To begin, let’s look at athletics for our model. How do you make muscle grow? The answer is resistance. If you lift weights, but don’t lift enough weight to really test your muscles, they won’t grow and your muscle building will “plateau.” In order to build a muscular body, you need resistance to grow. If [...]
Honest Dialog Takes Courage
“You think we’re fighting, I think we’re finally talking!” (From the movie Jerry Maguire). “Healthy self-advocacy takes courage.” (Me from the movie of my life). Recipes for success, but best mixed with like-minded ingredients. What does honest dialog have to do with personal success? Everything will go into making you a success, so how you [...]
This one is for the self-employed / small business owner. I am a self-employed entrepreneur and I have an award-winning design boutique. I had some problems towards the end of last year. The problem was a rash of “messed up” clients. By messed up, I mean specifically irrational, unprofessional, or just plain in need of [...]
New Year – New You
Every day is truly “a new day and yours win,” to rework the R.E.M. lyric. So a New Year is really 365 times more powerful than the new day power thinking. This is a great time of year to earnestly set goals and be full of hope and faith. The calendar is helping us out [...]
The world can be a scary place sometime. Either you are afraid of being rejected by other people or just being afraid of heights, at a certain point anyone fears of something. The new way to teach babies to swim is by throwing them into the water; let them sink before they learn to paddle. [...]
Focusing is an area of expertise for me. It’s a skill that no one can take away, I own it. My ability to focus combined with my goal to associate myself with excellence (see blog post on associating yourself with excellence) enabled me to quadruple my income and win a great many awards. Focusing means [...]
Focus + Excellence = Success
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