A friend of mine used to say his morning cup of coffee was his transfusion and that he needed it to get up and running every day.
Indeed, he depended on several of these “transfusions” during the day to keep alert and sharp. A few years ago, however, he kicked the caffeine habit and now functions [...]

If you sometimes feel confused about goals and getting things done, it may be a simple matter of biting off more than you can chew comfortably.
A goal needs to be something that fits comfortably and naturally into your mind, into your schedule and into your system of personal values. I’ll write more about those matters [...]

Mike said his dad looked ready to spit poison.
One of the ladies at church had just commented, “Teddy, your little boy is so polite.”
As always, Mike’s father loved to hear that. He beamed, “Yep, I’m raising my boy to be a good, obedient kid.”
But that particular day, old Mr. Corley happened to be walking [...]

Darby quit only 3 feet from gold.
Back in the late 1800’s, thousands of people made their way to the American West in search of riches.
Napoleon Hill, in his classic “Think and Grow Rich,” tells how one man, named Darby, joined his uncle in mining for gold. They filed a claim, actually made a strike, and [...]

I jabbed my fingers sharply toward Claire’s eyes, but she didn’t even blink. Why would she? I was invisible.
She went on talking to the other class members as though I weren’t in the room - and to her, I wasn’t. I waved my hands in front of her face and spoke loudly over her words. [...]

by Peter G. Vajda, Ph.D
What is Collusion?
One of the most insidious and destructive workplace (and life, in general) behaviors impacting life at work is collusion. Collusion, as I and my coaching clients work with it, is defined as two people each co-opting their true and real self in order to support their own and the [...]

“Son,” my Dad said, “You could screw up a one-man funeral.”
I don’t know how many thousands of times my father told me that while I was growing up, but it soaked in pretty deeply.
By the time I reached adulthood, I was convinced; nothing would ever work right for me; if there was a way to [...]

by Peter Murphy
Will power alone will never work over the long term. It is the hardest way possible to get yourself to do anything.
The answer is to discover the secrets of self motivation.
Why?
Because it is like trying to open a tin can with your teeth when there is a can opener in your pocket.

by Dave Navarro
Problem: “I know I have potential, I’m not as insanely successful as I want to be.” - You
Solution: “I am not the smartest, but I surround myself with competent people.” - Henry Ford
I think it’s safe to say that Henry Ford had more than a mild degree of success. Love him or hate [...]

Are there parts of your life you sometimes hate?
Wish you could cancel those failures? Dump the defeats and sidestep the lousy breaks? Maybe very little in your life is going right – hasn’t been right for a very long time. There’s a lot of that going around.
But are you ready to change it? … change [...]

Of course you have goals. Things you want to do… skills you wish were stronger… lifestyle you’d like to expand. And as you work toward them, it’s good to have someone you can ask for advice on the how-to’s of life, a bit of occasional help, or maybe just a friendly ear… but without the [...]

Your first impression may have been, “Am I at the right website?”
Yep, you probably are — if you’re looking for BullsEye-Living, that is. I’m just giving the site a bit of a face lift and a reorganization. I haven’t shaken things up since November 2004, when the blog first began, so it’s well past time.
In [...]

Tom “Bald Dog” Varjan calls himself an Organisational Provocateur.
You or I would call him a consultant - he’s the guy who walks into companies, at their invitation, and stirs things massively till they get better.
Tom is exceptionally good at stirring. He’s called in when others are finding results hard to come by. He’s a hard-ass [...]

Some things in life repeat. One of them is the weather.
Today, here in Japan, we’re looking down the 100-mile-wide barrel of a typhoon, and it’s aimed straight at the Japanese islands. It has already ripped across the southern island of Kyushu, dropping half a meter of rain in some places and causing the evacuation of [...]

We were standing around, heads hanging, listening to the boss berate us for letting quality slide.
In my early twenties, I worked for a few years in a custom color photo lab where we developed film and made prints for professional photographers.
When they shot product setups, weddings or formal portraits, they brought us the film for [...]

We’ve all noticed how, when it comes to goals and achievement, a small percentage of people make things happen. Everybody else only makes excuses.
That’s not criticism exactly - it’s more like an observation of what we see happening every day, all around us. It’s a seeming inability of most people to just go out and [...]

John was the lousiest businessman I’d ever seen.
But he didn’t let his seeming lack of talent interfere with anything. He was always rolling in cash, and everything he touched succeeded.
When he bought an old fixer-upper apartment building, He first called a builder to rip out the insides and remodel everything. Then he immediately put ads [...]