You can’t reach your potential or live life to the fullest if you spend your days making excuses, having or accepting low standards, and doing just enough   …continues

Your entire life is an accumulation of tiny details and small decisions . While we measure our lives in years, we live them in days, hours, minutes, and seconds.  …continues

When every nitty-gritty detail is lovingly attended to, and each step in the process is given complete and careful attention, the result inevitably will be of the highest quality.   …continues

Just like any building needs a solid architectural design, every highly successful life must be purposely designed and built to achieve a specific set of appropriate objectives.   …continues

Man of La Mancha rocked Broadway in 1966 with its thundering theme song, THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM.

It opens in soft reflection, “To dream the impossible dream… To fight the unbeatable foe…” but then   …continues

Your performance is representative of your practice, and your philosophy. It shows and it counts.

Every champion knows that everything they think, say and do counts.   …continues

Seriously consider this question as the answer will tell you a lot about your future. This question alone has allowed me to succeed and coach people to make monumental performance gains.   …continues

No matter how good or bad your results have been in the past – you can always do better.

Yet, the single biggest key to improving both your performance and your results seems to go ignored by almost everybody.   …continues

Success is the end result of doing the Right Things… the Right Way… at the Right Time… for the Right Reasons.

What more could be asked of you if you are consistently doing your 4 R’s?  …continues

Sweat the small stuff (graffiti, aggressive panhandling, petty crime) and you’ll stop problems before they grow bigger.   …continues

We each have our own idea of “as good as it gets”, and while perfection will never be obtained, our individual and collective goal is and should always be to perform as flawlessly as possible!   …continues

Just like any building needs a solid architectural design, every highly successful life must be purposely designed and built to achieve a specific set of appropriate objectives.   …continues

What does it mean to exceed expectations?

Expressing gratitude and appreciation raises our consciousness, recharges our energy, enhances our self-worth, and strengthens our spirit.   …continues

Expressing gratitude and appreciation raises our consciousness, recharges our energy, enhances our self-worth, and strengthens our spirit.   …continues

If all we do is help people and do things for them all the time, then they rely on us, which is not only unhealthy for their development of skills, it also makes them psychologically weak, confidence deprived, and quite literally puts their very future at risk.   …continues

Your ability to demonstrate this quality impacts every relationship, every communication, every work project, every business venture, every effort in which you’re engaged.  …continues

Because you can only do what you have creatively imagined, the first step toward accomplishing a goal is to project it onto the visual sketchpad of your mind. You may have heard this referenced as “seeing it in your mind’s eye”  …continues

Every goal you want to achieve requires the enforcement of self-discipline, self-control and self-awareness.

To build a solid reputation with yourself and others, to earn more money   …continues

Death and taxes are not the only guarantees in life: the truth counts as well, yet far too many people spend their lives denying the truth, avoiding reality, and playing the game of perception management.   …continues

The companies that put customers first win much more than loyalty; they win advocates. As passionate advocates, customers jump on the bandwagon and freely recommend your company to friends, neighbors, and colleagues.   …continues

Your current questions, ideas, and efforts have brought you to where you are today. But if you want to produce bigger results, you need to think bigger too! Breakthroughs occur   …continues

Do you want to live The Rich Life?

It’s actually very simple, as your life-long challenge is to reach out, to expand your limits, to passionately pursue your goals and dreams and to enjoy the rewards as they always follow whenever   …continues

Individuals are not much different from companies.

Having a trusted personal brand, or reputation, nets you the same advantages as a company.   …continues

If the most important act of creation is self-creation, than one of your most important goals is to create a position for yourself as a rock star to your core audience.  …continues

NO company can exist without happy customers.

These are the people who pay the mortgage, put food on the table, and help put your kids through college.

Loyal customers keep coming back and spending more   …continues

Nothing concentrates the mind or tests our character like a demanding goal, the desire to be something better than we are, to be the complete person that we are meant to be.  …continues

Look at your life as a gift to future generations and rather than focusing on leaving an inheritance, let your character, your values, and the example of a life well-lived be your family heirloom to future generations.

