Andy’s Blog
What Do You Believe?
Note: Do you have a favorite sports team? Are you a coach? Do you know one? Be sure to read to the end to receive a free gift I put together specifically for readers of this post. 🙂 If you were the head coach, what would you say to a group of young men about...
How to Maximize Your Morning
Do you ever ask yourself how you could possibly fit everything you need to do into a single day? How about whether you’ll be able to fit all the things you want to do into the rest of your lifetime? I hear questions like these all the time. And when I do, I always...
How to Quit a Job with Grace
When someone asks, “What do you do?” how do almost all of us respond? I’m an accountant. I’m a teacher. I’m a salesman. Jobs are a large part of how we define who we are. They make up the chapters of our lives, alongside major life events like marriage, the birth of...
Why Comfort Is Costing You More Than You Think
It’s one of the oldest clichés in the book… “Get out of your comfort zone.” We hear it so often that it’s easy to just kind of ignore it. “Oh, yeah,” we tell ourselves. “I know that already.” It’s occurred to me, however, that there are many things with which we’re...
The Best Life Advice I’ve Ever Received
It was one of the oddest moments I can remember. I was 23 years old—and as was often the case during this time, I was deep in conversation with Jones. I can’t recall exactly what he was explaining, but I do remember that I certainly had something to say about it. (I...
The Secret to Adding More Hours to Your Day
“To be honest,” he said, “I’m having a tough go of it right now.” I’d just run into a friend who was telling me about the challenges he was experiencing getting his new business off the ground. But what they all boiled down to, he explained, was one all-too-familiar...
Why You Should Think Like an Entrepreneur (Even If You’re Employed)
It was at least 25 years ago. A friend was listening to me talk through what I’m sure he had already designated in his mind as “another one of Andy’s crazy ideas.” And he may have been right! To be honest, I can’t recall what the idea was about. But at some point in...
Causes of Failure: What Every Spectacular Failure Has in Common
My office has been described as pretty weird. Whatever you’re picturing, that’s not it—I guarantee you. Yes, I have two desks, chairs, computer monitors, and the usual office items. But what makes my office unique is every wall surrounding the entire room is full of...
The Sunrise Principle: How to Generate Results That Are Wildly Beyond the Average
We’ve known for a while that my book The Noticer is getting close to the million sales mark, but that ever increasing number has always included foreign sales. Printed in almost 20 languages, the book has been on bestseller lists all over the world. (In France, it is...