Staying Positive
View Count: 3264
If you were suddenly told you were a professional boxer and were expected to get into a ring and fight night after night, you would probably get quite discouraged. At some point, you would probably stop fighting altogether. You would get into the ring...
Filed under Featured, Getting Ahead, Staying Positive Leave a CommentView Count: 1853
A few months ago, I found myself sitting in a shipyard getting ready to look at a couple of ships. The particular ship I was going to look at next had originally been used to ferry crew back and forth to oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico. It had three huge...
Filed under Featured, Life Lessons, Staying Positive 10 CommentsView Count: 2995
My one-year old daughter calls a coffee cup “hot” and avoids coffee cups lest she get burned. Until she learns that the coffee cup can also contain coffee, milk, and other foods that will not harm her, she is likely to avoid coffee cups for...
Filed under Featured, How to Succeed, Life Lessons, Staying Positive 6 CommentsView Count: 2310
Several years ago, I was living in New York City and taking the subway to work every single day. Like many young people, I’d been taught somewhere along the line that this was “the place” to work and where the most sophisticated work...
Filed under Featured, Staying Positive 11 CommentsView Count: 3240
Several years ago, I had an asphalt customer in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, by the Country Club of Detroit that I did work for each year. He had a beautiful multimillion dollar home, an extremely attractive wife and two beautiful children. Typically, I...
Filed under Featured, Getting Ahead, Staying Positive Leave a CommentView Count: 1167
From ages 13 to 17, I attended six different schools in a variety of cities and countries. I never found attending these new schools all that difficult. What I disliked, though, was penetrating the pecking order of the lunch tables. This was especially...
Filed under Featured, Getting Ahead, Staying Positive Leave a CommentView Count: 9534
Once, when I was around 17 years old, I was sitting in a car with a friend of mine, waiting for another group of kids. My friend was very wealthy and by this age had already inherited several million dollars–and he was very arrogant about this....
Filed under Featured, Getting Ahead, Staying Positive 23 CommentsView Count: 6670
He who conquers the mind, conquers the world. -Guru Nanak Dev In today’s economy, a lot of people are losing their jobs. People are being fired and let go from companies at an alarming rate. There is a huge sense of betrayal people feel...
Filed under Featured, How to Succeed, Life Lessons, Staying Positive 12 CommentsView Count: 2751
For about as long as I can remember, I’ve been taking one course or another about different subjects every several months. I take courses in just about every topic you can imagine and love taking these courses. Typically, the courses I take are...
Filed under Featured, Staying Positive 3 CommentsView Count: 990
The Tight Spot Several years ago, I was running a company I thought would soon have thousands of employees. Things were going exceptionally well and I was enjoying myself and my job in all respects. Anticipating continued expansion, I started purchasing...
Filed under Featured, Life Lessons, Staying Positive 4 Comments« PREVIOUS showing 11-20 of 41 NEXT »
recent posts