The advice is well-known and trusted: “To achieve success, feel like you would feel if you already had it.”
I’ll share with you in a moment why that advice may be holding you back, but first, let’s take a look at some of the things you’re already succeeding at.

Once again we’re seeing the empires of business “leaders” crumble, and once again the blowback from these events is impacting your life in ways that may be squeezing your heart with fear.
But of course, it’s the same old cycle of overreaching, then stumbling, that repeats every ten or twenty or thirty years. Here’s a golden [...]

In this age of manic communicating and hyper-activity, we hear many of our success gurus advising us to “take massive action.”
Yes, that can be good advice… but what kind of action? Unfortunately, many of us get it wrong… then spend most of our waking hours in reactive, low-quality activities aimed at simply trying to [...]

“The Best Advice I Ever Got.” I don’t usually pay much attention to the financial magazines, but the headline on this one was too good to pass up, so I bought the May 12 issue of Fortune, and I’m glad I did.
This article presents quotes from 19 high achievers, or as Fortune calls them, “accomplished [...]

As you move yourself forward toward increased success, if you’re doing your work right, you’re going to meet expanding opportunities to serve a wider community, market or audience.
And at each stage of that growth, one side of you is going to dig in its heels and protest desperately, with self-talk such as:
“Who am I [...]

There are things you won’t do. You won’t willingly beat up a helpless person, abuse a baby, lie to your priest or minister (about most things), or commit murder.
But will you keep something that’s not yours?
Think carefully before you answer because this COULD develop into a trick question.
In today’s guest article, Ophelia Nicholson in her [...]

Although the details vary, there’s really only one way to influence the future — the active and vivid imagining of events.
If we’re imagining desirable events, we call this attraction work, doing affirmations, praying, doing requests or programming our minds.
Whichever term you use, this is the method you’ve been trying to master for some time now.
But [...]

You know, business doesn’t have to be a complex, Harvard-B-school kind of thing, all complicated and hard for ordinary mortals to understand.
It CAN be boiled down to some pretty simple stuff.
My paternal grandfather didn’t have a degree in business. In fact, he never got past the fourth grade, but that didn’t stop him from running [...]

Time management… it’s one of the most widely taught techniques in business. There are a bazillion books on the subject — I once owned at least a dozen of them, but never had enough real interest to read any of them all the way through. (So I gave ‘em away during my last move.)
In today’s [...]

So you think you’re focusing? Okay… how are your results? Maybe you’re achieving everything you set out to do. Perhaps you’re reaching the targets you’ve set within the time limits you expected.
If so, then your focus is powerful. But if not… maybe it’s time to adjust your ideas about focus and what’s really involved.
This week’s [...]