Ethics is a matter of black and white – not grey. It’s either right or wrong, good or bad, hello or goodbye, you are either in the way or on the way. Easy to say but hard to figure out? Not really. How do you know whether something is the right thing to do or the…
Too much has been said about loving your job. Even I used to fall into this trap. You don’t have to love your job to be good at it – but it helps. I don’t love what I do for a living. Oh wait, you think speaking and writing is what I do? It isn’t.…
Motivational gurus have made trillions of dollars telling us that having a positive attitude is the key to success. Wrong! You can be positive all you want and still be positively wrong, positively lazy and positively stupid. I don’t always have a great attitude. In fact, many times I have a really crappy attitude. That…
Want to know why most people are not living lives of success, happiness and abundance? There are only three reasons: They are stupid. They are lazy. They don’t give a damn. I dare you to come up with a reason other than those. Let me explain. Few people are actually stupid. Everyone knows enough to…
What does it take to be successful? As a guy who speaks to over a hundred thousand people per year about success, I get asked this question a lot. Rarely are the people pleased with my answer: Work. Yep, that’s it. Work. It’s not attitude or passion or loving what you do. Those things help,…
Who cares? It doesn’t matter if the glass is half full or half empty. The only thing that matters is whether it quenches your thirst. In other words, does it work? There are literally thousands of motivational speakers spouting ridiculous platitudes that do nothing more than make you feel good for the moment and have…
Chances are that you go to work, come home, eat a little unhealthy food, watch four or five hours of television, go to bed, don’t sleep well and then get up the next day only to do it all over again. You spend more money than you earn, exercise less than you should and complain…
There are just too many people out there complicating business success. They talk about secrets and complicated strategies and things I barely understand using buzzwords that make no sense. Success isn’t hard. A handful of short, common sense ideas can change your business. So let’s get right to it. Not firing people is a cancer…
This is the blog I promised you about Five Books That Changed My Life. Here you go……in random order. In the past twenty years I have read nearly 4000 books. That’s a lot of books by anyone’s standards. I have read thousands of books that cover thousands of years of information. I read for pleasure,…
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