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- Overcome Your Fear to Achieve Effortless Success - by Submitted on Jan 14, 2010 from Willie HortonOver the last year, increasing numbers of regular readers of my weekly Ezine have pointed out that, in the current economic environment, it is very difficult to “keep your head” whilst everyone around you is losing theirs. (I should point out that they’re grateful to me for the weekly ...
Views: 1594(8 votes) - Seen Jumping from a Moving Car… - by Submitted on Apr 16, 2018 from Willie HortonWe live where others holiday (it was recently suggested to me that I’m simply say this to annoy people – but it’s relevant to what follows!) – on skis in winter, with bikes and boots in summer. And the only people who are stressed or fighting around here… are the holidaymakers! This ...
Views: 1592 - You’ve Got to be Brave to be Different? - by Submitted on Jul 07, 2010 from Willie HortonSimple question – how many good ideas have you had that you simply never bothered to do anything about? And, have you ever noticed that some of the most successful people are where they are as a result of some really simple idea – the kind of idea that you say to yourself “I could have thought ...
Views: 1589(1 vote) - Your Success Depends on Your Intentions - by Submitted on May 18, 2010 from Willie HortonAre your intentions honourable?! An age-old question asked by prospective fathers-in-law – and one that is at the very centre of whether or not you can achieve the success that you want out of life. In terms of aiming for success, we need to know what we intend to get. Truth is, most people ...
Views: 1583(1 vote) - How to Get All the Money You Need - by Submitted on Feb 23, 2010 from Willie HortonRead the title of this article carefully – it doesn’t say “all the money you want” – just what you need. The defining line between needs and wants is a little more blurred than you might think because, when I use the word “need” it is used in the context of having everything that you need to ...
Views: 1582(2 votes) - No More Stress - by Submitted on Mar 09, 2010 from Willie HortonMost people will always find something to stress them out – their job, their boss, their financial situation, their husband, their wife, their boyfriend or girlfriend, their teenage children, their health, their golf, their holidays! I have one client who telephoned my one day a few years back ...
Views: 1577(2 votes) - Looking for Love - by Submitted on Oct 29, 2009 from Willie HortonI Googled "dating" this morning - Google came up with 268m results. Whether it's online dating, speed dating, lunch dating or singles holidays, events for singles... actually I Google gave me even more results for singles - 288m. Lots of people are looking for something that's missing in ...
Views: 1576(15 votes) - Self-Help and Self-Defence - by Submitted on Feb 28, 2010 from Willie HortonBe careful what you wish for ‘cos you might just get it... so says the old expression. Of course, wishing, hoping or wanting won’t get you very far in life because, at the end of the day, we get what we believe – not what we wish for – and believing is not wishing, hoping or wanting, believing ...
Views: 1569(1 vote) - Understanding Awareness - by Submitted on Jun 25, 2011 from Willie HortonPersonal development or self improvement is all about awareness and, in particular, self awareness. But do you actually know what awareness is? Certainly, much has been written and said about it – but, all too often, the simple has been over-complicated. And, because the psychology of the ...
Views: 1569(1 vote) - You Simply Need to Turn Yourself On! - by Submitted on Dec 09, 2009 from Willie HortonThe average person goes through their adult life in a daze. Research indicates that they are incapable of devoting any appreciable level of attention to anything. It suggests that they only experience what they expect to experience and that the routine tasks of everyday life are done completely ...
Views: 1567(2 votes) - Seeing Sense in the Here and Now - by Submitted on May 19, 2010 from Willie HortonIf your life isn’t all that you want it to be or if you’re unhappy with yourself – what you think is going on has nothing to do with reality! Decades of research prove that the normal subconscious mind quite literally makes up your reality for you. This personal version of reality has absolutely ...
Views: 1564(1 vote) - Kissing Your Stress Goodbye - by Submitted on Apr 06, 2018 from Willie HortonI've often quoted the World Health Organization's contention that stress will kill more people in the developed world in the 21st century than anything else. And, as far as I can see, they've got it spot on - it appears, from surveys, research and my own work, that the modern workplace is not a ...
Views: 1559 - Successful Living and the Thin Veil of Thought - by Submitted on Apr 27, 2010 from Willie HortonYou may find yourself dissatisfied with your life. You may find yourself trying to find a way to break away from stress, uncertainty, insecurity and anxiety. Or you may have simply reached a point in your life when you know there must be so much more to be had out of life – beyond the ordinary ...
