The Lazy Man's Answer to Success

I have come to know absolutes in this business of personal growth over the years. I know absolutely that we were all born perfect. I know absolutely that the challenges we may face on our journey relate to the experiences we have had and conversely the affect they have on our belief system. I know absolutely that any doubt can be changed into a belief. I know absolutely that it is possible to alter any behavior and to accomplish anything we set out for in life. I also know that without one powerful, magical, incredible ingredient it all remains fraught ...

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Your Attitude Matters

Jim Rohn once said, “People say that others should not judge you. Here's a clue. They do”. There's a fine line between how we see ourselves and how the world sees us. It's one thing to say that we don't care what others think of how we dress or how we act or how we speak, but fact of the matter is that the perception of the world around us will affect how it interacts and what it offers our own life. This interaction affects business, relationships, opportunities and experiences. I was presented with what it ...

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Emotion: The secret ingredient

There are three elements to life that produce results. They are opportunity, plan and activity. Without these three, life has the tendency to stay where it is. Look at where we live. Opportunity surrounds us everyday in the marketplace, in our communities and families. The chance to create a plan once a goal is chosen is available to you right this minute. Taking action is the spark that can ignite thought and push it towards the beginnings of physical reality. I'm certain I am not telling you anything you don't already know. The one ingredient that has the potential to ...

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The Definition of Commitment

The formula for success is what I work on deciphering every day. What is it that creates success? Sometimes in life we step up to the plate and hit the home run. While this does happen rarely, in most cases we are rewarded for continued effort towards the target. A couple of years ago I penned a phrase of what I believe is the key element of winning. That is commitment. The definition being, "The continuation of an activity in the apparent absence of results". That's one of the great absolutes in life. In order to arrive at a destination ...

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Pick More Daisies

Driving home from my last presentation today I started thinking about whether X-Factor would be on or not. Thinking about watching it and what I do for a living everyday actually made me laugh out loud. "What would my clients think" I mused "If they knew I was rushing home to watch X-Factor?" That thought made me realize in a moment how profound and important this really was. All day, most days, I work with clients trying to help them uncover their inner child. That authentic voice that we are all born with has the capacity help us go and ...

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Lessons From a Toaster

My, but don't lessons come from the most unexpected places. I sat at the island in my kitchen eating a sandwich yesterday and glanced over at the toaster on the counter. Its new, but fashioned after the old looking model of toasters. Very rounded looking with a matt silver finish like the ones you may remember from childhood. The maker, Delongi no doubt capitalizing on the nostalgia many of us may be drawn to. It started me thinking about how many things of the past that worked and were loved and served such a great purpose have been discarded over ...

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Why Not See?

"Why" is one of the great words in the English language. The word "why" evokes so many things to happen. Conversation and debate. Thought and conjecture. Arrested activity and last but not least; the most negative of all outcomes, the creation of doubt. Why? prods far too many to answer, "exactly" and walk away from what often was an inspired thought. I live in the world of helping others to wonder what's over that next mountain. The human spirit is at times an incredibly powerful force and at others as fragile as a snowflake. Being asked "why" at the wrong ...

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How far will all of this go?

How far will all of this go? I think that thing that holds so many of us back from the point of beginning is that we don't know how it will turn out. We hit the pause button, waiting for what we hope will feel like the perfect moment of when to begin that thing that will propel us into the stratosphere of our dreams. I have come to find out that there is no perfect time to begin. The saying, "The best time to plant a tree for shade is 40 years ago. The second best time is today" is ...

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Sometimes you gotta skin your knee

Sometimes you gotta skin your knee. There are no straight lines in life. It's the curves I expect that make life interesting. If not for the curves we would all just walk in single file and arrive where we set out to be right on time. If you are going through a challenge right now you likely don't want to hear the platitudes like "it will make you stronger and we all have to go through it or failure is the great creator of success". As Jim Rohn said, "Until you get you own planet you don't get to figure ...

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Don't always chase what is shiny

Don't always chase what is shiny. We've come a long way from the days of the carnival barker and in some ways not far at all. The dialogue may have changed over the years but make no mistake that we are all enticed to "buy this" in more ways than we have ever thought possible. One of the constants of the world of marketing and promotion is to put forward to the public that what is being offered is "new and improved". Over the past hundred years or so this edict has grown and grown and grown. One offer to ...

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