Posts Tagged ‘Success’
Saturday, February 6th, 2010
Are We Trained For Them?
We all have addictions.
“No we don’t”, is the echo we can hear from some of you.
“Yes we do”, is the echo we can hear from some others, including myself.
Is it hereditary? Click here to read this article that suggests it is.
Pick your poison:
Approval, chocolate, work, sex, TV, food, Internet, exercise, reading, pessimism, optimism, Love, Faith, Hope, Money, shopping, volunteering, excuses, greed, jealously, alcohol, drugs, caffeine, pain, pleasure, video games, gambling, competition, failure, success, nicotine, etc.
Tags: AA, Addiction, Addictive Behavior, Adults, Alcohol, Alcoholics Anonymous, Approval, caffeine, chocolate, Drugs, Excuses, exercise, Failure, Faith, Food, Gambling, Gaming, Genes, greed, Help, Hereditary, Hereditary Addiction, Hope, Internet, jealously, Jeff Noel, Kids, Love, Mid Life, Money, Nicotine, Optimism, pain, Pessimism, pleasure, reading, sex, shopping, Success, teens, TV, Twelve Step Programs, Video Games, Volunteering, Work
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Friday, January 15th, 2010
Stop Being So Measured
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?
We’ve all heard this question posed to us in our lifetimes.
Some of us have heard it so many times, we no longer hear it, no longer even consider it a valid question.
You now why?
Because nothing in life is guaranteed, except that we will die and taxes will increase.
Giving in, and quitting are so common place. Or, people won’t even start in the first place.
Why?
Because we can fail at everything.
But what if we didn’t fail?
How would our lives be transformed? And more importantly, how would the lives of others be transformed?
Tags: Answers, Central Florida, Fail, Failure, Five-a-day Blogger, Goals, House, HQ, Jeff Noel, Leadership, Questions, Succeed, Success
Posted in January 2010 | No Comments »
Saturday, December 12th, 2009
Most posts I write are relatively brief; however, this one may take a while. And bailing at this point is up to you.
But may I just say one thing before you go, and it’s something I’ve always known. In fact, I honestly believe every one knows this.
The difference between those who are excellent, versus those who are good or very good, is three things:
- Focus
- Discipline
- Hard Work
In February, I recall a conversation with our son (then eight) that went like this, “If you want to be a good reader, you should read a lot. If you want to be a good runner, you should run a lot.”
He was doing his nightly reading homework, and I was doing my nightly stretching in preparation for the August Masters Track & Field World Championships in Finland.
Then the epiphany, “If you want to be a good writer, you should write a lot.”
So I set out on a 100-day challenge. Write every day. Perhaps a stretch with one daily blog, but I had set up five blogs.
How in the hell heck does a person write five blogs a day, every day?
Impossible.
Well, maybe not impossible for 100 days, right? I mean, apply the keys to success – focus, discipline and hard work.
One-hundred days. “You can do it, dude”, I said to myself.
To be continued….
Tags: Difference, Discipline, Effort, Excellent, Focus, Good, Hard work, Jeff Noel, Qualities, Success, Very Good
Posted in December 2009 | No Comments »
Wednesday, December 9th, 2009
Roger Parker, from Published and Profitable, has been a cyber-mentor for several years now. He doesn’t even know this.
Not because I’m trying to hide the fact. Simply because I’m busy. Roger’s busy. Busy makes us do strange things. Like forget to tell people how much we appreciate what they’ve done for us.
But that’s what makes the Internet so cool. You can have a positive influence on others, whether you meet them or not.
Click here to see, read and or print his PDF file. It’s a great place to start to give you an idea of what you should consider if you ever want to publish your first book.
Tomorrow though, be prepared for the shock of your life.
And while it really applies to anything that’s important to you, tomorrow’s post will be particularly revealing if you have very important things you want to do in your life, but have been putting off. Carpe diem.
Tags: Author, Book Publishing, Critical, Important, Jeff Noel, Make a Difference, News, Professional Speaker, Publishing, Revelation, Roger Parker, Shocking, Significant, Success, Writer
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Friday, October 2nd, 2009
“I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 28 occasions, I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot, and missed. I have failed over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed”. — Michael Jordan
Boy this sure sounds familiar….
Tags: Basketball, Chicago Bulls, Coach, Confidence, Courage, Effort, ESPN, Failure, Jeff Noel, Lane 8, Leadership, Michael Jordan, NBA, NBA Championships, Phil Jackson, Risk, Success, World Class
Posted in October 2009 | No Comments »
Saturday, September 5th, 2009
The three things I did Thursday that scared me:
- Asked someone to help me write my first book
- Made a business proposal to an unlikely candidate
- Made a second business proposal to a likely candidate
Guess what? It feels great!
Even if I fail, I succeed.
If you don’t understand this concept, you may want to invest in figuring it out.
It’s one of the most powerful and liberating truths life has to offer you.
Simply put:
“Nothing ventured. Nothing gained”.
If not today, when? Carpe diem, jeff noel :)
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Posted in September 2009 | 2 Comments »