by Jeff Price | May 3, 2013 | Life & Career Success
Revisiting one of the greatest movies of all time (Top Gun) to snag the subject line, one of the best ways to get your brain and your life organized is the ability to stop yourself when you’re careening off the rails. It’s called impulse control and we all...
by Jeff Price | May 2, 2013 | Life & Career Success
Think of America’s first test pilots. The guys who had what Thomas Wolfe referred to as The Right Stuff. When the pilots talked of pushing the outside of the envelope (and then hauling it back in), they were referring to the flight envelope – a set of...
by Jeff Price | Apr 30, 2013 | Life & Career Success
It’s amazing how many people THINK they have ADHD or ADD, when in reality, they are just overwhelmed by life today (Hammerness and Moore 4). We live in a society of instant gratification where we our attention is pulled in so many directions with so many demands...
by Jeff Price | Apr 29, 2013 | Life & Career Success
Remember how technology was supposed to make our lives easier? How’s that working out for you? We used to be able to “go off the grid,” before we even knew what going off the grid meant – heck, going off the grid just meant going home from...
by Jeff Price | Apr 26, 2013 | Life & Career Success
It’s an amazing dichotomy of life – the more we pursue something for ourselves, the farther away it seems to move from us. Just like the end of the rainbow – the closer you get, the more elusive it becomes. However, when we help others achieve their...
by Jeff Price | Apr 25, 2013 | Life & Career Success
Let’s get clear about something when it comes to networking. I tell this to my students all the time when they are getting ready to attend one of our major seminars or conferences. I tell them that I’d rather have them come back having made 3-4 good...
by Jeff Price | Apr 24, 2013 | Life & Career Success
Meeting new people is often a fear right up there with public speaking, says Keith Ferrazzi, author of Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time. Oddly enough, I have no fear of public speaking but despite the thousands on my LinkedIn...
by Jeff Price | Apr 23, 2013 | 50 Books in 50 Weeks, Basic Success Principles, Life & Career Success
I love this quote from Ferrazzi’s book, Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time: “As my dad used to say, no one becomes an astronaut by accident.” A key secret to success in any endeavor is the intent to achieve it...
by Jeff Price | Apr 21, 2013 | Life & Career Success, Personal Safety
Last year, a nearby community experienced the horror of a child kidnapping. Jessica Ridgeway was kidnapped and killed within a weeks’ time frame. She was 10-years-old and walking to school when it happened. She was covering the same few blocks to a friends house...
by Jeff Price | Apr 19, 2013 | Life & Career Success, Personal Safety
We’ve discussed all week the basics of personal safety outside the home, but what happens when the danger is from your own family? Ira Lipman, author of How to Be Safe: Protect Yourself, Your Home, Your Family, and Your Business from Crime says that spousal...
