The Profit Prophet

I have often written about the characteristics on what makes a successful person, or boss, or entrepreneur, but have never offered any practical advice on how to get those “characteristics” in the first place. Well, this post will go into what “steps” you can take to develop and practice self-love. Why is this important anyway? Well, essentially having self-love means you have the capacity to love others and be more aware of how you effect other people and the world. Essentially, in the first step I state "you cannot give to others what you do not give to yourself first." If you are not honest with yourself, you cannot be honest with others; if you are fearful, you will make others fearful; if you are courageous, others will gain courage through you; and so it is with love. If you do not love yourself, you can never love another. And we do NOT intrinsically know how to love. It is a learned art, something too few of us have ever mastered. Still, it is the single best cop...

As a rule, I have been applying the rules of Adam Grant's great book " Give and Take " to the people I meet for some time now. I have intrinsically known about the three types of people he talks about (givers, takers and matches) in his book for some time, as I have stayed away from takers and matchers (people who do you a favor it you do them a favor) for the last 10 years. What I did not know is that givers are both the most successful and least successful people on the spectrum. The difference between the two types is givers is: one type only gives to other givers, or is a strategic giver. The other type, ends up giving to takes and matches and usually gets burned out due in part that you can never fill up either party with giving. I highly recommend anyone who wants to be successful in life to read the book.  Of course my advice to anyone is to stay away from the takers and matchers.  The are usually drama obsessed and only will suck the life force out of y...

I know it is that time of the year when EVERYBODY makes New Year’s resolutions about how to have a better year.   I have my own resolutions, but they are not about having a better year, but a better life in general.   Of course there are 10 of them… but I think if you can adapt them into your daily regime, you will see that the changes them make in your life will be more than extraordinary. 1. Get Rid of Toxic People You know how Superman has his Kryptonite? Well, toxic people in your life are just like that.   Oh, and they may be people who are very close to you: your father, mother, girlfriend, boss, husband, etc.   If you really want to succeed and be happy in this life, you have to get rid of those who are poisoning you.   As I like to say, i f you want to lift yourself up, see who is bringing you down, and get rid of them.   I know this may sound harsh and callous, but if you really want to get on with your life, you first need to go through a...