How many times have you heard some time-management “Guru” say the words above? If you’re like most people, when you hear this, you nod, as if to say, “Yeah, that’s a really great idea!” But you really want to scratch your head and add, “But how do I do that?” People often confuse hard work with struggling.
Huh? Where does that question come from? What if I told you that who you’re being is actually more important than what you’re doing? If you are being a Ferrari or a Lamborghini, you show up in the world as a Ferrari or Lamborghini. If you’re being an old subcompact car or a beat up
Working with financial and insurance professionals over the years, I have come to believe that the only things that limit our success are our judgments, decisions and conclusions that impact our actions. It’s not about the economy, the area we live in, the regulatory environment, the weather, or anything else outside us. It’s about how
“If you want to be successful, get more knowledge.” This was the advice from Top of the Table member Douglas Eze, at the conclusion of my interview with him a few weeks ago. Eze emigrated from Nigeria to Canada after finishing high school at age 18. At 23, he moved to the U.S. At 24,
Happy 4th of July! This is the day that we in the United States celebrate the declaration of our independence from the rule of King George of Great Britain. And while we celebrate with flags and parades and fireworks today, tomorrow or next week we go back to our lives and find ourselves less than
Before his death in 2015, the famous publicist, Forrest Wallace (“Wally”) Cato interviewed me for an article he was writing that included an interview with Tom Hopkins and quotes from the Zig Ziglar, who had passed away a few years earlier. The following are excerpts from Cato’s interview: Wally: What do clients expect from a
