Can a quote change your life? I’m here to tell you it can. Jim Rohn once said, “Success is a few simple disciplines practiced every day.” What I love about this quote is its simplicity. It can be broken down into three simple parts: “A Few” Success doesn’t require learning a lot, just a few. […]
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Weird…but good. That’s how I felt when over the holidays I basically unplugged myself for 10 days. I barely touched the computer and wrote a total of one email while I was away. Occasionally I checked FB, but for the better part of 10 days I was pretty much disconnected. That’s part of the joy
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Investing is risky… We all know that. Fortunes are made in the stock market each year. Unfortunately, many millions more are also lost in it. It’s the latter that everyone fears. So much so that people choose to simply park their money in the bank and (supposedly) not take any chances. Security is a human
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Work… It’s what many people spend most of their adult life doing. 8 hours a day, 240 days a year, for 40 years or so. That is a heck of a lot of time. But the worst part is, most people I know don’t actually enjoy their work. They work out of necessity, not passion.
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Focus, focus, focus… That’s what Sohail Khan, the JV expert, calls the best advice he’s ever received. I am fond of saying, “If you’re going to do something, give it all you’ve got.” Look at me, I started Karate at the age of 38. I’m one of the oldest guys in my dojo and I’m
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Seems I’m somewhat of a troublemaker… What can I say? Rules and I just don’t get along. Recently I was told off by my son’s daycare teacher…again. In fact, this is the 4th time in as many years I’ve been told off by a teacher there, each time for something I have done that was
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People never cease to amaze me… Sitting across from clients day in and day out, one gets a unique perspective on the human psyche. While it’s true that I did study psychology back in my college days, it wasn’t until I got into personal development that I truly began to understand just what makes us
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Change… It’s the one inevitable part of life. Technology, medicine, education, laws, concepts, society…it all changes given time. But with change comes pain. Just ask companies such as Kodak, Borders and Blockbusters which didn’t see how technology would change their industries. Think about it for a second, less than a generation ago Kodak was a
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Being a leader isn’t easy… Whether we’re talking about a CEO of a Fortune 500 company, the head of a prestigious university, the manager of a department or simply a parent, the greatest task of a leader is getting a group of people with a variety of personalities, interests, habits, strengths, ages and backgrounds to
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“Fashionably late” is a term I first heard when I was living in the US some 20 years ago. I have no idea how this came about, but as my friends explained it to me no one wants to be the first person to show up at a party. Besides, the hosts are often running
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