Success

Just because I am an employee doesn’t mean I have to think, act and speak like one. My first ten years of working for someone else was dominated by what I call “The Employee Mentality”. I sounded and acted like this:

The company I work for is so cheap!

They play favorites here, and I will never get promoted!

I am going to do just enough to keep my job because that’s what they deserve!

The only time I get excited at work is 5pm, holidays, vacations and weekends!

I come in late and leave early!

I am […]

This had to be a mistake! I was just as miserable and frustrated with my new job as I had been in the Military. I could not wait to get out of the Air Force, after eight years, to start what I thought would be an exciting and fulfilling career in sales. Welcome to Groundhog Day; I was reliving the same disappointing and frustrating day over and over.

Do you remember Bill Murray in Ground Hog Day? It’s a classic movie about a frustrated man stuck in what he believed was a dead end job and a dismal town […]

I ran into an old financial mentor about a year ago, and we sat down to catch up. He asked me what I was doing and how many of my goals had been achieved. After reviewing with him everything I had accomplished and was still working on since collaborating with him 5 years prior, he sat in silence looking at me. The silence seemed like it lasted for days and was very uncomfortable, but that was nothing compared to what he did next!

A look of astonishment came over his face. His shoulders slumped, and he exhaled a deep sigh […]

Maybe you have heard this before: I’d rather be lucky than good? Maybe you even uttered it yourself once or twice. I have a serious problem with this statement! Once you believe luck has anything to do with success you lose control of your destiny!

Your life becomes one big lottery because now success is a random game of chance. I am sure most of the time these words are muttered innocently because we are trying to deflect the spot light but those words are dangerous. Once that seed of doubt takes root in our minds it becomes a […]