Strength In Business

Running was never part of my game plan, although I’ve been an athlete all my life. After suffering major knee injuries in my teens and a dozen doctors (except one) suggesting surgery, I defied the odds: I didn’t go for surgery. I picked up scuba diving. I continued to strengthen my knees, muscles, and tendons. Last weekend I ran my first marathon. The post What I Learned from Running My First Marathon appeared first on StrengthInBusiness.

Willpower and discipline may be unpopular, but they are foundational building blocks for life, health, relationships, and ultimately business. Just because you don’t like to do something, it doesn’t mean you can allow yourself to ignore it. The post Willpower and Discipline: Two Underrated Forces appeared first on StrengthInBusiness.

Who and what determines whether you’re successful or an utter failure? Is this an outside job or just one of those things we outsourced due to convenience? Welcome to a marvelous simulation and a carefully designed maze perfectly decorated to make it hard to remember who you are and why you came. The post Define Success On Your Terms appeared first on StrengthInBusiness.

My journey on LinkedIn started well over a decade ago, and it’s been a smooth journey until a few months ago. The social network was an interesting medium for connecting with like-minded individuals from all walks of life while sharing business posts and my latest creative work. In September 2024, my account was suspended. Here's what I did to regain access to my LinkedIn account. The post Banned on LinkedIn? Here’s What to Do appeared first on StrengthInBusiness.

We are bombarded left, right, and center with data and information so much that we forget who we are and, more importantly, our mission. What are your dreams and ambitions? What is it that you want to accomplish? The post Speak Life into Your Ambitions appeared first on StrengthInBusiness.

Tips, tricks, and hacks … We are bombarded with them in business, sports, relationships, personal development, spirituality, and (insert) XYZ field. Some work, but most don’t. The question is: When are you consciously going to pull yourself out of this trap? The post The Hack Dogma appeared first on StrengthInBusiness.

Building a business is a marathon. It requires devotion, commitment, and resilience. Mistakes, setbacks, and struggles are guaranteed. Success is not. Sacrificing everything, including your health and family, for a business idea is bad advice. The post Building a Business is a Marathon, Not a Sprint appeared first on StrengthInBusiness.

Preparation is a key ingredient in life. Albeit underestimated, this “task” for lack of a better word, causes division among human beings. While some see a waste of time in it, others would bet their existence on it. The post When Preparation Meets Opportunity appeared first on StrengthInBusiness.

High-performance mentors will push your buttons and trigger you to ensure you raise your standards, crush your limitations, and bring forth the very best version of yourself. As you grow and evolve, upgrading your mentors will help you unlock even more hidden resources and navigate to shores others deem impossible to reach. The post Upgrading Your Mentors appeared first on StrengthInBusiness.

Conventional wisdom is almost always wrong. If you take a different route from where the masses are heading, chances are you’ll be on the right path. Your uniqueness makes you stand out if you accept the challenge and embrace the perks that come with it. Remember, you can’t borrow enthusiasm. The post Celebrated for Your Uniqueness Or Punished for Not Conforming appeared first on StrengthInBusiness.

A couple of weeks ago I published my first fiction book. It’s been a magical adventure bar none. Although I’ve written several business books over the past two decades, creating the mystical and galactic pieces that are part of “Spiritual Harvest” has been a blast. What led me down this path? How is writing a fiction book different from publishing business-related insights? The post When Business Meets Fiction appeared first on StrengthInBusiness.

Your product or service was rejected? Was the answer to your proposal a resonating “no”? How about the deal you’ve put your heart and soul into didn’t close as expected? And what about your date that didn’t even bother to show up? If you’re playing this human game on Earth right now, chances are that you’ve been rejected at least once thus far. The post Rejected? So What? appeared first on StrengthInBusiness.

You must move out of the comfort zone bubble to grow and accomplish your dreams. The moment you do that, your rate of failure will increase exponentially. The trick is to fail quickly and learn from those failures. Another trick is to learn from other people’s failures. The post Failing Doesn’t Mean You’re A Failure appeared first on StrengthInBusiness.

Test, iterate, and retest. Testing the variables, and refining a product or service through repeated adjustment cycles is in essence marketing and this is what people get wrong. The post Marketing is a Fancy Word for Test appeared first on StrengthInBusiness.

In the world of entrepreneurship, uncertainty prevails. The journey is chaotic, full of traps and pitfalls thus adding a special flavor to the adventure while shaping the individual accordingly. What’s it going to be? Will you befriend uncertainty or will you allow it to become your worst enemy? The post The Opportunity is in the Uncertainty appeared first on StrengthInBusiness.

How many boxes can you juggle in life without burning out? Have you discovered the sweet spot that enables you to move swiftly and friction-free between your pots? Some boxes are more important than others. The core ones stay with us our whole lives whereas the seasonal ones will leave us at a certain stage aka cycle in life. The fundamental boxes are pretty much the same for all of us: health, love in the form of family, relationships and friendships, and career or business. The post Juggling Boxes without Friction appeared first on StrengthInBusiness.

Think big or be realistic which one is it going to be? Have big goals and hunt down your dreams or stay safe and expand your comfort zone step by step? What if the size of our thoughts really matters? The post The Size of Your Thoughts Shapes Your Future appeared first on StrengthInBusiness.

Some say we have an economical problem. Than we have those who like to point their fingers towards the political establishment or put the blame on the current financial system. Add to the groups above those who regard social issues as the main culprit. What if everything we face today stems from a spiritual level? What if business is more of a spiritual game than a money game? The post Business is a Spiritual Game appeared first on StrengthInBusiness.

The next crisis is just around the corner. Are you prepared? How will you face it? In a constructive or destructive manner? What rituals, patterns, habits and models do you fall back to when crisis hits? The post How Do You Tackle Crisis? appeared first on StrengthInBusiness.

Have you ever violated Facebook’s community standards or their ever changing terms and conditions without knowing exactly what you did wrong? Welcome to the Facebook account suspension game. You can join this club from anywhere in the world, at anytime. Obviously, you need to have a Facebook account in order to participate in this funny adventure. The post The Facebook Account Suspension Game appeared first on StrengthInBusiness.