As long as you live, you will face challenges. When it comes to being on your own and supporting yourself it makes a lot of sense to go with your strengths. What are you best at? What are you interested in? What fascinates you? What do you have the most experience doing? To create a good income to provide for yourself and your family you are more likely to success if you are doing things you can dovery well. The way to becoming great at anything relates to having a lot of experience. It’s hard to get enough of that kind of experience if you don’t believe in what you’re doing. Everyone ..read more

It’s supposed to be the Holy Grail of career searches. Find the thing you love to do! Don’t “they” say that once you find that your troubles are over? “Do the thing you love to do, and you’ll never work a day in your life!” Supposedly, it will be a life of nothing but happiness and joy. You’ll have a big smile on your face from the time you get up in the morning until you turn in late at night. All because you LOVE what you do.  “Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do gre ..read more

Even if you love your business, sport or organization, there are always going to be things that have to be done to win. And those are exactly the kinds of things that the average and mediocre can’t get themselves to do. That’s why they’ll never be you. Success is something you earn by effort. You aren’t doing things no one else except you can do. You’re just doing more – you’re doing it longer, with a little more attention to detail and more consistency. You don’t cut corners when others do. You don’t just work when others are watching because you know that when it comes time to compete, if yo ..read more

We are emotional beings We all have our ups and downs. Over our lives we experience the gamut of emotions. We soon discover we’d rather stay on the satisfied, fufillled and joyous side of life as much as possible Here’s why you shouldn’t let yourself get too wrapped up in yourselfBeing self-centered leads to depression, it draws you inward facing your imperfections, focusing on all you don’t have. It’s like a Black HoleIt’s a downward spiral that can grab you and not let go. You lose perspective. You forget about the good things in your life. You forget so many others have it much worse than ..read more

We all dream of success to one degree or another. The simple fact that you’re reading this right now tells me that you want to live a more successful life. Many find it difficult to achieve the success they desire and instead of addressing their habits and routines, they continue asking themselves, “Why can’t I achieve success?” The answer is simple. Changing your daily routine can be tough, and even impossible if you aren’t clear about how to go about shifting your approach to life. A big part of successful living is about having the right habits for success. It’s an approach to living t ..read more

The best leaders are always probing to find areas of weakness.   If you’re a leader this is tough for you to do. But it’s better to know what you’ve got than to operate in a dream world. If you don’t have leaders and systems in place that are going to get the job done you’d better make your adjustments and changes now. The only other choice is to keep getting beat over and over again–and nobody wants that. This is how top leaders keep themselves and their teams in winning form. The signs stick out like a sore thumb.Unfortunately everyone else probably sees the signs if they are ..read more

They come to you with a problem, and you give them the perfect solution. There’s no reason for them not to follow through. Your solution would solve all kinds of problems in their life, yet they don’t do it. I’ve seen sales people in my office desperate for a sale, broke, and with nowhere to turn. Then an easy lead would come along that no one else in the office had time to pursue. All you have to do is show up, go through the presentation, and the sale is guaranteed. You give them the lead, you tell them exactly what to say, you set the appointment, and you tell them where to go. But somehow ..read more

The point: If you have lots of doubts, it says good things about you. Doubt. Do you ever have doubt? What do you do when it comes? What does it mean? Are you going to let it control you or are you going to control it? Is this a positive or does it mean you are just neurotic? Also, doubt plus inaction brings fear. With fear comes paralysis, and with paralysis comes certain failure. That’s certainly not a positive. So what’s the alternative? Attack! Take action!  When doubt comes it means one thing. That is your subconscious sending you a very real message that you are not doing ..read more

It seems like it never changes. There’s always way more things that need to be done than we have time to do. Ask any successful person how they’re doing, and they’ll say, “I’m great, but I am busy—it’s been a crazy week.” There are always a lot of meetings, phone calls, wrapping up projects, starting new projects. It is nonstop. That’s normal. But what has been coming up this week is the word stress. I’ve been talking to businesspeople and college students, even high school and junior high students, and everyone is overwhelmed with stress. Unfortunately, when stress builds up, it paralyzes you ..read more

Why not go for something big?  Why not go for something special? Why not go for a lifetime memory? If you had some special destination in mind you might find you could get a little more excited about taking a break. It also might energize your work. It would give you something exciting to dream about, to talk about and to prepare for. Your life will be as dull as you let it beToo many people just assume these kinds of trips are out of their reach…so they don’t even try. If they would, they might be amazed how achievable they are. The cost might not be as high as you t ..read more