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Do the hard things…FIRST
Eat that frog! First thing in the morn! Get it over with! It’s often easier than you think. Do what you fear (dread/dislike) and the…
February 8, 2018
How We Respond to Adversity Can Create Self-Fulfilling Prophecies
How do you view setbacks? As learning opportunity or as failure? Do you view your capabilities as fixed, somewhat set at birth, essentially carved in…
February 8, 2018
Dyfal Donc a Dyr y Garreg
“Dyfal Donc a Dyr y Garreg” is a Welsh proverb that translates “Tapping persistently breaks the stone.” Persistence is firm, even obstinate, continuance in a…
January 25, 2018
2018 Checklist: Characteristics of Success v. Failure
Failure Checklist Sense of Entitlement Watch TV Every Day Live in Denial/Deliberate Ignorance Think education ends with graduation Drift, Dream, Doze Off Cultivate Resentments, Hold…
January 2, 2018
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…
December 26, 2017
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…
November 30, 2017
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”…
November 23, 2017
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…
October 17, 2017
Programming Yourself for Failure
I hear people programming themselves for failure: consistent use of negative language, persistent choice of words that speak of defeat and failure before the battle…
October 5, 2017
Questions on Wealth
What net worth would you consider a person to be wealthy? What monthly cash flow would you consider a person wealthy? Webster’s says wealth is…
October 3, 2017
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…
September 28, 2017
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…
September 7, 2017
The Original American Dream
The phrase “The American Dream” was coined by James Truslow Adams in 1931. Originally it had nothing to do with material success or wealth but…
August 22, 2017
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?…
August 10, 2017
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,…
July 27, 2017
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…
July 25, 2017
Avoiding “Dumsor” Motivation/Energy Levels
Dumsor* (doom-sore) is a Ghanaian phrase used in reference to the frequent power outages and rolling blackouts that are epidemic to the country; it translates loosely…
July 11, 2017
How to Access Your Best Self?
We don’t always do as well as we know. The challenges of the day are often many; life gives us pop quizzes at the most…
July 6, 2017
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…
June 13, 2017
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…
June 1, 2017
Memento Mori
Memento mori is Latin for “remember that you have to die” or “remembering we will die”. It is used in reference to the practice of…
May 16, 2017
In Search of Courage to Face the Ordinary Day
In times of crisis we are often energized. Our skills are called upon and we respond to the clear and present danger. The need is…
May 9, 2017
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…
May 4, 2017
What Triggers You?
You’ve lived with yourself for a good number of years but how well do you know yourself? Understand yourself? Do you REALLY know your motivations…
April 4, 2017
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…
March 30, 2017
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…
March 21, 2017