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Law School and General Time Management
Q: Mr. Collier, I have questions regarding general time management advice during law school. My goal is to continue on to law school at the…
April 3, 2018
Is Owning and Managing Residential Real Estate Still a Good Investment for Individuals?
Q: Sir, you started off by renting residential. Given the state of the modern residential real estate economy, do you think buying and renting residential is…
March 22, 2018
Success Theater
When a culture cares more about optics than reality, when you put too much emphasis on presentation versus performance, when you care more about how…
March 20, 2018
Cover Ups: The Mother of More Mistakes
Learning from mistakes is a cliché; a phrase uttered repeatedly and with which we all nod our heads and intellectually agree… and then go out…
March 1, 2018
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
You Have Contributed to the Problem
Whatever challenges you are facing, odds are you had a hand in creating them. None of us are perfect; we all make mistakes, take wrong…
January 30, 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
Make Your Mistakes Pay
The most costly mistake in the world is the one from which you learn nothing. From an organization’s perspective, it’s the mistake that only one…
January 11, 2018
“Sorry Don’t Get It Done”*: True Apologies v. Faux Apologies
Too many things are passed off as apologies that are anything but apologies; they are faux apologies, nothing but stinky self-serving justifications, transparent rationalizations and…
January 4, 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