by John Macdonald | May 24, 2021 | Failure, Mindset
And Why the “Doing Your Best is Always Enough” Myth Might Be Killing Your Success The toxic positivity movement, growing over recent years from parents to tee-ball coaches to life coaches, will tell you otherwise. The movement will tell you...
by John Macdonald | Dec 11, 2017 | Failure, Mindset, Success
How To Fight the Victim Mindset (Updated) It’s a touchy subject for sure…We interact with people all day who play the part of the victim. Sometimes its overt “poor-me” attitude, and many times its more subtle. Its one thing to recognize this...
by John Macdonald | Jul 31, 2017 | Failure, Mindset, NoFear, Success
We’re All Failures…At Least the Best of Us Are We’re all failures…At least the best of us are. – J M Barrie Fear’s sister, and sometimes siamese twin is failure. They are attached at the hip because one of the greatest purveyors of...
by John Macdonald | Sep 12, 2016 | Failure, Mindset, Success
The Aha! Moment for Me in John C Maxwell’s Top 10 Reasons Why People Fail Change…Is it good? Is it bad? Are you willing to change? Does change have an impact on our success? In this post I share some more wisdom from John C Maxwell’s Failing Forward....
by John Macdonald | Aug 11, 2016 | Business, Failure, Mindset, NoFear, Success
The Most Important Mindset Training for Achieving Your Goals I had a mind bending “Aha!” moment today. It was in my car on the way to the office as I was listening to an audio version of the book, “Go For No!”, by Richard Fenton and Andrea...
by John Macdonald | Jun 8, 2016 | Business, Failure, Mindset, Success
How to Overcome 2 Popular Assumptions About Failure We have spent several posts discussing failure, and that failure is the key to success. Unfortunately, we seem to be programmed the opposite way. We are programmed to do everything we can to AVOID failure because...
