Ding Happens! How to Improvise With Anything Life Throws Your Way!

On this blog, and in my speeches, I use the phrase, “Ding! Happens.” If you have seen me speak, then you know exactly what I am talking about. If not, you may be confused. Here then is the explanation of “Ding! Happens.” “Ding! Happens” means the same thing as, “Stuff Happens,” of more correctly, “[Insert [...]

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5 Steps to Lead Effectively When the Ding Hits the Fan!

Here’s a simple fact: anyone can seem like a great leader when everything goes perfectly right. If you have a great team of people, and everyone does what they are supposed to, and the market conditions stay favorable, and all of your customers are happy, and all of your vendors do what they are supposed [...]

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7 Simple Ideas to Kick-Start Your Creativity

This past Tuesday was the first session in the Smart Ass Success Teleseminar Series. I had an awesome interview with Scott Ginsberg, and he shared a ridiculous amount of information and a ton of ideas anyone can use to tap into, improve, and apply their creativity. Below I have posted a five-or-so minute long sample [...]

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5 Ways to Keep Going When Things Get Dirty, Muddy, and Downright Painful

If you have ever pursued a dream, goal, or passion, then you have certainly faced setbacks. There have been times where continuing seemed difficult or impossible. You may even have wanted to give up. We’ve all been there! And it is those moments that separate people who live full lives doing what they love from [...]

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Monday Motivation: Dealing with Flat Tires on the Path to Success

You know what sucks? When you plan and prepare and train for something for a long time, only to have an annoying quirk of fate throw you completely off track. When that happens, you have two options. I learned all about that just a few days ago… This past weekend, my girlfriend ran a triathlon. [...]

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Free E-Book: 7 Steps to Getting What You Really Want!

Awesome news! I just finished and released my new FREE E-Book:  Smart Ass Success! 7 Steps to Getting What You Really Want – Even If You Have No Idea What That Is! This is an awesome 36 page downloadable PDF E-Book which is packed with content – this is not “fluffy” e-book which teases you [...]

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A Game of Morons: The Importance of Picking Your Battles

Have you ever gotten really mad over something really stupid, and then did something you really regretted? If so, don’t feel too bad. There are people making far, far worse decisions about far, far more inconsequential things… For example, I came across a story recently about a man who was arrested for throwing his cousin [...]

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Improvise to Success! Now on Amazon

Here’s some cool news: My book, Improvise to Success!, is now available for sale on Amazon.com. You can get it here: Check out the link and pick up a copy now (and a few for your friends too!). If you’ve already read the book, please leave a review on the site. Note: If you were [...]

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PBT: How to Make Good Decisions Without Pistol Whipping Your Mother

Here’s another one from the “stupid young criminal” file… Turns out a girl, an honor student who had already been accepted into multiple Ivy League schools, got herself into a bit of trouble. You can read the full story here: Rachel Hachero, Honor Student, Pistol-Whips Mom, Forces Her to Buy Car at Gunpoint In a [...]

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How to Build a New Habit – 6 Lessons from the Trenches

Could you imagine what life would be like if you automatically did the things that led to success and if doing those things was easier than not doing them? That’s what should happen when you build a solid set of habits, and that is the path I have laid out for myself. At the beginning [...]

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