Habit Breaking
Success and Being Honest with Yourself
When you are making your way down the path to success, the worst thing that you can do is try to gloss over some of your shortcomings in the major things that you are responsible for. Those things include: 1. Your use of time – If you procrastinate, you are giving up valuable time that you […]
Success and The Things You Need to Pay Attention too
As we make our way down the path to success, we are often faced with roadblocks that cause us to question ourselves and our abilities to get things done. I don’t know about you but this has happened to me many, many times… I have lost hope on several occasions. But there is one truth that I […]
Success and Making Excuses
Success is one of those things that has to be worked at everyday through focus on our goals and the discipline needed to stay the course, while in pursuit of these goals. So when is the right time to make excuses? NEVER! Success and excuses… are incompatible. Excuses are blaming circumstances for for failure. Failure […]
Success or Unsuccessful Living and The Price You Pay for Both
Living successfully is often a very arduous task, often requiring you to do things that are not always pleasant like getting up at five in the morning to go to the gym. Or working into the wee hours of the morning to make a deadline. Or skipping a fun session to get something of high importance done. […]
Success and Your Self Image
Zig Ziglar, one of the greatest motivational speakers of all time, says “You’ve got BE before you can DO, and you’ve got to DO before you can have.” I’ve always liked that statement. It’s a statement about your self image. Let me explain… BE – Before you can have anything you desire, you have to […]
Success and Your Associations
The people you choose to be around and do business with have a profound effect on how successful you will be. Now you may be saying to yourself, “C’mon John, you are always writing about how we are the master of our own destiny. How we are responsible for our own happiness. How can you […]
Success and What to Do When the Going Gets Tough…
While in pursuit of the success you seek, the road will not always be smooth and you will encounter many bumps along the way. When this happens, depending on your resolve, the simplest thing to do is throw your hands in the air and give up! Which unfortunately many people do… Here are a few […]
Is Success Easy?
I often get asked why do all the messages you post all have the same message or close to it. Well when you start to study success, you will find that most of the steps to successful living are the same. They start with… 1. Desire – What do you want to be, do or […]
Success and The Need to Be Honest with Yourself
When you are looking at yourself and reviewing whether you are acting in a successful way or not, one of the biggest things that you have to look at is being honest with yourself. For some reason, our culture and the media has made it easy for us to candy coat every failure somehow making […]
Why High Gas Prices are a GOOD Thing… Part 2
The other day I wrote a post the other with some ideas why I thought high gas prices was a good thing, and I got plenty of feedback both negative and positive. Check it out here! As I expected there was a lot of negative feedback and as I examined this feedback, I found most […]