Set an inspiring example that future generations will be proud of and more importantly want to protect and emulate.  …continues

We have to accept that becoming uncomfortable is not a nuisance, but a necessity to growth, excellence and success.

With that in mind, here are a few questions for you to consider   …continues

Serial reciprocity is exactly what one might expect – a series of sequential exchanges between parties.

I hope that by sharing this understanding of serial reciprocity and by offering it as a challenge, that it illuminates benevolent motives in people throughout the world.   …continues

Every second or minute that you can take out of process or activity–such as closing a sale, manufacturing a product, and responding to customer needs–saves you time, and makes you more money.  …continues

When will your finest hour come, and how will it arrive?

The leader who consistently displays bold behavior will far outperform the person who does not. Boldness helps propel a person beyond what he or she might otherwise achieve.   …continues

SOCRATES is well known for using questions as a technology and a method of reasoning. He saw his task as helping people to ‘give birth’ to new insights, since it was his conviction that real understanding must come from within.  …continues

Leadership is everybody’s business; it is an issue that affects each and every one of us. Not only do we look to leaders for guidance and direction, but also we are all called upon to exercise leadership in any number of temporary situations.  …continues

This isn’t just true in philosophy and art, but is true in science as well:

“The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.”   …continues

Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal – a commitment to excellence – that will enable you to attain the success you seek.

If you want a thing bad enough   …continues

More and more people these days confuse intentions with results. In fact, many see them as being one and the same. How wrong and casualty creating that thought process is as the only thing that matters is your ability to produce results.  …continues

Unlike other resources, what makes time truly unique is that it cannot be bought or sold, borrowed or stolen, stocked up or saved, manufactured, reproduced, or modified.

While this familiar maxim may seem like an invention of our hectic and impersonal modern society   …continues

What are you doing with them to make your life extraordinary?  …continues

Origami (from ori meaning “folding”, and kami meaning “paper”) is the traditional Japanese folk art of paper folding, which started in the 17th century AD and was popularized in the mid-1900s.

It has since then evolved into a modern art form.  …continues

Why don’t more people and organizations get the message that not only is quality cheaper to make, it is also way cheaper to sell, in fact–it’s free!

The fact is, it’s always cheaper and smarter to do everything right the first time and here are a few reasons why  …continues

Most people are oblivious to their primary constraint and as a result continue to repeat an ongoing cycle of unproductive behavior.

You on the other hand, if you can identify it, than you can immediately begin working to correct it and I’d like to show you how.  …continues

If you aspire to make any kind of impact in the new world of business you must realize that you are really playing an altogether different game -competing for the future.

The future dictates new rules and if you don’t write them, someone else will!  …continues

There’s never a good time to be mediocre, but a recession punishes those who are inflicted with this disease. As far as employment opportunities are concerned, it’s cherry picking time for smart managers and entrepreneurs.  …continues

If you really wanted to make significant and lasting change, you would ALREADY be skinny, happy and rich beyond your wildest dreams.

This brings up the critical question, if desire is not a strong enough emotion to get you to successfully achieve your goals, than what is?

The answer is…   …continues

If you have a big, ambitious goal that’s been begging for your attention, when should you pursue it?

When should you start doing anything that’s really worth doing? You need to do it now!   …continues

With ever greater expectations and distractions, focusing on what’s most important, the highest and best use of your time has become more of a challenge than ever before.  …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

Everything you want in life, every goal you want to achieve, every dream you want to manifest comes with a price tag.

There is NO FREE LUNCH when it comes to true success and achievement.  …continues

One thing we all have in common is that we all love a challenge. For some it could be a goal that puts you to the test, an obstacle that says you can’t beat me, a belief system that is begging for a breakthrough, or even a mountain that just dares you to climb it.   …continues

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

If you’re tired of struggling with debt, fearful of the current economic crisis, and paralyzed by the pace of change, I’ve got a great way for you to take control of your future.   …continues

There will never be a day in your life that will not require honesty, integrity, compassion, character, good judgment, discipline, self-control or focus.

