What people are giving you the advice to? Colin Powell once said; “Never receive counsel from unproductive people. Never discuss your problems with someone incapable of contributing to the solution, because those who never succeed themselves are always first to …
Are you committed to improving your life? These are really the same question, aren’t they? The challenge for every one of us is that we really don’t like change unless we are the architects of the change. So how do …
Is it the what, the why, the how or who? The ‘what’ question helps you understand what it is that you want to accomplish, don’t they? The ‘why’ gives you a deeper understanding or a passion? The ‘how’ helps describe …
What types of questions motivate you to take action? Read more →
Doesn’t this seem to be the right thing to do? Now let me begin by stating; I believe that all of us have emotions for a good reason. Secondly, we are human beings and we do have feelings. What I …
Have you decided that no matter the circumstances you will not be affected? Read more →
Would you like to know the one that bothers me? The statement is; “I’m going to try to…” The word ‘try’ means to make an effort to do something. My challenge is what type of an effort will it be? …
Or do your actions mean everything? I am sure you will agree that actions are important in achieving results, but results are needed in business, aren’t they? So how do we move from actions to those results? 1. Create or …
Is this helping or hurting the situation? First of all let’s look at the word justification, and what it means. It is my understanding that justification is the action of showing something to be reasonable. So let’s take this a …
Do you justify the bad behavior of other people? Read more →
Do you justify them? Awareness and justification are two areas of life that we all need to have a serious look at. The reason I say that is because our habits can makes us successful or can make us losers. …
Can you be very busy and happy? It may come as a surprise to you, but I don’t think it is possible to be very busy and happy at the same time. This is because if you are very busy …
It is a big decision isn’t it? Recently I heard a quarterback on a football team answer the above question. He responded by saying that you must trust in your abilities. Trust may be a small word but it has …
Do you trust your abilities or just try to manage the game? Read more →