A clear personal brand communicates what you have to offer and attracts desirable opportunities.
When your livelihood depends on self-imposed productivity, you either get good at it or you find yourself in mounds of debt.
Middle school is kind of like Middle-earth. It’s a magical journey filled with elves, dwarves, hobbits, queens, kings, and a few corrupt wizards. Word to the wise: pick your traveling companions well. Ones with the courage and moral fiber to persev...
Billions of dollars worth of research knowledge lie dormant at American universities waiting for the right disruptor to come along and create a business.
Crowdsourcing is the ultimate disruptor of distribution because in a most Zen-like fashion, the content is controlled by everyone and no one at the same time.
There are two types of people in this world: those whose look for opportunity and those who make it happen.
A negative mind will never find success. I have never heard a positive idea come from a person in a negative state.
Would you rather work forty hours a week at a job you hate or eighty hours a week doing work you love?
Starting each day with a positive mindset is the most important step of your journey to discovering opportunity.
Disruption causes vast sums of money to flow from existing businesses and business models to new entrants.
The business world is littered with the fossils of companies that failed to evolve. Disrupt or be disrupted. There is no middle ground.
There is a difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn't work. Failure is throwing in the towel and giving up.
If teachers are uncomfortable at their own school, they will pass on their uncertainties or negative attitude to students.
I knew I could always earn money from a job. What I didn’t know was could I extend the dream of writing beyond my trip?
Just as physical wounds heal at different rates in different people, so do emotional wounds. Everyone has different needs and speeds.
Public speaking professionals say that you win or lose the battle to hold your audience in the first 30 seconds of a given presentation.
The trick for business professionals, and for educators, is to present bodies of information so compelling that the audience does this (encoding) on their own, spontaneously engaging in deep and elaborate encoding.
The more handles one creates at the moment of learning, the more likely the information is to be assessed at a later date. The handles we can add revolve around content, timing, and environment.
... all too often, a successful new business model becomes the business model for companies not creative enough to invent their own. [2002] p.46
God is great not just because nothing is too big for Him. God is great because nothing is too small for Him, either.
Dr. Neal Roese makes a fascinating distinction between two types of regret: regrets of action and regrets of inaction.
