Creative Success Depends on Long View
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Two Important Steps To Complete A Creative Work
Every creative individual has a process that helps them gain perspective on their work; and a specific audience they work to please.
Quilters use binoculars backwards to see their large masterpiece at a distance, all the while thinking about [...]
The Sandwich Generation: When You Are Parenting Your Children And Aging Parents At The Same Time
In my recent article, I discussed some of the common myths that often hold parents back from doing what it takes to help their adult children to launch into independence.
Some parents who are still caring for their children as well as their [...]
How To Climb The Corporate Ladder
In my book Climbing the Corporate Ladder, I list seven steps to creating a successful career inside a large organization.
Clarify the purpose and direction for your life and career.
Commit to taking personal responsibility for your life and [...]
Change Is A CONSTANT For Success
As I sat to write this blog, I couldn’t help but reflect upon the change that has incurred in different areas of my life as I move forward to success.
In our world CHANGE is constant and something we all need to deal with. I believe our [...]
Positive Purposeful Persistence Packs Powerful Punch
Anyone who’s ever taken a Mastermind course or studied the works of Napoleon Hill knows that attitude is everything.
True…with an addendum. One needs to know the difference between wishful thinking and taking powerful steps with positive [...]
Retirement Planning For The Psyche
Many times throughout the years, I have observed anecdotally that people have a higher risk of mortality shortly after retirement.
And there’s even some empirical evidence of this. For example, in a study of past employees of Shell Oil, [...]
Pleas From Crazy Town
How do you handle your emotions, when your schedule piles up all the stuff you have to do?
Can you remain cool, clear headed and focused on each task? If you find yourself, anxious, stressed or working with a headache, feeling the pressure from [...]
It’s Time To Be A Little Selfish
How many sacrifices have you made over the years for your family, so your children could have a comfortable, happy life?
I’m sure you’ve made many. The long hours at work, the shortened vacations so kids go to camp and the expensive [...]
Why Your New And Creative Idea Isn’t Welcome At Work And What You Can Do About It
By: Margaret Ross
July 29, 2013 | Comments Off on Why Your New And Creative Idea Isn’t Welcome At Work And What You Can Do About It
Bob, in the cubicle next to yours at work, just got a promotion and a raise.
Bob has been at Con-Soft-Drink-Co for only a few months, whereas you have been there for almost 5 years.
So, you decide one morning at 3 am (while devouring Oreos because [...]
Surround Yourself With Positive People
I saw the new movie “The Way Way Back” over the weekend.
It’s a coming of age film and a nice summer diversion. But as I often do, I found some life and career success advice in it.
Duncan is the main character in the movie. He is [...]
Fear Is The Mind-Killer
What do you believe is the most critical factor in your life that keeps you from living the life you desire, reaching your full potential, and enjoying the process along the way?
It is clearly and always, your own fear responses.
There is a [...]
Be S.M.A.R.T. About Your Goals
Cathy, my wife, had big time back surgery on February 28.
She had a laminectomy, a fusion of two disks, a stabilizing cage attached to her lower pelvis and 8 screws to hold the whole thing together.
She was advised by her doc that it takes six [...]
Awaken Corporate Creativity
In an increasingly complex, volatile and challenging economy, many leaders are looking to find ways to decrease costs and increase revenue-producing projects.
The answer lies in beefing up organizational creativity. Increased creativity can [...]
Heart, Beauty And True Confidence: Sweet Acceptance
A conversation with a friend.
I remember a very interesting conversation I had with a close male friend of mine my freshman year in college.
We were alone at our work-study job on campus having one of our intellectual conversations, as we liked [...]
INSPIRATION: Breathing In Our World
What is inspiration?
Why is it some of us feel inspired and others not? What supports the experience of inspiration? Inspiration comes from the Latin root inspirare, meaning to breathe in.
When we breath in air it expands our lungs, filling [...]
Backup Singer Or The White Hot Spotlight? You Need To Decide!
I grew up in the 60’s.
Among other things that means I’m a rock and roller. So when a new rock and roll documentary called “20 Feet From Stardom” opened, I was on it. “20 Feet From Stardom” is a film about rock and roll back [...]
After The Kids Leave, What Next?
Remember your senior year of high school and the prospect of going off to college in the fall?
Remember how exciting and special it felt to be leaving home and embarking on a new and amazing adventure?
You’re at that stage of your life [...]
