Watch Amy Cuddy’s TED Talk. Amy did an amazing service to everyone with her fantastic work on the subject.

Visualization works. If you practice in your mind, you are likely to perform better in physical tasks like sports. Check out this article.

This TED Talk by Shawn Achor is brilliant and will help you succeed. Watch it! Shawn has a book too. Check it out on Amazon: The Happiness Advantage.

If you measure it — whatever “it” is — you are going to improve it over time. It makes sense, therefore, to measure what matters. John Doerr’s book, although primarily […]

Capital investment is essential to building and sustaining financial wealth and the freedom to pursue your goals and dreams. Read these three books as a primer as you start becoming […]

Time is our most precious and fleeting resource. If you invest time wisely, it will pay great dividends. If you spend and squander time, you will struggle to get ahead. […]

Below is an evolution, inspired by Harvey MacKay’s original 66 questions. Here are the Top EA20 and Top EA100 Questions you should learn about everybody that you meet. The Top […]

Harvey MacKay was a fountain of great business sense. His MacKay 66 Questions (if you fill them out) will help make you a rainmaker. Download the 66 from his website. […]

Seven Habits of Highly Effective People is an all-time classic worth reading more than once. Stephen Covey will be remembered most for this book which was a runaway best seller. […]

When given a challenge, we usually forget to sharpen the axe. Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. […]

Success depends on clear compelling communication. Checkout my KeynoteRefinery.com whitepaper for helpful tips and best practices to follow.

David Foster Wallace was brilliant. This may be one of the greatest commencement speeches of all time.

Long before Escaping Average came to life, there was my original blog, Optimisman.com. Feel free to check it out 🙂

Tim Urban’s TED talk is an incredible achievement: Checkout Tim’s Wait But Why website for more greatness.

People who are not top ten percenters avoid doing the next true #1 thing that they know they should do because that step looks like an ugly frog that will […]

Most people don’t take any notes, let alone detailed notes. The minority who take notes don’t take them in an organized way that they can be easily found years later. […]

The world is getting better quickly although the daily news continued to sell fear, uncertainty, and doubt. Humans are invariably motivated by their fears and those are the articles that […]

A great life requires balance and priorities across a number of roles. People who focus on only one thing, at the expense of everything else, rarely end up in the […]

America, God bless her for her multitude of virtues, has a bit materialistic focus in her society. Capitalism, at our time of nearly unlimited media penetration and a populous that […]

Learning how reprogram your own internal operating system starts with learning proven techniques to mindfully add good habits while getting rid of bad habits. The following two books are a […]

There has been a lot of debate in recent years about the “relative value” of a college education, especially in light of skyrocketing college costs and the corresponding student debt. […]

Change happens. Too many people resist change and tell themselves that they don’t like change. But change is a constant and every person will have “unexpected change” hit them over […]