Remember the last time you got negative feedback? Even with lots of positive feedback to counter it, it was likely those one or two negative comments seemed to cement themselves in your brain. We tend to give negative comments much more weight than they deserve. You probably have people in your life who claim to [...]
Thinking
What do you suppose will happen when you finally achieve all you’ve dreamed of? Aside from the expected upticks in your income and the ability to buy more things, travel more, invest more, and do more of what you really enjoy, what else could happen? If you’re like a lot of people, you haven’t really [...]
It occurs to me that I have never fit in to any established organization, not completely anyway. Girl Scouts was a disaster since I just didn’t get the whole badge thing and I’m pretty sure my college sorority sisters only tolerated me. Elementary school felt foreign – desks lined up in perfectly spaced rows, uniforms [...]
Wouldn’t it be nice if becoming a success was easy? Unfortunately, it’s not. It takes consistent, daily action, calculated risks and, well…work. Work that involves doing things that don’t come easy. Working like that just doesn’t sit well with most people, and that’s why most people never reach their ultimate potential and spend their whole [...]
When you have a failure or a set-back in your business – let’s say all your appointments for the week cancel on you – how you choose to explain the cause for that could mean the world of difference in what happens next. Dr. Martin Seligman, the Psychologist most noted for his work in learned [...]
Have you ever felt just totally overwhelmed with…well…everything? When I come to the point where all my work and personal “stuff” is all swimming in my head like a giant goulash, I know it’s time to do an “up and out.” Much like the phrase, “a place for everything and everything in its place,” we [...]
I saw my friend Keith recently in the weight room at the gym. I had recommended the book, “The One Minute Millionaire” to him and he was in the middle of reading it. I asked him if it was helping him to think bigger. His response was very short, but oh so profound. He said, [...]
You were not created to just survive or endure or get through or simply manage your life. You are meant for something much greater. You already have everything you need to be enormously successful. The only thing that holds you back is…you. Not your husband or your friends or your location or your kids or [...]