The Road to Success Step Five: Lather, Rinse, Repeat

This is the final step in my Road to Success series.  (Can you believe it’s over already) Please feel free to comment or email me with other feedback.  I’m planning much bigger, more involved series down the road, so I’d be interested to get your take on the inaugural one.

So far you’ve recognized your fears, broken down your goals, became your own expert, and ignored everyone else’s rules.  So now what?

Now?  You refine.  The road to success is not a [Read More…]

The Road to Success Step Four: Ignore Everyone’s Rules

“I’m a motivated self-starter looking to challenge myself by…blah blah blah!”

And thus begins every stupid cover letter I’ve ever read.

If you’re such a motivated self-starter, why are you being so passive in your approach to getting a job?  Anyone can write a cover letter and send their resume.  I could wake up naked and hungover on a desert island without internet access and I could STILL get a cover letter pumped out before [Read More…]

The Road to Success Step Three: Become Your Own Expert

It’s happened to all of us, we get so enamored with our idea for a great new product or goal or service, that we just go for it without a second thought.

We tell our friends, “I’m going to make a million dollars, because if I just sell to one out of every thousand people in China with a one dollar markup…” but we never stop to actually step back and see if our idea is supported by reality – will [Read More…]

The Road to Success Step Two: Break Down Your Goals

So you want to have your own business…or you want to have a million dollars…or you want to have a girlfriend…

Okay, so why don’t you have those things?

I blame it all on a phenomenon I call Goal Blindness.  Goal Blindness is that experience of being so singularly focused on the end result that you forget to actually start working towards it.  Most people get frustrated, and then just give up.

How many of you know someone who is constantly talking about [Read More…]

The Road to Success Step One: Recognize Your Fears

Ferocious Wolf

If this is what you're afraid of, you have bigger problems than success

When it comes to accomplishing goals, most people will find themselves crippled by their fears.  These fears come in a variety of forms, whether it be the fear of failure, fear of commitment, fear of the unknown, or even the seemingly counterintuitive fear of success, we all face these deep-seated fears every time we try to [Read More…]