As a young model, Ireland faced rejection on a near daily basis. She says this helped shaped who she is as a businesswoman today. Related: How Kathy Ireland Built Her Business Empire “I really believe that rejection is a gift,” she says. “I didn’t recognize it and appreciate it at the time, but it would prepare…
Mentorship has played a crucial role in Kathy Ireland’s life, in large part because she’s been mentored by some of the most influential minds of the past century, including Warren Buffett and Elizabeth Taylor. Although she admires her mentors greatly, Ireland says it’s always good to remember that we’re all capable of making mistakes. “It’s…
You know the saying, “Nothing changes if nothing changes.” Well if nothing changes, we stay the same. We don’t grow. We don’t evolve. We don’t get better. And that’s not going to work—not for you, and not for the world. We need positive change. We need new ideas. We need progress. Read these quotes on…
Great ideas start as dreams. In fact, dreaming is a precursor for building. A key component to creating and crafting. So give yourself permission to dream. Allow your creative energies to flow. Open yourself to all the possibilities. If you want to enhance your innovative powers, the first step is to practice daydreaming: Program daydreaming…
Brainstorm, brainstorm, brainstorm, stall. In a culture that demands constant innovation and disruption, it can feel like our imaginations become worn down through constant calls for the new. To fight such burnout, how can we refresh our eyes? How can we see things in new and inspiring ways? One possibility is to turn to the…
We are thrilled to announce that SUCCESS magazine is taking a step into the future alongside BlueToad, our digital publishing partner, and Amazon Polly, a service that turns text into lifelike speech. Today, Amazon Polly is releasing its newest cutting-edge voice technology: Neural Text-to-Speech (NTTS) and the Newscaster Style. The improved voice has the ability…
You can audit your marketing in many ways—be it a quick-and-simple social media audit or a full-scale blog review. You can take the time to run the numbers yourself (a useful exercise!), or you can plug a URL into a new tool and have it tell you what it thinks. The more feedback, the better. That’s…
Naveen Jain is crazy. That’s not an insult, that’s exactly how Jain describes himself. “If people don’t think you’re crazy, then you’re not thinking big,” he wrote in his book Moonshots: Creating a World of Abundance, released late last year. And when Jain says “people” he’s not necessarily referring to people on social media or a…
The ability to find solutions to problems and shoot for seemingly unobtainable goals has rubbed off on all three Jain children. Ankur Jain graduated from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania while both Priyanka and Neil Jain graduated from Stanford. Priyanka helped build a school for girls in Afghanistan when she…
Your health is intimately tied to your success, both personally and professionally. It’s very hard to perform well, in any capacity, if your body hasn’t been properly cared for. When you take excellent care of yourself, you feel excellent, which makes you a more productive, creative and high-performing person. That said, most successful and driven…