Don’t back down from the sharks They’re circling you – every day.  Waiting for you to panic, to flounder, to show fear.  Then they pounce. Every day you swim with sharks.  Some are bullies.  Some are hyper-aggressive types.  Some are just trying to survive at any cost.  They want to eat your lunch, and prevail…

The antidote to stress is death Quit whining.  We’re all overloaded and stressed in some way.  Some figure it out, and learn not to resist, not to give in and adapt to a life of compromise.  Some choose to harness and direct the energy of stress to get motivated, to find answers in the problems…

Discipline or habit? Discipline is hard.  Habits become second nature.  Far better to use the discipline early to build not only habits, but the right habits. Habits become the levers you use to keep you going when you don’t feel like going.  Habits form the foundation for your response when crap suddenly shows up and…

Don’t be afraid Fear will limit you.  It will put you in a box in the corner, and reduce your life to mere routine. It doesn’t take a lot of courage to move beyond fear; you just have to take the first step in the right direction – and then another and another.  One step…

Divided attention How many brain channels can you run at the same time? Just because you can walk and talk at the same time, doesn’t mean you’re doing both in world class order.  You can’t focus exclusively on both.  That’s why if you’re texting and driving you’re doing neither very well.  You’re driven to distraction.…

Extraordinary results require a great answer What’s the question? Your ability to create great answers is only limited by your capability to ask better questions. Those who live on the outer limits of achievement are there because they took time to think critically, to do the research, to seek possibility. They ask the questions that…