Cultivating a Successful Mindset Your mindset, by definition, is the method by which you deal with adversity. If you plan to succeed at a task or project, remember that adversity will strike at some point. You will need to cultivate the right mindset to approach adversity and move past it. The problems you’ll run into […]
How Can You Strengthen Your Willpower? In 1972, researchers at Stanford University conducted an experiment wherein a child was offered either a single marshmallow immediately, or two marshmallows if the child was willing to wait a period of time. The researchers wanted to find out if children who understood the value of delaying their gratification […]
How Can You Improve Your Ability to Focus? There’s a line in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace where the Jedi Mentor Qui Gon Jin (Liam Neeson) tells Obi Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor) that your focus determines your reality – and it’s true. Your focus is the gateway to success, and if you can’t keep your […]
Why is it Important to Learn From Failure? Success is a positive outcome and failure is negative, right? You want to succeed, and you don’t want to fail. Why not? We learn from both success and failure, and one is as valuable as the other in different ways. Failure, as I’ve mentioned in my book, […]
Will You Know How to Handle Success? In my last blog article, I discussed failure—how it feels and how many respond to it. If you missed the article, click here to see it. We can’t talk about failure without considering success. Failure is an unavoidable part of the journey toward success, and being prepared for […]
Working Through Your Fear of Failure There’s no doubt about it; failing sucks. The fear of failure can be so strong in some people that it’s more powerful than their desire to succeed. In some cases, people’s subconscious minds will sabotage their chances at moving forward completely unconsciously. The thing about fear is that it’s […]
What is instant gratification, and do you try to achieve it? Do you ever find yourself doing something you want to do instead of something you should do? Maybe you have a paper due that you need to work on, or you have laundry piling up that needs to be folded. Whatever the case, immediate […]
Working Through Failure When I was in the early stages of my achievements, I handed out thousands of flyers to local residents advertising my 8-week fitness bootcamp. After handing out tens of thousands of fliers, do you know how many clients I ended up with? Two. How would you feel after putting in so much […]
3 Ways to Adapt to Change In my book, F**K Regret, I talk about how the global pandemic has forced us to adapt to a new way of doing business. Restaurants, retail stores, and gyms have all been ordered to close at one time or another. Some of those businesses, including mine, were able to […]
3 Ways Your Inner Circle Contributes to Your Success In my last blog post, I emphasized the importance of mindset in creating the foundation of your business. Once you begin building that foundation, you’ll need to be sure you can support it. It can be difficult to achieve success in this world when you go […]