Reach Your Greatest Potential By Strengthening Your Mental Muscle

Reaching your greatest potential doesn’t require you to work harder by adding desirable habits to your already busy life. Instead you can work smarter by eliminating the routines that erode effectiveness and siphon off mental strength. 

Here are the 13 things mentally strong people don’t do.

The Story of Presidents' Day

It all began in 1800.  Following the death of George Washington in 1799, his February 22 birthday became a perennial day of remembrance. 

While Washington’s birthday was an unofficial observance for most of the 1800s, it was not until the late 1870s that it became a federal holiday.  Senator Stephen Wallace Dorsey of Arkansas was the first to propose the measure, and in 1879 President Rutherford B. Hayes signed it into law – the first to celebrate the life of an individual American.   Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, signed into law in 1983, was the second.

Read on to find out the story of Presidents' Day and who championed to shift the celebration of several federal holidays from specific dates to a series of predetermined Mondays.

What Common Traits Are Essential for Business Ownership Success?

There's a reason why successful female business owners like WPO members are, well, successful.  They are able to overcome the many challenges facing them in order to start their own companies. 

But how? As the article says, no two women are alike—they all have their own stories, but these are some of the common traits found among successful women who started their own businesses.

What's the Biggest Change You've Ever Made?

What's the biggest change you've ever made and what impact did it have?  Meanwhile, here's what four CEOs said.