Have you ever wanted something but, when told the amount of work it would take to achieve it, you decided you did not want it “that bad”? I have. An example, when I was younger I wanted to be a doctor, until I realized how long I would have to go to school, and how I most likely would still worry about my patients even though my shift was over. I enjoy helping people but that was too much of an investment for me, so I left it alone.

Everyday I see people who want to have millions of people reading their site or using their apps, but do not want to put in the work to achieve that success. They think they can spend a couple of hours a day maximum and have a site that everyone wants to read.

Let’s look at what it really takes to have a successful site.

A client asked me to sit in on a meeting to find out why a team, who is normally very prompt and efficient, is missing their deadlines. The problem ended up not being a work force issue. The employees were letting their relationship problems deteriorate work performance (and this was problem prevalent in other areas of their life as well).

What do you do, as an employer, when your employee’s problems become “your” problem?

I agree but all decisions considered “mean” are not “evil” or “bad” decisions.

In the last article I spoke making mistakes and moving past those mistakes. In this article, I go into more detail explaining why people usually fail when trying to recover from their mistakes and the key to truly overcoming bad times due to bad decisions being made.

Success is a beautiful thing but sometimes, it comes before the person receiving the success is ready to handle it. That is what happened, in my opinion, to Daniel Brusilovsky. Allegedly Daniel, a 17-year-old technology writer, tried to receive a Macbook Air as compensation in exchange for writing an article for TechCrunch. When the owners of TechCrunch found out what happened, they investigated, found the tip correct, fired Daniel and removed all of his content from the site.

Everyone makes mistakes, some bigger than others. How does one recover?

The internet makes it easy for people to create a character online. Let’s take a look at someone doing this to see if it is a wise thing to do long-term.

Being played (taken advantage of) happens in business. Unfortunately, many people leave themselves open to it. Are you one of them?

It is easy to slip into the habit of making excuses. Do you know if you are making unnecessary excuses? If you are, what do you do about it?

Friendships and teams work in similar ways. For them to work, all parties have to agree on the goals for the friendship or team. People who go rogue will definitely mess things up.