Personal Growth
About Your Climb to the Top…
If you are still climbing the ladder to success, the question is, which rung are you on?
Are you still locked at worry and doubt… second-guessing your skills and capabilities? Have you moved up to excellence and mastery?
Are you now at the top where you have real freedom, and the means to do everything your heart desires? What most would call true wealth?
Do You Have The Fierce Determination to Succeed?
Look inside the men and women charged with keeping us free, and you will see a fierce determination to succeed.
They know the mission, and are willing to lay down their lives to achieve it.
Sometimes by just their sheer force of will.
And an unconditional commitment to a single word: EXCELLENCE:
Excellence in THOUGHT…
Excellence in PLANNING…
Excellence in ACTION…
A thought on your climb to the top…
Take a moment to reflect back on the last 5 years of your life.
You spent your time. Did you get what you hoped for in return?
In other words, was the climb worth the effort?
The Imagination Connection
When we were creating The Power of TQ and 10 Choices of Intentional Excellence, we asked a simple question, “Why do some people succeed brilliantly, where others fail dismally?”
The correct answer, supported by millions of data points, is that people who succeed EXPECT to succeed, where failures fail, simply because they do not EXPECT to succeed in the first place.
What are your top 3, most critical activities?
All last week we talked about passion, purpose and mission. Yes, it is essential that you KNOW your purpose in life. Yes, it is essential that you LIVE your purpose.
Until you do, you are spending the one life you have to live on things that simply don’t matter.
Once you understand this… once you commit to this… once you make the determination that you WILL live your purpose… the question becomes “HOW?” Just how in the world am I going to make this happen?
Are you just living in a dream or living your dreams?
This week, we will be doing a “refresher” course on dreams and dreaming. Your dreams are critically important in the grand scheme of things—because without them, your life has no future.
These three thieves, Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt, will rob you of your future.
This week, I want to cover a topic that is a big stopper of BOTH dreaming and doing: FEAR. If you let them, these three thieves, Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt, will rob you of your future. They put a big damper on each of the 10 Colors within your Time Prism… which causes you an enormous reduction in your personal POWER.
The Journey to Destiny…
Our prime Mission at TQ… every waking moment… every thought we think… every product or service we develop… is designed to make it easier for ordinary people to produce extraordinary results over time.
With hundreds of millions of data points, we have found that the vast majority of people find themselves locked in a constant battle between success and survival.
Are you prepared for the inevitable economic storm ahead?
Charles Darwin opined that “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent. It is the one that is most adaptable to change.”
You know that the global economy teeters on a precipice — both candidates for US President agree that big changes are needed and coming…
What Is Your Time Quotient? Why Should You Care?
Last week we discussed the difference between hopes and wishes vs. crystal-clear EXPECTATIONS. As I pointed out all week, what you have the RIGHT to expect is based on four Colors within your personal Time Prism: Your sense of purpose and MISSION… your ATTITUDE… your ability to set Smart GOALS… and your ability to establish […]
What does it take for you to be a winner?
“Without AMBITION one starts nothing. Without WORK one finishes nothing. The prize will NOT be sent to you. You have to WIN it. The man who knows HOW will always have a job. The man who also knows WHY will always be his boss. As to METHODS there may be a million and then some, […]
What is Your Excellence Factor?
Have you ever wondered why some people achieve success beyond their wildest hopes, dreams and expectations… while others struggle just to make it from payday to payday? Have you ever wondered why some people make a fortune in their businesses—truly capitalizing on their talents, strengths and interests—while others go through their life savings, staying just one step ahead of the bankruptcy courts?
What is the REAL reason one person succeeds where another with the same talent fails?
“Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
Study Ben Franklin’s quote carefully. It is prophetic. Successful, happy and well-adjusted people have a whole lot of “good habits” and very few “bad habits” driving their performance — which means they have a tremendous net worth to themselves and society at large.
No question, there is a tremendous difference between successful people and those who struggle just to live an ordinary life. While the reason may seem obvious, the reality goes deeper.
Over the last 20 years, we have learned that there is in fact a root-cause for this.
Instantly More Successful… Hype or Hope?
I know this sounds like a hopelessly over-hyped offer, but this is what we do here every day!
As you have come to know, TQ measures how smart you take action — the true measurement of your success potential.
Essentially, we measure what you do against what the most successful people in the world actually DO.
It stands to reason that if you make the same smart choices, and take the same smart actions as highly successful people, then you too will enjoy high achievement.
Become a Born-Again Possibility Thinker!
The Young Vs. The Old — Possibility Vs. Probability Thinking…
When we are young, first starting out, we ignore all the rules, dangers, doomsayers and think with one of the most powerful words in the English language: POSSIBILITIES.
We look for OPPORTUNITY regardless of the risks. We judge the road ahead by where it might lead, versus the certainty of a well-established, known destination.
Clearly, we are far more likely to pursue the road less traveled.
Somewhere along the road, we start to become weary of the forks, twists, and turns. We start to think more of the destination rather than the journey.
A thought on Time and Money. Do you have enough of both?
It’s the end of the first quarter…
Are you exactly where you want to be 3 months into 2016?
Achieving stretch goals?
Always remember…
Your family lives on the RESULTS you produce…
Do you want a new future?
The simple truth is, we are all living in the most treacherous economy in history. We have entered the age of HYPER-COMPETITION. The best will THRIVE. The rest will bearly SURVIVE this dynamic reshaping of the global marketplace.
Goals are the mile markers by which reality finds its way to your dreams.
This week we are going to cover the importance of setting SMART Goals: Specific Measurable Achievable Realistic Tangible. If you don’t have SMART Goals, you don’t really have goals… and living what you value most will remain elusively out of reach.
Working Hard vs. Working Smart
So many of us just keep our shoulder to the wheel and never even consider there might be a better way to achieve the results we want. Need. Desire. We just accept what we get, and tell ourselves that that’s the best we can do.
But, what if you can do so much better? What if you could double, triple, even increase your results 10-20-100 times?!
Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success.
At the exact halfway point in the year, I find it useful to look back to see what I have accomplished—and look forward to see what I hope to accomplish before the year runs its course.
In a way, this turning-point is a critical juncture in reaffirming that what I say I want, is indeed what I intend to spend my working days pursuing—and if I have the power necessary to transform my hopes into tangible results.
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