How to Live a Long Life
It’s no secret that eating well, getting plenty of exercise and abstaining from bad habits such as smoking and excessive drinking will lead to a longer and better quality of life. Those facts have been proven time and again. There are a few surprising factors when it comes to longevity…
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It’s a self-marketing tactic I’ve really come to hate… I’m talking about “networking.” Sure, I’ve been hearing all about networking for years. I’ve even used the word myself! But when you get down to it, networking is cold, sterile… and it seems self-serving: one person trying to form a web…
READ MOREYou Will Need This Over the Holidays
“Mom, I think I want to be president,” Connor said. “Is that so? I thought you wanted to be a professional baseball player,” I replied. “No, not when I grow up…” he explained. “I want to be president NOW.” That’s right! Connor, my 10-year-old, was nominated for class president. He…
READ MOREThe List You Need In Your Life
In the spring of 1999, when I was halfway through my Master’s degree, I started sending out my resume in an attempt to land my dream job. At that time in my life, it meant writing to the General Manager of every single team in the National Hockey League (NHL)…
READ MOREHow to Harness the Power of Other People
In today’s video, you’ll discover all of the mentors who have helped me build my business. You’ll want to make sure you study every person on that list. The power of having a mentor and networking with other like-minded individuals outweighs anything else you can do in your pursuit of…
READ MOREThe Customer vs Employee Challenge
For many years, I felt a moral obligation to inform business owners whenever I thought they had a personnel or customer-service problem on their hands. I say moral obligation, because I have always been grateful to customers — or anyone, for that matter — who have taken the time to…
READ MOREThe One Big Thing You Can’t Ignore
In everyone’s lives and businesses there is “The Problem”. It’s the one big thing we can’t ignore, yet somehow we manage to put it off to the side every day and dance around the issue. It might be a conflict at home. Perhaps it’s an underlying problem with a project…
READ MOREThe Anti-Facebook
There is a conversation from the movie Stepbrothers I would like to share with you. If you have not seen the movie, it is a comedy starring Will Ferrell and Jon C. Reilly. The movie tells the story of two sons, both from single parent homes. When their parents marry…
READ MOREA Turn in the Road
I believe in free will and in man’s capacity to rise above adversity. I believe in accountability. I believe in the basic virtues upon which Western civilization has been built. But I also believe that people sometimes take a wrong turn in the road — perhaps inadvertently or maybe as…
READ MORETouching All the Bases
“Touching all the bases” is an appropriate metaphor that may well have its roots in the tragic tale of Fred Merkle. At the time, Merkle was only 19 years old and in his second major league season with the New York Giants. Merkle’s infamous mental lapse took place on September…
READ MOREHow to Rid Yourself of a Little Flaw That’s Holding You Back
When transitioning from my former career as a stand-up comic into my new one as “The Reinvention Guy,” I realized that one of the things that had been holding me back from accomplishing my goals was the desperation of wanting success too badly. I swore that once I transformed myself,…
READ MOREStop Networking and Start Making Money
When you get down to it, networking is cold, sterile… and it seems self-serving: one person trying to form a web of contacts whose sole purpose is to do something for him
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