Be determined to embrace the power of progress.

Progress is the passionate pursuit of your own personal and professional improvement. The success of your personal or organizational future lies in your ability to continually reinvent yourself. The price of progress is change. Happiness, excitement, and fulfillment come from your continual pursuit of progress. Progress shows up in the form of change, growth, and contribution.

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Initial change can happen now; intentional progress involves a process that does take some time. As I said previously, don’t buy into the deadly myth that it takes a “long time” to change your life. I believe that all real change happens in a moment. It just takes you awhile to get to the place where you are ready for change. When you are really ready to change, the change will be instantaneous.

Change that initiates progress does not take a long time. You can quickly change your life for the better!

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What if you had a switch inside of you like a thermostat to turn up your confidence would you use it?  Confidence is
the thermostat that regulates your degree of success in life. What steps are you willing to take to begin moving towards your new thermostat settings? Continue reading →

“Drivers, start your engines!” A stock car, dragster, or high production car has great potential. However, until the
engine starts, the car cannot operate at its full potential. The horsepower of the engine determines the car’s top
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Champions know the secret of positive self-talk.  Inside of you is a critic or a coach. Are you a critic or a coach?

Do you remember the old rhyme that you said as a kid, “Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me?” Friend, nothing could be farther from the truth. Words can cause wars and words can stop wars. Words can cause a divorce and words can cause a marriage to be restored. Words can, and do, hurt us. Especially those silent words that you speak to yourself on a daily basis, those words that nobody hears on the outside, but you hear on the inside. Continue reading →

I have noticed that every person, from CEOs to entry level workers, have times when it seems like everything goes
cold and their batteries go dead. The “Jump-Start Your Confidence Triangle” is your set of jumper cables during times when your confidence battery runs low and you need a quick boost to fire up your “outrageous success engine” again. Continue reading →

Question: You were unsure of yourself as a young student, but succeeded in pursuing higher learning later in life.  How did your attitudes about yourself hold you back initially, and how did you grow to overcome those attitudes? Continue reading →

Let me illustrate how this Achiever’s Triangle works to overcome your FUD with a story from my childhood.
My grandfather had an effective way of dealing with any fears, uncertainties, and doubts that I had as a kid. For instance, I was very afraid of my grandparents’ horse when I was a young boy. But one day my grandfather’s, exuding confidence, finally convinced me to at least get up on the horse and feel what it was like to “sit on the horse.” As soon as I got on the horse, my grandfather slapped the horse hard on its rear end. That horse took off running as fast as it could across the ten-acre Indiana cornfield. I was able to hang on for the first four hundred yards and then down to the ground I went. I picked myself up off the ground and was ready to go on another exciting ride. All my FUD of riding that horse suddenly vanished that day when my grandfather forced me to face my FUD with action.

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Champions are made in the process of preparation. Preparation is the difference between winning and losing. Before acceleration there must be preparation. Do you have the proper preparation made for acceleration? Continue reading →

Question: Public speaking is a very common fear. As someone who is frequently in front of an audience, what are your top 5 tips for nervous speakers to thrive in professional settings? Continue reading →