Two Types of Goals in Your Toolbox
How to Achieve and Maintain the Results You Want
There are two types of goals you can set to achieve and maintain your goals. Make sure you’re setting the right type.
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How Much Pie Do You See?
Make every interaction you have a collaboration, not a competition
If pie is scarce, every interaction is a competition. If pie is abundant, every interaction is a collaboration.
Start a Five-Year Plan Now
One Easy Step to Make Your Dreams Happen
The holidays are a good time to think about what you want your life to be like five years from now. Take the most important step now: get started.
How to Keep Pride from Becoming Your Weakness
Five Proven Strategies to Strengthen Your Relationships
Pride can be a good thing—a tool to reward growth and development. If you let it get out of hand, it will become your greatest weakness.
Make Choices that Create Choices
You’ll Be Glad You Kept Your Options Open
To be successful, you need to keep your options open. Make choices that create more choices.
Building Relationships One Deposit at a Time
Who Would You Cross Time and Space to Help?
Relationships take time to build. The more deposits you make, the stronger the emotional bank account grows.
Why You Need Feedback
5 Ways Another Perspective Will Help You Grow Faster
Without feedback, you’re stumbling around, going through the motions without creating real value. If you really want to grow, ask someone how you’re doing.
It’s Okay to Sulk
Three Questions to Turn Frustration to Your Advantage
When things don’t work out as planned, it’s frustrating. It’s okay to sulk, but the sooner you get past the disappointment, the sooner you can start shaping your world again.
How to Turn a Mistake to Your Advantage
Sometimes the best lessons aren’t the ones we were looking for
The most successful people you know make mistakes. They’ve learned to own their mistakes and shape the experience into something positive.
The Transitive Property of Importance
Why you should—or shouldn’t—care about what they care about
There’s nothing wrong with focusing on what’s important to you. You’re probably helping everyone else out, too.