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- Winners Give Up: Burying Their Heads in the Sand! - by Submitted on Nov 19, 2011 from JAMES MAIOHOWinners Give Up Burying Their Heads in the Sand! According to the phrase-finder website, this originated from an alleged habit of ostriches during the threat of an attack. The story was first recorded by the Roman writer Pliny the Elder, who suggested that ostriches hide their heads in ...
Views: 274 - Winners Give Up Giving Up! - by Submitted on Feb 16, 2011 from JAMES MAIOHOWinners Give Up Giving Up When I think of ‘hanging in there’, I’m reminded of this story by Earl Nightingale, called “Acres of Diamonds”, from Our Changing World radio transcript: One of the most interesting Americans who lived in the 19th century was a man by the name of Russell Herman ...
Views: 309(1 vote) - Winners Give Up Worrying About Health Care Reform (And Other Things They Can’t Control, Like Their Brackets!) - by Submitted on Mar 24, 2010 from JAMES MAIOHOI’ve been listening to the news on the radio a lot more the past few weeks. I, like many of you have been following the debate over this Health Care Reform Bill. I’ve listened to both “conservative” radio and NPR. I find the disparity between the interpretations of “facts” fascinating. I have ...
Views: 364(3 votes) - So What If People Don't Like You? ( Winners Give Up Trying To Please... Everyone.) - by Submitted on Feb 22, 2010 from JAMES MAIOHOWinners Give Up Trying To Get Everybody To Like Them. Are you the type of person that everybody likes? Are you the one that always looks for ways to please your co-workers, friends, bosses or mates? But secretly complains and laments the “concessions” you have made when you get just out ...
Views: 532(3 votes) - Become the best possible version of yourself. - by Submitted on Feb 13, 2010 from JAMES MAIOHOI was golfing with Tiger Woods the other day…..no I wasn’t…I was golfing on my daughters Wii. It doesn’t matter; my score was just as bad. How many men (and women) wish they could play GOLF like Tiger? No matter how we feel about his newly revealed personal “flaws”, he is still perhaps the ...
Views: 981(3 votes) - Winners give up wasting time. - by Submitted on Jan 14, 2010 from JAMES MAIOHOAre you one of the many that get “paralysis by analysis”? Do you spend considerably more time sitting around planning rather than doing? Do you delay progress while over-thinking a problem or, worse yet, imagining every conceivable negative contingency? I believe that many like the “idea” of ...
Views: 244(6 votes) - Winners Give Up Easy? - by Submitted on Jan 14, 2010 from JAMES MAIOHOWinners give up Easy! Don’t they? Have you ever looked at the income percentages of the U.S. population? If you make $100,000.00, you’re in the upper 4% of the population. Do 96% of us not aspire to, or dream about making good money? What If I told you about the upper 1%...Wow! What are ...
Views: 477(4 votes) - Are people really choosing to stay unemployed? Really? - by Submitted on Jan 14, 2010 from JAMES MAIOHOAre people really choosing to stay unemployed? Really? These comments are from a discussion I had with a man in Michigan. How do we motivate, inspire, reach and help here? The following is a response from a man in Michigan to a community where I posed the preceding question. I have the ...
Views: 955(2 votes) - Winners give up bad associations, partnerships and relationships. - by Submitted on Jan 03, 2010 from JAMES MAIOHOWhat happens when pleasing others runs contrary to serving your own best interests? People all over the country have told me that they feel held back by the very people they believe should be helping them succeed. They secretly fear that their own family and friends work against their ...
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