Views: 1559(2 votes) - Some Self Help Alternative Medicine! - by Submitted on Mar 02, 2010 from Willie HortonFor many years, Eastern medicine – acupuncture, Vedic medicine – was termed “alternative” by a Western society whose medical traditions could only be described as youthful or adolescent by comparison. As an Ayurvedic surgeon from Cambridge said to me last Autumn, “If I’d studied conventional ...
Views: 1555(4 votes) - Life Lessons: Recognition - by Submitted on Feb 20, 2010 from Willie HortonWe all have the ability to recognize – someone we already know, a difficult situation when we see one, an opportunity that’s staring us in the face or a problem that needs our attention. However, our psychological ability to recognise is just as much a curse as it is a blessing. We take in raw ...
Views: 1549(21 votes) - Self-Esteem and Your Inner Voices - by Submitted on Mar 02, 2010 from Willie HortonIn chatting recently to a client who was on the brink of making a major upward career move, I was told that, whilst he was totally relaxed in almost a carefree way about everything that seemed to be just effortlessly happening around him, in his odd quiet moment he still heard a little voice ...
Views: 1537(11 votes) - Stress Explored, Explained, Beaten - by Submitted on Apr 25, 2018 from Willie HortonThere are only a few days left in April… just a few days left of Stress Awareness Month and, no doubt, pretty much just as many people are suffering from stress at the end of the month than there were at the beginning… the WHO says stress is an epidemic and that it will be the single biggest ...
Views: 1530 - You Really Need to Upset Yourself - by Submitted on Apr 12, 2018 from Willie HortonI think that it was Jon Kabat Zinn - UMass Medical School and "father" of mindfulness-based stress management - who said "If meditation is making you feel uncomfortable, then it's working!". Change is uncomfortable - we inherently resist it - and meditation brings about major change in how we ...
Views: 1528 - Mindfulness-Based Leadership Development - by Submitted on Apr 19, 2018 from Willie HortonThis article is about mindfulness-based, not mindfulness. For all it’s heralded and undoubted benefits – for example in the management of stress, the successful treatment of chronic depression and its application in sports (most notably golf, the NFL and rugby union), mindfulness has not made ...
Views: 1527 - Whatever Happened the Mindful Revolution? - by Submitted on Nov 14, 2016 from Willie HortonIt is now almost three years since Time Magazine announced “The Mindful Revolution” with a cover story that heralded a new age of happiness and productivity for both corporate America and , naturally, the people who make up corporate America… or, perhaps, the so-called little people… those who ...
Views: 1527 - Treble Your Income? Why Not Get Your Priorities Right?! - by Submitted on Oct 30, 2009 from Willie HortonFrom time to time I take a look at what "competitor" websites are offering in the so-called personal development or self-help sector. After all, we all need to know what we're up against - and we all need to put bread on the table. But how much bread should that be? Because, what I've found is ...
Views: 1524(2 votes) - Even More Strategies for Effortless Business Success - by Submitted on Sep 17, 2009 from Willie HortonYou may have already my two articles exploring the best strategies for effortless business success. In the second article we explored what success actually means - and in the first, I suggested four specific steps anyone in business - from the "one man band" to the multi-national - can take to ...
Views: 1510(3 votes) - Ready, Steady, Die - by Submitted on May 28, 2010 from Willie HortonAlthough most of my clients are business people, because of my personal development work with young aspiring sports people, I often get to spend quite a bit of time with people who have not yet grown so inward looking that they miss out on the joys of life. The psychological facts are plain, ...
Views: 1508(1 vote) - Time Management: Focus on Only What is Important - by Submitted on Feb 16, 2010 from Willie HortonDo you have enough time to do all the things that you really should be doing today? Or, like most people, do you find yourself labouring under a mountain of “to dos”, never getting through it and then find that you simply haven’t done some of the things that you really wanted to or should have ...
Views: 1503 - The Essence of Leadership - by Submitted on May 12, 2010 from Willie HortonWe’re all called upon to be leaders – if you have children, people reporting to you at work, friends who confide in you – leadership is required of you. You mightn’t call it that, but that is what it is. Above all, we’re called upon to lead our own lives. Yes, we’re called upon to be leaders ...
