Dr. Success Challenge: Get fired and remain optimist. Some challenges don’t need much explanation, but since it is my blog, I will elaborate. Everyone knows someone who has been fired, or maybe you have even been fired yourself. In early June, I had the opportunity to be fired from a gig I was not even...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

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

Successful Conversations in Interesting Times What is a Successful Conversation? One that makes you feel better when you have completed it than before you had it. During these interesting economic times there is no better opportunity to practice engaging in conversations that matter. To guide the conversations toward possible positive action instead of dejection and...Read More

Spend 7 minutes and feel your heart smile. The theme of my AMAZ television segment this week was the media, the reporting of bad news, and what you can do about it. I became aware of this YouTube video while wathcing Brian Willams on NBC Nightly News last night. I like that NBC Nightly News...Read More

A few weeks ago a wrote an blog twittering about twitter and how we serious, success minded adults need not preoccupy ourselves with adolesence type behavior. This morning I am having some crow for breakfast. Care to join me! They don’t call me Dr. Success for nothing! I do persevere even when I can’t figure...Read More

Would you be willing to explore spirituality if I told you it would make you more resilient? There is one question that I have been asked more in the last several months than at any other time in my business career. The question is: “How do you survive this economy?” I know at some level...Read More

One of the first questions we’re asked as children is, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” In the United States this question literally begins our life-long process of goal setting, especially in our careers. We are encouraged in our culture to set goals, goals and more goals. We are taught how...Read More