Extreme Success: It’s All About Passion
“If you don’t get up at 3 a.m. and want to do your work, you’re wasting your time.” – Harold Edgerton Take another look at today’s quote by Harold Edgerton, the pioneering researcher in the field of stroboscopy and ultra-high-speed photography: “If you don’t get up at 3 a.m.…
Your Decisions Should Move Closer to Your Objectives
“The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.” – Hans Hofmann (search for the Real, 1967) The pressure is on. You have no time to waste. Everybody is shouting. Which do you choose? Door No. 1 or door No. 2? Decide quickly! But…
How To Be A Powerful Person Almost Instantly
Tony Robbins teaches us a lesson in finding our inner power and coming face-to-face with the fears that keep us chained to helplessness.
How To Think “Out Of The Box”
“We do not at present educate people to think but, rather, to have opinions, and that is something altogether different.” – Louis L’Amour (Education of a Wandering Man, 1989) Much has been made of the importance of thinking “outside the box.” To solve difficult problems, it is said, you need…
Double Your Reading Speed Immediately
“What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (Over the Teacups, 1891) According to some…
Secrets of Effective Listening
“Not communicating saves energy; it keeps people from worrying about things they cannot do anything about; and it eliminates an enormous amount of useless talk.” – Edwin Newman (Strictly Speaking, 1974) Communication experts are big on the importance of active, empathetic listening. And maybe they should be. But as…
How to Achieve Your Most Important Goal
“To be always ready a man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied.” – Henri Frederic Amiel (Journal, June 15, 1851) One of the fundamental principles of the ETR system for setting and accomplishing goals is the idea that if you want to be absolutely…
Review And Reconsider Your Life Goals Today
“Insight doesn’t happen often on the click of the moment, like a lucky snapshot, but comes in its own time and more slowly and from nowhere but within.” – Eudora Welty (One Time, One Place, 1971) I woke up, as usual, at daybreak. Lacking the resolve to run the hill…
Goal Setting as a Means to Success
“You can’t set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for lunch.” – George Humphrey (Time Magazine, January 26, 1953) – Every January, I write down a set of goals. Some are financial. Some relate to my business. And some are personal. When I put my new list…
What’s More Important: Invention Or Imitation?
“We ought not to be over-anxious to encourage innovation in cases of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over a new one; it is established, and it is understood.” – Charles Caleb Colton (Lacon, 1825) If you are lucky enough to work in a creative…
Spend More Time On Headlines And Less On Everything Else
“Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.” – Thomas Edison David Ogilvy, one of the legends of modern advertising, was a big believer in headlines. He understood that nailing the head is the secret to making the whole ad work. Ogilvy practiced what he preached. Of his many…
What You Can Learn From Garrison Keillor
“A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.” – Andre Gide (Journals, 1922) Here’s an interesting question about focus and mastery. A Garrison Keillor fan asked him: “As a young painter, I’m wondering if, in order to become a successful artist, I must whittle down my oeuvre to…