Success Blog Post

What is Success? Thoughts on How to Feel Like You're Succeeding Are you succeeding? What is success and how to become successful are big, important questions that, up until recently, I didn’t spend much time thinking about. Don’t get me wrong, working hard and wanting success have constantly been on [...]

Our Favorite Personal Responsibility Quotes and How You Can Apply Them In Your Life So much of life is out of our control. We have no control over when or where we were born, who our parents are, our genetics, other people, or what happens to us.    We do [...]

Invest in Yourself: A Four-Step Process for Change You and I have one shot at this. One trip around the track. Will you invest in yourself, or will you simply take what life gives you?   When we hit 40 or so, this reality begins to sink in. Sure, it’d [...]

Story Share Your Way to a Fresh Perspective and maybe a new view Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to get a fresh perspective. I know this far too well because I’m short. I’ve experienced a lifetime of shortness, and as a result, I’ve spent considerable amounts of time [...]

Does it ever feel like your communications are stuck on Quarrelsome Lane? A few years ago, I spotted the name Quarrelsome Lane on a 19th Century map of Queens, New York, in the Queens Museum of New York. The road was located approximately ¾ of a mile from my childhood [...]

Succeeding at Life: Getting the Help You Need The only way to live how you want, is to know how you want to live.    This is the starting point.    Too many of us are carried along by the current. We jump into the river because it’s “what we [...]

Know Your Worth: Start Investing in Yourself Are you taking good care of yourself?    Way too many good and kind-hearted people aren’t. We’re more concerned with caring for others, often at our own expense.    I want to advocate for you, and help you advocate for yourself, because you’re [...]

Why do we use it? What’s easy and what’s hard?   When there’s no resistance, friction or gravity, things can be easy. When there’s resistance, friction or gravity, things can be hard.    It’s easy to get into debt, getting out is hard. Smoking is easy, quitting is hard. Getting [...]

Succeeding at Life: Perspective Recently, I read about how a pair of Mahatma Gandhi’s glasses were sold at auction for $340,000. While I don’t have an opinion as to whether or not that’s the correct price for his actual glasses, I wondered what the value of his perspective would be.   [...]