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Answer this and change your life

May 1, 2012 in Personal Development with 8 Comments

This morning I was reading Dan Sullivan’s How To Get To The Top And Stay There (available as a free download).  Dan has been a coach of high achievers for many years.

Dan stresses the importance of having a clear vision for your future.  If your vision of your future isn’t significantly different than what your life looks like now, then why change anything?  But if you do want your future to be different, here is a powerful question to get you started.

“If we were meeting here three years from today, looking back over those three years, what has to have happened, both personally and professionally, for you to feel happy with your progress?”  Read more »

Sorry, I don’t have time for you

April 24, 2012 in Personal Development, Workplace Humor with 15 Comments

I was listening to Andy Stanley’s Leadership Podcast on The Accessibility of a Leader this week and was struck by one particular scripture reference he used.

We all know the story of Nehemiah and how he decided he needed to rebuild the wall around the city of Jerusalem.  That was a clear and major focus.  But like with any of us, even when we are doing something important, there are the inevitable interruptions.  In Nehemiah 6:3, he replied to one urgent request on his time:  “I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down:  why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you?” 

What do you allow as interruptions to your great work?  Or is your work not important enough to reject the interruptions?  Maybe what you consider an interruption is what your boss likes to call “having a job.”  Read more »

The world doesn’t pay for what you know, but for……….

April 17, 2012 in No More Mondays, Personal Development with 12 Comments

Okay I’ll go ahead and finish the sentence:

The World Doesn’t Pay You For What You Know but for What You Do.  I guess we would all acknowledge the truth of that and yet I am amazed at the number of people I run into who are bogged down in analyzing, learning, planning and organizing when what they really need to do is take action.  I think more than anything else that’s what separates winners from losers – the winners take action.

I saw Jack Canfield demonstrate this one time in a seminar.  He held up a $100 bill and asked, “Who wants this $100 bill?”  People all over the room said, “I do” or “Please pick me.”  And Jack just stood there waving that $100 bill and kept asking “Who wants this $100 bill?”  Finally, someone jumped out of there seat, ran to the front and grabbed it out of his hand.  He then asked, “What did she do that no one else did?”  Right, she took action.  Read more »

Bet you can’t do this….

April 16, 2012 in No More Mondays, Personal Development with 11 Comments

We’ve all heard about the mom in Florida who lifted a refrigerator off her child and the two neighbors in Canada who lifted a Pontiac Grand Prix off a twenty-seven-year-old mechanic. Stories of extraordinary strength or supernatural ability are common. But here’s an interesting twist. In 1977, in Tallahassee, Florida, Laura Shultz picked up the back end of a Buick to get it off her grandson’s arm. She was sixty-three at the time and could not recall ever lifting anything heavier than a fifty-pound bag of dog food.  Initially, she resisted talking about “the event.” Why do you suppose she didn’t want to talk about it?

Here’s her response in an interview with Dr. Charles Garfield, author of Peak Performance: “If I was able to do this when I didn’t think I could, what does that say about the rest of my life? Have I wasted my life?”

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Don’t ask for an easy life

April 13, 2012 in Personal Development, Uncategorized with 0 Comments

The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It’s the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun.   Napoleon Hill

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