I am often asked for a simple, effective, and no-nonsense approach to goal setting that can be used by anyone regardless of age or situation.

What follows is what I affectionately call the 30-Day Extreme Makeover. Follow it to the letter and you will be quite pleased with the outcome.  …continues

One of the great things about trials and challenges is that they can force us into action. Just taking consistent action gets us 80% of the way toward any goal.

Based on the economic turmoil going on all around us, there is no more urgent time than right now to ACT. Everywhere people are losing their homes, their retirement savings, and the shirts off their back. It’s time to take your future by the horns and these 20 questions will help point the way!  …continues

For 26 years, a man known only as Secret Santa has roamed the streets of Kansas City every December quietly giving people money. He started with $5 and $10 bills.

As his fortune grew, so did the gifts. In recent years, Secret Santa has been handing out $100 bills, sometimes two or three at a time, to people in thrift stores, diners and parking lots.   …continues

My primary 100 day goal was to advance to a certain level in a new network marketing company. I achieved the goal in 20 days using the quantum leap approach that you have taught us. As a result, I have reset my goal to advance 2 more levels. On a scale of 1 to 10, I evaluate this 100 Day Challenge as an 11.   …continues

The reality is that most leaders have gotten more and more precise and sophisticated at measuring less and less of an organization’s TRUE value.

At present, the entire focus of financial analysis is on “the numbers,” despite mounting evidence that they’re the WRONG numbers!   …continues

One thing about successful people is that at some point in their life, each one has looked in the mirror and decided that once and for all they were done playing games, they were done settling for table scraps, they were done standing by idly on the sideline while other people that they did not perceive as being as bright nor as talented lived in nicer homes and enjoyed a better quality of life.   …continues

If your results right this very instant are not where you want them to be, and if you have more excuses than goals achieved, when would be a good time to get back to the fundamentals of goal setting, focus and execution?   …continues

Throughout every area of your life it’s important to understand that ALL unfinished goals, projects and relationships are the result of broken promises, unfulfilled commitments, and lack of accountability.   …continues

If you want to learn how to alter your mental programming, to walk down a different street and design a bigger, bolder, and better life than you must learn how to create history rather than repeat patterns and habits that do not produce desirable results.  …continues

In our highly competitive world, your ability to consistently demonstrate initiative is a true competitive advantage as the vast majority of people lean towards procrastination and hesitation as their operative performance state.   …continues