Motivation Is Caring What Happens
Too Cool to Care We were standing around, heads hanging, listening to the boss berate us for letting quality slide. In my early twenties, I worked for a few years in a custom color photo lab where we...
View ArticleChaos for Fun and Profit
The Upside of Uncertainty Ever heard of Dan Peña? He’s a quirky and fascinating man, a real life rags-to-riches bootstrap multi-millionaire who taught himself to build net worth by taking over huge...
View ArticleWill a Name Stop You?
How Small Is Your Sticking Point? It was a simple question on a business forum run by a large U.S. bank: “I am planning an ecommerce website to retail paintball products. I’m looking for a [domain]...
View ArticleShowing Is Better than Telling
Got Doubters All Around You? A question I frequently receive concerns being surrounded by negative friends, family members or co-workers. A few days ago, I received another such email: “My husband just...
View ArticleDepression Is a Volunteer Activity
De-Mystifying Moods — I was feeling great that day, so naturally I decided to screw it up. Feeling happy was not a common thing for me. In fact, I spent a LOT of time depressed from the age of 15 till...
View ArticleAgenda Item 4: Save the World
Giant-Size Bites Denny was always choking himself at our school lunch table. You’ve heard of biting off more than you can chew? Not Denny. I never saw him chew. He’d bite off more than he could...
View ArticleThe Teacher Appears
Lessons in the Dirt You’ve heard it hundreds of times – when the student is finally ready, the teacher is going to show up and set things right… maybe lead you triumphantly into the promised land. But...
View ArticleThe Trick to Riches
Causing Wealth to Happen to You When you daydream about being vastly rich, how do you see that money coming to you? Is it just mysteriously there, right in your hand, ready to spend and spend and...
View ArticleRebuilding Your Beliefs
Hand-Me-Down Ideas Most of our beliefs are second-hand goods. We acquire the bulk of them, beginning at a very early age, from those around us, and then we spend much of the rest of our lives trying...
View ArticleHow to Become a Ten
High Achievers Do it Differently Take any office. Go in, watch the workers for a while, and track how much gets done by each individual. A few will never seem to get around to anything, unless forced...
View ArticleHow Money Became a Sin
Why Do They Say Those Awful Things About Money? Been hearing it all my life — “The love of money is the root of all evil”. It’s in the holy scriptures, right? Of course, many teachers and gurus make a...
View ArticleEverything ALWAYS Works Right
Failing Takes a Lot of Effort “Son,” my Dad would say, “You could screw up a one-man funeral.” I don’t know how many thousands of times my father told me that while I was growing up, but it soaked in...
View ArticleObedience Training?
Will Your Child Be Somebody’s Servant? Are You? Mike said his dad looked ready to spit poison. One of the ladies at church had just commented, “Teddy, your little boy is so polite.” As always, Mike’s...
View ArticlePutting in Stars
Dreaming of Success Maybe you want more… Tony did. Little Tony was born “in the wrong neighborhood” to relatively poor, working class parents who couldn’t afford to send him to college. But even as a...
View ArticleSpirituality – the Open-Source Religion
Independent Inquiries Increasingly these days, I have people tell me that they’re spiritual, but not religious … that they want a direct relationship with a higher source, but they have little use for...
View ArticleWho’s That Knockin’ on Your Door?
Missing Messages Imagine this: You’re at a friend’s house, cheerfully chatting, and there’s a knock at the front door. But your friend makes no move to go see who it is. The knocking continues,...
View ArticleGrampa’s Business Rules
The Rules for Success Are Not New You know, business doesn’t have to be a complex, Harvard-B-school kind of thing, all complicated and hard for ordinary mortals to understand. Much of it CAN be boiled...
View ArticleWhat It REALLY Takes to Succeed
Eight Traits You Can Develop Are you really going to accomplish the next thing you decide to do? Now, I don’t know what your “next thing” — your next goal — might be. It could be a business goal, or a...
View ArticleBalking at Self-Change
Still Fighting the Changes You Really Want? Most of us want things to be better in our lives. But then, when the opportunity for change comes, we may fight against the very things we say we want. My...
View ArticleYouTube for Weight Loss (No Joke)
Weight Loss with Hypnosis/Self Hypnosis So you’ve thought about losing a bit of weight. Well, if you go to YouTube.com and do a search for weight loss, you’ll find dozens — maybe hundreds — of free...
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