In addition, there will never be a day of your life that does not provide you with the opportunity to get better, providing you the feeling that you can improve, if you only step up and answer the call.   …continues

A flawed premise of success is that the goal is the most important ingredient in the stew of success, and that you win or lose based on the merits or worthiness of the goal. How wrong and casualty-creating that premise is as the best goal or most honorable intention cannot survive poor execution.   …continues

Expose yourself to new ideas, to stimulating conversation, to positivity, to good–honorable people, to quality music, to healthy food, and…anything that displays excellent.  …continues

Once you recognize the importance of these acts and consider their implications, it becomes difficult to imagine daily life without engaging in random acts of benevolence.

If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.   …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

True, big-time, legitimate success is something that is achieved by the MINORITY of people, and is therefore unnatural and not to be achieved by following our natural likes and dislikes nor by being guided by our natural preferences and prejudices.   …continues

Doing Things Right the First Time is a philosophy, a mentality, and a performance standard.

It’s a practical measure against which any system; process, action, or outcome can be analyzed.

  …continues

Success is the result of making and keeping commitments to yourself and others, while all failed or unfinished goals, projects and relationships are the direct result of broken commitments. It’s that simple, that profound, and that important.   …continues

Your mind thinks about what it is exposed too. Therefore, consciously give serious exposure to whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable. If anything is excellent or praiseworthy, expose yourself accordingly.   …continues

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

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

The vast majority of people settle for just a small squeak of their potential because they bought into the belief that simply being reasonable is the way to go. How foolish and casualty creating that belief is.  …continues

I can tell you this with complete confidence, that by examining your behavior and results, I can see a clear picture of your commitment, I can gain an innate sense of your character, I can grasp a near perfect understanding of your beliefs, and I can most certainly see what you are really made of.  …continues

No is a word of pure power that is both inner and out directed, and one that you must implement with great authority and conviction.

Your success in life requires a short “Yes” list, and a long “No” list.   …continues

Comebacks, redemption and second acts are ubiquitous in our culture today and so often it is a major setback like cancer, divorce, job loss, the death of a loved one, bankruptcy, or an accident that puts the spotlight on our lives and shows us the way to a meaningful “second act.”   …continues

Practice is probably something you think you?re done with when you leave school or give up music lessons. But, have you ever thought of practicing the fine art of gratitude?

The simplicity of gratitude and the powerful effect it has on our lives is unequaled by any other practice of its kind.   …continues

Discipline is the virtue that gives you the courage and the inner resolve to do what you said you would do – when you said you would do it – period.  …continues

Technological changes have ushered in an era of radical strategic repositioning.

Competitive advantages and profits will belong to innovators who transcend the existing parameters of competition.  …continues

Keeping score and inspecting your progress is important, not only in determining the ultimate winner of a contest, but also as a measuring device by which a person, team or company can gauge itself against the competition.   …continues

Low achievers have a kind of blasé, laissez-faire attitude, when it comes to preparation. While high achievers prepare well and practice in advance to perform at their very best.   …continues

The world is filled with non-achievers who believe that intentions are more important than results.

For knuckleheads, effort is the same as accomplishment.   …continues

When professional athletes perform well, they are not surprised at all. In fact, they expected to do well because they preformed flawlessly in their mind first – they visualized success in advance.   …continues

The tragedy of the average knucklehead is that they have become dependent on the deception, false belief, and unfortunately ease of use associated with making excuses.   …continues

Because establishing goals is so important, you should put a great deal of time and mental effort into the process. The more specific your vision, the more likely you are to organize yourself around it.   …continues

Manage your outgoing and incoming calls with the same level of professionalism and discipline that you would with any business meeting.   …continues

ALL interruptions are self-inflicted. You either let the interruptions happen or you don?t.

If everyone believes that you are available at all times, you are.   …continues

One of the most important parts of being organized is figuring out what to do with all that paper.

The sheer volume can be overwhelming therefore you must have a system in place that manages the way you handle paper and you must be diligent in sticking to that system.   …continues

There is a tremendous opportunity cost associated with remaining disorganized as every misplaced message or task left unaccomplished has a cost.

