Author Archive for Keith A. Shaw

Even if you consider yourself of AVERAGE ability, you can be successful, independent, free of worry, and be your own master, from this point forward, if you can commit to do these four things. Of course, it will take diligent and persistent practice for you to make these permanent and long-lasting positive habits. However, the rewards will be manifold!

Let’s take a look at success. For many people, success or being successful is just as scary as the first time they rode a bicycle. Naturally, many people want to be successful. However, there are few that truly have the motivation to put forward the needed effort and action, and make the necessary sacrifices to get what they want.

My high-school football coach, Coach “Pic” would tell us this every day in his motivational speech as we prepared for the upcoming game. His goal was to get each of us to create a mental picture of what we wanted to do – individually and as a team.

Many of us go through our lives in search of many things, for example – love, better personal and professional relationships, a rewarding career, wealth, health, a full, rich life… No matter what you seek, how can you ever be successful in accomplishing the things you want without knowing the meaning of success? Here’s my [...]

Ongoing self-evaluation and honesty are critical in determining where you are on your success path – from the beginning to the finish line. From experience I find that most people truly believe that they are doing far more than they really are, along the way. Look at this example about Ed, who was a security [...]