While I was being interviewed on the CBS Morning Show, the broadcaster noted that I had spoken on and written on success hundreds of times. And she said there seemed to be several variables that go into success. I agreed. But then she asked, “Dr. Zimmerman, if you could boil success down to two elements for our viewers, what would …
What’s the big deal about being a quitter?
“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 …