Comments on: A Wake-Up Call: Why You’re Just Mediocre and What to Do About It

By: Guest

Guest — Tue, 18 Mar 2014 03:24:00 +0000

Shut up, Millennial loser. Go back to playing Candy Crush in mommy’s basement. Make sure you study for that Sociology of My Little Pony class the taxpayers are footing the bill for.

By: Guest

Guest — Tue, 18 Mar 2014 03:24:00 +0000

“What do you want to be when you grow up?”

That is… IF you grow up!

By: Guest

Guest — Tue, 18 Mar 2014 03:22:00 +0000

Go to Oprah!
Go to Oprah!
Go to Oprah!
Go to Oprah!
Go to Oprah!

By: Guest

Guest — Tue, 18 Mar 2014 03:21:00 +0000

This blog is bullshit. I just read an article about “Why you’re AWESOME” and now I’m reading one about “Why you’re just mediocre.” Make up your mind, that is if you have a mind to make up and don’t attribute everything to “heart” or “spirit” or some other Care Bear crap you learned from PSAs in the McDonald’s box. How about an article that really hits home with these participation-trophy narcissists that says “Why you, your mother, your pervy uncle Harvey, and Leeroy Jenkins (whoever the hell that is), all SUCK, and should do everyone a favor and remove yourselves from the population?” That’d be a wake-up call, all right, and a well-deserved slap upside the head!

By: Krista Hasling

Krista Hasling — Tue, 18 Feb 2014 00:32:00 +0000

Growing up, I always hated the question “What do you want to be when you grow up” because I felt like it limited me to one definition of success. There are differences between working towards a goal and having a dream. I liked your quote of “In the realm of ideas, everything depends on enthusiasm; in the real world, all rests on perseverance.” Having creativity and actually implementing that creativity take different skills and it comes from two different areas of our hearts. Thanks for the article!

By: Pyrrho Nist

Pyrrho Nist — Fri, 31 Jan 2014 04:08:00 +0000

Step 4: Stop reading blogs on Brazen Life

By: C.J Milburn

C.J Milburn — Thu, 30 Jan 2014 01:31:00 +0000

I think we forget how special we are as adults and this is the reason we become mediocre.

By: dfrieson

dfrieson — Tue, 28 Jan 2014 05:19:00 +0000

I was having this argument with a friend recently as well. Her argument is you can push people as much as you want but they have to believe it and see it too, if not, there is nothing else you can do for them. I half agreed with that statement but people are used to people giving up on them as well. I wouldn’t make it a life job to help others realize their potential but you don’t forget them and push them in ways that make sense. Sometimes tough love works and sometimes it doesn’t. Its completely based on the person and the situation on what time of inspiration is needed.

By: Bob Klaas

Bob Klaas — Mon, 27 Jan 2014 19:33:00 +0000

It all started going downhill with the “participation” trophies they started giving to kids playing sports. Heaven forbid that someone, or their team, could be in second place (or worse).

So, the solution was to make everyone a winner. No more keeping scores or team standings. The well-intentioned result…mediocrity!

If you want to be an entrepreneur, you better believe you need the will to win. That’s why I think some of the best entrepreneurs have a competitive background. Whether it’s in sports, or debate club, if you want to build a business, you need to be ready to take the hard knocks. Get up, dust yourself off, and go at it again.

I just saw a slide that said 48% of salespeople never follow up on a prospect. 25% give up after the second attempt. We’ll give these people participation trophies. As it turns out, 80% of sales are made on the fifth through twelfth contact.

By: Monica Strobel

Monica Strobel — Fri, 24 Jan 2014 18:23:00 +0000

You’d be surprised at how unappreciated most people are (#1) and that some more appreciation would actually ramp up their desire to Be More, to expand into the positive vision you hold of and share with them.They get so much less acknowledgement from their boss, their spouse, their kids than you imply. Sure false praise doesn’t work but we don’t believe it, really either. Show people you believe in them and that they can do it and they’ll dig deep.