Month: June 2015
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This is average, don’t be average!
I have learned with a little effort and a little determination that it is easy to be in the Top 10% of a specific category. With a lot of effort and determination I can be in the top 5%-1% of a particular category. Average is easy. I don’t have to do much of anything to…
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It’s not forever, It’s a season
In my book 7 Ways To More, I outline 7 guiding principles that I have made part of my daily life to ensure I am maximizing this one life that I have. In one of my chapters I discuss the seasons of life and how the seasons of life are a lot like the seasons…
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450 sheep leap to their own death
You can read the story about 450 sheep leaping to their own death in Turkey back in 2005. This is one story of thousands similar to this about sheep. This link will take you to that story. https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/450_sheep_leap_to_their_deaths_in_Turkey Why would it be that a sheep would follow another sheep to its death? Answer: It is…
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How to have massive SUCCESS in anything
The Little Book of Talent. 52 Tips for improving your skills. Author Daniel Coyle. book summary. Buy the book here: http://www.amazon.com/Little-Book-Talent-Improving-Skills/dp/034553025X/ If you want to have massive success in anything in life it requires you to develop your talents and skills. This book gives you the process to do it. A few years back…
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How hungry are you?
Rolling, Rolling, Rolling, Keep rolling, come on keep going, oh my gosh, what just happened. I can still remember the first time I got a birdie on the golf course. It was hole number 8, a par 3 at Seneca Golf Course two summers ago. I was fairly new at playing golf, so this was…
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Putting in REPS…
In my search for the recipe for success I have studied it deliberately and consistency for several years now. Through my studies have read many articles, books, cases studies, and whatever I can get my hands on or listen to around what it takes to be successful, and how long it takes for someone to…
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3 lessons I know, but have to keep learning
I don’t know about you, but there are just some lessons that I have learned and should be ingrained in my mind by now, but they are not. For this reason alone I invest in my own personal and self-development. Sure, most of the books I read, or seminars I listen to, or blogs I…
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What motivates you?
What motivates us as humans and as individuals varies as much as what we like to eat from person to person. Why wouldn’t it, we are all so different and have different priorities and preferences. However there are certain values that all human beings have ingrained and built into us and hasn’t changed since the…
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Why you lack self-control
When Psychologists isolate the personal qualities that predict “positive outcomes” in life, they consistently find two traits: intelligence and self-control. So far researchers still haven’t learned how to permanently increase intelligence. But they have discovered, or at least rediscovered, how to improve self-control. Most major problems, personal and social, center on failure of self-control: compulsive…
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Do you have GRIT? book summary
Paul G Stoltz, Ph.D. wrote a book titled GRIT, The New Science of What it Takes to Succeed. In his book Paul outlines what it takes and what it means to be gritty and make things happen for yourself. Paul and his team developed an assessment that measures your GRIT tolerance and ability. In my…