How To Make People Feel Important
One of people's top needs is the need to feel important. By becoming skillful at making others feel important, others will respond more positively to you and to your ideas. By the way, this stuff will only work if you are sincere. If you are trying to use this to...
The Olympics Helped Reunite His Family
Ruben, Renato, and Marcelo (Ruben's brother) at Salt Lake Opening Ceremonies My brother Marcelo and I trained for the Salt Lake City Olympics for 5 years side by side with Renato Mizoguchi (the little guy in the middle), and we didn't know a thing about his family...
Leadership, Principals and Chick-fil-A
Ruben Making Chick-fil-A Sandwiches in 1978 and Manager Steve Mason in Foreground My first job in high school back in 1978 was working at Chick-fil-A. We had a horrible location up in a dark corner of the second floor of a small shopping mall in Houston. Back then...
The Ideal Mentor And Mentee
K9 Officer and Drug Dog I was speaking in Pittsburgh a few weeks ago. One of the other presenters was a Police Canine Officer. He brought his German Shepherd and was telling us about the training drug and explosive sniffing K9s. It turns out that a top drug dog is...
The Price Of Success
Ruben and Rudy Ruettiger Average people expect their dreams and goals to fall on their lap. They are not willing to inconvenience themselves for their dreams. They refuse to do anything outside their comfort zone to reach their dreams. They don't stand for anything,...
How To Discover Your Purpose
Ruben at the Salt Lake Olympics I'm going to share a sad fact with you. When I speak at an Elementary School and ask my audience, “Do you have dreams?” almost every hand goes up. When I ask the same question at a Middle School, only half of the hands go up. When I ask...
Feedback, The Breakfast Of Champions
Training Run in Salt Lake City There is a simple thing you can start doing right now to help you improve your relationships, your results at work, the quality of your products, and anything else in your life. Something that doesn't take much time, but saves you...
Meeting Hard Times With A Harder Will
You were created to chase your dreams. For that reason, you will never be truly satisfied until you break down all barriers that restrict and limit your soul's aspirations. But you have to be willing to pay the price. There will be a struggle. That's how you will...
From Wishful Thinking To Commitment
Are you fascinated about your dream? Fascination is extremely powerful. When a person becomes totally fascinated with the possibility of achieving something, they become unstoppable. When I became fascinated with the idea of becoming an Olympian, I was able to hold on...
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