4 Amazingly Effective Steps to Crushing Walls in Your Life
Have you ever hit a wall?
Walls in life can come in all shapes, sizes, and flavors. They can be physical walls, like those that an endurance runner faces. When you near that last leg of the race, the “wall” is that moment when your body just seems to give up. Your energy is gone, your arms and legs feel like lead, and nothing in you believes that you’ll actually be able to cross that finish line.
6 Ways to Motivate Others When You Have No Motivation
Why Being Uncomfortable Is Great for Your Career
Being an entrepreneur is a distinctly uncomfortable career path. I can tell you from firsthand experience that putting yourself out there, marketing yourself, giving speeches and seminars, and writing books all sounds like a dream but there is something about striking out on that path that gets really, really uncomfortable.
5 Unique Health & Nutrition Considerations for the Summer Season
When we think about summer, we tend to think about lazy afternoons, grilling out, and beach trips with the family. If we happen to think about summer health concerns, we might think about drinking enough water and wearing sunscreen. What we might not realize is that this time of year comes with a whole host of unique health challenges and opportunities.
What's Behind the Psychology of Getting People to Do What You Want?
If you’ve ever been in any role of leadership, you know that getting people to play their part, volunteer, or just step up to help can sometimes be a challenge. As the leader, prompting the people around you to do what you want them to do can be an exercise in frustration. So how do you navigate the difficulties that come from asking for help without sabotaging yourself or your project? How do you get competent people to actually want to help you?
5 Ways to Reframe and Reach Your Fitness Goals
Career-Boosting Principles We Can Learn from Remote Workers
6 Questions That Put Big Decisions in Perspective When You're at a Crossroads
Crossroads in life are inevitable. Whether personal or professional, big decisions will be there at one time or another to cause sleepless nights, long discussions, and countless hours spent weighing pros and cons. Navigating these times can cause more than their fair share of stress and anxiety. After all, big decisions can bring massive and irreversible life changes.
3 Reasons Coming Up Short Can Lead You to Greatness
None of us enjoy failure. In fact, there’s little we enjoy less. As an endurance runner, I can clearly remember those first few difficult runs when I was just getting into the sport. In the very beginning, every run is a challenge. You’re more concerned with crossing the finish line than you are making the best time.
5 Health Food Trends That Actually Benefit Your Body
With an endless supply of health trends coming out of the woodwork every year, it’s hard for your Average Joe to know what’s actually going to benefit their body. We can scrutinize fad diets and miracle foods all day, but separating fact from fiction seems like a job that’s only possible for professional nutritionists.
4 Ways to Transform Goal-Setting in Personal Leadership
6 Strategies for Defeating Boredom in the Workplace
Boredom is the great killer of innovation and career. It makes us stagnant and dull, ineffective and apathetic. Boredom kills our will to do much of anything. It can sneak in everywhere, whether in the office or at home. We find it often when our jobs become too routine and monotonous, or when we find ourselves unchallenged or exhausted by work.
5 Lessons on Prioritizing Your Life for True Success
Is Running on the Beach All It's Cracked Up to Be?
How to Measure Success in Anything You Do
What is success?
No, I’m not about to take you on a philosophical journey filled with mumbo-jumbo. What I want to do is get you to think about where you are in your life and where you really want to be. Success is measured in a lot of different ways and it has always meant different things to different people.
6 Critical Health and Wellness Tips When Facing Summer Heat
I don’t know about where you are, but here in Memphis, the weather is starting to really heat up. Heat, more than other elements, really makes me consider my own health. I think it has something to do with how uncomfortable it makes everything. Especially in the South, where the heat comes with that hot-and-sticky humidity.
Cross the Divide Between Wanting Wealth and Becoming Wealthy
There are two types of people when it comes to a wealth mindset.
There are people who want wealth and there are people who are willing to earn it.
I think for many people, wealth is this insurmountable concept. It’s this lofty goal. A Mount Everest. A Moby Dick. It’s something that we so badly want but we’re either so intimidated by the idea of even beginning or so discouraged by our own perceived inability that we never begin in the first place or we give up somewhere along the line.
3 Things Running a Marathon Teaches About Succeeding in Anything
Have you ever finished a task so overwhelming that, at the time, you couldn’t believe you’d done it? For so many people, the act of completing a race is a lot like that. Whether it’s your first 5k, a marathon, or an Iron Man Triathlon, there’s something almost surreal about the experience of pushing your body to its limits and actually finishing a race.