Fear of Failure “Failure is another emotion I cannot stand to feel, because in adult life I have conditioned myself not to fail at anything. Failure takes me straight back to the feelings of worthlessness I grew up with as a stammering, reclusive little boy.” Jake Wood , Among You: The Extraordinary True Story of a …
Shrinking Business? “Do not judge me by my success. Judge me by how many times I fell down and got backup again.” Nelson Mandela It hasn’t happened all at once. In fact it has been gradually slipping over time. You can’t pinpoint when it started and it didn’t seem like a big deal at …
Fear of being fired I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of …
Allowing BS to Get to You BSers. We all know some. In fact, some of us may know many of them. We deal with them at work, socially, or we just bump into them through random contacts. They are usually loud and have definite opinions about everything. They are never wrong (At least according to …
Not getting recognition You put in lots of time. You work you butt off and accomplish more than any three people you work with. Yet, for all of your efforts you are not receiving any recognition. In fact, your annual performance reviews are average at best. You could have done a lot less and gotten …
Getting help “The best advice I can give to anyone going through a rough patch is to never be afraid to ask for help.” Demi Lovato Jonas Jacobsson – Unsplash So, is getting help or conversely not getting help what is keeping you awake at night? Are you concerned that no one really cares about …
Having Friends? The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him. Ralph Waldo Emerson Friends. We all have them. …
Making the Right Decisions Every time you make the hard, correct decision you become a bit more courageous, and every time you make the easy, wrong decision you become a bit more cowardly. If you are CEO, these choices will lead to a courageous or cowardly company. Ben Horowitz How often do we second guess …
Who to Trust Of all the things that can keep you awake at night, perhaps one of the biggest is your concern about who you can and can’t trust. How many times have we been burned by someone we swore was good and reliable? We may even have called them, friend. But then they did …
Difficult Clients We all have at one time or another dealt with a difficult person. It could be someone close to us or someone for whatever reason we just did not get along with. We never quite understand why that person wants to be difficult. We think we are a nice person and are told …