To achieve success and fulfillment in virtually any endeavour one wishes to undertake, there is a common set of conditions that must be met. Every great man and woman throughout the pages of history has been a living testament to the prerequisites of achievement, which I call the “Eight Principles of Successful Living.” PRINCIPLE #1: …
Are you the ‘GUIDE ON THE SIDE’ facilitating the success of your team? Or, the ‘SAGE ON THE STAGE’; all knowing and all wise dictating all things? Emperor Liu Bang, in the third century B.C., became the first ruler to consolidate China into a unified empire. To celebrate his victory, Liu Bang held a great …
There are quite a few good things being said about Dan Sullivan & Catherine Nomura’s book: The Laws of Lifetime Growth. Admittedly, I have yet to read it yet. But that’s not going to stop me from sharing a few of the nuggets that I stumbled upon: LAW ONE: Always make your future bigger than …
A simple but powerful concept from Jim Rohn… I think everybody should study ants. They have an amazing four-part philosophy. Here is the first part: ants never quit. That’s a good philosophy. If you’re headed somewhere and you try to stop them, they’ll look for another way. They’ll climb over, they’ll climb under, they’ll climb …
11 minutes long and well worth the time to watch. How’s that for being direct and to the point? This talk (and video) from Dan Pink is FANTASTIC! He reveals some fascinating ‘truths’ about what motivates people. Creative delivery with fast moving illustrations that are easy to track. Judge for yourself… /sef.
A young woman went to her mother and told her about her life, and how things were so hard for her. She did not know how she was going to make it, and wanted to give up. She was tired of fighting and struggling. It seemed as one problem was solved a new one arose. …
I stumbled across this blog post on the USA Volleyball website by John Kessel, called Appropriate Coaching… “Appropriate coaching is an important part of being a good coach… I will go back a bit in time to when the term coach was used to move VIP’s, who could afford to ride [in a coach], rather …
“Sometimes the biggest mistake we make is in thinking that we should have no problems. We think problems are a curse, instead of knowing that our problems are a gift. The only way we usually grow is if we get a good enough problem to stimulate us to use our resourcefulness to find a part …
I’ve been a big fan of TED for quite some time. Here’s a *great* one from the greastest one, Coach John Wooden, where he “shares the advice he gave his players at UCLA, quotes poetry and remembers his father’s wisdom.” A couple of quotes from Coach Wooden from the TEDtalk: “Success is peace of mind …
Quirky… poignant… insightful… creative… inspiring… funny. Coming from a family full of educators, and an impostor myself, I enjoyed this presentation. If you have 25-mins to carve out of your day, Dave Eggers will not disappoint. As Eggers says, “[making a difference] should be fun. It needn’t be bureaucratically untenable. You can use the skills …