“Winners never quit and quitters never win.” I’m sure you’ve heard that sentence many times in your lifetime. And some of you may be tempted to flick it off as some silly, old-fashioned slogan that doesn’t apply to you. Big mistake. As three-time Olympian Ruben Gonzalez says, “When you decide quitting is not an option, you will soon be in …
What works better? Restrictive Lock-downs or Freer Open-ups?
We’ve just come through two tough years of a pandemic. If that wasn’t difficult enough, almost every day the federal and state governments and various parts of the private sector gave us new or conflicting information on how we were supposed to behave. I just so happened to have offices in two different states that took totally opposite approaches to …
8 Words You Must Follow to be Successful at Anything
If you were asked to summarize your life in six words, what would you say? When a particular group of people was asked to do that, they came up with the following six-word memoirs. · Memorized all of my worry lines. · I was terrified. Did it anyway. · Sketchy past has people drawing conclusions. · Saw Jenny Craig. Chose …
Can people really trust you? What makes you so sure?
You are either telling the truth or you are telling a lie. There is no middle ground. Now that may seem too simplistic, but that’s the way most people see it. Take employees, for example. They don’t know when a lie from the boss is so small that it’s okay. And they don’t know when a lie is so big …