How to Organize Your Work & Your LifePower Contributes to Success
In previous posts, I’ve written about the importance of working well with other people, and I’ve also touched on various topics relating to power. But this time, I’m going straight to the essence of power: it’s the ability to make things happen,…
Signs You’re Successful
In a previous post, I referred to coach John Wooden’s Pyramid of Success as a way to redefine success and failure so as to include only factors entirely within your control. In this way, you can feel successful, regardless of particular wins…
Building Your Resilience – Part 2
A while ago, I wrote about resilience, which is the capacity to recover from difficulties and demanding experiences. I suggested that by building up your resilience, you speed up and improve your ability to get back to full strength after an adverse…
Stay in Alignment with Your Values
Values are important because, to the extent you are working and living in alignment with your values, you’re likely to be happier, prouder, more satisfied, and more willing to strive for productivity and success than someone whose values contradict their words and…
OK – Just Do It
I admit it: normally, this blog is heavily skewed toward serious topics that will almost certainly help you boost your level of productivity and success. But sometimes productivity and success can, should – and yes, even must – take a back seat.…
Cultivate Your Charisma
Charisma. What is it? Where does it come from? How is it useful? How can you gather more of it? Simply put, charisma is a person’s ability to attract positive attention, gather willing followers, and influence their behavior. Cult leaders generally show…
Make Your Team Better – Part 2
I received a lot of positive feedback on my recent discussion of ways to Make Your Team Better. Naturally, I also got some questions and some requests for more on the same topic. I’m reluctant to say too much about teams and…
Improve Your Performance Under Pressure
There’s a fine line between stress and pressure. Stress is primarily a feeling, a normal reaction to pressure. Pressure, on the other hand, is not a feeling. It’s a demand to perform – usually at a high level, often at a specific…
What’s In a Vision?
There’s a story I like, which may or may not be true, about the building of Disney World, which opened in 1971, five years after the death of Walt Disney. Many of the speakers at the opening ceremony lamented that Walt couldn’t…
When Your Work or Life Falls Apart
I’m sorry to report – in case you haven’t already noticed – that parts of your work or your life that you thought were solid and safe can totally fall apart, sometimes without very much warning. This may never happen to you.…
Expanding Your Limits
One of the things I’ve tried to do my whole adult life is expand my personal limits. Early on, I realized I inherently gave little or no credence to the limitations that others tried to put on me (“You can’t do that!).…
Make Your Team Better
There’s a story about basketball’s Hall of Fame superstar, Magic Johnson, which may or may not be true. But it’s a great story anyway. Supposedly, he was the star player on his team in high school and one of the best players…
