Success isn’t something that’s taught in school. So if one decides to make success a study, where should we start? Earl Nightingale talks about attitude, Tony Robbins talks about state, Robert Kiyosaki touches on mindset. And they’re all right. Success is based on building a strong foundation of fundamental concepts of which attitude, state and […]
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My book, iSucceed, and this site are devoted to doing one thing – sharing ideas that make a difference in people’s lives. I tend to focus my posts around success principles and business ideas because I find that they are the most practical and easy to implement. In many ways they are one and the
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Food. I love the stuff. We all do, but what you might not know about me is I will sacrifice nearly every other entertainment expenditure to eat good food. Soft, succulent pieces of meat that drop off the bone. Fruit that makes your taste buds jump up and down with glee. Sushi so exquisite that
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The other day I got a call from a friend of mine who’s American, but he lives here in Japan. We talked for a bit about business, then somehow we got on the topic of our families and I mentioned how tough it is for many people living away from their families. He agreed and
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One of the greatest gifts parents can give their children is that of language. In my case that means English and Japanese as I’m British (though I sound American) and my wife is Japanese. As we live in Japan and our son attends a Japanese daycare we’re not concerned about him picking up Japanese but
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Anyone who has studied Japanese for more than a few years will have studied how to write a letter. While in English we’re free to start off the letter any way we see fit, in Japanese letters often begin with a comment about the weather. I remember our class asking our teacher why that was
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A client of mine has a unique group of friends of about 12 people. She calls them her walking group. Back in college they started a tradition of walking to a certain destination each New Year’s Day, braving the cold Japanese winter. They continued this tradition for many years and have stayed close despite the
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