After incurring a catastrophic back injury during a snowboarding trip in 2008, Charles Clay felt hopeless. Time and time again, doctors told him that he would need to undergo surgery or he may never move the same again. Despite this daunting health outlook, Clay healed himself naturally—without surgery—using several therapies informed by modern medicine and ancient healing methods.  Speaker and author Clay joins host Karen Allen on her podcast, In the Details, to discuss all things healing. In the years since his shocking recovery, Clay has helped others understand and heal their aches an ..read more

Amityville—the Long Island village where young Bill McDermott grew up, went to school and bought his first business. Today he’s the chairman and CEO of servicenow, but prior to this position, he served as CEO of SAP. Perhaps it’s the now-buffered but still evident “Lawn Guyland, New Yawk” accent in McDermott’s voice or the sheer earnestness with which the youthful 61-year-old infuses his conversation, but when he tells you that his most valuable business principles—Give the customer what he wants. Treat people with respect. Sweat the details.—were acquired via the small transactions of his you ..read more

The future, quite literally, is now, and the March/April issue of SUCCESS magazine is devoted to laying out all the reasons you should be optimistic about it. Here are 10 ideas to create your future that you can put to use immediately: 1. Find your niche to create your future. Feel free to poll your customers on what they really like about buying from or working with you. When you have a healthy data sample, you can revisit your business plan and niche down.  Read: Finding a Niche: Know When to Narrow Your Business Focus 2. Practice and show gratitude. The reasons for gratitude are all ar ..read more

Being an entrepreneur is rough. Things never go as planned and often take 10 times longer than intended. There are plenty of highs and lows. Many times, it feels as though it would be easier to just give up and throw in the towel rather than stay motivated.  These 10 driven entrepreneurs and members of The Oracles share the No. 1 tip they use to stay motivated, persevere and achieve smashing success in the face of challenges. 1. Find your purpose and work on it. The secret of the most successful people I know is that they can stay motivated, activated, inspired and moving no matter what h ..read more

Bill Murray is one of America’s great pranksters, the funny guy who became a household name on Saturday Night Live. Later, the actor starred in movies including Caddyshack, where he plays a gopher-obsessed greenskeeper named Carl Spackler, and Ghostbusters, in which he plays psychologist, parapsychologist and ghost hunter Peter Venkman. And he knows how to garner attention everywhere he goes, whether he’s playing golf in head-to-toe camouflage gear or skydiving to raise money for USO of Illinois. “He’s a presence,” says his youngest brother, Joel. “He can take a room from zero to 60 depending ..read more

“Do less to make more” is Amy Porterfield’s mantra, and for good reason: Through her focus on gaining in-depth knowledge on a select few things and marketing that knowledge to others, hers is the name that pops up when it matters. But entrepreneurship hasn’t always come so easily to her.  After leaving her job as Tony Robbins’ content director 14 years ago, she decided to build her own business, a journey which wasn’t without its trials. Following a year of doing social media for small businesses, she decided to launch her first digital course. Unfortunately, she’d set her expectations to ..read more

The late UCLA coach John Wooden once said, “Passion is temporary. Love is enduring.” Indeed, Wooden’s love for his wife Nellie Riley is the stuff of romantic legend. As the story goes, Wooden wrote a love letter to his beloved every 21st of the month. In them, he say how much he missed her and couldn’t wait to see her again. “Then he’ll fold it once, slide it in a little envelope and walk into his bedroom,” Former Sports Illustrated columnist Rick Reilly wrote in a March 2000 article about Wooden. “He’ll go to the stack of love letters sitting there on her pillow, untie the yellow ribbon, pla ..read more

So you have a new project in mind—a major undertaking, a shift in direction, the kind of thing that will put your company on the map or reaffirm its dominance in the market. And you are feeling a little… overwhelmed. Leadership is not for the faint of heart. Even after all these years, a new venture gives me a rush of excitement and a flutter of nerves. There’s a lot at stake, after all: money, time and reputation, among others. The 10-80-10 rule That’s why today we’re going to rethink the project cycle, simplify it and focus our energy on the time periods when strong leadership is most critic ..read more

As a kid, my dad occasionally took me fishing in his small, rusty tin boat. Sometimes, in the middle of the lake, he’d put duct tape over a leak to keep the water at bay until we got back to shore. He used to say that boats don’t sink from the water around them. They sink from the water that gets in them. I’ve drawn on that saying many times, particularly during the stormy seasons of life, when I’ve felt like I might be pulled under by the fear and negativity swirling around me. For instance, back in March of 2020. The irony was not lost on me that the week my new book was released was the sam ..read more

With mass layoffs continuing to make headlines, your small or new business might think—at first blush—of saving cash and manpower by defining and activating its brand strategy in-house. Or perhaps you feel confident enough to completely press pause on any branding work. You’ve already figured out your vision and how to set yourself apart from the competition, right?  While any businessperson can appreciate the instinct to protect your bottom line by supporting initiatives with a clear ROI, if you have a great product or service but no one knows about it or connects with it, your business ..read more