by Jeff Price | Oct 17, 2013 | 50 Books in 50 Weeks, Basic Success Principles, Life & Career Success
One thing we all want to know is whether we have made a difference. Some people attempt to achieve this in negative ways, while most of us go about our lives just hoping that something we’ve done matters. Although I am firmly entrenched in middle-age I have...
by Jeff Price | Oct 15, 2013 | 50 Books in 50 Weeks, Basic Success Principles, Life & Career Success
Dale Carnegie is one of the uncontested leaders of the human performance movement. Growing up, his name was frequently invoked in my house as my mom once took one of his courses. Years later, I came to discover that many of Carnegie’s principles were...
by Jeff Price | Oct 9, 2013 | 50 Books in 50 Weeks, Basic Success Principles, Life & Career Success
As Dr. Phil says, let’s get real (or something like that). If you don’t know by now that your body is connected to your mind, you’re either incapable of reading or you’re incapable of logical thought and common sense. The field of research on...
by Jeff Price | Oct 8, 2013 | 50 Books in 50 Weeks, Basic Success Principles, Life & Career Success
I have been teaching goalsetting for nearly 20 years but it always amazes me when I can find even better methods for setting and achieving goals. Surfing legend Laird Hamilton, in his book, Force of Nature: Mind, Body, Soul, And, of Course, Surfing, provides some...
by Jeff Price | Oct 7, 2013 | Aviation Security, General Aviation Airport Security, Unaccompanied Minor
News is breaking today about a nine-year-old boy who slipped through security and made it on a flight from Minneapolis to Las Vegas. You will soon hear that the individual slipped through “airport” security but that is not entirely accurate. I am careful...
by Jeff Price | Oct 7, 2013 | 50 Books in 50 Weeks, Basic Success Principles, Life & Career Success
If you did not grow up on the coast, when you think of surfers many of us think of Bode, Patrick Swayze’s character from the movie Point Break. Many people on the coast might think of him too, who knows, but when a friend recommended that I read Laird...
by Jeff Price | Oct 5, 2013 | 50 Books in 50 Weeks, Brain Matter, Life & Career Success
On January 29, 1986 I turned on the TV as the Space Shuttle Challenger climbed gracefully and powerfully into the sky, then watched as it exploded. The public affairs officer narrating the launch said those fateful words heard ’round the world: “Obviously...
by Jeff Price | Oct 3, 2013 | 50 Books in 50 Weeks, Brain Matter, Life & Career Success
We live in an interesting world. As a species, we are pre-disposed to follow the person who seems to know what’s going on. It’s probably a survival instinct. We often will see a visionary leader, someone who is inspirational and colorful and full of...
by Jeff Price | Oct 1, 2013 | 50 Books in 50 Weeks, Brain Matter, Life & Career Success
It seems the term “hot mess” has made it into our cultural vocabulary so in that spirit, let me say that our lives are a hot mess of our habits. Depending on your habits, that can be a good thing or a bad thing. I imagine its a little bit of both. Charles...
by Jeff Price | Sep 29, 2013 | Business and Management, Life & Career Success
The last three pieces of Head Trash addressed by Tish Squillaro and Timothy I. Thomas in their book, HeadTrash!: Cleaning out the Junk That Stands between You and Success, are Anger, Guilt and Paranoia. While anger it is normal for everyone to experience at times,...