Posts Tagged ‘success’
Think It Through
There is a poem that I have kept with me since I was a kid. It has been a source of inspiration for years and I really wanted to share it with you tonight. When I mean that I've kept it, I mean that it has either been up on my office wall, or tucked in a notebook in my room, and it seems that I've always been able to access it when I have needed to for the last 30-some-odd years. Of course, this is not hard now that we have the internet, and I'm pretty sure that I found the latest and greatest version that I have online. In any [...]
Real Self Help
I was speaking to a group of sales professionals the other day and I let them in on a little secret. The topic was the toughest sales job they will ever have. It involved the most difficult prospect that they would ever have to persuade. And I also wanted them to know that once they were able to convince and sell this very specific person and convert them to their way of thinking, they would have a loyal customer for life. And a customer that would lead them to unbridled success. The little secret that I shared with them and which [...]
To Have Succeeded
There's a great little poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson that I love and thought was worth sharing with you today. There are many definitions of success, and truthfully because we are all so unique, we will all have different ways of measuring it in our own lives. It's always great to get someone's perspective on success, particularly if they are a really sharp person and successful themselves, like Emerson was. Read the poem he wrote and see if it inspires you or moves you in any certain way. I think it is as brilliant and meaningful as [...]
Talk About Awesome
Recently I had the pleasure of meeting the Los Angeles King's President of Business Operations, Luc Robitaille. Now, if you happen to be a hockey fan, you know that Luc is also a former player. And not just any former player...he is an NHL Hall of Famer. He played for the Kings, the Pittsburgh Penguins, the New York Rangers and the Detroit Red Wings over his 19 year career, 14 of those seasons in Los Angeles with the Kings. By the time he retired he had scored more goals than any other left winger in the history of the league (668), [...]
Raise Them Up
I was cruising around the internet today, reading some wonderful poems and I stumbled across something that I had not read before. I thought it was pretty amazing, as it caused me to feel several emotions as I was reading. It was written by author Diane Loomans. It's about raising a child, but also about living a meaningful life. A few months ago, I wrote a six-part series on teaching kids the power of positive. If you didn't get a chance to read those, and would like to, please check them out and feel free to leave your [...]
Comfortably Numb
Aristotle said, "we are what we repeatedly do". He said a lot of stuff, but you know, that was one of his more famous quotes. I totally agree with him, but I think he could have added "or don't do" to the end of that statement. Maybe it wouldn't have sounded quite as profound or meaningful if he had added my little addendum, but I think I'm right. As much as our lives are the result of the great habits that we have, we are also subject to suffering through the consequences of the bad ones. Indeed, we are also what we repeatedly [...]
Road Warrior
Imagine this: You want to go to Florida from California by car, so you plan a trip across the country. You have always wanted to do this and you are at the point in your life where nothing else matters to you. In spite of being a little scared of the unknown, you are extremely confident and motivated. You have a map that gives you a pretty good idea of how to get there, money in your pocket for gas, and a cooler full of Mountain Dew (or some other form of stimulus to keep you awake for a long period of time). At this point it's time [...]
Oops…I Did It Again
"Anyone who has never failed has never tried anything new" - Albert Einstein "Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly" - Robert Kennedy Mistakes get a bad rap in our culture, don't you think? I mean everyone is really down on mistakes! And why is this? Mistakes are really only a bad thing if you don't learn from them. I think they should be looked upon a little more positively. Maybe it's just the feeling that we associate with the word itself. It sort of makes us cringe, almost like there is an [...]
Success by Association
I was talking with a good friend of mine named Kevin this past week and he was telling me about his plans to pursue a project that has been consuming him for some time. He has a burning desire to help children. Homeless kids, hungry kids, sick kids, orphanages, etc. He really has an outstanding vision and is committed to making a difference in the world. The only words I could think of as he told me of his plans were, "awesome, dude!" Me, of the limited vocabulary… First off, I thought it was incredible that he was basically [...]
Do And It Shall Get Done
I was recently talking with a colleague of mine about what it takes to truly become successful. You know, a nice, light conversation to end the week with... It was actually a great talk, which probably could have lasted for hours had it not been late on a Friday afternoon. Our purpose was to try to figure out how much of anyone's success comes from the mental or metaphysical side, and how much of it comes from sound practice and good ol' fashioned "elbow grease". Hey, we had 30 minutes to kill, and we're both "thinkers", so we [...]
Give Me An “E”
Years ago I was giving a presentation to a room full of sales reps, whose performance I was ultimately responsible for. The purpose of the meeting was to introduce myself as their new manager, talk about my philosophy and style, and then let them know what I expected of them. Sounds fun, huh? I can tell you, having been both the presenter and the presentee in these types of meetings, they almost always leave everyone in the room feeling a little more stressed out than when they arrived. Often, they accomplish very little, and usually [...]
About
About HabitualVictory.com Habitual Victory is intended to be a source of inspiration and encouragement for you. You have within yourself all of the tools necessary to do, be, or have anything that you want in this life. For many, these internal resources remain untapped for long periods of time. For some, sadly, they are never discovered at all. The purpose of this site is to help guide you toward this inner strength so that you can become the person that you are truly suppose to be. "We are what we repeatedly [...]
