buy viagra online width=”219″ height=”285″ />In this age of information and technology, we have a world of resources at our fingertips.

Much of human knowledge has been scanned, transcribed, recited and digitized for immediate Google access. Today there are more teachers, preachers, coaches, consultants, mentors and “experts” at your disposal than ever. But the most overlooked, underutilized and divinely powerful resource of them all is you—your own inner voice, intuition and instinct.

I think many people have lost contact with their inner resource.

We live in an era in which everyone around us is telling us what we should do—the government, religious authorities, academic leaders, news media, commercial marketers, our bosses, our parents and now hundreds of friends on Facebook and Twitter every day.

I believe the deluge of all these available resources, ideas and opinions can overwhelm us, put us into a bit of a stupor and make us lazy. As Albert Einstein once said, “Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.” You cannot simply study the wisdom of others. You have to think through ideas yourself and tap your own inner wisdom.

Too often we are consumed by some epic hunt for the Holy Grail. We’re looking for someone else’s secret, answer, formula or big idea in order to get where we want to go.

Over time, and through practice, I have found that the answers to life’s most vexing questions don’t exist on Ask.com, YouTube or Wikipedia, but reside within us. The Holy Grail, as it were, isn’t out there to be found, but lies within us, waiting to be discovered.

As you know, I interview people for a living. It’s true that incredible insights, inspiration and distinctions can be found by interviewing and studying people who have already been where you wish to go. But when it comes to the big issues—to those vexing questions and momentous decisions of life—the most insightful person to interview is read more »

viagra pillsth=”219″ height=”284″ />As a society, I think we often misunderstand the word success.

Our society celebrates those who obtain fame, wealth, power and celebrity, no matter the means—ethical or not—and we call them successful. Success is often equated to an achieved status, rather than to a measure of value or contribution.

We are taught early in life to strive for success, to achieve the status—win the trophy, get the notable degree, land the big position, win the impressive title, acquire the bigger house, bring back the enviable vacation photos and collect the cars, boats, jewels and big bank account. And when we are waving from the mountaintop, having finally achieved these trappings of “success,” we often feel a stark emptiness inside.

What’s wrong?

We might have acquired everything we ever wanted, except the one thing that really matters—significance. We want to know that our lives meant something, that we’ve had a positive impact on the lives of others. And only significance provides that; success by itself cannot.

The interesting thing is you can be successful and not significant, but you cannot be significant without being successful.

In 2007, when we took over the stewardship of this legendary magazine, we decided not to change the name. Instead we have attempted to change the definition of success. We see success as read more »

buy cialis tadalafil online=”320″ height=”310″ />Why do you want to learn how to be a loser? you ask. We learn from both examples and warnings. This post provides you both.

It’s good to know how to be a loser so, 1) you could do the opposite and 2) you can check to be sure you aren’t doing those things yourself.

I remember Jim Rohn saying that it’s too bad failures don’t give seminars. He would say, “If you meet a guy who has messed up his life for forty years, you’ve just got to say, ‘John, if I bring my journal and promise to take good notes, would you spend a day with me? Tell me how a good-looking guy like you with a beautiful family, everything going for him messed up his life so bad. What did you do? What do you read? What do you eat? What type of people do you hang out with? What do you do with your free time? What TV programs, newspapers, and radio programs do you spend time with? Wouldn’t that information be valuable? Find out and then DON’T DO those things.” Great strategy.

Here’s some loser training tips to get you started:

Take it day by day. Don’t bother with setting goals, making plans and preparing. Just wake up each morning and figure out what you want to do then.

Seek comfort. Growth and progress requires work, stress and struggle. Forget it. Stay comfy instead.

Don’t believe in anything. It’s easier to be read more »

The revelation is this: The way we were… is over.

As you know, we are living through an era of unprecedented change. Over the last decade, we began hearing the death rattle of a bygone era. The corporate structure and system has begun to crumble.

The global marketplace has been flattened. Innovative, fast-moving and nimble competition has risen from nearly all corners of the planet. Technology has wired us all directly to each other. Now every manufacturer or marketer has immediate and direct access to everyone, everywhere, destroying heavily controlled and highly valued distribution channels.

All this deconstruction and loss of control by the few, the behemoths, the entrenched, spells freedom… and opportunity for the rest of us.

As entrepreneurs and individual achievers, it is our time to thrive!

But you also have to adapt. The traditional yellow brick road to success and financial security has been deconstructed as well.

