How Valuable Are You?

If someone asked you the question,”How valuable are you?” – what would you say? Would you list off your degrees, jobs, and accomplishments? While these have their place, there is something more. Your worth is a combination of things you can easily measure (like your compensation) AND your attitude and behavior. In today’s world, opportunities

How to Remain Undefeated

It’s always exciting when our favorite team is undefeated. Yet, to me, the more important consideration is how you, me, and each person on earth can remain undefeated in this lifetime? Some people believe that never having a defeat is impossible. I would disagree. Pause and remember what “undefeated” actually means. It is not that

Better Than Good

Whenever you are working to master a new skill, striving for good is a wonderful place to start. Yet stopping at good is a disservice to you and those around you. Instead, when you come to one level of achievement look at what is required to get to the next level – and stretch. In

Be an Elevator!

There are people when you see them, you want to run in the other direction because you know you will be trenched in negativity. On the other hand, there are people that make you smile just thinking about them. They are the best! You get to choose how you want to be with others. My

Finish What You Start

It’s a funny thing with the brain. When you set actions you actually achieve, your brain rewards you with neurobiological chemicals that empower you to do more. The motivation to keep advancing is internal and requires little to no sustained willpower. On top of all this, your brain doesn’t really even care about the size

What’s Right in Front of You

I was with a group of friends recently. There was a lot of complaining about the state of the world, how big the problems are, and the impossible nature change. As I was about to get sucked into this vortex of negativity, I made myself pause and say a few things. “Guys,” I said. “Could

Super Success Strategies

Over the years, I have read my fair share of books, articles, and more on how to succeed – with each expert talking about how “perfect” his or her approach is. Yet, whenever I didn’t achieve my goals and dreams employing a particular strategy, I viewed this as a failing on my part. Not an

Self-Generated Motivation

It’s a funny thing about motivation, you don’t often notice how motivated you are until your motivation goes down or even stops. So how can you prevent these lapses in forward motion? It’s simple, even if not easy: Know why you want to achieve a specific goal. Pile on the reasons now as you will

Handwritten Happiness

I will admit that I was not the best thank you note writer as a child. It was a bit of a tussle to get me to put my words of appreciation onto cards, put the cards into envelopes, and address them. Yet that all flipped a number of years ago when I read a

Generous Success

Success ebbs and flows depending on your generosity and appreciation. So if you are currently in one of those ebbs in the cycle, amp up your gratitude, kindness, and value of others. Warmly, Anita