Tag: success

The Gist:

• Success is an end state, one that provides a fleeting but positive feeling.
• We undervalue progress, which provides a sustainable feeling of growth and accomplishment.
• Many people give up because they undervalue progress and…

The Gist:

• Noise about changes in sales is mainly used to capture attention, making sales research a fashion business.
• While there have been real changes to how we sell, the fundamentals that create success don’t change much.
• Your…

Howard Bloom introduced me to the idea of memetics in 1995. You are no doubt familiar with genetics, the study of hereditary traits in all their variations, which created your biological programming. Memetics is the study of your cultural…

The Gist:

• You must choose between living an intentional life or allowing yourself to "drift."
• Success is the attainment of some aim or purpose, requiring you to decide what you want.
• Success is a system that you can adopt and repeat…

Your effectiveness and the quality of your life depends on how you interpret and respond to the world around you. The more appropriately you respond, the better your results. The opposite is also true: inappropriate responses, even to positive…

The Best Take Lessons: A somewhat introverted kid would disappear for a couple years. You wouldn’t see him for a while, and then he would show up with a guitar. He had filled his time taking lessons and jamming with the radio, learning to shred.…

Your mindset is a critical factor in producing successful results, since it helps you create the character traits and habits that move you towards your goals, your ambitions, and your dreams. The following list highlights several enduring elements…

If you pay attention to people that don't yet have what they want, you will find different varieties of beliefs or mindsets. With nothing more than an observation of what they say and do, you can easily categorize them into two groups. The first…

One of the primary differences between those who are successful and those who struggle to create the results they profess to want in their life is their view of who and what prevents them. The first group, those who create success for themselves,…

The neophiliac is one who loves what is new and novel, finding what's new and now to be more valuable than what came before it. One can, however, take this preference to an extreme, believing that something new and novel is better than old things,…