The 27 / 37 Plan So let me give you some real life examples of how this stuff works. My own story, I call The 27 / 37 Plan. By the time I was twenty-seven, I’d had thirty-seven different jobs. So my truth was, I don’t last very long on any given job.

It’s easy to say, “Well, we do want more trust around here, but you go first. The last time I trusted somebody, they stabbed me in the back.”

Respect is one of the values that is a gift to yourself and a gift to other people. We often say that we need more forgiveness, more patience, more understanding in our culture, in our society, in our schools or in our workplace. But the first thing you have to do, in order to make…

What are you passionate about? What means the most to you? What drives you? What inspires you? What gives you energy? Your vision should be fueled by those passions. Don’t settle for a vision that seems like a good idea or sounds like the kind of thing you’re supposed to want to do. Pick it…

Mike Smukula, a good friend of mine, used to work at the Albuquerque Auto Auction. One day at the auction in 2004, he was run over, when a man, driving a car across the parking lot at 45 mph, had a heart attack and died. The accident fractured my friend’s skull, rupturing his brain.

How about you? Are you accountable for your choices? Or are you making excuses? Are you spending more energy on looking for the reasons why you’re not accountable than you are on getting things done?

You know, Buckminster Fuller, a great philosopher, says that we’ve all been born with a genius mind and we spend our whole lives learning how to be un-geniuses. And it’s all because of our filtering system. We don’t just accept the evidence of what we’re capable of doing. We filter out the things that we’re…

Do you have a dream, a vision, a goal that you’ve always wanted to accomplish? Are you unhappy with where you are right now? Is there something you want to change-maybe your weight, your home, your income or your career? I have good news for you: You can change. You always have a choice.

As many of you know, my wife Mary had open-heart surgery this past January. She is recovering very well and, after only 60 days, is back to her full self, minus a little weight and muscle. The cardiologist has cleared Mary to go back to her normal life. A full recovery in 60 days –…

We all have discipline, but it may not be focusing on what it is we want. You may say, “Well, I’m not very disciplined.” Yes, you are. You just haven’t learned how to focus it toward a specific goal to do what you want to do. Discipline means doing something that is going to move…