“Give me a stock clerk with a goal, and I’ll give you someone who will make history. Give me someone without a goal, and I will give you a stock clerk.” J.C. Penney How true! Few things in life are more powerful than goals. Look at the Japanese people. After a devastating defeat in World War II, the Japanese leaders …
The Road Map To Success Is Not A Secret
“By the time you’re eighty years old you’ve learned everything. You only have to remember it.” George Burns I get asked lots of questions in my seminars, but perhaps the most frequently asked question is about success. People want to know the “secrets” of success. That’s why I spent years putting together my two-day program called “The Journey To The …
Lessons For Becoming A Winner On And Off The Job
There comes a time to move from deliberation to decision and from consideration to commitment. A while ago, my wife Chris and I were hiking with our friends Mike and Jan Saarela in Glacier National Park. As luck would have it, we found a cafe on the edge of the park that advertised “Good, Old-Fashioned, Home Cooking.” When we had …
Why Not Me?
“He is strong who conquers others; he who conquers himself is mighty.” Lao-Tzu Sarah came up to me during a break in a seminar I was conducting. She said, “Alan, I really WANT to move up in my job, but I just can’t.” I asked about her personal development plan and about all the things she was doing to move …