Although I’m a success coach, I’ve not always been successful. Early in my career I was called on to demonstrate my own personal persistence. My goal was to enter the real estate profession. One of the prerequisites was to obtain a real estate license, normally not easy to do, but certainly attainable with some effort. […]

By an inner circle I mean a few steadfast, positive friends. We all need positive people in our lives. You need people to emulate, people to admire for their persistent efforts, people who can give you wise counsel. In short, you need positive people in your life who believe in you and can encourage you […]

My experience has shown that if you strive to get ahead, if you really attempt to make something out of your life, the voices of negativity will echo about you. Often, strange as it is, these negative voices will be those people closest to you: loved ones, relatives, best friends. Somehow, these people always think […]

Below are eight principles of the free enterprise code of persistence, which were first printed in a slightly different form in Harold Sherman’s book, “How to Turn Failure into Success.” I’ve made them fit a free enterprise model for success, the same free enterprise system that has given rise to the publication of my own […]

I have yet to meet a person who has achieved success in life easily without risk and setback and, above all, doggedly persisting to complete the goals of their life. Wise men and women expect set backs. They come with the territory.      One of the basic reasons you will encounter one or more major […]

  As a wealth coach, every day I provide people like you with wealth-building secrets that, in the twentieth and the twenty-first centuries, have lifted millions of men and women out of poverty and debt into the Richer Life, into the world of financial success and personal liberty. It is almost certain that for you […]

Dr. William James, in his excellent essay, The Will To Believe, writes: “Often our faith in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the results come true.” In this sentence, Dr. James reveals to us why, in great endeavors, we never allow ourselves to become discouraged. Instead we persist, no matter how dark […]

Most of the time, no matter what goal we choose, we run on a success track staked out by those who have gone before us. And it is right that we do. But not everything others have done will work for you. You may have to blaze a new trail, invent new ways on your […]

As I’ve watched and coached people over the years, I’ve come to understand one reason many with great talent and ability fail to succeed. They allow themselves to detour from their vision and goals, and become bogged down in trifles. As one person put it, they major in minors. You’ll discover as I have that […]