4 Things You Need To Know If You Want To Be Successful In Life
Both parents and teachers extol the virtue of good grades if you want to be successful in business and life. The premise goes something like this: good grades mean you’re smarter and will be offered better career opportunities. If you want to be successful in life,...
This Is The Best Way You Can Become An Expert
Before becoming an FBI agent, I thought I could become successful by simply working hard. It got me through school with good grades and into my first job as a fashion buyer. My thinking shifted, however, when I met my first FBI firearms instructor. He barked out...
This Is The Best Way To Detect Lack Of Integrity In Others
Integrity is a word that we hear almost every day but we seldom take the time to think about it. Integrity is similar to ethics, honesty, and trustworthiness—they are a moral code of values that affect our behavior. Integrity is about doing the right thing in every...
How To Be An Awesome Perfectionist
When I was young, I was a competitive and scholastic student. My goal was to get an A in every class, both in high school and college. I’d drop a class if it looked as though I wouldn’t get an A. In the end, it was my statistics grade that took me down a notch and...
This Is How You Can Tackle Big Scary Goals
I learned to tackle big scary goals as I grew up on a remote cattle ranch in Wyoming. Our ranch house was located at the bottom of a canyon, cut deep into the earth over the years by the North Laramie River. Several times a year my Dad climbed the steep south mountain...
4 Compelling Reasons You Need To Be More Self-Aware
In the FBI Academy, we trained how to run down and tackle individuals who resisted arrest. I was a lousy runner and came up at the rear of every race. The idea that I could run down or even catch up with a suspect produced snarky comments and rolled eyes from my...
4 Ways To Stay Calm In The Face Of Daily Stress
I had to overcome several obstacles while in the FBI Academy as I trained to become an FBI agent. I needed to learn how to stay calm in the face of daily stress because I found it difficult to pass the physical fitness requirements. Among the many lessons I learned...
5 Ways You Can Use Visualization To Achieve Top Performance
I’ve always been afraid of water. To confront those fears, I decided to learn how to scuba dive, even before I learned how to swim! I would to use visualization to achieve top performance if I hoped to get out alive. One of the requirements of a scuba dive...
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