We encouraged you to make mistakes in order to learn and become a truly successful leader (See: Make Mistakes! It’s Okay. Really!). What have you done in a month’s time to get yourself closer to your goals? Hopefully you have been evaluating any mistakes you’ve made over the course of the month and have written [...]

What would it take for you to break a bad habit? What extreme circumstance would make you stop cold? Perhaps it's smoking, drinking, interrupting, fidgeting, inserting 'garbage' words ("Umm...Uhh") into your speech, or speaking too quickly. What would it take for you to stop? I think every breathing human being can identify with this on [...]

There's nothing like reading the same page over and over (and over...). And we've often experienced 2-hour meetings where we've only had about 10 minutes of helpful discussion. What can we do about this? Well, we have a special tip for you! Whether you're studying, reading, or trying to hold a meeting, distractions can be [...]

This article is continued from Part 1 of Success-Seeker vs Failure-Evader. Which side are you on? We left you off last time with characteristics about Success-Seekers and Failure-Evaders. Which side do you fall into? Think of that famous fable "The Tortoise and the Hare." The slow tortoise races the fast, over-confident hare. The hare jumps [...]

Individuals are more motivated to avoid failure than they are motivated to achieve success. Put another way, most people aren't motivated to finish in first place as much as they're motivated to not finish in last place. Are you looking to achieve success or to avoid failure? There are those who are motivated to succeed [...]

If you stand still in a desert, sooner or later you'll be buried in sand. Are you the trendsetter or the camel racer? If you wait too long to improve, innovate, or invent, you'll soon find yourself at the back of the pack asking yourself, "what went wrong?" There's Always Room for Improvement "Even if [...]