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Category Archives: lessons learned
How many Thursdays do you have left in your life?
I don’t know about you, but no matter what I do, it seems like I always use more time to do something than I should use. This is not a new phenomenon. Actually if you look it up there is … Continue reading
Spaghetti and Marshmallows and why kindergartners beat CEO’s in this task.
If you had to make a bet on which team could perform a certain task better between a group of kindergartners, or a group of business students amongst some of the top elite schools in the United States and abroad. Who … Continue reading
This one thing is preventing you from success, and it is not what you think.
I was on the phone the other day with my good friend. Who also is a coach and trainer. We both have coached and trained hundred of individuals over the years. We were talking about some of the challenges that … Continue reading
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Personal responsibility. What happened to it?
Most of the time, I am writing about things that are on my mind at the moment. And after this weekend, the one thing that is on my mind, are the words Personal Responsibility. I think the reason those words … Continue reading
My broken down car on the side of the road reminded me of how good “people” really are
Imagine this, you have been driving on the road for eleven hours. You are traveling south back home from your hometown where you visited your family for the holidays. The trip should take about fourteen hours, but because of traffic, … Continue reading
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They are watching…what do you want them to see?
“I quit!”…”It has been six weeks since I quit chewing tobacco.” This is what one of my participants recently told me in one of my leadership training sessions. We were in week seven of a twelve-week leadership course. As … Continue reading
Four hundred times later, this is what I’ve learned
On January 13, 2014, I was sitting and staring at my computer just like I am now. I had just purchased the domain name selfdevelopmentaddict.com My goal was to write/type a blog at least once a week for a year, and … Continue reading
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My first business purchase and why you shouldn’t listen to most people
“Was that a roach?” My buddy said to me as we were walking through the property. This had to be one of the nastiest homes I have personally ever walked in and he said the same. As I walked through … Continue reading
The day everything became clear to me…
Recently, I have had some conversations with several of my good friends and some of my clients about life, work, family, etc. These are all highly successful people in their careers and in their life. They have their finances in … Continue reading
Are you high maintenance?
Most of us have known someone who we considered to be high maintenance. I didn’t know there was a television show by the same name on HBO until I did a quick google search of the term high maintenance this … Continue reading
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