Creative Success Depends on Long View
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Game Over—Huddle Up!
One of the most meaningful meetings is after the game.
Whether you won or lost matters little to this gathering, because this is the moment you can evaluate and learn about what worked and your failures. Learning opportunities are your gift; [...]
Create Smart Goals to Score Big
You won’t make it across the goal line if you don’t learn how to manage the scrimmage line.
I suggest you utilize the S.M.A.R.T. principle to focus your goals and craft guiding power questions to make your team a winner. Are your goals specific? [...]
You Can Do That: The Key to Your Life’s Successful Path
Have you ever faced a situation that caused you to question yourself?
Did you confront a teacher that you disliked or a fellow student who badgered you? Have you dwelt with co-workers that made you tear your hair out? Welcome to the human race! [...]
The Best-Laid Plans
Winston Churchill once said words to the effect, “Make good plans and then forget about them once you’re in the thick of things.”
The New Year is often the time for making plans based on the goals we’ve set – goals that originate from [...]
Short Or Long Term Goals?
It’s nice to get instant gratification from short term goals.
It is much harder to stay engaged once the initial excitement of starting something new has worn off, agree?
If we set long time goals, most of the time it is hard to stay [...]
Life Choices: Confidence Versus Insecurity
“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this trauma. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must [...]
Just Do It — Advice Not From Nike, But From A Musician
I’m a career mentor. I offer career advice to my subscribers.
I send daily success quotes to them. Annie has finally convinced me that I should do some blog posts in which I explain the quotes and what they mean to me.
The quote for May 2, [...]
Self-Sabotage Is Your Greatest Enemy
Business people, entrepreneurs, athletes, musicians and others are adamant about one thing: If you want to succeed in whatever you do, you have to stay focused.
This means that you must keep the task and goals in sight and your thoughts steadfast [...]
Podcast: The Power of Three: Achieve Goals By Doing Three Things A Day
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Lisa Dietlin is the author of The Power of Three: How to Achieve Your Goals By Simply Doing Three Things a Day. In The Power of Three, Lisa provides helpful ideas, derived from her experience in the nonprofit arena and in business [...]
Invisible World Of Caring: Discover Your Destiny
Much of life in every civilization revolves around money, power and status.
Some youngsters enjoy instant success from their parents while others begin in poverty.
Everyone learns the ways of the world by the time they reach 18.
They understand [...]
Your Best Mantra For 2014
If you were to ask me what one thing the vast majority of the thousands of clients I’ve seen in my clinical psychology practice over the last 38 years have had in common, the answer might shock you.
Almost without exception, what brings people [...]
Make A Stand In Your Mind: Hope
Passion drove such men as Leonardo da Vinci to paint the Mona Lisa.
That same desire compelled men like the Wright brothers to create an airplane so they could fly.
Passion drove Susan B. Anthony to organize the suffragettes to bring voting [...]
What Dream Has Your Name On It?
Most people stumble through their teens, stagger through their twenties and meander into their thirties.
By forty, they suffer a mid-life crisis before bumping into the Big “5” “0”.
From 50, they face the last third of their lives [...]
The Importance Of Following Through
“When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word ‘succeed,’ you find that it simply means to follow through.” – F Nichol
From time to time while growing up I’d play baseball, actually stickball, [...]
Podcast: Create Exceptional Health & A Life Of Rich Fulfillment
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Tova Payne is a Registered Holistic Nutritionist and Personal Coach helping people turn their dreams into reality. She combines practical strategic action steps with spiritual practices to help others live a truly rich and fulfilled [...]
Don’t Let Your Life Whiz By, Live It To The Fullest!
Don’t just exist, live your life to the fullest.
So often, we find that we live our lives on autopilot, just going through the motions and having each day pass like the one before it.
That’s all fine and comfortable until you reach [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Podcast: How To Get Visibly Fit
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Fitness & Wellness Expert, Wendie Pett, has been teaching her Visibly Fit™ wellness program and philosophies for almost 15 years and has worked with countless numbers of people to reach their weight-loss goals and keep [...]
How Bad Do You Want It? Or, Is It Too Hard To Do?
Success isn’t going to happen overnight.
If you really think so, don’t be disappointed the next morning to see that it did not happen.
There is no quick fix. There is no secret. It just takes commitment.
Sometimes, you like the [...]
Podcast: What Is Personal Power & How Can You Find It?
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Lone Morch is an author, fine art photographer, speaker and creative catalyst, Lone Morch is a freedom activist and has for many years been an advocate for women’s voice, visibility and (self) value.
She is the Award-winning [...]
Podcast: Make It Happen In 10 Minutes A Day!
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Lorne Holden is an award winning artist and author of the Bestselling book MAKE IT HAPPEN in Ten Minutes a Day: The Simple, lifesaving Method for Getting Things Done
In this podcast Lorne discusses her “Ten Minute a Day Methodology” [...]
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. [...]
Podcast: 3 Keys To Empowering Yourself For Success
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Dr. EK Prescott has been an educator for over thirty years. She has been a teacher, principal, national consultant, speaker, researcher and professor as well as a new author of a historical fiction mystery series: The Ivy League [...]
3 Steps Toward Making Your Dream A Reality
Do you have many dreams you’d like to make come true?
If there’s so much you want to do but in reality, so little time to do it, the feeling of overwhelm itself can actually hold you back from accomplishing any of your major goals.
If this [...]
Dressing for Success: Can You Imagine?
What you can imagine can come true.
And, when it does, what do you do? I experienced a part of my dream with the publication of my first book, a historical fiction mystery series. Writing a book is really good, publishing it is even better, [...]
Stay Focused On Your Goals
Henry Ford once said, “Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.”
Good one, Henry.
I have a great story about this. It involves a trash can and a hair dryer cord.
In our bathroom at home, the trash [...]
Three Profound Secrets To A Happy Life
Pursuing Happiness.
Thomas Jefferson said, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the [...]
Outside The Safe Zone
Are you living in the “zone?”
The zone is where everything is safe and familiar and is always the same.
How does this make you feel? Certainly, at times this makes you feel good. But, if you always stay in the safe zone, are [...]
Tick-Tock: Is Purpose Your Ally or Foe?
It depends…from which viewpoint?
We’ve all heard the familiar story. Two siblings from a respected family, at the moment of decision, elect different paths upon reaching life’s forked roads. One continues the family tradition of honor, [...]
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