Posts by Early To Rise
Watching TV Is Bad For Your Energy
When I tell people how bad TV watching is, I often am told about how many good TV shows there are. It’s true. But that makes the problem worse. There is a lot of good material being aired, but that doesn’t make TV watching good for you. Watching the boob tube is a very inefficient…
Read MoreHow To Make Your Guilt Work For You
Guilt, modern-day pop psychologists tell us, is a bad thing. “You are a good person,” they tell us. “If you’ve done something bad, it’s not your fault. It’s due to your upbringing, your DNA, or the bartender who served you those extra drinks. So rather than flog yourself, tell yourself how good you are. Think…
Read MoreWhat’s More Important Than Making Each And Every Sale?
I once owned a seminar business. Our best salesman, Ziggy, outsold his colleagues by more than double. For three months, after the weekly sales sheets came in and he was again in the No. 1 slot, I’d ask him for his secret. “I just like to sell,” he said. “I think it’s my enthusiasm.”I believed…
Read MoreSelling Yourself: The Secret Of The 100,000 Buckets
After finishing my copywriting program, one of my students decided to “get serious” about his future. He carefully studied the portion of the course that dealt with getting clients and did exactly what it said to do. He went to the local library, photocopied the part of a reference source that provides names and addresses…
Read MoreFocus On What’s Working
“Know thine opportunity.” – Pittacus (7th-6th century B.C.) JT and KR have a $15 million business, dozens of employees, four big products, and way too many things to do each day. In a meeting yesterday, we spent a good half-hour talking about what was wrong with some of the products — how they could be…
Read MoreSuperstars: How Important Are They To Your Success?
AB, from England, writes: “A question: You talk about superstars. I have a couple of them already and need lots more. In your experience, how much of the business do you need to offer/share to keep them? Also, what are your ideas on motivating them to move up to the next level?” AB discloses that…
Read MoreDo You Pay Attention To Your Competition?
If you are successful — or plan to be –your competition is successful too. Being successful means being smart, quick, and hardworking. That’s you, but it’s also your competitors. So what better way to stay ahead of your game than to study what they do? Before taking on the Miami Dolphins in the 1972 Super…
Read MoreRuss Whitney: Poor Boy To Multimillionaire
Russ Whitney was born into very ordinary circumstances and had no special gifts or circumstances that might destine him for success. In fact, he faced all kinds of difficulties — personal and financial — that would have been excuse enough for failure, if explaining away failure was what he wanted to do. But Russ wouldn’t…
Read MorePromise #2 For The New Year
“Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God, and value it next to a good conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of; a blessing that money cannot buy.” – Izaak Walton (The Compleat Angler, 1653) Staying healthy should be a priority in your life, even if…
Read MoreConcentrate Like A Brain Surgeon
“You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.” – Mark Twain Start melting away the fog of depression … Triple your productivity at work … And get better results every time you exercise. What’s more, sharpen your reflexes, sleep better, and strengthen your immune system … Recharge your memory, quit…
Read MoreThe Birth of Christ
“I will hold Christmas in my heart and try to keep it all the year.” – Charles Dickens (From the Gospel According to St. Luke, The Holy Bible, King James Version) “And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed.…
Read MoreHow To Give 103%
“Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.” – Bertrand Russell (Mysticism and Logic, 1917) We have all been to meetings where someone asks for “more than 100%.” Thanks to TH for this little math exercise that tells…
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