I was trolling through the internet – as I am wont to do – looking for useful information that I can share with all of you and… I came across this LinkedIn site… Harvey Mackay: Lifetime Job Secrets Wow, what took me so long to get here! I’m a huge fan of Harvey Mackay. I […]
Commit to Constant and Never-Ending Improvement
by Jack Canfield, The Success Principles are more than a collection of good ideas. They are timeless principles used by successful men and women throughout history. I have studied these success principles for more than 30 years and have applied them to my own life. The phenomenal success that I now enjoy is the result […]
Greatness Beyond the Gridiron
Vince Lombardi’s ability to motivate people to achieve greatness transcended football. K. Shelby Skrhak If Vince Lombardi hadn’t become a football coach, he would have become a Catholic priest. The Brooklyn-born altar boy studied at seminary, waking before dawn to attend daily mass. Religion was as much about routine as it was devotion to his […]
Choosing Not to be Angry
by Stephen Covey, I was teaching the 7 Habits at a professional gathering last week when I experienced something remarkable. While I spoke about Habit 1, Be Proactive, and some of the principles for being responsible for your own life or carrying your own weather and choosing your own response, a gentleman from the audience […]
How To Stay Optimistic
By Steven Berglas, PhD Benjamin Franklin encouraged us all to ”keep in the sunlight.” Here are a few tricks. Men are disturbed not by things, but by the views they take of them. –Epictitus (AD 55-AD 135) Athletes, entrepreneurs (especially the serial brand) and other high-performers get dealt the same number of bad hands as […]
The ‘Big 5’ Challenges People Face
Don’t let your attitude set you back. By John Maxwell, It’s easy to have a great attitude when things are going our way; everybody can do that. It’s when difficult challenges rise before us, and the attitude within us rises to overcome those problems, that attitude becomes the difference-maker. Unfortunately, it’s more common for our […]
Ten Life Lessons from Richard Branson
Richard Branson clearly knows a thing or two about success. At 20, he started a mail order shop, and opened a recording studio a short while later. Now, the Virgin brand boasts dozens of companies and Branson’s net worth is estimated to be more than 3 billion pounds sterling. As well as immense business success, […]
Take Control of Your Life
By Deepak Chopra We can’t do it all, so we do most things poorly—on a good day. And we’ve lived like this for so long that we don’t even realize how very far we are from reaching our potential! Most times, we’re just reacting, as though we’re being jerked to and fro by some gigantic […]
Six Keys to Being Excellent at Anything
By Tony Schwartz, I’ve been playing tennis for nearly five decades. I love the game and I hit the ball well, but I’m far from the player I wish I were. I’ve been thinking about this a lot the past couple of weeks, because I’ve taken the opportunity, for the first time in many years, […]
7 Powerful and Amazingly Motivational Quotes from Zig Ziglar
Zig Ziglar was born in 1926 in Coffee County, Alabama, United States. He is an American author, salesperson and a motivational speaker. He is over 80 years old and still travels around the world attending motivation seminars to help people get stuff done. Sometimes, a simple quote can change the way you see something, and […]
7 Amazing Success Lessons from Thomas Edison
Thomas Edison was a very successful inventor, scientist, and businessman whose inventions significantly impacted the world. Inventions such as the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting everyday electric light bulb were all the result of Edison’s work. Called “The Wizard of Menlo Park” by a newspaper reporter, he was one of the first […]
Begin with the End in Mind
Steven Covey coined a lot of great phrases. “Sharpening the Saw” in 3 words sums all the reasons we need to live a healthy life. We are the saw and if we don’t keep ourselves sharp and focused, what good are we? Still, one of my favorite phrases is “Begin with the End in Mind.” […]
Self-Improvement Lessons From Ben Franklin
Ben Franklin was truly an amazing human being. He was a statesman, an inventor, an economist, a philosopher and the list goes on. And of course, he was one of our founding fathers. Ben Franklin also had a deep desire to make himself a better man than he was the day before. Self-improvement was a […]
Live simply, love generously, care deeply and speak kindly.
Hoping I am not violating anyone’s copyrights but I recently received this email and I thought it was moving. I wanted to share it with you. Here a female mate is injured and the condition is soon fatal. She was hit by a car as she swooped low across the road. Here he brought […]
The choices we make dictate the lives we lead.
By Ken Evoy, In the movie, “The Renaissance Man,” Danny De Vito’s character makes a profound statement… “The choices we make dictate the lives we lead.” To paraphrase… “Where you are today is the result of all the choices and actions that you have made in your life.” When he said that, I remember thinking, […]
