Are you being victim to your own thoughts, fears or beliefs?

– By TC North, Ph.D.

Watch the video and see if you are and how to fix it.

Have you every felt like a fraud? Watch this video to see how to change this thought pattern and never feel like a fraud again.

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“Definiteness of decision always requires courage,
sometimes very great courage.”
“Think and Grow Rich” by Napoleon Hill

Do you make great decisions under pressure? Great football quarterbacks, such as Tom Brady, quickly read a defense and decide which receiver to throw to. Great salespeople, such as Sara Quick, land the largest new accounts by being creative — like selling to businesses their companies usually don’t serve. Great leaders, such as Harry Truman, the 33rd president of the United States, make decisions that affect the lives of innumerable people, such as dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end World War II.

Napoleon Hill studied over 25,000 people who had experienced failure and concluded that lack of decision-making was one of the top causes of failure. To make great decisions, consider Harry Truman’s three-step decision-making process:

1. The logical decision. Gather the best information from people who know the most about the subject. Make a pro and con list and determine your logical decision.

2. The emotional decision. Search your heart for your emotional decision. Truman’s emotional decision was to not drop the bomb; he hated the idea.

3. The intuitive decision. Take time away to quiet your thoughts and emotions. Then pay attention to your intuition. You may find your intuitive message in the pit of your stomach, like Harry Truman did, or it could be a quiet sense of knowing. Intuitive messages are different for everyone.

It takes courage to make the tough decisions;
a good decision-making process will give you
more confidence in your decisions.

A successful woman entrepreneur in high tech - lessons from growing up on a farm

– By TC North, Ph.D.

Victims blame, high performers accept responsibility and Jan, a highly successful entrepreneur in high tech who had endured tremendous hardships throughout life, including both of her parents dying before she was 6 years old. Later, in corporate America, she hit her head on the glass ceiling early — being a woman without …

The Stockdale Paradox -
Face the most brutal facts of your current reality.
And retain faith that you will prevail in the endgame.

– By TC North, Ph.D.

This is Admiral Jim Stockdale’s philosophy. He was the highest-ranking U.S. prisoner of war at the “Hanoi Hilton” in Vietnam from 1965 to 1973. As the highest-ranking officer in the prison, he had no rights or release date; he was severely tortured over 20 times and he didn’t know if he’d see his wife and children again.

When asked how he survived all those years, he said …

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
- Anais Nin

– By TC North, Ph.D.

You’re probably not confident when you have little or no experience with something, so you need courage. During graduate school, I accepted my first public speaking engagement. It was about two months away, and for those two months the thought of presenting twisted my stomach into knots and I often felt like …