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Want More Pain? Procrastinate – NO FAILURE ZONE
I hate to wait. I have made the thought of a looming deadline absolutely intolerable. You see, the pattern of procrastination is avoidance of pain, and in fact a setup for more pain. What do you fear? Be honest, what pleasure is your pattern of procrastination bringing you? Nike says it well “Just do it”. […]
We have you surrounded – NO FAILURE ZONE
I am speaking of circles or spheres of influence. Influencers. Surrounding yourself with the people you want to be like. Forward thinking, determined, positive minded, fearless. Balance that with level headed, mindful, and studious but not fearful personalities. Take a look at the 7 people you are around the most, they are your influencers.
We’re going to have to change our associations – NO FAILURE ZONE
I like dieting as the example for this blog. Dieting is a painful process and association for our brains. Just look at the first three letters of the word DIEt. Talk about avoidance of pain. But your body wants and needs food, so it must have it. Willpower will only go so far. What has […]
Pain and Tolerance – NO FAILURE ZONE
Short and sweet – you get what you tolerate. Some people will sit in a dead relationship because they experience the phantom fear of never being in a relationship again, being alone, or maybe the financial repercussions. It takes leveraging and focus on the pain of the present relationship to get over the emotional hurdle […]
Inventory and Conscious Awareness – NO FAILURE ZONE
Among many well-knowns, both Plato and Benjamin Franklin wrote about the value of taking inventory, the latter had a simple process of drawing a line down the middle of the page and then writing down all the “negative” features on the left and the “positive” features on the right. The balance of power was then […]
Meet my ASSOCIATIONS – NO FAILURE ZONE
You have said or heard someone say that “ I have mixed emotions about that”. Let’s take that phrase and restate it in the context of our brain and the avoidance of pain versus pursuit of pleasure. Let’s now say “I have mixed associations”. What does that mean? It is simply this: it is associating […]
The difference is PAIN – NO FAILURE ZONE
As the CEO of a company in the New Space and Aerospace markets I get to interact with a lot of big name CEOs, entrepreneurs, investors, scientists, astronauts and even Nobel prize winners. I recently interacted with several with great financial resources. I had no discomfort at all because I do not make the assumption […]
Risk – NO FAILURE ZONE
Risk is a mindset. What’s your mindset? Let’s see. Would you rather do what it takes to save the $500k you just saved in the last 5 years or would you take a risk to make $500k pursing your dreams over the next 5 years? There are 2 fears in play here that are changing […]
Pain Strategies – NO FAILURE ZONE
Go back a number of blogs and you will find the two motivations for everything we do – avoidance of pain and pursuit of pleasure. And recently we also discussed patterns. Well now what we want to do is identify the patterns (repetitive behaviors) that we have associated to our pains and pleasures. I’ll give […]
Pain Strategies – NO FAILURE ZONE
Go back a number of blogs and you will find the two motivations for everything we do – avoidance of pain and pursuit of pleasure. And recently we also discussed patterns. Well now what we want to do is identify the patterns (repetitive behaviors) that we have associated to our pains and pleasures. I’ll give […]
