Stairway to Success: The Complete Blueprint for Personal and Professional Achievement

INDEX

accommodating behavioral mode, 22–23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 61, 213

accommodation, of change, 67

action, 80, 173–80, 217–18

plan, 110

to relieve stress, 164–65

steps, 109

activity-centered life, 37

Adams, John Quincy, 195

advice, 175–76

Aesop, 118

affirmations, 96–97

alcohol abuse, 122

Alexander the Great, 193, 194

Alford, Larry, 52–53

alternatives, 106, 109, 189

“and then some” doctrine, 160–61

annoyances, 168–69

application, 174

Aristotle, 206

arts, 152–53

Aurelius, Marcus, 76

badlands metaphor, 206

balance, 113, 115, 216

in eating habits, 116

in exercise, 116–17

mental and emotional, 124–25, 216

in personal habits, 121–23

in sleep habits, 119–21

social, 139–44, 216

spiritual, 147, 148, 149–53, 216

in work and play, 117–19, 142–44

barnyard metaphor, 207–8

Barrymore, Ethel, 169

Baryshnikov, Mikhail, 17

Battle of Midway, 46

Battle of Stalingrad, 81

Bay of Pigs, 81

beginnings, 194, 203–8

behavioral modes, 20–27, 212–13

benchmarking, 185

Berra, Yogi, 132

bodily-kinesthetic intelligence, 13

Bogues, Muggsy, 50

boring routines, 167

box canyon organizations, 204–5

Bradley, Omar N., 26

brain, 72–73, 157–58. See also left brain; right brain

brainstorming, 107

breakfast, 167–68

breaks, 169

briar patch, 205–6

brokers, 201

Brown, H. Jackson, Jr., 54, 80

Burton, Richard, 1

Caesar, Julius, 58

career(s)

and best use of talent, 27, 28

change of, 198–99

compatible, 16, 17–19, 212

and congenial competency, 29

satisfaction in, 16–20

skills for, 199–200

terrain types, 204–8

trends in, 200–202