Rory Vaden talks about the 7 steps to achieving true success and his new book Take the Stairs on Fox & Friends:
Mystery
April 22, 2013 By 1 Comment
Some have said that motivation is a mystery.
They’ve said that there is no explanation why two men of similar background and of equal talent and skill will move down 2 completely separate paths in life.
But there is no mystery here.
If you are not motivated…
You either don’t have a crystal clear vision of what you want for your life
Or
You don’t see the connection of how what you’re doing today will help get you there.
The amount of your motivation is directly proportionate to the clarity of your vision. The amount of your endurance is directly proportionate to the strength of the connection your sacrifices have to your vision.
It is always and only one of those two things.
Most people suck at creating vision for themselves. Which is why job #1 for any type of leader or coach is to clarify the vision a person wants and to demonstrate the correlation of the sacrifices it will take to get there.
My pal David Avrin told me when I was young, “we spend years of our lives going through the motions of whatever is right in front of us and we spend merely minutes thinking about what we really want.”
You either don’t see the vision or you don’t see the connection.
Which is it?
Q&A with Rory Vaden at Chester Elton’s “The Culture Works”
June 7, 2012 By Leave a Comment
“Take the Stairs”
Posted by Chester Elton
Rory Vaden has been a friend of mine for a long time. He has a somewhat peculiar area of study in that he is the world’s only Self-Discipline Strategist. He does great work and as a first time author his new book Take the Stairs www.buytakethestairs.com hit the bestseller lists last week.
Rory sent me a review copy of his book, which I loved, and I recently connected with him to expand on some of the most interesting concepts presented in the book…
Click here to read the full post at ChesterElton.com!
Take the Stairs on Sonoran Living (ABC 15 Arizona)
May 25, 2012 By Leave a Comment
The definition of success depends on who you are talking to. For some it means being married and having a happy family, for others it means climbing the corporate ladder.
No matter what it means to you, Rory Vaden the author of ‘Take The Stairs: 7 Steps to Achieving True Success,’ says there is one common denominator and that is self-discipline…
Click here to read more on ABC 15′s website!
Eric Chester’s Reviving Work Ethic “If All Millennials were like Rory Vaden, I’d be Driving a Cab”
May 11, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Written by Eric Chester
In 2004, I presented my Employing Generation Why keynote speech to about 300 sales managers of Southwestern, the renowned educational book publisher and distributor headquartered in Nashville, TN. With a 150-year history of getting top-quality college students to forgo their entire summer vacation to sell books door-to-door on a commission-only basis, Southwestern is unlike any company I have ever heard of or worked with, and they are remarkably effective in building core work ethic values in the emerging workforce…