Some times the cost can be diminished reputation, lose of opportunity, and even financial pain. A lot of unfortunate, negative perceptions are created by the appearance of disorganization.   …continues

Your time management system might be good or bad, conscious or unconscious, but don’t be deceived; you do have a system for being organized or disorganized.

Your office or home might be in shambles. In that case, whether you admit it or not, your system consists of living in a mess.   …continues

One thing you can count on from far too many people is their consistency in being late for just about any meeting. They are an equal opportunity offender and THIEF of others time, and patience.

These knuckleheads are not the sharpest knives in the drawer; they waltz in late, apologize profusely and insist that this incident was highly unusual.   …continues

After you establish your goals and priorities for a day, hour, or a particular meeting or project you must compartmentalize.

Compartmentalization means focusing on each individual item without letting any one activity encroach upon the timing and effectiveness of any other.   …continues

A commitment to quality is a commitment to perfection as quality comes from putting your heart and soul into your work.

It means that you are lovingly doing all of the things that bring out your absolute best.   …continues

Guido Daniele is a brilliant artist who has turned his hand to creating a wholly different style of painting which he dubs as ?Handimals?.

Rather than working on canvas, he uses human hands to produce these stunning animals – like a Technicolor version of the “shadows on the wall” game.   …continues

Paul Dalton has been hailed as “the best car wash in the world” by Autocar magazine, but an average invoice of $550 gives you a clue that this is more than your average shampoo and polish.

His company Miracle Detail, specializes in ‘detailing’ high-end cars, from vintage classics to supercars such as the Bugatti Veyron, and can cost anything up to a wallet-busting $5,000.   …continues

Perfectionism helps the composer, poet, and writer to craft a work of beauty from random words which in turn touches the heart and mind.

Perfectionists search for ways to make the complex simple, visualize the perfect outcome, and work with an obsessive sense of conviction to make their vision a reality.   …continues

Wish Upon A Hero is a very special site which was conceived by a very special man, Dave Girgenti.

Shortly after the September 11th attacks on New York City and from his home in NJ, Girgenti watched as thousands of people posted pictures of missing loved ones throughout the city.   …continues

Every morning when you wake up, you can — and should — embrace the notion that there is something about you, your life, your business, or the way that you carry yourself that could stand to be improved.

Every day requires dedication, discipline, good judgment, energy — and the feeling that there’s something about yourself that you can make better.   …continues

Let’s cut right to the chase, you make hundreds of decisions every day. Some matter more than others. But committing to excellence is one of the most important decisions you will ever make in terms of your life’s success.

Excellence is a quality, a standard, and it will become the expected norm once you embrace excellence as a core value.   …continues

A flawed premise of success is that the goal is the most important ingredient in the stew of success, and that you win or lose based on the merits or worthiness of the goal. How wrong and casualty-creating that premise is as the best goal or most honorable intention cannot survive poor execution.

Goals never fail. Only implementation does!  …continues

In computer science there exists a term called the divide-and-conquer algorithm.

What this algorithm basically does is that it breaks down a larger problem into smaller sub-problems and each of those sub-problems are then broken down into even smaller sub-problems.  …continues

The other night I was watching a 60 Minutes interview with Olympic Champion Michael Phelps. During the interview, the host Anderson Cooper showed pictures of Phelps winning the 100-meter butterfly final at the Water Cube in Beijing by ONE-HUNDREDTH of a second over Serbia’s Milorad Cavic. >…continues

Mark Johnson is the producer of a remarkable documentary about the simple but transformative power of music: Playing for Change: Peace Through Music.

Playing for Change is a movement uniting people all over the world through music and inspiration. I absolutely love their mission and commitment to inspiring peace through music.   …continues

There’s a very popular book series that has enjoyed a long life on the best seller list titled, Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff.

As pragmatic advice on how to run a business and live a life of excellence, it’s a big steaming pile of nonsense. This is bad advice, and it spells trouble in the current economy.…continues