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 [...]
By Bob Cox | Wed, Apr 13, 2011
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 [...]
By Daniel Levis | Tue, Apr 5, 2011
I was sitting around socializing with some friends the other day when one of my guests told a story about how an acquaintance had driven off the highway and into a farmer’s field… She followed the tractor path four and half kilometers into a wooded bog and eventually buried her car up to the axles in [...]
By Robert Ringer | Wed, Mar 30, 2011
I have often said that a football game is a microcosm of life. There’s an ebb and flow to every game, with each team experiencing its share of adversity. These adversities include such things as fumbles, interceptions, bad calls by the officials, injuries, and “shanked” punts. In the National Football League, the teams are so evenly [...]
By PJ McClure | Wed, Mar 23, 2011
Would you take your family, jump into the middle of the ocean, and then try to build a boat around everyone? Of course not. But that is the logic many people use when building a business. When I began seeking out and interviewing people I considered to be successful, I learned something huge right away. My [...]
By Rich Schefren | Tue, Mar 22, 2011
What if I told you that whatever is holding you back… whatever barriers are preventing you from increasing your income… whatever obstacles are keeping you from achieving financial success… can be overcome simply by thinking differently? Now I know that this might not be what you are accustomed to hearing. But the fact is, you don’t [...]
Let me ask you: Have you ever made a decision that didn’t work as planned? Has anyone ever let you down? Has recent economic news put a damper on your perspective? It may be painful to bring those things to mind, but I’m asking you to do it for a good reason. Because life brings us misfortune as well as [...]
By Noah St. John | Thu, Mar 17, 2011
If you’ve been to a “motivational” seminar or heard someone talk about success in, say, the last 10 years, you’ve probably heard the “Bamboo Story.” The Bamboo Story goes something like this… “The Bamboo is amazing. You water it and wait. You wait an entire year and nothing appears. No bud, no twig, nothing. “So you keep watering [...]
By Peter Fogel | Mon, Mar 7, 2011
You want more money. Doesn’t everybody? So let’s talk about your job and see what we can do about getting you a big increase in salary. You might be thinking the only way you can reboot your career, (or just stay one step ahead of the bill collectors), is by working lots of overtime. But [...]
By Brian Tracy | Wed, Jan 5, 2011
The degree of happiness you feel is the best measure of how well you are living your life and enjoying your relationships. If you don’t feel very happy now, you can learn how to be happier… and more fulfilled in everything you do. Everyone Is Different If 100 people went to a smorgasbord and each put food [...]
By Rich Schefren | Thu, Apr 14, 2011
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