I was the Class President in high school.  I was always one to succeed at whatever I tried.  Sports, academics, business, whatever….  It didn’t matter.  There was nothing I couldn’t do.
I graduated high school in 1990 and went to undergraduate school at UNC Chapel Hill.  My parents were unable to pay for my college, however, [...]

I just drove to work on a rain-soaked highway.  Slippery surfaces caused traffic to slow.  Or, so I thought at first.  Actually the slippery surface was a condition and what actually caused traffic to slow was the reflexive good sense of the drivers responding to the condition. 
 When we sense or perceive a lack of control, [...]

Just as physical exercise strengthens the body, so also the mind is made stronger through exercise. Daily mental exertion helps make us more fit for the game of life.  Two things to remember: 1) You are the sole selector of your mental subject matter; the decision to leave or to stay with any given topic is entirely [...]

Recently, a pertinent question surfaced during an Ownership Spirit® seminar I was teaching to a group of leaders. One leader asked, “How do you help people elevate their presets about themselves.”
 
Anyone who is parent, youth advisor, or team leader at work knows the scenario behind the question. We all know people who are under-performing—not because [...]

I recently received an email from a client, and friend, asking me the following question:
“What can I do as a leader to keep folks in the “taking action” mode?  Having big plans for the future is great, but life is about  “taking action” and it is that part that trips us up.  We have positive momentum in place, but we need [...]

I’m on the road this week teaching,  I want to share with you another Key Point from my new book coming out in just a few short weeks, Ownership Spirit – The One Grand Key That Changes Everything Else.  In the world today there’s a tendency to want to hold other people accountable for their actions.  [...]

Dennis Deaton’s long-awaited book is here!  We are pleased to announce that “Ownership Spirit: The One Grand Key That Changes Everything Else” is hot off the press and we are offering a special discount to our Quma Qummunity.
Click on this link to order the book from the Quma Store and you will receive 25% off the [...]

As many of you know, one of the principles taught in The Ownership Spirit ® seminar, the Othello Principle, states “The Eye Sees What the Mind Looks For.” During the past two days I found myself deriving significant benefit from applying this principle, although it took me a day to wake up and use it.
This [...]

To me, few things are more inspiring than witnessing human beings taking on significant challenges and then doing their best. Especially their very best.
When people willfully commit to something hard in order to push their boundaries, it is then that the nobility of the human spirit is manifest. Today I saw that human nobility on [...]