Life Success
Forget Your Weaknesses: Focus on Your Strengths
One of the biggest keys to success is to focus on your strengths and let your weaknesses go. This means that you’ve got to know clearly (as in slap your face silly), what you are NOT any good at. And then making sure you either never do it or do very little of it. (Ideally…
Mindset Changes: Lose Your Limiting Beliefs, They Aren’t Yours Anyway!
I’ve not spoken to my father in over 20 years. Does that shock you? Does it make you feel sorry for me? (Please don’t.) Or, does it make you want to tell me to forgive and forget? Heck, you may even suggest (as some do) that I get in touch, it will make me feel…
Marketing Strategy: How to Get the Stinky Stuff Out of Your Business
We all have it, stinky stuff in our business. What do I mean? Well look closely and you will find at least one and likely several long neglected actions you meant to take to move things forward. These are the things that nag at you every day in the back of your mind. They send…
3 Weird and Wonderful Reasons to Welcome Imperfection in Your Life
Let’s face it, perfect is over rated and impossible to achieve. And striving for it will only serve to slow down your success and alienate a lot of people including your prospects and clients. You see, perfect means you are done, cooked, finished, finalized, complete. There is no more room for growth, no room to…
How to Jump into Success: It’s All In Your Shoes
I was in New Zealand for two weeks by myself. I’d only planned my five week adventure Down Under as far as my travel arrangements and transportation, the rest I left up to local concierges and guides. This is just how I roll. I don’t read guidebooks, GPS myself into the ground, or have a…
How to Overcome Roadblocks to Success: Clearing False Assumptions
The other day I was listening to the radio and they were talking with voters about what they wanted most. A woman got on the air and was expressing her concern about changes in medicare and medicaid because after all she was getting old (a whopping 62) and with age comes illness. What? That is…
Find Your Focus . . . Motivation to Move You Forward
The world is coming at us faster and faster. There are increasing demands on our time and our attention. It is essential to find your focus in order to get anything done. You cannot do it all, none of us can. So think carefully about what you most want to get done and what the…
Stop Running Yourself Down . . . Motivation to Move You Forward
How you refer to yourself is ultimately how others will refer to you as well. So when you run yourself down saying things like, “I’m such a dumbass,” “I’m an idiot,” “I can’t believe I’m so stupid,” you are, in fact, training others how to think of you as well. Break the cycle of negative…
How to Avoid Failure Every Time . . .
Recently, I had lunch with a dear friend of mine. It was a gorgeous sunny day, though still brisk with Spring on the way, but not yet here. We decided to stroll the neighborhood boutiques following a delicious bite to eat. It was a Monday, so not many other folks were out (hey there are…