Of course you have goals. That’s why you’re here. Things you want to accomplish… skills you’d like to strengthen… lifestyle to expand.
As you work toward these things, it’s good to have someone you can ask for pointers, a bit of help, or maybe a friendly ear… but you don’t need the usual guru BS.
That’s why [...]

Marcia Yudkin, in her widely read ezine “The Marketing Minute,” tells how only a few people taking screenwriter training ever do anything with their new skills.
When L.A. filmmaker Jeff Bollow moved to Sydney, Australia a couple of years ago, he planned to launch an independent feature film studio but couldn’t find enough commercially suitable screenplays. [...]

Do you gossip? You know — talking about others behind their back? The chances are, even if you do gossip, you may not realize it.
This negative practice causes untold harm to others — but even worse is the damage it does to oneself through the deadening of compassion and empathy for others.
Today, guest columnist Peter [...]

You’ve known it all along. The way you think about your career controls how well (or poorly) that career goes.
Dr. Ellen Weber, on her Brain Based Business blog, discusses five tips for shifting the reality of your career and how well it’s going.
The following is just an excerpt. Go read the whole article. In fact, [...]

Life is so full of “opportunities” to stress about something that it’s sometimes easy to start thinking how much your life sucks.
But it’d be incorrect to think that way. The truth is, everything that happens has more than one possible side. And all the things we’re so ready to complain about — every one of [...]

A reader recently sent a wonderful question. It has to do with the lingering backwash from negative thinking in the past, and whether we continue to be shackled by it in the present.
This reader said that in the past she had been less than active in trying to stand out at work, and was disappointed [...]

Some of us don’t find it easy to talk with others.
Now, if you find it easy to chat with anybody, anywhere, anytime, this may seem unthinkable. But it’s true… there are folks who’d rather crawl over broken glass than have to stand and chat at a party or other social function. For them, it’s torture.
It [...]

Remember Terry Dean? Back in the nineties, before many of us had even heard of the Internet, he was already creating a sizeable fortune online. Starting out as a pizza delivery driver, he went online and, by setting some interesting goals, built a million dollar Internet business.
If anybody knows about achievement, Terry does. In a [...]