Author: Scott Westerman

Let’s talk about one of the most important laws of success. It’s a fundamental, universal law that every spectacular achiever understands and practices every day. And it’s a law that influences everyone from the most destitute homeless person, to the multi-millionaire. If you understand and act based on this simple law, you will be successful,…

“Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.” – Jim RohnI recently met a retired medical man. He was in his 80s and still vigorous, working as a consultant to other medical people who wanted to sell their practices and retire. He told me of an…

“Every time I find the meaning of life, they change it”Friday at 1:47PM, we heard the words we had been hoping for for the last six months. Dr. Reynolds smiled and said to Colleen, “You are cancer free”. The roller coaster ride began in Just after Thanksgiving when our Albuquerque Doctor told The Queen that…

Back in the days when I was nearing graduation from College, I was filled with idealism and energy. And even though I had worked my way through school at a local radio station, I was still relatively clueless about the big, shining world that waited for me at the other end of my graduation walk.One…

Planning your next career move, expanding knowledge, building networks, sharpening resumes and anticipating the future are things you should be doing now.Whether your personal brand is on an upswing or in need of some attention. It’s a good time to review some of the basic behaviors of career building.Strengthen your network relationships.“A friend is one…

I watched The Blind Side again this weekend. The story of Michael Oher, is, itself, is a great Monday Motivator about courage.The courage it takes to do right, when everybody else is doing wrong. The courage it takes to care for someone with potential, when everybody else is telling you not to. The courage it takes to…

The best speech of the 2010 Final Four happened on Saturday night. Michigan State University’s Draymond Green gave it.“We know we have to change a lot of things that we do as a team and as individuals… We have to go back and take a look in the mirror, realize who we are, how to…

I rode Amtrak into Chicago this week to spend the day with Jana Obrien. We first met at Michigan State when I was spending to much time on the radio and she was building the fundamentals of a brilliant career in advertising research.We contemplated our reflections in Cloudgate, that incredible sliver space ship at Millennium…

Sometimes I get on a roll. As I research these Monday missives I admit to occasions when I have so much I want to share that the normal pre-caffeinated attention spans in our mornings together don’t quite have the stamina to keep up.Such was the feedback I heard from a beloved colleague this past week…

If I could make one recommendation to improve your mood, energy capacity and proclivity it would be this: Get rid of the Energy Suckers in your life! “If people around you aren’t going anywhere, if their dreams are no bigger than hanging out on the corner, or if they’re dragging you down, get rid of…