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This is step two in my 4-part Virtuoso Goal Achievement System. Here you’ll take your brainstorming from last week and turn it into specific outcomes, where you want to be by the beginning of 2018. It really works!
How to start 2017 with a clear idea of where you want to be by 2018. This, combined with my next post will give you a clear, empowering plan to create the perfect outcomes in 2017.
If you don’t know what you want you have a great opportunity. Here are some questions to help you flesh out what you want for 2017 and beyond…
You are a genius. At something. Perhaps many things. When you act on your genius you unleash your greatest power on a world that desperately needs it! Teenagers need to hear this as well.
I Need To Be More Like My Beagle… Well, Kinda… We recently adopted a rescue dog, a five-year old Beagle mutt named Daisy. First of
There is ALWAYS something for which to be thankful in your life. And there is always something for which to be thankful in others. If you try you can thank even your greatest enemy or the most failed human being for something. So my tip is to become incessant and prolific in saying “thank you.”
Never let what happens in the Whitehouse define what happens in YOUR HOUSE. The moment you blame your problems, circumstance or even your mood on an election, a government, or anyone or anything other than yourself, you take all of your power and hand it to the very person or entity you don’t want to have it.
“Being offended” is how politicians, universities and others are trying to limit free speech. There is nothing in our bill of rights giving anyone the right not to be offended. In fact, freedom of speech requires the possibility of being offended. And that’s a good thing… almost every important improvement in the world was offensive at first. Love your enemies. All men are created equal. The Emancipation Proclamation. Women’s suffrage, property rights, equal pay…
Err On The Side of Grace. The Unlikely and Only Way To Change The World A man got on the subway with four young children who
Is Your Business Ready For Collapse? Six Signs The End Is Near Trains, typewriters, record albums, record/CD stores, VHS, network news, video rental stores, newspapers,
I’ll answer this at the bottom. Don’t skip ahead, read all of it, it’s good. Why in the world would I, a guy who teaches innovation, say ideas mean nothing? To try and disrupt the all-too-common belief that innovation, transformation, and profit are all about ideas. I’ve heard it said that “We live in an idea economy.” Bull. If that’s true, I should own a small country.
I was once in a guitar store with a friend named Mike who was trying out a Taylor T-5. He loved it. It was $1,100. It came down to decision time. The salesman watched Mike and he was not sure. He asked me, “What do you think?” I said, “Well you tell me, is buying this guitar the BEST use of $1100 in your life right now?” It was like the lights went on… NO! He had other family necessities.
