Entries Tagged as 'success'

Are you driven by Emotion? Or Character?

April 20th, 2010 · 33 Comments

Earlier this week on Facebook and Twitter, I shared this statement from Dick Biggs: The greatest gap in life is the one between knowing and doing. Life would certainly be easier – and success more simple – if all it took to achieve was to KNOW the right things and DECIDE to do them, right? [...]

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Tags: Attitude · Character · Decision-making · Discipline · Work · leadership · personal growth · success

On priorities: Which ball do you drop?

March 22nd, 2010 · 34 Comments

In a university commencement address several years ago, Brian Dyson, CEO of Coca-Cola Enterprises, spoke of the relationship of work to your other commitments: Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling five balls in the air. You name them – work, family, health, friends and spirit – and you’re keeping all of [...]

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Tags: Decision-making · Priorities · Work · personal growth · 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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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