Dr. Success Challenge: This one should be easy. All that is needed is that you tell yourself the truth. Last week’s challenge was to keep track of all the coincidences that occurred during the week. This week’s challenge is to answer this one question: Did you complete last week’s challenge? “Yes” or “No”. Nothing changes...Read More

Dr. Success Challenge: Make a list of every coincidence that occurred today. Things like an email arriving from someone you had been meaning to contact; your returning to the office to say one last thing to someone and you see a report on your desk you had wanted to take with you and would have...Read More

Dr. Success Challenge: Think back on your business career. Have you ever wished that you could crush a competitor, gotten back at someone who might have fired you, see a company you had worked with or client you had once serviced, meet with business failure? Make a list of those situations. Now look at that...Read More

I do not mean to beat a dead horse…yet twice in as many weeks I had the opportunity to participate in activities involving a book and how it contributed to bottom line of a non-profit benefiting children. Last week it was Be The Hero, by Noah Blumenthal, which I will update you on at the...Read More

Are you brave enough to Be The Hero? It just might be easier than you think! Author Noah Blumenthal’s just released book guides you through the day-to-day life of his main character’s thoughts, interactions and the consequences of those thoughts and interactions. Even though parables are not my preferred book reading or recommending genre (I...Read More

So it’s time for a bit of a confession. One of my greatest personal development challenges has been the releasing of judgment of myself and others. I could tell you that I was doomed from the start and that my Myers-Briggs ESTJ personality is all to blame, but anyone who understands that theory knows its...Read More

Appreciate (v): to judge with heightened perception or understanding. Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary Success Challenge: Observe things you take for granted. A warm cup of coffee when you get to the office, your computer operating as it was intended, the phone working or the person who hands you your ticket at the train station. What...Read More

The M Resort is the newest contribution to the casino resort scene in Las Vegas. I make it a rule to stay away from newly opened properties until things have settled down. I had been intrigued by an article written by In Business Tourism Insider Benjamin Spillman soon after the property opened extolling the exceptional...Read More

Author Thomas Friedman cautions that the world is getting hot, flat and crowded in his current book of the same title, and I postulate that the answer is to love, to learn and to prosper. They don’t call me Dr. Success for nothing, so let me be direct. Being resilient and developing your resilience is...Read More

Rarely does a week go by that someone does not say to me, “How do you stay so positive?” or “How can you be so resilient?” In the confusion of losing our savings, our investment in a business, and the business itself, I did not initially realize that they were not asking a rhetorical question...Read More