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I’ve never been afraid of heights. As I’ve talked about before, one of the fun things I do every time I go to a new city is to locate the tallest skyscraper and go hang out at the top floor. Every time I fly on an airplane, which is all the time, I always get a window...
Today I'm going to give you the best analogy for business success I've ever heard in my life (and I've heard a lot). I'm no pilot, but my understanding is that when you're tearing down the runway right before takeoff, you need to push the throttle to 100% power. Only...
One of the fastest ways to boost your productivity and results is to implement a system of daily accountability with yourself. There are lots of ways to do this, but the easiest way is to simply track your key numbers every day. "Key numbers" can mean different things...
If you haven't heard yet, the stock market just crashed, dropping over 1000 points before rebounding (somewhat). Everyone is freaking out, as is the usual case with the stock market. Everyone is blaming China's stock market woes, but that's simply the straw that broke...
Zappos, the online shoe store (recently purchased by Amazon) has a very interesting employee management system. The have a "standing offer to quit." At any time, they will pay $5,000 to any employee who wants to quit. What? Yep. Any employee who wants to quit...
Full credit for this concept goes to Gerry O’Brion. When developing your brand, from which your marketing should spring, here are the four questions you should ask. These are the same four questions used by successful, multibillion dollar corporations. 1. Who is your...
Customers are worth more in some businesses than in others, based on the number of times that same customer buys from you. If you sell blu-ray players, a customer doesn't have much long-term value. He buys a blu-ray player and then you'll probably never see him again....
I've been trying to get to Washington DC for a few years now, and every time I tried life has interceded. Finally I'm here. As I'm writing (most of) this blog post, my trip is almost done, having been here about two weeks. First I attended a conference for...
I used to frequent a dry cleaning establishment located about four minutes away from my house. The location was very convenient because it was close and always on the way to just about anywhere else I was going. They did an adequate job. They didn’t screw up my...
Utter neutrality is not a condition that exists in human life. Everything you do or do not do either harms you or helps you. Everything either gives or takes away. Everything either adds or lessens. There isn’t any action (or inaction) that results in “nothing.”...
When my daughter was about three years old, I sat her down in front of a computer for the very first time and showed her how to use the mouse. We used a simple coloring app at Barney.com (yes, the purple dinosaur). I showed her how to click, double-click, and drag....
The chaos in Greece is a fascinating demonstration of what happens when the utterly corrupt and the patently stupid work together, and then against each other. Much like American politics, everyone is so busy taking sides that they forget both sides are wrong. On one...
I’m going to be moving at some point in the next 4-8 months. I’m doing the usual exercise of looking at a billion different houses with my real estate agent. This is the tedious part, spending all this time going through and looking at all the homes. For most of my...
Here’s a fun and easy technique to make you feel rich and to capture some free money in your life. The average American creates between 42 and 89 cents per day in pocket change. That’s a few hundred bucks a year. If you have a family, multiply that number by the...
One of the greatest problems with the modern-day workplace is that people are not taught in school, or by their parents, how to work diligently, focused, and consistently. Instead, schools give kids a pile of work, show them how to do it, give them a deadline, and...
Positive thinking is assuming a happy thought and focusing on it even if you know it’s not, or may not be objectively true. The best example is when you’re in a bad mood and you think or say to yourself “I’m happy!” You’re not happy, but you say it or focus on it...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3ccAKMXnSo The Department of Justice ran a test where they tried to smuggle weapons through TSA screeners at American airports. The airport screeners failed to find 67 weapons of the 70 tests. That's a 95% failure rate. These from the...
The above is a picture I took today. It’s the view from my tent. When I go camping, I try to get as close to water as I can, unless I’m out in the desert. I’m a city dweller and technology lover and always will be. Yet to be a well-rounded person, it’s really...
There’s one primary reason I’ve been successful in certain areas of my life. It’s this: I only do what has the highest odds of working. One of the great fallacies of life is that success is about beating the odds or being the exception to the rule. Nothing could be...
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