Do you want to achieve your goals? Do you want to have the best year ever? Here are seven small tips which if you do them regularly and consistently, will help you achieve your goals and change your life.

Have you had a loss in your life? How do you overcome it and move forward? You may want to think about creating a joy list, which is a simple yet effective way to recapture your happiness after loss.

Everyone is looking for the magic pill of happiness. I want to share with you what I believe to be one of the keys of living an amazing life, and it all boils down to one word: learning.

Love is supposed to bring you up and make your life better, not worse! Here are six scary signs that tell you that you are in the wrong relationship, and if you see many of these you need to get the heck out and find someone else.

How does a leader motivate their team? It seems like a puzzle to many leaders, and they just don’t know how. What is the magic? Having worked with hundreds of companies, here is what I believe to be the magic of motivating employees:

Here is the compelling question: How do you heal after losing a loved one? I experienced this on a personal level, when I became a widower at the age of 54, when my wife of 32 years died tragically.

If every man would make his prime concern the comfort and well-being of his wife and every wife make her chief concern the comfort and well-being of her husband, we would have very little divorce in the land.

Would you like to live the life of your dreams? Do you feel like you’re not living up to your full potential? Do you see other people around you succeeding and you would like to be those people?

many people get up dreading work and the joy has just been sucked out of the job. The question is, how do you find the passion again? How do you relight the fire? Here are some tips to help relight the fire at work.

Why won’t this year be any different for many people? They have missed some of the basic and fundamental keys to success both in business and in life.

The following story is real. It’s not a network TV movie of the week. It’s not a Nicolas Sparks novel. It’s not a song. It is real and crushing and can hold some very critical lessons if you are willing to read it.

I conduct leadership programs around the country and lately have had many discussions with people about what their leader’s lack, and what they lack as a leader and would like to work on themselves.

The fire of violence is consuming us, and it seems to be a raging fire. The flames are being fanned every day on TV, in the news, on social media, on talk radio, at the dinner tables, and in the offices down the street.

When I ask people one on one why they aren’t setting goals, they have the same answers all over the country: “I don’t have time.” “I am busy.” “I don’t know how.”

In organizations, there seems to be a remarkable gap between the leader’s perception of the effectiveness of their communication and the team’s. Here are seven elements think about in terms of closing the leadership communication gap.

Where are the ideas? I just know they are there. They are available and abundant. So how can you get and stay more creative?

How can I get and stay motivated in times like these? First, here is the bad news: It is not easy; it’s hard. Now, here is the good news: It can be done.

About 10 years ago, on a night that is burned in my memory, my wife passed away suddenly at the age of fifty. I was 54 years old and became a widower overnight.

What can we do about all the violence and negativity in the world? What can I do about it? What can you do about it? There is something small you can do.

There are individuals in the world who say, “Well, of course, it is very negative world. You can’t just put your head in the sand. I mean, wars do happen.” Yes, I know, but there is also beauty and magnificence in the world. So let me give you some suggestions on how to be more optimistic and upbeat and positive. You can decide.

I want you to become the husband that your wife always wanted (if you are a wife, then the same advice applies). How? Here are 10 tips that will make all the difference in the world.

Why is it that so many organizations suffer from poor leadership and employees that lack motivation? I believe that a big part of it is that organizations are too focused on results and not focused on leaders being developed, so those leaders can be more effective in leading their employees to get the results.

Have you ever noticed that some people seem very resilient, and they just somehow bounce back? Those people, when the chips are down still seem motivated and don’t give up? This is the big question; how do you stay motivated when the chips are down?

The first part of becoming the architect of your own life is deciding that you can create your own life circumstances. You have control over every choice that you make.

Can you choose to not be angry? Can you really choose your response? Can you choose not to get worked up and frustrated? Can you choose to not have a negative reaction? Yes.

Wouldn’t it be great if we could change the world? Wouldn’t it be great if the world was better place? Call me a dreamer and a crazy optimist but I think we can change the world.

Here is a question I thought about: When did we stop being kind to our neighbors? When did we stop knowing our neighbors? When did we stop being neighborly?

Have you ever noticed that there are some people that just to be seem happy all the time? I know you have you have met them; they are people who love life, who have energy and seem to enjoy everything they do.

Part of my job often requires me to travel and be the away from my soulmate, my wife Rachael. As I travel from airport to airport, I meet many other people who have the same challenge: How do you stay connected to your soulmate when you’re not there?

