Learn To Quickly Think On Your Feet
Impromptu Speeches in High School I will never forget my speech class in high school. You walked in on the first day of class and sat down at your school desk looking up at your speech teacher wondering what lame speeches you would have to give that day. Everyone had to take the class since
I Was Right, Things Can Wait
Follow Your Instincts I was right about last night! In my stream of consciousness post I was simply documenting my thoughts for the day and into the night. For the first time in a while, I decided to stop what I was doing, and go to bed. In fact, the last words of my post were
Steam of Consciousness 9/9 at 11:11
The time is 11:11 pm and I just made a wish. It’s September 9th and I’m writing a post completely stream of consciousness. People are so complex! Anything worth pursuing takes such a heavy investment of time and patience. You can not help someone if you do not understand their true problem. What is really causing
3 Reasons Expectations Determine Success
1. Expectations Improve Communication Yes, expectations improve communication. If you set the right expectations with the people around you, your communication will dramatically improve. Think about it the other way around too, if you improve your communication, expectations naturally follow. Why is communication so important? It’s important because that is how we develop relationships with
Setting Routines Lead To Success in Personal & Business Life
Routine Lessons From A Friend Many years ago a business friend of mine, from a very warm sunny place with a beach, taught me about routine. His name was James and he taught me about routine in the way he fed his pets. Every morning at 8 a.m. he would set out tuna on small pieces
Things Take Time
Things Take Time This might seem very obvious, but things take time. Commitment to Time If you want to make a commitment anything, it’s going to take time. What that means is that you have to invest personal time to get something done. For example starting a business requires a significant amount of time. In
Help Others
Give give give. Help Others Through Generosity Be a generous person. Living a life of generosity is much more rewarding than you might expect. Have you ever heard the advice, “Are you feeling down, well uplift someone else.” So why does that work? It’s all about gratitude and being thankful for your blessings. Lifting up
Routine Requires Discipline and Accountability
You may have noticed that the blog has not been updated in the past week. I have to say it’s been an extremely busy week for me. Although I haven’t blogged, I have been thinking about a number of topics to post about and I plan to do that in the next day or two
5 Steps To Doing Things Right The First Time
I wrote a blog post yesterday about doing things right the first time and so I thought maybe I should write a very prescriptive outline of how to actually do things right the first time. 1. Pick The Right Things Pick the RIGHT things to do. This means prioritize correctly and choose things that truly
Soak Up Opportunities To Learn
Have you ever met someone who wants to learn something new every day? The question than is how do you set yourself up to learn something new? Well, you have to have an open mind and always be ready and willing to learn something when the opportunity arrives. Ask Questions Always ask questions to open