“Know your strengths and weaknesses. Creativity is my biggest strength. (It’s a weakness too.) But that doesn’t mean all entrepreneurs need to be creative to be successful.
“You can buy creativity, you can hire creative people, you can steal creative ideas, and you can even learn to be more creative… It’s not important to be creative, [...]

“Feeling a little weird lately? Take time to see where your passion and entrepreneurial spirit is calling you.
“Even in corporate America, the entrepreneurial spirit must remain alive. That spirit can solve the toughest of corporate problems, if only we let it.”
From The Entrepreneurial Spirit - by Tom Peters~~

This is an image from the Metropolitan Opera staging of The Magic Flute a couple of years ago, by film and theater director Julie Taymor.
She confirms how important passion is for her: “I find that I make as an artist the kind of choices that I have to be impassioned about. I’m not going to [...]

Mike Litman video: “You Can’t Succeed As An Entrepreneur Thinking Like An Employee”
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“Crushing poverty and unimaginable wealth. Bitter feuds and brilliant collaborations. Ambition bordering on megalomania. A motorcycle crash. A suicide. A $30 million sailboat.
“Is this the tale of a computer tycoon or a rock ‘n’ roll star? Highlights from the life of a business mogul or the outline of a sensational pulp novel? In the case [...]

Personal development leaders often counsel us to “think big” about our career dreams and life ambitions, and there are many notable lives of accomplishment we can look to for inspiration. But dreaming big can also trigger our fears.
In his article What will be your Life Monument?, Mike Litman includes Napoleon Hill, J.K. Rowling and Benjamin [...]

One of the ideas about being successful is that there is a limited “pie” in any field of commerce or endeavor, and that you need to “grab your piece of the pie” before others do, or take it away if they already have “made their mark.”
In the book Conversations With Millionaires by Mike Litman, Mark [...]

Many of us grew up with some very negative images of what “millionaires” or “rich people” are like, their values and the tone of their character.
The photo is Alastair Sim in A Christmas Carol (1951) as Scrooge, described by Charles Dickens in his novel as
“a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! Hard and [...]

Robert Maurer, PhD, is a consultant - to corporations, hospitals, universities, theater companies, spas, even the British government - on the technique of kaizen.
In his article ‘Thinking big’ could be making you FAIL!, he writes about this strategy of taking small steps: “If someone was looking to break out of a career rut, I advised [...]

On his site Zen Entrepreneur, Rizwan Virk includes excerpts from his book Zen Entrepreneurship: Walking the Path of the Career Warrior [image from cover], noting “at the age of 23, I became President & CEO of my first high technology company, called Brainstorm Technologies… As the company grew, so did my understanding about the business [...]

Workshop in Las Vegas, Nevada - Presented by Barbara Winter
NOTE - this event was presented November 28-30, 2006 - see her site for upcoming workshops in 2007, including Making a Living Without a Job; Establish Yourself as an Expert, and How to Support Your Wanderlust
From description of the Las Vegas workshop:
Charles Handy, one of the [...]

Masterytv.com Presents a Jim Rohn video:
In “Excelling in the New Millennium: Personal Development“, Jim Rohn shares his experience with personal development revealing valuable essentials to becoming wealthy in mind and body.
Jim Rohn is a philosopher, motivational counselor, business executive, and bestselling author. He has been recognized as the greatest motivational speaker… [from bio at Nightingale-Conant]
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In her article Getting Over Overwhelm [from 2002, posted on her site], Tama J. Kieves says as a “newbie” publisher she was “devouring everything in sight on marketing, publicity, increasing sales, touching the hems of Oprah, and the like. I’ve read the books on it, subscribed to on-line newsletters, attended local publishing groups, listened to [...]