S:0315 Principle: To Focus, First, Burn the Boats
(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.) If there is something you really want to do, eliminate all other options. If you have no way to turn back, all energy can be applied to going forward. If you want to be victorious in something new, […]
S:0310 Principle: Telephones Are For Action
(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.) Your telephone should be making noise. If it is ringing (people wanting to do business with you), congratulations. If it’s not ringing, you should be hearing a dial tone (as you call others to talk about opportunities). Have […]
S:0306 Principle: Clueless is Good
(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.) During a conversation following a recent wedding a guest commented that as the years were passing he was “pretty sure he was clueless.” Everyone laughed and the conversation headed in another direction, but he and I continued the […]
S:0293 Principle: You Can Be Right Or You Can Be Effective
(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.) Why not both? Seems reasonable, that you could be both right and effective, and sometimes you can. However, most of the time “being right” gets in the way of “being effective”. If you have a need to be […]
S:0289 Principle: Change = Intellect + Emotion
(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.) Sure, you want to lose weight. Or start selling. Or stop wasting time. Or start writing your book. Or … So, why don’t you? To know what you want, even to know how to get it, is an […]
S:0287 Principle: Reserves Stop the Domino Effect
(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.) Ever notice that when something goes awry in your life, other things also get messy? It is like dominoes that are stacked just right — each falling domino knocks the next one over. Just as you start to […]
S:0282 Principle: Spend More Than You Receive
(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.) How obvious is this? Not at all, is it? The usual principle is spend less than you receive and that makes sense at a glance. So when would you want to spend more than you receive? When you […]
S:0281 Principle: Spend Less Than You Receive
(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.) How obvious is this? You don’t have to be able to perform math much beyond the third-grade level to understand the truth of this principle. Yet until some dramatic event happens to them most people never take it […]
S:0274 Principle: Awareness Plus Action
(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.) Awareness is the MRI of mental skills. An MRI can tell a Doctor what’s wrong, maybe even why it hurts. But it doesn’t cure the condition. Just like in medicine, it takes action to address a condition when […]
S:0268 Principle: Observing Traditions
(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you easier and quicker.) Traditions exist for reasons, nothing becomes a tradition by accident. We get some benefit from the repeated behavior of a tradition or else it fades away. Many of the benefits we derive are feeling-based. Typically our traditions cause […]