The path to the high-paying job you needed and desired used to involve getting the highest academic degree you could obtain, along with some specific technical job skills. Today, if those jobs still exist, certainly the rules of those jobs have changed and will continue to do so.

With the mind-blowing velocity of change and the throng of competition, the skills needed for 21st century success are less about academic or industrial or technical training, and more about what might be called the “soft skills”: emotional intelligence, adaptability and resiliency; networking, interpersonal and relationship-development skills; self-motivation, accountability and productivity skills; personal branding, social marketing and persuasive communication skills; along with leadership, recruiting and people-building skills.

So, to stay relevant, if not gain the advantage, in today’s ever-changing and fast-evolving marketplace, where do you go to gain these critical skills? You won’t necessarily find them taught in school systems. So where do you go? Where do you turn? Who can you rely on? I am proud to tell you read more »

We need to rally together and do something about this!

I heard this statistic and tweeted about it yesterday:

@DARRENHARDY Get this stat:@end of this mo. 3M kids will graduate college-2.4M will be moving in with their parents!! They need SUCCESS!! Help me!

I got flooded with people saying the want to help, but asked how.

So, I asked my SUCCESS team to perform a fire drill to come up with a solution we could collectively use.

This is the problem we are trying to impact:

• Of the 3 million college students who will graduate this month, nearly 85% (2.4 million) of them have to move back in with their mom and dad!
• The unemployment rate for the under-25 group is as high as 54%!
• The U.S. Bureau of Labor reports 12.8 million young people (under age 30) are either unemployed, working part time or working at a job that doesn’t require a college degree, after spending tens of thousands to obtain one!
• Rick Raymond, of the College Parents of America, notes, “Graduates are not the first to be hired when the job markets begins to improve. We’re seeing shocking numbers of people with undergraduate degrees who can’t get work.”
• Sum Report finds that young adults without a college degree have been pushed out of the labor market entirely and are finding work at a lower rate than anytime since the end of World War II!

What can we do about this? We can help them separate from everyone else by developing the success mindset, habits, actions and persistence it’s going to take to have them take personal accountability and control of their future. Whether they want to compete for their dream job or (better yet) take their ambition and initiate an entrepreneurial endeavor, they are going to need the inspiration, support, positive role models and mentors to help them realize their dreams.

There is NO better way to deliver all that to them than through a subscription to SUCCESS magazine and the personal mentorship of me and my mentor Jim Rohn. This is what I had my team put together:

• Copy of Challenge to Succeed by Jim Rohn. My all-time favorite personal-development program. This is what launched my success journey. I have listened to this no less than 60 times. It’s the best there is. This will be a life-changer for a new grad (anyone really).
• Complete set (book & audio program) of The Compound Effect. This is really what they need to read and hear. There are no ‘secrets,’ shortcuts or quick fixes to success, which takes hard work, personal responsibility and positive choices, along with a well-spelled-out formula for succeeding.
• Living Your Best Year Ever System (journal, goal-designing program and 4-CD audio program). A system of planning and execution is what they need to design a plan and to stick to that plan, and this is the step-by-step, week-to-week system that will guide them all along the way.
• AND… a 12-issue subscription to SUCCESS is included for FREE!! Every month they will be re-inspired, re-motivated and re-encouraged by seeing other people doing wonderful, amazing and difference-making things in the world, despite great challenges or obstacles.
• AND… as a special gift I had them add in the Jim Rohn Lessons on Life gift book

Here the genius of Jim Rohn (my wrap-up at his Tribute): http://youtu.be/VkEkxpIEiHc

Then I asked them (this was the hardest part) to cut the price as low as possible. Our first attempt was 30% off. After some arm wrestling with accounting, we were able to cut it by 57%! (Everyone is fired up about this!)

Okay, I have done my part (there’s at least two decades of my life in the above); now it’s up to YOU:

• How many college grads do you know?
• How many previous grads do you know who are still looking for their dream job or still trying to kick-start their life?
• How many unemployed, underemployed or budding entrepreneurs do you know?

Invest in their future and buy them the Graduate Success Package
(learn more about package: www.success.com/gradpack)

• How many people do you know, who know any of the above 3?

Forward this blog to them (use email, Facebook, Twitter, yell out the window) and ask them to spread the word: http://darrenhardy.success.com/2011/05/helping-grads

Love to hear if you buy the package for a grad and if you help spread the word about this. Tell me what you do in the comments below. Thanks for helping me help our future leaders!