Think of a time when you were feeling perfectly well, and then a colleague at work said, "Are you feeling OK? You look tired." Suddenly, you see yourself in your mind's eye, looking tired, with grey skin and bags under your eyes. Perhaps a memory of when you were last...

Can one transform ideas into achievements? Of course! In nature, a seed does not analyze why or how it will turn into a tree. It simply converts nutrients from the soil, water, and air to transform into the tree that's embedded in...

Many books compare achievement to a warrior's journey. Males tend to like that analogy because the world we live in today rewards the fighting and hunting skills that are largely, and erroneously, considered male-only traits. However, to achieve business success, one can't be all warrior. One needs to embrace the...

If you have an enterprising idea and want it to succeed, don't read self-help books by people whose biggest claim to fame is selling self-help books. Read biographies of self-made men and women. There you'll find the real secrets that lead to business success....

Most highly successful people got that way from having a great idea -- a moment of insight. There are techniques anyone can learn that make brilliant insights happen more frequently. It's not a difficult thing to do. Ralph Waldo Emerson got great...

Being around complainers at work is not only unpleasant, it's bad for your workplace brain and performance. Brain researchers have long known that the adult brain is surprisingly plastic -- we can strengthen synaptic connections through repetition, for example, to improve our memory. But a new study using...