Motivations vs. Influences: How They Affect Success
There is a huge difference between what motivates people and what influences them. This distinction is uber-important when developing a successful life and career path.
There is a huge difference between what motivates people and what influences them. This distinction is uber-important when developing a successful life and career path.
The popular phrase ” ‘Poop’ runs down hill,” is very true. The enthusiasm and performance of your sales/marketing team also relies on a similar trickle-down effect from you, the leader.
Impossible is just another word for those who innovate and succeed. Those who never achieve are driven by that very word or the feeling that something they want simply “cannot be done”.
One’s ability to bounce back (quickly) from rejection is very telling of their ability to be successful. Listen to Barbara Corcoran talk about her experience with this elusive skill, as it relates to entrepreneurship.
If you’re not moving forward, toward your goals, you’re lazy. Grant Cardone tells us, in no certain terms, why most of us are lazy and why we need to get out of that slump before we defeat ourselves on the battle-field of life!
If you feel like shyness is holding you back (and many people do), it doesn’t have to be eternal. Listen to Tony Robbins detail his easy formula for erasing shyness and embracing the eager extrovert inside you.
How many of us focus on our strengths, only to waylay our potential in other areas of life by leaving our weaknesses tucked away in a little box someplace; safe from ridicule and failure?
Eugene was on the fast-track to success straight out of college — the suit, the $60K a year job, lots of vacation time, friends, business contacts, etc. But he didn’t like the title, or rather the corporate-branding-number the company gave him. For “eh976a” entrepreneurship was the only direction the reborn, revitalized Hennie could go.
The mighty rhino can deliver maximum impact in one fell swoop. The mischievous porcupine on the other hand, needs thousands of little quills, shooting in all directions, to get the job done. Check out the cute and hilarious bonus video at the end of the post!
Hustle more, hate less is the catchline of Grant Cardone’s “10x” philosophy on achieving career success and market dominance in this world. Thinking big is the only way to survive. Lowering your standards and expectations when times get tough is a sure-fire path to being middle-class. Target big problems that exist and exploit them to make big money.
In this Google Hangout with Evan Carmichael, Michael Hurwitz discusses the tips and strategies he and his wife have used to successfully run their family businesses together.
There’s so much we can learn from the people who’ve done it. The ones who never gave up, suffered through the laughter and ridicule. Those who believed, beyond a shadow of a doubt. Listen to what they have to say, then get out and create your own success story!
The bottom of this world is crowded with losers and inbetweeners. Inbetweeners still have hope because they’re open to making the positive changes needed to crawl out of the pit of unhappiness they’ve created for themselves. If you aren’t a winner, watch this motivational video and decide whether your character’s redeemable or not.
A turtle that’s come out of it’s shell is vulnerable, and everyone around him knows it. This quick video talks about identifying your personality strengths and how to leverage your introverted or extroverted traits to network effectively, instead of looking like a shell-less turtle in the middle of the interstate!
We’re all in a constant battle to control and assimilate the approximate 60,000 thoughts creeping around inside our head every day. Controlling the environmental inputs from the people we surround ourselves with is a huge step toward a negativity free and happy existence.