Marva Collins said, “Success doesn’t come to you. You go to it.”
If you decide to make the trip, you have two huge factors in your favor.
First, you have potential you don’t even know about and haven’t tapped into yet. Like Jeremy Lin, who was cut by two NBA teams before becoming a star with the [...]
Henry Ford once said, “Whether you think you can or whether you think you can’t, you’re right.”
Now this sentence is more than just a motivational phrase. It turns out that optimists do more than think about the future in a certain way. They actually do something about it.
“We know why optimists do better than pessimists,” [...]
Some people think the game is over the minute they make a mistake. They quit, and a dream dies right there.
Winners think otherwise. When they fail they don’t get discouraged. They get excited.
Today George Takei celebrates his 75th birthday. Takei played Mr. Sulu in the iconic science fiction TV show “Star Trek.”
Here he tells the [...]
Last night I was chatting with an athlete in the gym. It was a friendly conversation, but not extraordinary.
One sentence changed it from ordinary to extraordinary.
I simply said, “Someone gave you a compliment.”
She leaned in. She definitely wanted to hear more, and I told her that.
“Yes!” she said. “I want to hear more.”
So does everyone [...]
Life is a series of problem-solving events. And the way you approach these problems will determine how successful you are in solving them.
As a wise person once observed, “The problem isn’t the problem. The way you handle the problem is the problem.”
For a look at how great problem-solvers approach their work, here’s an article. It’s [...]
Your focus is your future. Correct focus can help you perform at your peak, beat the odds and win the big one.
The good news is that you have a great ability to focus. If you don’t believe me, think abut the last time you watched a great TV show. You were really locked in.
The bad new [...]
Excuse the short post, but I saw this item on Twitter and wanted to get it to you quickly. It’s former Yankees Manager Joe Torre giving his top six rules for managing players.
Any advice from Torre should be accepted eagerly. Even though he won multiple World Series with the Yankees, his biggest achievement was working [...]
Today my father and I drove through the neighborhood where he grew up. It reminded me of a story about his baseball cards.
He had what nowadays would amount to a priceless collection, the product of growing up in an era of Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, lefty Grove and other stars. As the youngest of [...]
Last night I had the chance to watch a very good coach at work.
She had designed a strong practice, and tried to set the tone by writing a quote on top of her whiteboard. It said, “The power of focus is what separates those who are good from those who are great.”
When practice began, things [...]
People say that few things inspire more fear than the prospect of speaking in public. The joke is that the fear of public speaking is greater than the the fear of death, so at a funeral many people would rather be the dead person than the one giving the eulogy.
Given all that, how do people [...]