What Happened to Being Outrageous?

Usually, being ordinary is a bad plan. Pursuing the path of least resistance means high-grade mediocrity and “close-to-but-just-not-there” success. You are active yet ineffective. Moving…. just not toward your dreams.

The Power of Passion.

What moves you? To tears. To get up in the morning. To invest your time or money. What will make you change? Here’s the question that answers all the rest: “What are you passionate about?”

3 Secrets of High Performance Selling

High performance. You know it when you see it. It’s one of those stories you can tell a dozen times and still be excited each time. It’s captivating to watch. More of an experience than just an event or an

8 paths to domination and 1 big way to fail

Here’s a harsh reality:  We‘re just not tough enough… On my wall framed hangs the famous inspiration quotation from Vince Lombardi about football and winning and what it takes to be number one.  It’s been on the wall of my

Seth Godin Inspires Indispensable Edginess.

Is what you doing right now something the world can’t live without?  Are you the difference between success and failure?  Are you truly indispensable?

Yep… Your New Year Resolutions are Worthless.

It’s that time of year again where we take stock of our poor performance from last year and write down blissful wishes for what we want to make happen this year. It actually a pretty worthwless activity…

Can I just pretend I really, really care about you and send you an e-card for Christmas?

This weekend, the missus and I wrapped up our shopping for family for the holidays.  I have to say: “We were more thoughtful this year than any time previously…” (at least I thought so) We really thought through the whole

Unscientific Research: Fix your wallet to fix your head to fix your wallet…

Do you have big dreams? For 2010?  For right now? What you do, how far you succeed, what you achieve — they all come from what you think about. They all come from what you are thinking about RIGHT now…

The Ultimate Life Lesson…

The Hardest Sale of Your Life

I was in a conversation with a close friend last week about some serious matters when I just stopped everything I was talking about and simply summed it up by noting: