Image from zdnet Do you have a definition of success? I’ve taught hundreds of students for over five years. Every time I ask this simple question: “Who wants to be successful?” every single person raises his hand. At this point, I actually have inverted the question to simply be, “who... 

Image via Wikipedia In his excellent ebook about changing habits, blogging friend Scott Young described the process of forming habits as walking home through fresh snow. The first person to go through the snow has to forge a path through the snow, and it’s difficult … but others will follow... 

Image by Frank Heckers Life coach Gail Blanke went to acting school to learn to improvise in any situation. Turns out the tricks that actors use on stage can help you score a date, land a job — or just make any conversation more engaging. There’s no getting around it. We live in... 

Image by Kuzeytac via Flickr Your lives are always busy, I’m sure, but the holidays always seem to add even more craziness to everyone’s schedule. Christmas parties with family, friends and co-workers, gift shopping, decorating, Christmas pageants, caroling, bell-ringing, snow shoveling (unless... 

Image via Wikipedia In 1999, I was stocking frozen food at a San Francisco Health Food Store and chatting with my friend Dan Moore, a painter and bicycle messenger (and now square dance enthusiast!). I was bemoaning my lack of success with writing and dance. There in the freezer aisle, in our... 

“Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.” - Henry David Thoreau What would you do if you had an extra hour a day? This is a common barrier I run into when I write about making positive life changes: people don’t have time to pursue their dreams. People don’t have time to exercise.... 

When I first realized I needed to turn my financial life around, the changes that needed to be made seemed immense. Just thinking about the sheer size of what I needed to do would drag me down and leave me feeling as though it were hopeless. It was in those moments of seeming hopelessness that I would... 

There’s an old Confucius saying that goes “If you chase two rabbits, you catch none.” This is especially true when forming new habits and trying to be more productive, but how many times do we do exactly the opposite? We try to do as much as possible to grow, learn and better ourselves. We read... 

The workplace, more and more, is changing, and with this change comes a whole new set of rules. The traditional office work environment and tools are still around, but at a very rapid pace, they’re being supplanted by newer and better tools, newer and better ways of working. The old rules are being... 

Over the past five years, as iContact and Virante have grown, I’ve learned a lot about managing people. A business amounts to little without the people behind it. The two most important things I look for when hiring are initiative and work ethic. I cannot overestimate the importance to the eventual...