When you succeed, they will say… “Well, look at who his granddad is. They all have money. He had everything handed to him.” “She had nothing to do with it. My cousin does all the real work there.” “Must be nice to have all that money without doing anything for it.” When you fail, they…
You’re got to have a 9 a.m. appointment every day that you work from home. Without one, it’s too easy to let yourself start slowly. Or to get started on the wrong things in the morning. Sometimes you just don’t feel like moving. That’s why you need a 9 a.m. appointment. Make one every day….
One of the perks of blogging has been getting sent books to review. And this time, it’s one I was excited to read, Bounce! by Barry J. Moltz. I read Bounce! while on safari in Namibia. Your attitude toward failure is going to determine a great deal of your success. Moltz has ten building bands…
My plan to redefine failure has a new partner: fellow Oklahoman D. Scott Cooksey, author of Powerful People Overcome Powerful Failures, Your Daily Guide to Becoming Powerfully Successful. Cooksey isn’t shy about owning up to his own failures. We had a great conversation about responding to failure. He gets it. That’s why he wrote such…
Entrepreneurship requires you to deal with failure, adversity, problems, and difficulties. Sometimes all at once.Our Friend Tony Katz has some thoughts on adversity. The reaction to adversity is the difference between the entrepreneur and the wannabe. The wannabe feels the adversity and complains (oft times loudly) at the unfairness of it all. The entrepreneur recognizes…
BizzFlip has boiled down some wisdom from a series of entrepreneur interviews. One quote that caught my eye came from Christine: I had tried to start businesses on the side for years, but because Ididn’t NEED them to succeed, they didn’t. When I quit my job and had noother options, I knew that I was…
I found this back in January and saved it for a time when Becky would be gone and I would need to step up to the plate and post something! A guy by the name of Andy Swan gave some pretty decent criteria for testing personality to see if you have what it takes to…
The advertising is already starting. It’s Olympics time. During the next two months we’ll get tired of all the advertising. Everyone will be doing an athletics theme, a rings theme, a Chinese theme, a five-interlocking coffee stains theme. I know that sounds a little cynical, but I don’t mean it that way. In fact, all…
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