John T. Reed’s succeeding blog

Millions of people are wasting huge amounts of time trying to change their personality to please their boss or their girlfriend or boyfriend. Number one, you cannot change your personality. All you will accomplish is turning yourself into a phony. Secondly, and more important, you don’t have to change your personality. What you do have to change, if your personality clashes, is your boss or your career or your girlfriend or boyfriend. Your success and happiness require that you recognize those things about you that you can change and those you cannot. And you are going to know which they...

Eating less better than exercise Will exercise cause you to lose weight? Absolutely, but it’s the harder, dumber way. If you are some sort of masochist, and have hours to waste, you can exercise your way to a proper weight. But it’s a heck of a lot easier to do it with diet. For example, if you drink a can of Coke, you need to walk a mile to get rid of those calories. It’s faster and easier not to drink the Coke to begin with. The less you eat, the more important the quality of your diet becomes. Succeeding...

Copyright 2015 by John T. Reed I started out poor. Although, like most poor people, we didn’t know it. My parents spoke about poor people at times. They meant people who had even less money than we did. Now I know that their referring to others as poor was only relative. We wore hand-me-down clothes, ate fish sticks and peanut butter sandwiches, and got the occasional big treat of a glass of off-brand cola. I’m not complaining. We were happy. We did not know what we were missing—literally. Our neighbors, classmates, and playmates were in the same boat. The poor...

Life is tough. We all have handicaps. The question is, “What are you going to do about your handicaps?” Too many people just whine about them. “Woe is me. I have these fourteen handicaps. No wonder I can’t get anywhere in life.” Like I said, we all have handicaps. If you focus on your handicaps, you are finding excuses for losing. Finding excuses for losing leads to losing. Finding excuses for losing is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Finding excuses for losing soothes the pain of losing, makes it easier to accept losing. You can tell that you are finding excuses for losing...