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Are Entrepreneurs Born or Made?
Sam Zell (founder of two largest American REITs; Equity Office and Equity Residential) was recently interviewed and asked if his children had followed him into…
October 17, 2017
Waste Your Spare Time = Derail Your Success
“I don’t have time” or “I couldn’t find the time” are some of the most common excuses for not moving forward. The truth is, we…
September 28, 2017
Critical Thinking Skills and The Cycle of Inquiry
“There is very little difference between people but that little difference makes a big difference.” – W. Clement Stone One little difference that makes a…
September 21, 2017
Stop Sorting Gravel
Stephen R. Covey, author of “7 Habits of Highly Effective People”, used a dramatic illustration to teach the value of time and energy management. Covey…
September 7, 2017
Questions
How would you define financial freedom? Financial freedom is as much a frame of mind and an approach to life as it is state of…
August 24, 2017
The Original American Dream
The phrase “The American Dream” was coined by James Truslow Adams in 1931. Originally it had nothing to do with material success or wealth but…
August 22, 2017
Wanting is Not Enough, Everyone Wants
The real question is what are you willing to DO to get what you want? What actions will you take? What will you sacrifice? Invest?…
August 10, 2017
A Quick and Easy (and All too Common) Way to Sabotage Success
How do folks sabotage themselves? They habitually engage in “Delay Discounting”. Huh? Delay discounting? What’s that? Delay discounting is what behavioral economists call the human…
August 8, 2017
The Illusion of Half-Working
“Half-Working” is the time we spend being non-productive when we are supposed to be working. For most, it is close to 25% of their alleged…
August 1, 2017
The Lazy Guide to Success; Three Principles
Take Easy Baby Steps (Repeat ad Infinitum) Being basically a lazy person (I’m always looking for a faster, easier way) I figured out a long,…
July 27, 2017
You WILL Pay the Price…
Yes, we all get lucky now and then and something wonderful falls into our laps and that’s terrific. However, as a general rule, “wishing and…
July 25, 2017
The Time of Your Life
Someday you will run out of somedays… as in someday I will do this or someday I will do that or someday down the road…
June 13, 2017
Who Runs Your Life?
Are you really free if you are bound by habits/desires you fail to muster the willpower to shake? Habits are a fixed way of thinking,…
June 6, 2017
The Undisciplined Pursuit of More
Do you know you? Really, really know yourself? Understand your drives, motivations, triggers, deepest longings, most hidden fears? How self-aware are you truly? How much…
June 1, 2017
Le génie commence les beaux ouvrages, mais le travail seul les achève
“Le génie commence les beaux ouvrages, mais le travail seul les achève” translates as “Genius begins beautiful works, but only labor finishes them.” Or as…
May 11, 2017
Daily Decisions
We are smart. Boy, are we smart. We generally know what to do; what actions will move us forward. We are dumb. Boy, are we…
May 4, 2017
Juvat Impigros Deus
“Juvat Impigros Deus” is the motto on the coat of arms of the Ramsden family, who held the Manor of Huddersfield since the reign of…
March 30, 2017
Non-Perfectionism: Is it Right for You?
Perfectionism is like fire; helpful if contained and directed, dangerous if allowed to run amuck. Wikipedia defines perfectionism as a personality trait characterized by 1)…
March 28, 2017
Felt Any Zielschmerz Lately?
Zielschmerz is “the exhilarating dread of finally pursuing a lifelong dream, which requires you to put your true abilities out there to be tested on…
March 21, 2017
The Cycle of Inquiry
“There is very little difference between people but that little difference makes a big difference.” – W. Clement Stone One little difference that makes a…
March 7, 2017
Who ARE You?
More specifically, what is your self-concept? Who do YOU think you are? Who do you WANT to be? A self-concept is different from a Mission…
February 9, 2017
Plans are useless, planning is invaluable
Mr. Collier, Here is a question I’ve been pondering, would you mind answering it? Thank you so much for your time! Have you ever written a business…
January 31, 2017
How Strong is Your “der Wille zur Macht”?
der Wille zur Macht translates from German as the “Will to Power” or (in the context of Nietzsche’s philosophical work) the drive for achievement and…
January 26, 2017
Five Steps to Dissolve Limiting Beliefs
Our beliefs about what is possible limit our lives for we never attempt that which we do not believe we can do or that we…
January 5, 2017
The Step Within the Indispensable First Step
The indispensable 1st step to get what you want out of life is to DECIDE what you want out of life. The 2nd step is…
December 22, 2016
Working Smart is Harder than Working Hard
Standing outside ourselves, seeing ourselves as others see us AND coming to fully understand the lens through which we see the world is a learned…
November 29, 2016