Lessons from the Olympic Luge
What do you say to yourself when market conditions or your work or home conditions change? Do you see change as a good thing or as a bad thing? Have you ever had something happen that took all the wind out of your sails? What did you do? Did you respond right away, or...
Leadership and Chick-fil-A
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 Chick-fil-A had only 85 stores nationwide. But we were consistently in the top ten...
How to Win the Gold in Business and in Life
In today’s fast-paced business environment, change is a constant. You have to be mentally strong and nimble to get to the top and to stay there. The principles I used to make it to the Olympics will help you develop the mental toughness and attitude of a champion. 1....
How to Succeed When Conditions Change
What do you say to yourself when market conditions or your work or home conditions change? Do you see change as a good thing or as a bad thing? One of my old success audios says, “Success is about change – not challenge.” I was never sure about what that meant, until...
How to Set Goals Like a Champion
There are four basic steps that will help you make the most of your goal setting. First, choose a goal, next, see yourself succeeding at your goal, after that, choose a quality that will help you achieve your goal, and finally, create a new habit that will help you...
How to Prepare to Boldly Pursue Your Goals
Why do people play it safe? Why do they hesitate instead of boldly attacking their goals and living life to the max? Because fear gets the best out of them. Most people let fear of the unknown and fear of failure keep them from pursuing their dreams. Fear is a thief....
How to Perform Under Pressure
This article is written from a sports point of view but these techniques will help you perform better in business, sales, making presentations, leading others, taking a test or whenever either stress and nervousness or being too loose and lackadaisical would cause you...
How to Manage Risk and Succeed
Every time I’ve done something risky, whether learning how to luge, climbing Kilimanjaro, skydiving in South Africa, training to swim from Alcatraz to shore, or running with the bulls in Spain, I’ve managed the risk by learning from the experts. By learning from the...
How to Become a Better Leader
When I decided to take up the luge, and train for the Olympics I was 21 years old. Back then I thought I could make it to the Olympics all by myself. I still had a lot of growing up to do… In “Seven Habits of Highly Effective People,” Steven Covey talks about three...
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