What do most people do around this time of the year? Why, make resolutions, of course!
Lose more weight, get in shape, quit smoking, and quit (or cut down on) drinking alcohol are common ones.
Those same ‘most people’ soon forget about these resolutions until the following year when they ‘try again.’ Year after year their ‘resolutions’ rarely stick long-term.
Why is this? Continue reading Why New Year’s resolutions don’t work
Depending on your chosen field (industry, occupation), information is doubling every 18 months to 7 years or so.
If information is doubling every 7 years, then you have to at least double your information every 7 years just to stay even! Continue reading Gain leverage one hour a day
Have a lot of things to do? Cards to send? Clothes to fold? Gifts to make or buy and send? E-mail to process?
I first heard the term ‘batch processing’ when I was teaching Adobe Photoshop seminars years ago. Continue reading Totally Batchin’
NLP teaches that you don’t want the big new house, the new car, the perfect relationship, or even the perfect family visit this holiday season. You want Continue reading Mental and Emotional Mastery
Isn’t it a wonderful time to be alive? I remember when we had dial-up phones and you actually had to stand next to the phone to talk to someone. I remember how excited I was when I got a 25′ cord so I could walk around and do stuff (multi-task) while talking on the phone!
If you used these phones growing up, didn’t you hate it when someone had one or more zeros in their number?! “How dare you waste my life having to dial your ridiculously slow-dialing phone number!” Continue reading Patience, Grasshopper!
Last week I wrote about how happy people are more productive and happy companies are more profitable.
When I teach the psychology of happiness in my Happiness Workshops, I teach about the nine choices extremely happy people make.
One choice all extremely happy people make is Continue reading Thanksgiving doesn’t have to come only once a year
Are happy people more productive than unhappy people? Let’s examine this a bit. Continue reading How does ‘happiness’ affect your productivity and success?
No one procrastinates. Even though I teach how to overcome procrastination, it’s really a misnomer.
You never procrastinate: you only choose to do activities that are not going to contribute to you achieving your most important goals, projects, or tasks as quickly as possible. Continue reading It is IMPOSSIBLE for you to procrastinate
Questions are how you focus your mind. The quality of the questions you ask yourself on a consistent basis determines the quality of your life. Continue reading The Quality Of Your Questions
It takes a minimum of four years of consistent training to earn your Shodan (1st degree black belt) in my dojo (karate training hall/school).
It takes another 2 1/2 – 3 years to earn your Nidan (2nd degree black belt), and another 3 years to earn your Sandan (3rd degree black belt).
After 9 1/2 years, I officially became an internationally certified Sandan in Wado-Ryu karate on Saturday, October 16, 2010.
I’m no more ‘special’ than anyone else. I just kept coming to class. Continue reading Consistency