First, let me say Happy New Year to all of you. I appreciate your continued support. I’m looking forward to a great new year of solid content for you, so stay tuned. Second, like many people, the new year has me thinking about how to make improvements in my life.…
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Want to Get Involved?
As we get ready to go into a new year, I have a favor to ask. I’ve been asked to work on a project involving high school students across the country. My pilot program has over 400,000 high school students in it. As a former high school athlete and a…
Continue Reading....How to Take Your Leadership to the Next Level
Last week we posted the first half of the article by Brian Tracy on Leading and Motivating. Here’s the conclusion. The third quality is courage. It is the chief distinguishing characteristic of the true leader. It is almost always visible in the leader’s words and actions. It is absolutely indispensable…
Continue Reading....Leading and Motivating
It’s been said, “Leadership is not what you do, but who you are.” This, however, is only partially true. Leadership is very much who you are, but it cannot be divorced from what you do. Who you are represents the inner person, and what you do represents the outer person.…
Continue Reading....How to Put a Little Z.I.P. Into Your Relationships
Through the years I have spent hundreds of hours working with people in their relationships: Marriages, friendships, working relationships and social relationships. Through it all I have seen some wonderful things and some terrible things. It truly is the good, the bad and the ugly! But I have been able…
Continue Reading....Get Off the Nail!
Over the years I have met and observed thousands of people and each and every last one of them say they want some improvement in certain areas of their lives. In fact, most of them flat out confessed that they hated certain situations they were in. But after further evaluations,…
Continue Reading....The Time to Act
Engaging in genuine discipline requires that you develop the ability to take action. You don’t need to be hasty if it isn’t required, but you don’t want to lose much time either. Here’s the time to act: when the idea is hot and the emotion is strong. Let’s say you…
Continue Reading....Success Is Easy, But So Is Neglect
People often ask me how I became successful in that six-year period of time while many of the people I knew did not. The answer is simple: The things I found to be easy to do, they found to be easy not to do. I found it easy to set…
Continue Reading....Happy 236th Birthday Marine Corps
Today we celebrate the 236th Birthday of the United States Marine Corps. I have never worked with a finer group of people. If you know a Marine take time to thank him for serving our country and keeping us safe. You cannot imagine what these people have sacrificed to keep…
Continue Reading....Embracing Adversity for Achievement
“Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity.” — Lou Holtz Success in life depends upon being strong people with clear goals and indomitable spirits. Unfortunately most of us aren’t born that way. We grow that way. And that growth can…
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