfully divide into discrete…
December 10, 2015
Beware the Law of Triviality
The Law of Triviality is the tendency to give disproportionate weight to minor issues. It takes courage to face arduous and difficult tasks. In the…
December 8, 2015
Three Steps to Get What You Want
1) Make sure it is what you really, really want. Journal, observe yourself, know yourself. Why do you want this outcome? How do you expect…
November 24, 2015
Three Foot Rule
I recently had the opportunity to listen to Mark Owen, author of “No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission that Killed Osama Bin…
November 19, 2015
Try, Try, Try Yet Again: Life Rewards Valor, Intelligent Persistent Passion Pays
Your Beliefs About Yourself (i.e. Your Self Concept/Self Image) largely Determine Your Destiny. If you believe something is beyond you, even if it is not,…
November 12, 2015
Greatness Comes at a Cost, Requires an Investment
There is greatness residing in you. However, greatness rarely emerges without a significant investment of time, energy, and emotion. Call it sacrifice, call it cost,…
November 10, 2015
Were You Born with Drive or Did it Develop?
A student asked me this variation on the old nature v. nurture question recently. The short answer is that drive rarely just “develops” on its…
October 29, 2015