Regrets and Priorities
2018 has not started well for me personally. Already this year, I’ve lost family members and friends—and close friends have lost family members and friends. They say bad news comes in threes, yet from where I’m standing, they seem to be coming by the dozen. I’m not trying to be a downer on a Friday, […]
Fear of Success? Dream Big!
Are you afraid of success? Yes, I know it sounds crazy; how can one be fearful of success? But I’m asking in earnest—are you? I am astounded by how many people fear success—even more so than failure. The brain is wired to fight fear, but it’s not wired to deal with success. Think about it: […]
“Can I?” Or “I Can.”
Two simple words, when reversed, mean totally different things with totally different outcomes: “Can I?” versus “I can.” The first is asking permission—from oneself or from others. It comes from a place of doubt and self-limiting beliefs. It means we seek, or even need, validation to even begin. It means we’re afraid: Afraid to take […]
Goals
Happy New Year. As January accompanies us into a new year, with it brings a new sense of focus, new resolutions and new goals. A couple of years back, I encouraged the J2 team to create vision boards to facilitate a more inspired goal setting exercise, which I wrote about in last January’s goal-setting FFfT. […]
Perspective
The other day I was late getting into the office. I was behind a car that took a little longer than it should have after having been stopped at a red light. So I leaned on the horn. It was just then when I realized that the gentleman in the car in front of me […]
Locked Mind
There is a story about Houdini, the great escape artist, trying to escape from a prison—and it goes something like this: Houdini was invited by a small town in the British Isles to try to escape from their newly built prison cell. Houdini, who’d mastered similar feats countless times before, gladly accepted. As soon as he was […]