Post Tagged with: "Inspiration"

If you’ve never failed… you’ve never lived

OK… I am a sap for motivational stuff… I’ve walked on hot coals with Anthony Robbins and started skydiving as a metaphor of overcoming my fear of heights… take a peek at this 1min 16 second video to remember the simple lesson that if you’ve never failed… you’ve never lived. 2009 was a horrible year [...]

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How I Built It: Barry Sternlicht of Starwood Capital

Follow this link to view an inspirational 4-minute interview with Barry Sternlicht, the founder of Starwood Capital, to learn what motivated a then 31-year old unemployed young man to take the leap of faith and start his own business. From humble beginnings his 3-man start-up went on to become the world’s largest owner of hotels. [...]

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Prosthetics help 7-year old Texas boy step over the competition

[brightcove vid=33234057001&exp3=1681694480&surl=http://c.brightcove.com/services&pubid=713285227&w=300&h=225] Most of the readers of my blog are folks in the commercial real estate industry. Our industry is in turmoil with non-stop stories of negativity, doom & gloom. Rather than watching the bark on the trees of negativity today we take a step back to see the forest of hope. Spend 109 seconds [...]

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Become a workafrolic not workaholic and other secrets of success in 8 words, 3 minutes

Why do people succeed? Is it because they’re smart? Or are they just lucky? Neither. Analyst Richard St. John condenses years of interviews into an unmissable 3-minute slideshow …

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