success mistakes

lessons from the loss of Cory Monteith

Should I? Or shouldn’t I? Whether we realize it or not we are constantly asking ourselves these two questions, a sort of “weighing our options.” With my son turning five and his thirst for knowledge exploding I have started explaining things in the form of action – reaction. Everything we do, good or bad, has […]

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ignoring numbers is a big mistake in both business and in life

Sometimes people hate me … It’s not because I’m not a nice guy, I am. But I’m a number’s guy. The older you get, the more you realize how life is all made up of numbers. That doesn’t mean they are always right…but they are helpful in predicting outcomes whether it’s in business, with relationships

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the “this time is different” syndrome mistake

To err is human… No truer words have ever been spoken. Part of being human is being fallible. We all make mistakes. We stick our foot in our mouth. We have lapses of judgment. We think we’re so smart. We think we’ll never lose. We think it can’t happen to me. We think that we’re

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I know – two of the most dangerous words in the English language

“I know.” How many times have we heard people say this only to find out later that they didn’t? Growing up in Asia, due to the language barrier, I often found myself in situations that led to major misunderstandings. People would say, “Yes” or “I know” when they really should have been saying, “I have

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