“If you spent your whole life in prison, how would you know you were in prison?” Charles Marshall © 2013 Charles Marshall. Excerpt from The Seven Powers of Success
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Do you have Christmas morning customer service?
I love getting packages in the mail or from FedEx or UPS. Tell me you don’t feel the same way. You see the delivery truck pull up to your house and there’s just a touch more excitement in your life, isn’t there? And when the driver steps out of his vehicle with that box and […]
Monday Motivation-Before you can see the how-to, you have to see the what-if
“Before you can see the how-to, you have to see the what-if.” Charles Marshall © 2013 Charles Marshall. Excerpt from The Seven Powers of Success
Monday Motivation-The information out brains store
“We don’t realize that our brains store information and then recall it as resource material for future decisions.” Charles Marshall © 2013 Charles Marshall. Excerpt from The Seven Powers of Success
Celebrating Hidden Kindness
Tell me, what do Tom Hiddleston, Emma Thompson, Kelly Clarkson, Tessa Thompson, and James Earl Jones have in common? Sure, they’re all hugely successful celebrities, but what else? What would they have in common with Philippe Petit (the French high-wire artist who became famous for his high-wire walk between the Twin Towers at the World […]
Monday Motivation-Vision means having a firm grasp of the principles
“Vision means having a firm grasp of the principles of cause and effect so that you can predict the likely outcome.” Charles Marshall © 2013 Charles Marshall. Excerpt from The Seven Powers of Success
But Don’t Take My Word For It
I could sit here and tell you about how much fun we have at my events, or I could step away from the microphone and let my clients have their say!
Life and death leadership
This might be one of the most important leadership lessons I’ve ever learned or communicated. But first, let me ask you a question. Is tearing up a bird’s nest an act of cruelty or kindness? Last year my wife and I noticed a couple of birds flying up to the dryer exhaust vent above the […]
Tony Orlando and 𝖣̶𝖺̶𝗐̶𝗇̶ Charles
I walked into my hotel room in Biloxi, Mississippi, and immediately began preparing for my event the next day, as I do with every event—unpack, iron, review my program, get ready for bed. But this time felt a little bit different than normal. I had spent the whole day traveling, which usually wears me out, […]
Can Your Character Identity Be Stolen?
I was sitting in a hotel room a couple of months ago when I received the following instant message from a lady I didn’t know: “Mr. Marshall, I believe you have been hacked. Some creep has been messaging me on Facebook, wanting money. I did an image search and found you, and you don’t seem […]