Have you ever failed? Fantastic for you! My guess is that you learned more from one failure than 100 easy moments in your life. (Not that we don’t love the easy moments too.) My challenge to you today is to look at the “failures” in your life in a different way. What happens after you slip up? What did you do next?
It was Valentine’s Day and we were planning to go to dinner to “celebrate”. The funny thing is that we had hardly spoken in months… he came in and out of the condo as his tours ended and began, and I worked from home… we lived mostly apart and not talking to each other at all… I got crystal clear that out of love and for the sake of our relationship we could not do it this way any longer. No matter what, we had to stop this. I stood up and walked to him and said “Look, this is crazy. We can do this the hard way or we could try to make it easy.” He paused what he was doing and looked up at me with a quizzical look on his face. I continued, “What if we have an Anti Valentine’s Day dinner…
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Don’t take anything personally
If you plan on taking things personally, you might as well not leave your house in the morning because there are millions and zillions of people in the world and they all have personal opinions and experiences they will project onto you. Shakespear says that “All the world’s a stage…” and [...]
“A failure is a man who has blundered but is not capable of cashing in on the experience.”
Elbert Hubbard
Life is a learning game. I am constantly learning what to do or what not to do. Yesterday Therese hosted our first tele-conference. It felt like we were at the top of a roller coaster waiting to [...]
I just attended Tony Robbins’ Unleashing the Power Within Seminar and it was an insightful, informative and transformative experience. Tony’s energy, excitement and Essence are the perfect model of what’s required for leadership. Because he’s mentally in shape and physically in shape he is a “YES” to life and leadership at extraordinary levels. [...]
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These times are going to make the best of all of us and you, by losing your job, have entered the accelerated program. Congratulations! You have a rich opportunity to learn more about you are and how creative, resourceful and amazing you are.
This is a great chance [...]
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If you don’t know where you might fit in this job market, why would you expect anyone else to know? Get intentional and clear about what you want and the positions for which you’re qualified, and then educate others and ask for their help! Asking [...]
