16. For Every Frustrating Situation, Find a Creative Solution
Someone once said that frustration is the creaky, stiff door to the Secret Garden. I don’t know if you’ve watched that childhood drama, but it centers around a garden which is unapproachable and whose entrance has overgrown, remaining almost completely hidden until accidentally discovered by one of the main characters of the film. Sometimes our [...]
15. Understand the Importance of Taking Full Responsibility…
All my mistakes belong to me! Even the ones I do by mistake. OK, enough tongue-in-cheek word-twisting – what do I mean by this statement? Well, I’ll be honest here – I still find this secret of success something of a challenge. It’s easier, after all, to find some external reason why I am not [...]
14. Be Wise in the Course of Persisting
Those who doesn’t persist, gain nothing. Those who persists without wisdom, may lose everything. Those who persist with wisdom have everything to gain. The key here is to allow the pathway that you are forging to be altered as you monitor your progress, or its lack. Skilful downhill skiers have this to a fine art, [...]
13. Learn to Live in Today – Tomorrow May Never Come
Learning to live in today is about appreciating what there is now more than harking back to what once was, or anxiously awaiting what tomorrow might bring. It doesn’t mean negating the responsibilities you have, by any means. It is more to do with attempting to capture the ever present now. Can such a habit [...]
12. Don’t Be Afraid of What People Think About You
This is a ‘biggie’ for many people. If fear of people’s opinions is something you currently suffer from, you are only too aware of its debilitating effect on your ability to achieve what you want. In fact, fear of others’ opinions has such a profound affect, that in many instances whole communities suffer as a [...]
11. The Best Way to Really Understand Something is to Teach it…
I’ll be really honest here for a second: I have a huge, unfair advantage over many people. Why is that? Well, the reason is this: I’ve been a high school teacher for 15 years. I know the power there is in teaching something to someone else. There are probably two main camps to explain why [...]
10. When Successful People Learn Something New, They Immediately Apply It
As I write this post, I’m sitting in my car. I’ve just heard something that made me realise an opportunity that I never knew I had. This is a prime example of immediately applying what you learn. I was listening to a brilliant seminar on productivity. I’d just parked my car. The speaker said something [...]
9. Winners Forget How to Give Up
Some questions to think about: What makes a winner? Why do some people give up, and others persist? What key habits can you cultivate in order to achieve success? 1. What makes a winner? For some people, winning is more to do with being in a competetive environment, and gaining recognition from others when [...]
8. Live your dreams inside your head long before they become fulfilled outside your head
Probably one of my favorite training videos, is where John Reese, Frank Kern, and Tony Robbins are talking about the path they had to success. It was a typically rocky path for all three entrepreneurs: Tony started out as a janitor, John as a video store assistant, and Frank as a salesman selling cash registers [...]