The late, great, John D. MacDonald, in an introduction to one of Stephen King’s books, told the story of how irritating it was to have folks come up to him at parties and say something inane like, “You know, I always wanted to be a writer”.
Now, every writer gets some of this, [...]
1. Decide what you want to do
2. do it
3. ask, “is this working”?
4. if yes, keep doing it,
5.if not, change and start again at 2.
[tags]success, decision making, how-to[/tags]
I often wish I had a time machine like the souped up DeLorean in Back to the Future so I could go back and tell younger me some things.
If someone had told me these things years ago (and I had listened), I would have saved myself countless heartache and pain. There are more, but these [...]
Question:
What would you do if you knew, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that you would not fail?
Think about what your answer is. If it is anything other than what you are doing right now, then the only thing holding you back is your fear of failure.
Think about this:
Failure is only feedback. Failure is NEVER [...]
Let’s be honest with each other for a minute. We do not do it for the money. Any damn fool can make money, and many of them do. I am an entrepreneur because I can’t NOT be. I am self-employed because I will to. I decided many years ago to steer my own course; to [...]
An increasing trend I have seen is employers exerting control
over their employees outside the workplace.
For example, on another blog I write for I noted the blogger who was told to quit blogging on hispersonal blog on his off time since he linked to his boss’s competitors. His boss told him he could keep the blog [...]
My Grandfather, who you will hear about often in these pages, was a primary influence on me and my life. He hated what he called “the entitlement culture” so prevalent in America today. When I saw the short “creed” below, I thought of my Grandfather.
[tag]Dean Alfange [/tag]was an American statesman born December 2, 1899, in [...]