Quitters Never Win, Winners Never Quit

Life does not always go according to plan.  We all “fail.”  We don’t get the “A”, we don’t get the job, we get rejected when we ask our dream girl out.  The important point here is that most of these “failures” are not permanent.  Rather, they are temporary defeats ultimately shaping us and making us […]

Find Your “Why”

Identify your definite major purpose.  Successful people identify a life purpose greater and bigger than themselves.  In his book, Man’s Search for Meaning, Viktor E. Frankl describes his observations as a prisoner of his peers while living in a concentration camp during World War II.  Dr. Frankl observed that the men who did not have […]

Give

Start small.  Giving is fulfilling.  Giving makes us feel whole. It seems counter-intuitive especially in our culture today – but receiving gifts and just thinking about ourselves ultimately is not satisfying.  It leads us to a dead-end.  Ultimately, what successful people tend to do more than others is to give their time, money, and other […]

Prioritize & Execute

It is easy to get anxious and stressed out over what seems like a never-ending to-do list.  I personally feel the most anxious at work when I have multiple projects handed to me at the same time with deadlines that fall near one another.  I cannot think straight when this happens.  As an attorney, I […]

Take Ownership

In his widely popular book Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill encourages his readers to recite the following daily (this is an excerpt from the longer page-long script):  “I am the master of my own earthly destiny just as surely as I have the power to control my own thoughts.  I may influence, direct, and […]

Make Written, Measurable Goals

We all want to improve in something.  We want to lose weight, be more efficient at work, or improve our relationship with a close friend or our spouse.  The new year will foster a renewed enthusiasm for positive change.  We run through our goals in our head, maybe even write a few goals down on […]

Life is not an emergency

Life is not an emergency. How often do we get caught up in the moment and treat an event like it’s the end of the world because something didn’t go according to “our” plan? How do we respond when our boss or client raises his or her voice or writes us an email criticizing our work or pointing out some other issue?

Daily “Me Time”

Successful people, whether they are athletes, business owners, entrepreneurs, musicians, or talk show hosts, all appear to have at least one habit in common: They intentionally set time aside on a daily basis to spend time with the person in the mirror.  The average person smashes the alarm clock and jumps out of bed to then […]