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Something Stands in the Way
There is always something in the way of anything meaningful, anything of significance you wish to be or accomplish. If there weren’t, you’d already have…
January 12, 2021
Nudge Yourself Forward
Please pass on grand, sweeping, “overhaul”-style New Year’s resolutions. Instead, resolve to simply nudge yourself forward, bit by comfortable bit, to being your best self…
December 29, 2020
Reading the Newspaper in the Morning
If there is one thing I know how to do, it is how to be mega productive, how to hyper focus, how to laser in…
December 24, 2020
How Strong is a Chain with a Broken Link?
“How Strong is a Chain with a Broken Link?” is a rhetorical question if ever there was one: a broken link = a broken chain.…
December 22, 2020
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 big…
December 15, 2020
What is Your Ikigai?
Ikigai is a Japanese word for “reason for being” or more loosely translated, “the reason why you wake up each morning.” What makes your life worthwhile, what…
December 1, 2020
Crescendo Living
Crescendo is a musical term for a passage played with a gradual increase in volume or intensity and in other context means any steady increase…
November 17, 2020
It All Starts With A Belief
What is your belief? What is at your core? We all believe in something even if it is that there is nothing. Whatever is the…
November 10, 2020
THE SECRET OF YOUR FUTURE IS HIDDEN IN YOUR DAILY ROUTINE
The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine. Think about it. What future are you creating when you are not thinking about…
November 5, 2020
Night Guy v. Morning Guy
Night Guy v. Morning Guy by Jerry Seinfield I never get enough sleep. I stay up late at night, ’cause I’m Night Guy. Night Guy…
October 27, 2020
The Five Deadly Traps of Mediocrity
Mediocre performers: Sap managers’ energy so they have less time for top performers Reduce quality of group discussions, lowering teams overall IQ Force others to…
October 20, 2020
Three Must Do’s
1. Lock Down Your Why To be effective you must be motivated, enthused, and on a mission every day. This requires that your life be…
October 15, 2020
Time is the Precious Coin of Your Life
We all have the same 24/7; it is what we do with them that differ. Organization: Plan your days, think through your week, know your month,…
September 15, 2020
Acing the Second Score
Your “First Score” is what happened the first time; the “Second Score” is how you handle it, how you respond when your First Score is…
August 18, 2020
An Invincible Summer
“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.” – Albert Camus, 1913-1960 Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957, @…
August 4, 2020
Pick A Mountain
Humans need purpose, meaning, direction for their life, some challenge to overcome, some mountain to climb. Such is the simple secret of happiness. In many…
July 28, 2020
Five Steps to Your Best Self
You have GREATNESS within you, waiting for you to fully activate it. You want more, know you are capable of more, interested in being better, growing, learning,…
July 23, 2020
Don’t Push: It Rarely Lasts
I was on Community Walks the other day with a Senior Team Member when we observed some glaring oversights. Committed and ever responsive, they vowed…
July 9, 2020
Success = Intense Desire + Intelligent Action
“Goal achievement is more about depth and strength and power of one’s desire than aught else. Laser intensity and long hours combined with openness to…
June 25, 2020
OST = Three Keys to Winning
OST stands for Objective, Strategy, Tactics as in: Our Objective is to… The Strategy(s) we will employ to reach our objective are… The Tactics we…
June 16, 2020
Three Philosophical Pillars of the Collier Companies
While there really is no bright dividing line between the “Three Philosophical Pillars” and in truth they tend to blend and flow into each other,…
June 11, 2020
TCC CULTURE: THE SPIRIT OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP
At The Collier Companies, we value the Spirit of Entrepreneurship. Initiative, creativity, resourcefulness, a can-do attitude, a burning desire to grow and improve, to always…
June 9, 2020
THE MAGIC POWER OF IMPOSSIBLE GOALS
“My goal is always the same: to keep the other player from ever scoring a point. That doesn’t always happen, but that’s what I try for.”…
June 2, 2020
Five Keys to Unlock Your Greatness
You have GREATNESS within you, waiting for you to fully activate it. You want more, know you are capable of more, interested in being better, growing, learning,…
May 28, 2020
Excuses for Failure Aplenty…Unheeded
Absentminded i.e. quite capable of driving to the grocery store and coming home empty handed Spent a fair portion of each day lost in own…
May 21, 2020
10 Things the Most Successful People Are Always Doing
1. Planning their Lives, Working their Plan. Ordinary folks with a plan will go further than a genius without a plan. Most folks go the…
May 14, 2020