by PawnMaster | Aug 4, 2016 | Achieve Success
It’s unfashionable to ascribe success to talent. Hard work is a much more acceptable explanation in a meritocratic society. The truth, of course, is that some measure of both is required to achieve excellence. On its own, Edison’s 99% perspiration would have produced...
by PawnMaster | Jul 25, 2016 | Achieve Success
In a perfect world, your completed assignments would speak for themselves. You’d work on friendly, collaborative teams with fair-minded co-workers, and each person would be free with praise and full of self-effacing humility. You’d never have to worry...
by PawnMaster | Jul 6, 2016 | Achieve Success
As the author of 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do, I usually spend my time talking about the bad habits that can rob you of mental strength. After all, it only takes one bad habit to hold you back from reaching your greatest...
by PawnMaster | Jul 1, 2016 | Achieve Success
What does it take to win? “My job is not to teach people how to win, it is to teach people to win.” Did you catch that? That slight shift in language, the slight shift in perception, the incremental difference? This the magic winners use to win. Even if...
by PawnMaster | Jun 20, 2016 | Achieve Success
In early 2009, Ben Landers was setting objectives for Blue Corona, his year-old digital-marketing company in Gaithersburg, Md. The startup had earned $112,000 in revenues its first year but was still losing money. Landers wanted to nudge Blue Corona solidly into...
by PawnMaster | Jun 15, 2016 | Achieve Success
Waking up at 5 a.m. doesn’t make you successful. The type of personalities that tend to achieve major success also happen to be the type that like to wake up at 5 a.m. and can sleep far less than the rest of us. But if you don’t already function like this, the only...
