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Power decisions
Friday, January 6th 2012
Add power to your decisions by acting on them immediately. When you make a choice to follow a particular path, start doing it right away, not by jumping blindly into it, but by taking the appropriate first step without hesitation.Commitment comes from action. Deciding in your mind is not enough to seal your commitment. When you delay taking action, it becomes less and less likely that your decision will ever be transformed into reality.
Give power to your choices by giving them your...
The voice of doubt
Thursday, January 5th 2012
You say you're ready for the challenge, but in the back of your mind you have serious, nagging doubts. There's a little voice that keeps popping up, reminding you of your self-imposed limitations.You may be able to convince the rest of the world, but if you cannot win over the little voice in the back of your mind, it will stop you cold.
The way to assuage that little voice is by sheer will and repetition. Every time it says "no you can't" you must immediately tell it &quo...
It only works both ways
Wednesday, January 4th 2012
Part of providing value to others is making sure you receive value in return. For example, if you have a conversation with someone, and you do all the talking, neither one of you benefits as much as if there had been a give-and-take interaction.Imagine what would happen if one of the major automobile manufacturers decided to give away its products for free. Initially, a lot of happy people would get free cars. Eventually, though, the company would run out of money. All the employees would...
One step at a time
Tuesday, January 3rd 2012
It is often difficult to imagine yourself reaching a great achievement. You look at someone who has built a massive fortune, or created a magnificent work of art, or achieved a prominent leadership role, and you have trouble identifying with that person.When you look at any great achievement, usually you can see only the end result. That's because the splendor of such an achievement overshadows all the little details that went into creating it. Yet the real substance of achievement is in ...
How to FEEL RICH!!!!!!!!!
Monday, January 2nd 2012
This essay first appeared in The New York Times. It is reprinted with permission of the author.
My father entered Williams College in Williamstown, Massechusetts, in September 1931. The United States was entering the downswing of a small uptick at the beginning of what would be the worst industrial depression in history.
My father had an unemployed father (a former skilled tool-and-die maker) and a mother who worked as a sales clerk at a department store in Schenectady,...