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Brian Gosur

Schools skip goal setting. History and science fill the years, then adults enter the world unsure how to design a life on purpose. Brian Gosur writes personal development for people who want books that reshape a mind, focus sharp enough to cut, performance principles built on expectation, and leadership that starts when someone steps forward.

Clearer goals, less scatter, and practices that turn desire into motion are the outer work. Expecting more from yourself without empty cheerleading is the inner one. A life steered by values, reading, and decisions that compound, not by worry that changes nothing, is why the essays exist.

Vague hope talk and busy calendars without focus both leave people spinning. These pages treat reading as travel and training, compare unfocused energy to sunlight versus a laser, and put goal skill where school left a hole. Arrive when you are ready to think on purpose, and take the post that matches the principle you keep postponing.

You Are What You Feed Your Mind

Dec 19, 2013 · Brian Gosur
You and I are “emotional” people and “feel” a full range of emotions. We wouldn’t be human if we didn’t feel good when things are going well, or down when things are…
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Finding Our Common Ground

Dec 19, 2013 · Brian Gosur
Finding common ground with others can at times be challenging. One way to connect with others and find common ground is by leading them according to their unique values.  Discovering what those…
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When is The Time to React?

Dec 18, 2013 · Brian Gosur
Engaging in genuine discipline requires that you develop the ability to take action. You don’t need to be hasty if it isn’t required, but you don’t want to lose much time either.…
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Do You Have a Pleasing Personality?

Dec 14, 2013 · Brian Gosur
Want to be well-off? It starts with being well liked. Years from now, when you’re taking your final breaths, the money you have in the bank won’t matter. The cars you have…
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Don’t Be Overcome by Resistance

Dec 14, 2013 · Brian Gosur
Parents of toddlers and teenagers understand a simple truth about being a leader. Sooner or later you encounter fierce resistance. Leadership feels a lot like peddling uphill, swimming upstream, or running into…
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You Can Train Your Brain by The Things You Do

Dec 9, 2013 · Brian Gosur
Yes you can train your brain by the things you do. For example, experienced taxicab drivers have an abnormally large hippocampus, the portion of the brain responsible for navigation. Veteran violinists or…
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Who is responsible for what happens in your life?

Dec 6, 2013 · Brian Gosur
Do you believe you should take personal responsibility? Or do you feel as if that is outside of your control and there’s little or nothing you can do about it? Psychologists say…
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Do You Believe in Who You Are?

Nov 29, 2013 · Brian Gosur
According to the dictionary, the meaning to the word, “believe” is; to have confidence in the truth, the existence, or the reliability of something; although without absolute proof that one is right…
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Want to Become a Laser Focused Thinker?

Nov 2, 2013 · Brian Gosur
Marketing consultant Al Ries gives a tremendous illustration on focus: “The sun is a powerful source of energy.  Every hour the sun washes the earth with billions of kilowatts of energy.  Yet…
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Can We Change the World to be a Better Place?

Oct 1, 2013 · Brian Gosur
We live in a time when change is the buzz word of the day.  We have a President who promised “Hope and Change”.  We have thousands of programs to help us change…
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