Formula for Success:
Try and fail.
Try and fail.
Try and fail.
Try and fail.
Try and fail.
Try and succeed. (repeat as needed.)
Improved Formula for Success:
Try, fail, LEARN.
Try something different, fail again, learn some more.
Try something even more different… SUCCEED. (repeat for the rest of your life.)
Time for the annual New Year’s Whensday reboot!
Think of this yearly recurring post as a “New Year’s Holiday Special” for inspiring you (and me!) to get more things done in 2012.
January is an ideal time to adopt an “Everyday is Whensday” philosophy. By now you’ve probably noted the unique spelling (or at the very least [...]
We all need pushy friends.
Not pushy in the way that is annoying and obnoxious, but pushy in the way that makes you reach further and achieve more by pushing you out of your comfort zone to enable that growth.
I have a new friend named Adrienne who not only challenges me in every conversation we have [...]
People will say “that’s impossible!”
…until it isn’t.
People will say “that will never happen!”
…until it does.
People will say “you’re wasting your time!”
…until it pays off.
The 4-minute mile? Impossible!
Man in flight? It will never happen!
The electric lightbulb? You’re wasting your time!
History is filled with examples of the Crazy Ones being ridiculed and persecuted by the Lazy Ones, [...]
While reading Jeffrey Gitomer’s latest book, The Little Book of Leadership: The 12.5 Strengths of Responsible, Reliable, Remarkable Leaders That Create Results, Rewards, and Resilience, I was prompted to do an exercise that asked me to write down three things that define and embrace the way I think about my life’s goals.
Most of the time [...]
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