Steps To Your Better You - RETIRE

When you are working hard at overdoing things, you are setting yourself up for getting fewer things done. If you just focus on a few things, you should be able to do those things well or at least get better results from having the ability to focus more on those things.

Being a living example to the life you want to teach others that is possible is the greatest lesson you could ever teach.

Sometimes, the best way to figure out why your message is not resonating with your target audience is to try to deliver it to a hostile audience.

Sunk costs are a dilemma in all aspects of life that should be dealt with, not avoided.

The reason you should never meet your heroes is that you are more likely to be disappointed with the encounter than enthused. Your heroes may seem superhuman, but they are just as human as you are, and just as likely to be frustrated or angry with their own lives.

After a celebratory episode, there is the inevitable let down that is going to come. Actually, you are always a split second away from a letdown occurring just because that how life works. But you can usually prepare yourself for when these episodes happen.

Episode #208 marks the four years of producing and publishing this podcast, and we will rightfully celebrate this milestone. But as discussed in Episode #200 on celebrating milestones, you can take the time to celebrate whenever you feel a need to celebrate.

There are three parts to being successful in delegation work and responsibility. I added a fourth because you really must do this to get your mind right before you really get into delegation.

A headache is a symptom. Pain in your foot is a symptom. A concussion is a condition that can cause a headache but is treatable. A broken toe is a condition that can cause pain in your foot but is treatable.

Sometimes, the first step to a resolution is the only step possible, with no real path to resolution. And you just have to live with it.

The work you put into a thing should always offer a result. Even if it is an unexpected or undesired one.

If the law doesn't regulate it or your potential clients aren't demanding it, you decide...

Superiority can be a disease to those who feel 'called' into service. Having a calling doesn’t make you any better than anyone else. Being on a mission doesn’t give you the right to boss others around.

It's cliché to say there is never enough time, but you really should take the time to tell others what you appreciate about them, assuming you do.

In troubled times, knowing how to reduce living expenses is key to making your way through the issue and manage your stress levels along the way. Even you’re not facing a crisis, but just want to build up a nest egg for yourself, these five tips will help you focus your efforts.

While many podcasts fail to make it past their eighth episode, 'Steps To Your Better You' is publishing its 200th without missing a beat. But not missing those beats does not mean without plenty of struggle and difficulty getting it done every single week for almost 4 years.

The reality is, there is no wrong answer to, 'How are you doing?' Unless your answer is not truthful and you are in real distress.

Why do we celebrate the movie characters who tell the boss to take their job and shove it?

Talent, or lack of talent, is not something that makes you better than anyone else. And if you find yourself lacking in a popular talent, you should look to discover what actual talents you do possess.

You don't have to wait until you reached the pillar of depression to turn your life around.

There are people who have been trying to help you out of a situation. Only their help only seems to make the situation worse. Let them off the hook they may have put themselves on for you.

You need to choose who you let in your life to share the ups and downs. Get a spouse, partner, friend, whatever. Just get someone who is ready to stand in your corner whether you're doing fine or not-so-much.

It is a cliché to say there is not enough time in the day to get everything done, but you can (and should) always make time to show thankfulness and gratitude.

At a television station that ran three shifts for production, the numbers can not lie. But an over-stressed shift leader can.

Christmas is December 25th. Every year, even the leap years. You should not miss a deadline like this. You should not blatantly miss any deadline.