Motivation

Stand Up

If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good. — Thomas J. Watson, Jr What initially separates the leaders, changemakers, and heroes from everyone else [...]

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Choosing Engaged and Meaningful over Comfort

Nearly two years ago, Catherine Caine sent me this topic request: While going through the idea garden this morning, I came across it again. Given some of the things I’ve been thinking about and working on here recently, it’s prescient. So, better late than never, here goes. Comfort is over-marketed and over-rated. Most of the [...]

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No vs. Not Now

I’ve had to take a lot of my own medicine over the last couple of months. I’ve always had a bigger vision than Productive Flourishing, the website, as much as I’m proud of what we’ve built thus far. Here recently, a piece of my broader vision has taken hold something fierce. It’s woken me up [...]

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End Malaria Makes A Difference in a Teenager’s Life

I got the following card from Dana Reeves a few weeks ago: Here’s what it says: Charlie, My copy of End Malaria arrived today – thank you! My 15 year-old was interested in it so we spent an hour together reading it and then he went online and did some research about the problems in [...]

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How to Avoid Motivating Yourself to an Early Grave

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Mike Bundrant of the iNLP Center. During my high stress years as an executive in corporate America, my least favorite part of the day was hearing the alarm clock go off in the morning. Getting up to face a new day of tough work challenges and even tougher [...]

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A Different Past Would’ve Changed You – So What?

We’re just coming back from our fourth Lift Off Retreat – more on that later, as I’ll keep my tradition of doing the post-Lift Off wrap-up as a video post – and, for something special and different, we asked Tim Berry to join us and talk about the more personal side of business building. Tim [...]

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Are They Actually Doing Your Ecourse?

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Tara Sophia Mohr from Wise Living. Several times in the past few months, I received notes from my customers that said something like this: “I love your course, but any suggestions on how to make time and space for it? I’m super busy and I’m struggling with [...]

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Reframing That Nasty Four-Letter F-Word

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Michael Van Osch of thinktankmen.com. Of course the nasty four-letter F-word I’m referring to is FAIL. The power we’ve given this little word is responsible for more lost dreams and missed goals than any other – the mere thought of it can hold us hostage in our [...]

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Eyes Forward

When you’re looking at a successful entrepreneur, remember that you’re looking at someone who has made a lot of mistakes in their time. They’ve bought the crap. They’ve bought into the crap. They’ve gambled. And lost. They’ve groped in the darkness and stubbed their toes a few times. They’ve reworked, reiterated, reframed, restarted, and revised. [...]

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