SUCCESS magazine Blog http://blog.success.com A personal development blog for what Achievers read Wed, 15 May 2013 14:00:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Worried That You’re Boring Your Audience? Demand Interesting Questions! http://blog.success.com/worried-that-youre-boring-your-audience-demand-interesting-questions/ http://blog.success.com/worried-that-youre-boring-your-audience-demand-interesting-questions/#comments Wed, 15 May 2013 14:00:39 +0000 Alison Lester http://blog.success.com/?p=9077 During the Australian Open Tennis Championships in 2011, when she was ranked No. 1 in the world, Caroline Wozniacki got wind of the fact that the media found her press conferences boring because she always gave the same answers. “I find it quite funny because I always get the same questions,” she told the press [...]

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Are you looking for the “right” answer or your answer? As children we are well-trained to find the right answer. We are rewarded for A’s, the honor roll and acing the test. Our education trains us to follow the rules and deliver the expected answers. When we do, the stickers, accolades and congratulations follow. Yet [...]

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]]> http://blog.success.com/where-credit-is-due/feed/ 2 Plucky or Lucky, You Decide http://blog.success.com/plucky-or-lucky-you-decide/ http://blog.success.com/plucky-or-lucky-you-decide/#comments Mon, 22 Apr 2013 06:00:40 +0000 Tory Johnson http://blog.success.com/?p=8971 So often people tell me that I’m lucky. Lucky to have an exciting career. Lucky to work with phenomenal people. Lucky to have a healthy family. While there’s no denying any of that, much of what I’ve created and received hasn’t been drawn from sheer good fortune. Instead of attributing it to being lucky, I’d say it’s [...]

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]]> http://blog.success.com/plucky-or-lucky-you-decide/feed/ 9 Why We Are Like Earworms, and What to Do About It. http://blog.success.com/why-we-are-like-earworms-and-what-to-do-about-it/ http://blog.success.com/why-we-are-like-earworms-and-what-to-do-about-it/#comments Tue, 16 Apr 2013 14:00:42 +0000 Alison Lester http://blog.success.com/?p=8898 Earworms are the songs you can’t get out of your head. They crawl in when you hear them, or when you see a word or hear a phrase that makes you think of them, or in a moment of stress, or when you’re happy. The threat is constant. For me it’s Everybody Dance Now by [...]

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]]> http://blog.success.com/spring-clean-your-health/feed/ 4 Great Resilience in Challenging Times http://blog.success.com/great-resilience-in-challenging-times/ http://blog.success.com/great-resilience-in-challenging-times/#comments Mon, 08 Apr 2013 16:17:04 +0000 Don Yaeger http://blog.success.com/?p=8878
Each week, it seems the sports world captures our attention and sends us on an emotional rollercoaster worth the price of admission. But this week’s thrill ride inspired me to focus on perspective. Under what lens would you view emotional moments of failure, tragedy or triumph? If you were Baylor’s 6-foot-8 women’s basketball sensation Brittney [...]

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