Prescription Wealth

“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” ~Michael Jordan

Failure is a necessary piece of life. Without failure we would not have the ability to grow and develop to new levels. The challenge is that society has wired us to believe that failure is a bad thing. The reality is that with each failure  new things are learned and with each failure you are one step closer to that potential revolutionary break through that will take you to new heights in your life. The trick is not to quit and push well through that major breakthrough that you deserve and have earned the right to take.  Read the rest of this entry »

In order to succeed you have to fail. Failure is the one element that truly does fuel success. It’s how we learn and how we grow. Without it we would never be able to improve upon our skills and ways of thinking. If you look at some of the most successful people in the world they have all had many failures that built them to a point that they obtained a great amount of success in life.

We have all read about people who are successful briefly. They win a gold medal, make a fortune, or star in one great movie and then disappear. These examples do not inspire me!

My focus and fascination is with people who seem to do well in many areas of life, and do it over and over through a lifetime. In entertainment, I think of Tom Cruise and Bill Cosby. In business, I think of Ben and Jerry (the ice cream moguls) As a Naval Officer, husband, businessman, politician and now as a mediator and philanthropist on the world stage, Jimmy Carter has had a remarkable life. We all know examples of people who go from one success to another. Read the rest of this entry »

1. Lack of motivation. A talent is irrelevant if a person is not motivated to use it. Motivation may be external (for example, social approval) or internal (satisfaction from a job well-done, for instance). External sources tend to be transient, while internal sources tend to produce more consistent performance.

2. Lack of impulse control. Habitual impulsiveness gets in the way of optimal performance. Some people do not bring their full intellectual resources to bear on a problem but go with the first solution that pops into their heads.

3. Lack of perseverance. Some people give up too easily, while others are unable to stop even when the quest will clearly be fruitless.

4. Using the wrong abilities. People may not be using the right abilities for the tasks in which they are engaged.

5. Inability to translate thought into action. Some people seem buried in thought. They have good ideas but rarely seem able to do anything about them. Read the rest of this entry »