Successful leaders know the go-to moves for performance improvement. They’ve perfected their methods because they’ve had to constantly improve to stay on top. For them, improving becomes automatic. It’s a way of life. They know greatness isn’t winning once—it’s winning consistently. They know the best life is a life of challenge and growth because… Read more »
Having no motivation can feel debilitating. Day in and day out you do the same things over and again, and your routine becomes mundane. If you don’t practice, you don’t deserve to win. After a while you realize you aren’t making any real progress. You feel stuck. You feel bored. You feel guilty. Something… Read more »
When you’re chasing greatness or trying for a huge breakthrough, it can feel like it is taking forever to get there. You’re frustrated. You’re confused. You may doubt yourself. You may start to think, “I need a break. I’m just going to sit down on the side of the road for a little while… Read more »
Self-confidence comes from knowing you have the ability to succeed. Without it, you’re less likely to try new things, seize opportunities, take risks, or go for the things you really want in life. Understanding how to build your confidence is a serious advantage in life. Being born with a knack or passion for something… Read more »
The primary purpose of a business is to make money. You provide a service or make something useful, and if it’s any good, you make money. If you aren’t money motivated, you are dangerous to yourself and anyone for whom you make business decisions. The danger is that you’re going to drive your company into… Read more »
Football season is in full swing and I couldn’t be happier. I don’t have the time to sit in front of the TV and watch a lot of games, but I do love to watch the drama and strategy play out. I love to watch the dynamic of the teams as they plummet or… Read more »
Art Williams used to say that people can smell a phony a mile away. I never heard anyone argue with that, in fact it seems to be universally accepted to be true. There’s something powerful about people who have “IT.” What I’m talking about mental toughness: the ability to make things happen. To go… Read more »
I remember very clearly the moment I gave up being a pilot—and learned a life lesson about setting goals that make a difference. After 140 hours of time in the air with an instructor, I was taking my first solo flight. Every first solo is the same: Take off, circle, land. I took off,… Read more »
Have you ever considered our air traffic control system or the scope of their focus? It is an unbelievably complex system responsible for the safety of hundreds of thousands of people every day! To make it work, thousands of controllers are operating across the country, and each one has a single point of focus…. Read more »
Like fear and doubt, procrastination can occasionally be a good thing. It may just be your subconscious telling you that you need to rethink what you’ve got lined up to do. But most of the time, it’s a negative. It’s just going to cause you to delay doing something that you need to knock… Read more »
There’s a lot written about leadership, and as you’d expect there’s a lot of nonsense written about leadership. That’s because most of the people writing have no real experience with it and are writing from an observer’s standpoint. But let’s look at how leadership really works, and step-by-step how you can become a great… Read more »
It seems like it never changes. There’s always way more things that need to be done than we have time to do. Ask any successful person how they’re doing, and they’ll say, “I’m great, but I am busy—it’s been a crazy week.” There are always a lot of meetings, phone calls, wrapping up projects,… Read more »
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