Imagine being one of the world's top athletes in basketball - unfathomably gifted and operating "at the top of your game." And then realizing that's what's holding you back from reaching your true potential.
I have been in the marketing business for more than 30 years. And in all that time, I've read only a handful of books on advertising.
Quick! Is anything wrong with the following three sentences?
“Costa Rica offered a chance to see a plethora of wildlife and members of the plant family.”
“Sony Computer Entertainment America has officially announced a plethora of new titles entering the Greatest Hits category….”
Headline: “Recreation [Department] Offers a Plethora of Youth Programs to Start 2011….”
Many people assume that [...]
When I discovered “success anorexia” and Afformations in 1997, I knew that I had finally found my Because – the reason I was here on Earth: to teach people how to stop keeping themselves from success and manifest their desires faster and easier.
Only problem was, I had no idea how I was going to do [...]
When I discovered "success anorexia" and Afformations in 1997, I knew that I had finally found my Because - the reason I was here on Earth: to teach people...
A quiddity (KWID-ih-tee) – from the Latin for “essence” – is a distinctive peculiarity, an eccentricity or odd feature.
Example (as used by Saul Bellow in Ravelstein): “I began… to give some thought to the memoir I had promised to write and wondered how I would go about it – his freaks, quiddities, oddities, his eating, [...]
If you’d drop dead tomorrow of a heart attack if you ate a greasy meal today, would you do it?
Of course not. Yet heart disease is the leading cause of death, responsible for 25.4% of all deaths in the United States alone.
Or how about fastening your seat belt? Were you to be immediately ejected from [...]
If you'd drop dead tomorrow of a heart attack if you ate a greasy meal today, would you do it? - Of course not.
Did you know that elephants are trained to stay where they are by tying a rope around one of their massive legs and attaching it to a peg in the ground? Can the peg and rope really hold back an elephant? Absolutely not!
Then why does it work? Because elephants grow up believing it will. Maybe [...]
Did you know that elephants are trained to stay where they are by tying a rope around one of their massive legs and attaching it to a peg in the ground? Can the peg and rope really hold back an elephant? Absolutely not!
By Early To Rise | Mon, Apr 18, 2011
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