Tag: Success

Where There’s a Will, There’s a Way!

What do you do when your best isn’t good enough? When achieving excellence seems like an unachievable pipe dream? You must seek to develop a force from within that transcends any challenge in your path. That immovable force is WILLPOWER.

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Entrepreneurs Get Advice from the Experts – Video Interview of Scott Klososky

Scott Klososky is interviewed about the challenges and rewards of being an entrepeneur.  Once you have a great idea, how do you pursue it, when should you think about funding, and what does it take for someone to become a successful

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Principled Living

People without principles are like boats without rudders and cars without steering wheels. Their direction in life is aimless and their decisions are haphazard.  However, when principles occupy the center of your life, they help you arrive quickly at the

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The Power of Vision

Someone once said: “If you can’t predict the future, invent it.” That is what has been happening in technology and on the internet. People are inventing new pathways like a company called Google, originally a leader in search technology on

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Ten Essential Leadership Attributes

What kind of leadership talents and skills will be essential to succeed in the next few years? Some are tried and true and endure generation after generation. Others come and go with the age and culture in which we live.

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Rethinking: 10 Strategies for a Challenging Era

In October of 2008 our markets and institutions experienced a permanent shift. That’s twice now since the Millennium that the game has changed. On September 11, 2001 I was shocked into the awareness that not only had we experienced a

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How to Keep Your Eye on the Gold

The win-win story of a truly honorable Olympic Competitor  At the opening ceremonies of the Olympic Games, one athlete, representing all athletes, holds a corner of the Olympic flag and recites the following: “In the name of all competitors, I

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You Need a Clearly Defined Mission to be Successful

To get anything significant accomplished, you must work hard, possess energy, and demonstrate drive. But to truly influence others, you also need a mission. It isn’t enough just to come up with a “mission statement” that merely sounds good or

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Setting Goals like the Super Bowl Pros

As I pause to think of something that sets some men apart,It seemed to me that goals in life must be the place to start.Imagine playing football on an unmarked field of green;Not a goal line to be sought, not

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Solid Strategies = Solid Success

Success results from a solid strategy. Even the greatest ideas are of little value unless they are backed up by a practical and workable plan of action. The word strategy comes from an ancient Greek term which literally means to

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Peak Your Profits: an interview with Howard Putnam

Peak Your Profits: The flight to your future is now boarding. (Interview by Jeff Blackman at MarcoNews.com) It’s somewhat ironic, that one of the most down-to-earth guys I know spent his professional career … up in the clouds. Literally!  Yet,

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Visualize Your Way to Success

In my presentations, I often speak on the importance of visualization – the ability to picture something in your mind and prepare for it, long before you face the actual moment of truth.  I tried this with my youngest son,

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