4 Reasons To Swap Regret Over Your Breakup For Excitement
If you’ve recently experienced a relationship breakup, regret is one of the many emotions you might be experiencing.
But regret is usually just a form of temporary and needless pain.
Here are a few perspectives to make the end of your relationship [...]
Deluded? Audacious? Not Necessarily Bad Things
The other day I saw the movie Before Midnight.
If you like dialogue and character development movies, it’s a great flick. It takes an unflinching look at relationships: the bad, the mundane and the good.
Ethan Hawke is the male lead. At [...]
It’s Time To Tell Yourself A Different Story
One of the hardest things to do when faced with a new reality, challenge, or speed bump is to shift the outlook from others to ourselves.
And almost inevitably, the story we’ve been living all along emerges right in our faces.
The story [...]
The Secrets Of Top Students!
Why should I be a top student anyway?
Success demands expectations but most importantly we must learn that success is not for everyone out there; when we become successful we must deliver and stand out and speak out and mark our place in the [...]
Welcome To Camp Grace
One summer, my foster sisters and I were sent to camp for four days, though we had no desire at all to go.
I remember our foster parents overjoyed to have the house to themselves in the coming days, and I also remember them having a family reunion [...]
How Can I Be 50, When I Still Feel 25?
Where did the years go?
Wasn’t it just yesterday that I was considered the youngster in the crowd? Somehow the years kept creeping along and now I have a 30-year-old daughter who looks at me as if I’m an old fogey.
I tell her that [...]
Three Actions Of Highly Productive Creators
We can all have those days when we just can’t get things done.
There may be too many distractions or we’re just too darn distractible. Either way you can use these three actions to work smarter and be most productive. Get to work.
Don’t [...]
Lots Of Laughs & Some Great Career Advice: The Internship
I saw “The Internship” with Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson over the weekend.
No, it’s not a sequel to “The Wedding Crashers.” It’s even better. It’s a buddy flick set on the Google campus.
It also incorporates some well-established [...]
What Else Is Possible?
How excited are you about your life?
Is there anything you want to change? Would finding what else is possible change your life for the better?
Tony Robbins says, If you want better answers, ask better questions!
So what kinds of questions do [...]
Music For The Soul! Beauty To The Eye! Words And The Spirit!
Creativity at its highest peak!
I’ve been fortunate to attend one of the most delightful events last Friday in Hollywood,California, at the famous Morrison Hotel.
It was simply spectacular and dedicated to the latest album “Everything changes” [...]
Is Success Really That Hard?
I was at the gym and I overheard a conversation the other day- a negative conversation.
From gas prices and the economy, to layoffs, this person was complaining about everything.
This person defeated himself. The economy didn’t defeat him. [...]
The Parental Balancing Act
I recently read an editorial in Philadelphia Magazine about parents demanding too little from their children.*
The author opined “we have caved in to the foolish idea that being a good parent means being nice to our children, and making their [...]
Three Rules To Making Great Art
Play. Play more. Play harder
I’m not kidding. Play is perhaps the most important thing you can do in order to create.
I will go so far to say that it may be more important than taking lessons or earning degree in any form of art. Why? Because [...]
4 Ways To Find Your Zen Zone
You deserve zen, slow your life down a bit and get into the zone.
Zen is the practice of experiencing a calm peacefulness.
A Zen Zone is your mental space where you are flowing with an inner consciousness that is not interrupted with physical [...]
A Career Success Lesson From Carole King
I saw a great show on PBS this week.
Carole King was awarded the prestigious George Gershwin prize for lifetime achievement in popular music, recognizing her achievements in music spanning the last six decades.
This award is presented by the [...]
3 Lists You Can Make To Boost Your Self-Confidence
No one is perfect.
And we all have numerous characteristics that comprise our personalities and abilities.
But for some, that nagging voice in your head that points out your flaws might be drowning out your ability to truly reflect on and appreciate [...]
We Are What We Do!
These 5 words introduce a powerful message…WE ARE WHAT WE DO.
We aim to obtain a recognized and lovable identity wherever we go and whatever we do, so how can we get there and link our actions to achieve the identity we want to have?
This [...]
Resisting What We Want
Now, why would anybody resist what they want?
That just doesn’t make any sense! Yet we do it all the time.
Take Tony. He’s a busy executive who is on the road a lot. An ex-collegiate basketball star, Tony believes in fitness and good [...]
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