Posts by Mark Morgan Ford
Motivating Yourself With Rewards
Some success coaches suggest giving yourself big rewards for big accomplishments. You might, for example, reward yourself with a sports car when you make your first million dollars. But rewards like that never motivated me, because the payoff was too far in the future. What motivates me are smaller rewards for short-term goals. And I…
Read MoreHow to Invest Like a Multimillionaire
Okay. You want to be a super-successful investor. I get it. You are already living on a fixed income. Or you are nearing retirement and worrying about whether you’ll be able to kick back and earn a passive living from your investments. I’ve been there. I’ve retired three times. I know how you feel.
Read MoreHow to Find Your Core Values
Before you can jump feet first into changing your life with a set of long-term goals, you have a job to do: Figure out what’s really important to you.
Read MoreCheating Yourself in Your Spare Time
There’s a young man I know — someone I’m mentoring — who has great potential but no obvious advantages. He doesn’t have an impressive education, has no money to speak of, and has only one beneficial business connection — me.
Read MoreA Small Thing That Can Make a Productive Difference
About two years ago, BK, a retired publisher who does more work in one day than most working publishers do in a week, shared one of his secrets with me. Wherever he goes, he carries in his pocket a very small pad of paper and a pencil. He uses these not only to jot down…
Read MoreIs It Better to Be Pushy… or a Pushover?
Are you a pushy person? Not sure? Take this test: Do you find that your subordinates often work more slowly than you would like them to?
Read MoreDon’t Waste Your Time on the Wrong Problems
A former employee of mine once allowed a serious business problem to go unreported because he thought he could fix it himself. He couldn’t — and it cost the company $400,000.
Read MoreHow the Power of Positive Thinking Affects Your Health
K almost never gets sick. And when she does, you can hardly tell. That’s because she doesn’t complain. She insists she’ll be in fine shape “after a good night’s sleep.” I, in contrast, assume that every sniffle is an indication of a terrible disease with a dark outcome.
Read MoreHow to De-Fang Emotionally Charged Criticism
When one of my clients fired “Bob,” he sent me a vitriolic e-mail criticizing nearly everything about the company he had worked for.
Read MoreHoliday Fun Fact: Baby New Year
The New Year is often personified as a baby wearing a diaper and a top hat — but there’s nothing new about it. Using a baby as a symbol of rebirth has its roots in ancient Greece and Egypt.
Read MoreDisinter a Buried Dream This Year
You are a smart, ambitious person. You’ve accomplished a great many things in your life. But I’ll bet there are dreams locked away in your heart that want to be fulfilled. We all have buried dreams — goals we once set and, for whatever reason, abandoned. If you ignore these dreams long enough, they disappear.…
Read MoreYour First and Most Important Goals for 2010
Before you rush into setting a bunch of goals for 2010, there is something you must do. You must identify one significant goal for each of the four most important areas of your life: 1. Your health — without which most of the others don’t matter 2. Your wealth — which is undeniably important, so…
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