The definition of insanity: making the same mistake again and expecting different results. Sounds like a simple thing to avoid, but you would be surprised how many people will repeatedly make the wrong choices. Successful people understand when to turn back and try a different path. There’s a reason they got to be successful in the first place.
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Darryl Hicks Says: Creativity Will Boost Your Business
Darryl Hicks Says: Creativity Will Boost Your Business

When I say the word “intelligence,” you may associate that word with science or mathematics, because they are measurable. While scoring high on a college placement exam may set you above the rest, there's an even more important element that's hard to test: creativity. My name is Darryl Hicks, CEO of Tungsten Solutions, and I'm a huge believer
How to Ask For (And Get) What You Want: A Darryl Hicks List
How to Ask For (And Get) What You Want: A Darryl Hicks List

It’s one of the biggest fears of employees. It can be awkward for friends and family. It’s a challenge for students and classmates. What am I talking about? I’m talking about the biggest task many of us often dread doing: asking for something. Unless you’ve had a lot of practice at it, asking people for something you want
8 Questions That Create Success: A Darryl Hicks List
8 Questions That Create Success: A Darryl Hicks List

Success doesn’t always have to involve money. In fact, it usually involves happiness, built from your relationships with others. You can be one of the richest people on earth, but if you are unhappy, you’re not successful. I’ve been asked about this many times. They say “Darryl, how do you run two Tungsten companies and find time to
How a Positive Self-Image helped Darryl Hicks from Tungsten Become Successful – and How it Can Help You Too
How a Positive Self-Image helped Darryl Hicks from Tungsten Become Successful – and How it Can Help You Too

Imagine you woke up one day, and everybody was complimenting you. Your roommates or friends came up, wanting to tell you how great it was being your friend, and how they looked forward to spending time with you. Then your boss called you into his office, and said how you’re not only his best worker, but you’re funny,
How to Reduce the Difficulty of Any Task
How to Reduce the Difficulty of Any Task

Take a look at your long-term goals.Do they seem far away? Distant? It kind of lessens your motivation to do it, doesn’t it? Whether it’s something as big as earning a college degree or losing weight, or as little as getting your house clean. If you look at these daunting tasks step-by-step instead of looking at the big
8 Things You Can Do to Boost Happiness: A Darryl Hicks List
8 Things You Can Do to Boost Happiness: A Darryl Hicks List
When it all boils down to it, you don’t have to be successful to be happy. In fact, happiness shouldn’t be tied to success at all. You should be capable of finding happiness based off your own life and experience, and how far you’ve come to get there. Being so busy with the two Tungsten companies, I, Darryl
Three of the Most-Important Words in Goal-Setting; a Darryl Hicks List
Three of the Most-Important Words in Goal-Setting; a Darryl Hicks List

If you haven’t met me yet, I’m Darryl Hicks, CEO of Tungsten Revenue Consultants. Recently, I wrote a goal-setting article about how stating your intention of where, when, and how you would complete your goal would make you more successful than if you were using motivation boosters alone. You can check out that article here. I received a
Tungsten Talks: Darryl Hicks Weighs In On the Science of Gratitude
Tungsten Talks: Darryl Hicks Weighs In On the Science of Gratitude

When you look at successful people, they all have a lot of traits in common that helped them get to where they are. Some traits are more obvious, some aren’t. One of the more hidden traits is a sense of gratitude. No successful person gets to the top without a little help. Even me, Darryl Hicks, CEO of
The Body’s Most Powerful Muscle (It’s Not What You Think)
The Body’s Most Powerful Muscle (It’s Not What You Think)

Your body is a machine. It is full of parts that need to be well-oiled and maintained, in order to work properly. But there’s one part that is highly under-utilized. Exercising this muscle activates a slew of positive effects. Not only can it improve your mood and reduce stress, but it can do the same for people who
10 Ways to Make Today Better than Yesterday
10 Ways to Make Today Better than Yesterday

We all have good days, where everything goes our way. We also all have all-too-frequent bad days, where it seems like everything goes wrong. Both kinds of days may seem inevitable, but what if I told you there are steps you can take, so your bad days are bearable, and your good days are even better? People often
Why is School Still Broken?
Why is School Still Broken?
Ten years ago Ken Robinson stepped onto the stage at the TED Conference in Monterrey, California, and delivered the inspired talk How School Kills Creativity. It remains the #1 most watched and most shared TED Talk in the history of TED, with 39,058,000 views (as of May 17, 2016) and counting. Six years later, Seth Godin published the
How a Positive Self-Image helped Darryl Hicks from Tungsten Become Successful – and How it Can Help You Too
How a Positive Self-Image helped Darryl Hicks from Tungsten Become Successful – and How it Can Help You Too
Imagine you woke up one day, and everybody was complimenting you. Your roommates or friends came up, wanting to tell you how great it was being your friend, and how they looked forward to spending time with you. Then your boss called you into his office, and said how you’re not only his best worker, but you’re funny,
Three of the Most-Important Words in Goal-Setting; a Darryl Hicks List
Three of the Most-Important Words in Goal-Setting; a Darryl Hicks List

If you haven’t met me yet, I’m Darryl Hicks, CEO of Tungsten Revenue Consultants. Recently, I wrote a goal-setting article about how stating your intention of where, when, and how you would complete your goal would make you more successful than if you were using motivation boosters alone. You can check out that article here. I received a
Darryl Hicks Tungsten
Darryl Hicks Tungsten
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