Posts Tagged ‘breakthroughs’

“Most people struggle with life balance simply because they haven’t paid the price to decide what is really important to them.”
– Stephen R. Covey
The starting point for all breakthroughs is a compelling vision for the future!  Your potential can NOT be reached if you simple push hard from where you are.  There are too many [...]

A great venture can not be built on the shoulders of just one highly talented and motivated entrepreneur.  Not matter what the business, it will not scale in any fashion without a team of the right people leading it forward.
“Individually, we are one drop.  Together, we are an ocean.”
– Ryunosuke Satoro
It is astounding to me to [...]

Ignorance is your opportunity!  It may sound strange, but it is true. 
Before clarifying what this statement means, let’s look at two viewpoints on the word ignorance and then provide context for the above statement. 
One viewpoint is where ignorance is viewed as a state of mind that comes from lack of knowledge or desire to explore [...]

“I learned to embrace risk, as long as it was well thought out and, in a worst-case scenario, I’d still land on my feet.”
– Eli Broad
Great ventures not only have basic plans to start them on a great course for their journey but they also develop master plans for ultimate success early on in their [...]

The starting point, or turning point, for all great ventures occurs at the intersection of passion, vision, opportunity, and uncommon offering.  You can have a good venture without all four components.  However, in order to create or have a great venture, you must nail each component.
Passion is the fuel of your enterprise.  It gets you [...]

The new book, Wellbeing: The Five Essential Elements, by Tom Rath and Jim Harter was just released and it reveals the five components to a thriving life.  These five components are no surprise but the distinctions that have come from Gallup’s 50 years of research on a life well-lived are important to note.
The five components [...]

Over the last year, there has been great deal discussion and dialogue about the number of hours of practice it takes to achieve mastery.  This general public conversation began because of Malcolm Gladwell’s latest bestseller, Outliers.  In it, he wrote “the emerging picture from such studies is that ten thousand hours of practice is required [...]

Change and complexity, in both our work and personal lives, is increasing at accelerated rates with each passing day.  Thus, we not only have to be grounded in great personal and work habits but our habits much evolve and improve to deal with the accelerating change and complexity.  Otherwise, the accelerating change and complexity will [...]

If you want to fulfill your potential and experience all the great things life has to offer, you should pursue regular breakthroughs.  These focused efforts toward breakthroughs will allow you to amplify the positive results you experience from your current positive disciplines and habits.  Although, this focus and effort does not assure that you will [...]

When you find this valuable entrepreneurial business resource, you will reap immediate and lasting benefits.  That is why your competition wants you to think you don’t need it or make sure you don’t find it.  It is a hidden asset that your elite peers and competition would rather keep quiet.  It is something that your [...]