A Thanksgiving Day Task — And Another Resolution
“When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, It concentrates his mind wonderfully.” – Samuel Johnson On New Year’s Day, most people make resolutions. But how many people are thankful on Thanksgiving Day? If you ask the typical American what Thanksgiving is about, he’ll mention family,…
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There is nothing that will make you feel richer than luxurious vacations. If you want to enjoy the best the world has to offer, to experience travel and adventure at its very best, you don’t need a multi-million dollar bank account. What you need are discriminating friends in great places…
READ MOREThe Incredible Heaviness Of Being Successful
“Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn’t permanent.” – Jean Kerr A curious thing sometimes happens on the road to success. Things are moving along brilliantly (as my British friends like to put it). Your first success has led to others. Your career is…
READ MOREMultitasking: One of the Most Odious Words Coined in the Last Decade
Let’s spend a few moments today talking about something you should NOT be doing and its opposite — which is the core habit of all successful enterprises. Of all the hot air that inflated the New Economy bubble (new myths about how businesses grow, what they should be about, the…
READ MOREUsing Task Lists To Change Your Life
“Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood.” – Daniel H. Burnham A client and I met this morning. She said she was frustrated — that she had begun using a daily task list, as I had suggested, but wasn’t getting some important things done. “‘To-do’…
READ MOREHow Pioneers Can (Eventually) Fit In And Prosper
“Adapt or perish, now as ever, is Nature’s inexorable imperative.” – H.G. Wells, (Mind at the End of Its Tether, 1946) As I said yesterday (in Message #475), your growing business needs both “governors” and “pioneers” — some leaders who can handle existing operations and others who can create new…
READ MOREAlbert Einstein’s Three Rules of Work
“So many worlds, so much to do, / So little done, such things to be.” – Lord Tennyson (In Memoriam A.H.H., 1850) 1. Out of clutter, find simplicity. 2. From discord, find harmony. 3. In the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity. 1. What to Do About the Clutter Start with…
READ MOREPromise #10 For The New Year: To Be A Better Person
I’m truly impressed. It’s Friday, and you’ve been with me for 10 straight workdays. You have read and reread your resolutions countless times. Most importantly, you’ve had a chance to think about them in new and I hope deeper ways – and to add to them. You are in the…
READ MORE“The Art of War” and Other Balderdash
“You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.” – Jeannette Rankin I continue to read a business book every week in an effort to find some good new ideas to share with you and to save you the time of reading most of it, which…
READ MOREWords of Wisdom From Thomas Edison
“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas A. Edison Today’s quote from Thomas Edison is a very good bit of wisdom. I’ve talked about stamina and persistence before (for example, in Message #151, “Breaking Through…
READ MORETurn Your Job Complaints Into A Positive Plan of Action
“We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed, but to those who have differed.” – Charles Caleb Colton (Lacon, 1825) Are there things about your job that you don’t like? Do you feel frustrated by them? In “Fearless Living,” Rhonda Britten has some good advice on…
READ MOREThe Miracle Of Compound Knowledge
“You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.” – Albert Camus (Notebooks, 1935-1942) I have a little gift for you. A simple idea that can make a big difference in your life. It can mean the difference between struggling through an ordinary life or being immensely successful. It is a…
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