If I blindfolded you and then dropped you off into town and some state you are not familiar with without GPS and without a map, it’s highly unlikely that you would not be able to find her way home.

I have seen many terrible cringe worthy presentations in the last few months. I have noticed when presentations are poorly done it is even more magnified when it is virtual!

If you want to have a fantastic year, then it’s essential to take the time now to set goals if you haven’t for this year and put them in writing. It is one of the significant keys to entrepreneurial success.

Politics, violence, murder, and natural disasters can create lots of tension and stress and worry. That is, my entrepreneur friends, the bad news. There is good news however, you don’t have to let it! You can control and manage it!

Here are seven daily practices that managers need to stop doing now. Ask yourself: Are you doing any of these? Because it can affect your team, your effectiveness, and the revenue of your company.

As a professional speaker and trainer I am often asked “How do I give a great presentation?” After doing this for 30 plus years I have come to a conclusion it is about three pillars: Logistical, physical, and psychological.

Do you want to be more productive? Do you want to be more motivated today? Happier? Then put some thought into the most important part of the day: The start.

There is a critical skill that you need to be successful as an entrepreneur. This skill is also one of the top skills you should look for in a new employee. Yet it is often missing in organizations. What is this needed skill? It’s critical thinking.

As Margaret Cousins once said: “Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.” Here are nine techniques to show employees appreciation and help them feel acknowledged at work.

When I think about being raised in a small Southern town, I think there’s some valuable life lessons about happiness that I learned. These are valuable lessons that still carry with me today and they are part of the fabric of my being.

If you are reading this and you are unhappy, (or slightly unhappy) I hope this article helps you identify some of the reasons why you are unhappy and more importantly what to do about it now.

Everyone that I work with wants to know what the secrets are to be more creative. The reality is simple, it’s just about making small changes. Here are seven tips and techniques for being more creative.

What the hell is happening in organizations where we are requiring people to work nonstop seven days a week, with no lunches and no breaks? What is going on?

Most companies make massive mistakes when it comes to how they handle leadership development in their organizations. People want to do well, but we are not helping them succeed.

Here are some quick tips to help you get motivated again particularly when you’re going through the trials and tribulations of life. After all, sometimes life is not a bowl of cherries.

If we want to improve communication and build trust, we as leaders need to learn how to give constructive compliments. What is a constructive compliment? It is a compliment that is much more effective, directive ,and results in people wanting to repeat their positive behaviors.

If we look at the story of this extraordinarily talented Olympic athlete, what lessons can we learn that we can apply as entrepreneurs and in our business?

Many people seem to be overwhelmed and struggling to get it all done personally and professionally. Do you often feel that way? Here are some specific tips and techniques that will help you be more productive every day.

Why does Ritz Carlton have such incredible customer service? What is their secret? The reality is, they don’t have a secret they actually post it on their website; they have customer service standards. They call them the Gold Standards. If you can learn from what they do, then you too can have exceptional service.

David Karp sold his business (Tumblr) for $1.1 billion to Yahoo in May 2013. That is an amazing chapter in a great success story. The bigger question is this: What can we as entrepreneurs learn from David Karp’s success?

Bad hiring mistakes cost companies millions of dollars each year. Here are the eight deadly sins of interviewing that I see.

Here are the biggest mistakes I see people making, so that I can help you can speak in front of group and knock it out of the park instead of having people being bored to death. You want to have a killer presentation, not kill the audience.

Here are some secrets to motivating employees most leaders don’t know, or at least don’t seem to, based on what I see.

There are some massive mistakes companies are making about management which lead to miscommunication, conflict, poor morale, reduced productivity and high turnover.

As an entrepreneur, I want to make sure that you don’t kill your business. Here are 13 mistakes that will destroy your business if you don’t fix them now.

Here are some thoughts about employee productivity that you will find fascinating because they are so contradictory to what most people believe about employee productivity.

If you want to make more money, increase morale, and to drive productivity I believe where that starts with your leadership team. After all you can’t do it all yourself. Here are five huge mistakes that companies make that lead to less effective leaders and the solutions. 

If you want to be successful you have to build a culture, because the culture you create impacts everything that you do and how you do it. Here are some tips and ideas to help you build your organizational culture.

I am a professional speaker, and I want to share with you some thoughts about how to give a great presentation. Most of the ideas are as much about what you shouldn’t do as much as what you should.

If you want be more creative, then make an effort to focus on some of the daily habits of creative people. Here are some simple habits of highly creative people.