Entries Tagged as 'success'

Destiny calling? Let VISION be your guide

February 19th, 2010 · 18 Comments

What is your destiny? Where will you be in five years? Or 10,  or 30?
Of course, no matter how hard we search, no one can answer that question with certainty. But while we can’t know our destiny, we CAN know and change our direction.
The journey toward destiny always begins with VISION. Vision is the roadmap [...]

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Tags: dream · put your dream to the test · success · vision

Do you have a personal plan for growth?

February 8th, 2010 · 39 Comments

On Twitter and Facebook on Sunday, I quoted my friend Paul Meyer, mentioning that he was the person who helped me create my first personal growth plan. In the hours afterward, I received dozens of requests, all asking the same thing: “How do you create a personal growth plan?”
The answer to that takes more than [...]

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Tags: Twitter & Social Media · personal growth · quotes and illustrations · success

Are you moving toward breakdown … or breakthrough?

February 3rd, 2010 · 39 Comments

Every major difficulty you face in life is a fork in the road. You choose which track you will head down, toward breakdown or breakthrough. Dick Biggs, a consultant who helps Fortune 500 companies improve profits and increase productivity, writes that all of us have unfair experiences; as a result, some people merely exist and [...]

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Tags: Attitude · Failing Forward · Maxwell Daily Reader · mistakes · success

On success and stupidity – TAKE TWO

January 28th, 2010 · 49 Comments

We are all failures – at least, all the best of us are.
~James Barrie, author of Peter Pan
This is one of the many thoughts and quotes that I’ve been posting on Twitter this week on the subject of failure. Some others:
There are many ways to be a winner, but only one way to be a loser:
to [...]

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Tags: Failing Forward · mistakes · personal · quotes and illustrations · success

More books … at your request

August 5th, 2009 · 12 Comments

In response to your suggestions for future books, I described in my last post how some questions could actually be answered by already-published books.
Next month, we’re going to talk about my next book (the one that comes out next spring). But before we do, here are some other published books and some of your questions [...]

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Tags: Attitude · Communication · Decision-making · Failing Forward · The Difference Maker · Today Matters · books · success