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Secret 5: Check Whether You’re Both Headed in the Same Direction. And Keep Checking.

Over the past few days, I’ve told you four of the Secrets of Romantic Success. Here’s the fifth. Secret 5: Check Whether You’re Both Headed in the Same Direction. And Keep Checking. When the moon rocket left the ground, it was aimed as precisely as possible… and it would have missed the moon by tens [...]

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How does the process of inventing actually work?

Inventing involves giving your unconscious mind a “Search Target” that specifies the characteristics of what you’re trying to invent, prioritizing it and giving it the time required to sort through the billions of alternatives in its “database.” Every invention involves seeing existing things in a new context, something like “This (the invention) is like that [...]

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Secret 4: Don’t Try to Fool Them. Show Them Who You Really Are.

Once you think you’ve found your Perfect Partner, let them know exactly who you really are. If you’re their Perfect Partner, they’ll like you just the way you are. If you aren’t, they’ll eventually try to change you or reject you. So you might as well find out right now. Carefully listen to and observe [...]

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What would your life be like if you could accomplish all of your productive daily work in half the time with better results?

The unemployment rates in America are at a record high. With so many looking for work, competition for jobs is fierce. And businesses need to retain – or increase – their productivity with a smaller amount of employees. Have you given thought to what your life would be like if you could accomplish all of [...]

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Why are your Unrecognized Skills probably your most important ones?

What we are most expert at is what we typically take for granted. But in evaluating you for a job, those are probably the things that are most important. As employers are increasingly recognizing, skills can be taught while personality is a reflection of who you are. Of course, in evaluating a potential relationship partner, [...]

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Secret 3 of The Five Secrets of Romantic Success

Today, I’ll discuss the third Secret of Romantic Success. You can sharply up your chance of achieving romantic success if you follow the five secrets of romantic success that I discuss in this series. Secret 3: Really Listen If you listen carefully to both your Perfect Partner candidate and your own reactions, they’ll tell you [...]

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Who first created the small disk drive used in PC’s and Macs?

It was Al Shugart who began his career at IBM in San Jose, California and rose to become the company’s direct access storage product manager, responsible for its disk storage products. Direct access and disk storage were IBM’s most profitable businesses at that time. Shugart went on to found the self-named Shugart Associates in 1973, [...]

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Who said, “I didn’t fail 10,000 times…”?

Though he was often ridiculed, Thomas Edison made over ten thousand attempts before finally demonstrating the world’s first working light bulb 1879. Asked by a reporter, “How did it feel to fail 10,000 times?” Edison simply replied, “I didn’t fail 10,000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 10,000 steps.” Thomas Edison invented the [...]

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What’s the greatest blunder ever by a major politician?

A recent Gallup poll found that an astonishing amount of negativity directed at the US Government. A staggering 82% of Americans expressed their disapproval with politics. More than half of those polled went on to express a lack of confidence and trust in political candidates. What has lead to America’s discontent with politics? It’s the [...]

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Secret 2 of The Five Secrets of Romantic Success

Continuing with my discussion of the five Secrets of Romantic Success in finding your Perfect Partner and creating relationships with them that really work for you, here’s a reminder of some of what you’re headed toward if you do what I describe, the four characteristics of a successful romantic relationship. The partners support each other [...]

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