How To Prepare For Anything In Business
Always Plan For The Worst Back in the 90s, I was working for a large petroleum company selling bulk fuel and had just booked a large contract. My manager was extremely excited about the new business – primarily because the new business meant a potentially huge bonus. When I was forecasting the new agreement’s … Continue reading How To Prepare For Anything In Business
The Best Career Advice You’ll Ever Get
Made It Through Another One I put my head on the table and let out a huge exhale. For over two months I had waited for this phone call. In early December, my company announced that it would be engaging in one of the biggest restructures in company history. A constantly evolving world demanded that … Continue reading The Best Career Advice You’ll Ever Get
Failing Forward
Failure is a word that most people almost never want to be associated with. It conjures up images of discomfort, disappointment and heartache. However, when you hear stories of extremely successful people, one of the first things highlighted is how they failed far more than they succeeded. How can something that potentially creates a great … Continue reading Failing Forward
Success Requires The Mindset of A Conqueror
A Force To Be Reckoned With A few years ago, I attended an industry event and had the honor of spending the weekend with a former NFL player who absolutely dominated the free safety position from 2002 – 2009. Despite his NFL success, this former “pro bowler” was not a highly recruited college player. In … Continue reading Success Requires The Mindset of A Conqueror
4 Traits Every Successful Business Leader Has
I’ve been honored to meet, work with, and speak to some extremely successful people. True leaders in their industries. Whenever I get the opportunity, I like to ask these individuals what they attribute their success to. When I first started asking this question I expected to hear things like “the ability to conduct in depth … Continue reading 4 Traits Every Successful Business Leader Has
The Key To Nailing Your Next Job Interview
Having Your Best Interview Ever Here’s one of the best business and success tips I can ever give you: If you want to have a great job interview, start with great research. The Common Mistake You see, the problem is that most people start preparing for an interview by trying to think up answers to … Continue reading The Key To Nailing Your Next Job Interview
The Most Important Thing For Career Success
Sad Reality and Sheep The sad reality of most people is that they rarely invest a significant amount of time building a plan for their success, career or anything else of significance. Rather, like sheep they meander from day to day, relationship to relationship, job to job without any real direction. Playing Life On Defense … Continue reading The Most Important Thing For Career Success
How To Overcome Fear and Insecurity
“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.” – Paulo Coelho Fear Kills After spending almost 25 years in corporate America at Fortune 500 companies, I’ve noticed that the biggest thing that halts success has nothing to do with skill or talent, but fear. Most people in … Continue reading How To Overcome Fear and Insecurity
Problems Suck. Here’s How To Deal With Them
Problems Suck Let’s not play ridiculous word games about problems really being opportunities in disguise. That’s B.S. and we all know it. Problems suck. They suck a lot. Big problems suck a WHOLE lot. However Let’s Be Grateful Despite the misery of problems, we should be grateful they exist (no, I’m not back to word … Continue reading Problems Suck. Here’s How To Deal With Them
The Secret To Hitting Your Goals-No Matter How Big
Are You Scared Of Monsters? Let me ask you a question: Are you scared of monsters? I’m not talking about the “monster under your bed” kind we all feared as a kid. No, I’m talking about a much bigger and much scarier monster-your goal. You know the one I’m talking about. That big hairy, audacious … Continue reading The Secret To Hitting Your Goals-No Matter How Big