At a business dinner recently the interim CEO of Pinnacle Entertainment posed the following question to everyone at the table: “If you had 2 minutes face-to-face with President Obama, what would you ask of him or for him to do?” For a moment I really did not know what to say. Two minutes,one request. Even...Read More
Dr. Success challenge: Review your checkbook and your calendar. What does how you spend your money and where you spend your time say about what you value in your life? Is the picture accurate? I have been working with the following questions this week: What do you value? Where do you put your priorities? Within...Read More
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: 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
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
This is the second in a series of four blogs which I will be posting about a 20 something who has embraced their natural strengths and created early positive movement on their crooked road of success.Dr. Success Challenge: Pick your favorite top strength from your VIA (Values In Action) results. I know you have now...Read More
Dr. Success™ Challenge: If you feel stuck in any area of your life right now, find a book that inspires you (means you need to take action instead of complain). After reading the book, find five people to speak to about what you read, learned and what action you will be taking because of your...Read More
There are two things that are cornerstones to my work as Dr. Success: 1. Effective and efficient use of language to keep you self-motivated. 2. Expending the least amount of life energy for the greatest amount of result. Being both an entrepreneur and organizational psychologist, I get to study theory and put it into practice....Read More
Being an entrepreneur during a recession has many negative implications. And being true to my title of Dr. Success, there is always a benefit to be found in every less than desirable life situation. A moment ago I posted the following away message on my business email: “I have decided to use the week of...Read More
As I move from meeting to meeting during this first business week of this beautiful new year of hope, I am struck continually by the unending conversations of sluggish sales, lower donations, lower expectations. In an email this morning I was reminded that the month January is named after the Roman god Janus who was...Read More