Views: 1501(3 votes) - How to Build Self Esteem - by Submitted on Jan 28, 2010 from Willie HortonDo you ever suffer from low self esteem? The Oxford English Dictionary defines “self esteem” as confidence in you own worth or abilities. So let me ask the same question a different way - do you ever doubt yourself or question your abilities? Because, if you do ever question your own value or ...
Views: 1498(1 vote) - Why Approval is Worse than Crack (and how to quit) - by Submitted on Dec 08, 2009 from Willie HortonThink about it, there's nothing nicer than someone saying something really nice to you - or about you. It makes you feel better about yourself. And what that means is you're giving other people the power to make you happy. And, if you give others the power to make you happy, by definition, ...
Views: 1494(1 vote) - Strategies for Effortless Business Success - by Submitted on Sep 14, 2009 from Willie HortonWhat a strange title for an article given all the gloom and doom that's doing the rounds at present! Most interestingly, how did the word "Effortlessly" get into the title? Surely, hard work is a virtue, God loves a try-er and you have to work hard to be a success. All these statements are ...
Views: 1488(3 votes) - Personal Success Comes from Mindfulness - by Submitted on Feb 15, 2010 from Willie HortonWhether it is on the field of professional sport or in the Buddhist temple, you will find exponents of the art of mindfulness. Mindfulness - the exact opposite of mindlessness - is the only key you need to unlock a life of peace, calm and effortless success. Doesn't matter what kind of success ...
Views: 1475 - The Law of Attraction: What’s Best for You - by Submitted on Feb 16, 2010 from Willie HortonA lot has been written and spoken about the “Law of Attraction” – some of it pure nonsense – like the quote on Larry King Live that similar energies repel (an old wives’ tale of like attracting like) – some of it more closely related to the truth of the laws of quantum physics that state without ...
Views: 1467(3 votes) - Self Esteem? No Problem! - by Submitted on May 07, 2010 from Willie HortonIt’s quite amazing how often people tell me that they’re “suffering from low self-esteem” or that they’d really like to build their self-esteem. More often than not, I simply tell them to get a grip, or call me back when they can explain to me what low self-esteem is! “Get real” is the key ...
Views: 1463(1 vote) - How to Meditate to Change Your Life - by Submitted on Feb 17, 2010 from Willie HortonI've been working with clients for over fourteen years - helping them understand how they can grasp control of their mental energy, their inner power. But intellectual understanding is one thing. Actually experiencing your inner power is quite something else altogether - and something that will ...
Views: 1455(2 votes) - The Business of Mindfulness - by Submitted on Apr 05, 2018 from Willie HortonI was twenty-two years working for myself a couple of weeks back - an anniversary which give rise to a pause for reflection. First of all, it struck me how much science has caught up with what we intuitively know, feel and experience. For 2,500 years the practice of meditation has enabled ...
Views: 1435 - How to Build Self Confidence - by Submitted on Feb 13, 2010 from Willie HortonIn conversation with a journalist a few days back, I was asked what tricks I knew that would help build self confidence – he said that he had been discussing this with a number of other people, in preparation for an article he was writing on the subject. I suggested to him that self-confidence ...
Views: 1434 - The Joy and Excitement of Living - by Submitted on May 18, 2010 from Willie HortonYears of psychological research suggests that we are not living life to the full. This research concludes that we go through the motions of daily life, using the faculties of automaticity (to enable us perform almost everything mindlessly), categorization (so that we can pigeonhole every new ...
Views: 1426(1 vote) - Looking Forward or Living - by Submitted on Jun 04, 2010 from Willie HortonI was chatting to a client’s PA last Wednesday – she started the conversation with “Are you looking forward to the weekend?” When I mentioned to her that it was only Wednesday, she replied “Ah, but the weekend’s almost here once you get past Wednesday lunchtime!” Indeed, as I write this on a ...
Views: 1421(1 vote) - Leading Yourself Out of Recession - by Submitted on Mar 09, 2010 from Willie HortonI simply don't know how many clients have said to me, over the last few months, that they crave leadership. The current global economic has found national and international leaders wanting. Governments have often scrambled, like headless chickens, to implement sticky-plaster solutions to a mess ...
Views: 1411(3 votes) - Living "Outside the Box" - by Submitted on Aug 24, 2009 from Willie HortonDo you think that Bill Gates thinks there's a box? Or Warren Buffet? Do you think that Muhammad Ali thought there was a box? What about Sir Richard Branson? How do you think Tiger Woods or Roger Federer would feel if they thought that they had to operate inside 'the box'. Very often, ...
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