September 24, 2009

Feed, nurture and exercise mind and body… simultaneously for exponential potential and guaranteed results.  A winning combination for successful people! John is an avid walker.  When home in Dallas, he walks 3 to 5 times a week in an upscale, multi level shopping mall called the Galleria.  Typically he walks briskly around the interior perimeter of

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September 14, 2009

Want to significantly increase your personal and professional contributions, value, success (however you define success) and legacy?  Harness and indulge regularly in focused creative thinking! Annette Moser-Wellman, author of The Five Faces of Genius states “The most valuable resource you bring to your work and to your firm is your creativity.  More than what you get done,

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September 8, 2009

Guest Author: Deb Stargardt, Dallas, Texas:   A = x + y + z “If A is success in life, then A = x + y + z.  Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.” ~Albert Einstein Albert Einstein had a formula for success.   Clearly, his brilliance wasn’t limited

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September 2, 2009

While serving on the board of directors of a fast growing savings and loan company, I watched, admired and learned from the focused thinking of our chairman.  It is not an exaggeration to state that a fire could have been burning down the hall from where the board of directors met, and our chairman would

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September 2, 2009

Through the circumstances and trauma of an overbooked, overburdened and overstressed life, quite similar to the lives led by millions of very busy people in this age of 24/7 demands and expectations, Suzy Welch developed “an enhanced thinking system process of sorts, a methodology for getting systematic about things.”  She started making her decisions, in

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August 28, 2009

In the first chapter of his book entitled, How Successful People Think, John Maxwell states that “Big picture thinking brings wholeness and maturity to a person’s thinking.  It brings perspective.”  It is intentionally making the mental frame and picture bigger so that you can see more and do more.  Maxwell explains that big-picture thinkers: Learn Continually

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August 26, 2009

It is 8:00 a.m. Tuesday, August 25, 2009.  The conference room at Ackley Financial Group in Dallas, Texas is filled to capacity with highly successful entrepreneurs and business executives, all of whom are successful leaders on many levels, including in their businesses and their community.  Each one of these very busy men and women had

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August 17, 2009

Could you improve all areas of your personal and professional life by improving and refining your thinking?  Of course you could… we all could… and we all should.  It is a day-by-day, life long process.  Absolutely nothing separates highly successful people from less successful people more than the quality and impact of their thinking! In

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