Years ago, I heard a guy from Canada speak about what it would be like to watch a sports event with no scoreboard present. He talked about how confusing it would be for the coaches and players as they took the field and realized that they couldn’t see who was winning by looking to either...

I hear companies talk a lot about innovation. They often think those who innovate are mysterious or are magically gifted with a creative spark that simply doesn’t exist for the rest of humanity. In my experience, being an innovator comes down to 2 primary keys, and neither of them is magic....

We often think of success in life as this grand, complicated plan that needs to be created. That isn’t the case, though. The truth about success is that it comes down to some very simple things.

The first thing is direction. I see so many people that are going through life trying this thing...

The whole world opens up when you give up the need to be better. The mindset of the beginner is that of curiosity. The longer a person is focused in a given area, though, the more difficult it can be to preserve the beginner mindset. When I first started speaking professionally, I read everything...

Lately, I’ve been wondering what makes one person more inspiring than another. It seems that our world loves failure turned success. We glamorize the idea that people made consistently bad choices for years, hurting their family and friends, at times even destroying lives. The story of our...

Three primary habits of success create your experience of this world. How one interacts with or manages these key areas will determine the experience they have in this life. Those who accomplish great things are intentional about managing themselves in relation to these habits. Napoleon Hill...

I would imagine every generation of young people has imagined being wildly successful on an idea alone. It would come to them in a flash of insight that they put down on paper, and then people show up to magically make them rich because the idea is so good. I know those were my thoughts at 27...

Trust is at the very foundation of leadership. For anyone in a leadership role for more than a minute, you recognize that your primary job is to get others to want to do what you want/need them to do. This idea of moving people toward a stronger sense of internal motivation can be perplexing when...