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The Keys to Earning Respect

I am sure that you all have heard the old adage that if you want respect you have to earn it. That saying is so true but I want to add onto it from the things that I have learned during my life experiences. You have to earn it, give it, and demand it all at the same time. If you do these things you are guaranteed to get respect. Now you may not be liked very much at all but you will be respected. Don’t confuse the two. I would rather people hate me and respect me than like me and take me for a chump.

Primary topic: Inspiration

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By cedric riceRecently published1 topic

Developing Communication Skills in Children

Communication skills are vital to each and every one of us and I sincerely believe that the earlier we begin to master these skills in life the better off we will be. I believe that the adult should put all of his or her energies into developing the mind of the child beginning in infancy. Most of the child’s communication skills are the result of it’s temperament but there is much that we can do to help out in the formative years. These years are so important in a child’s life and are more often than not the difference between success and failure in the later years of its life.

Primary topic: Inspiration

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By cedric riceRecently published1 topic

How do I Handle Jealousy

Jealousy is the result of our feelings when we have a personal problem with a possession, or a perceived possession, or position that another person has. The jealous man or woman may feel that he or she is more deserving of the possession and has more ownership rights.

Primary topic: Inspiration

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By cedric riceRecently published1 topic

Learning to be Decisive

I think that people gravitate towards those who are decisive because it shows a confidence in their own knowledge and abilities. We choose a leader whom we have confidence in because we like the safety and security of being around someone who seems to be in control. We want a leader who has the confidence to get us to the place where we want to go. This is why decisiveness is important as a leadership trait.

Primary topic: Inspiration

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By cedric riceRecently published1 topic

Developing Trust in Relationships

The single most important factor in any type of successful relationship between any two people is trust. People can have professional or business relationships where they don't trust each other but those relationships are for convenience only and are not personally satisfying to either party. The man or woman who wants a successful personal relationship has to begin with trust. Trust is first and foremost even in dysfunctional relationships.

Primary topic: Inspiration

1,780 views

By cedric riceRecently published1 topic

Keys to Public Speaking

The main thing is to learn to relax. Even the most confident person in the world will have problems the first few times that they speak in public. You must practice speaking in order to get it right. I suggest you start with a very small audience. Use one or two people who will give you an honest assessment of where you are. You should then videotape your session so that you can observe your own bad habits first hand. This is the thing which helped me the most. The way that I thought I sounded was totally different from what I saw when we played the tape.

Primary topic: Inspiration

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By cedric riceRecently published1 topic

Why is it so Difficult to Apologize

Why is it so hard for some of us to say that we are sorry even when we know that our actions were wrong? If you don’t know this, allow me to educate you on a fact of life. We are all human so there is not a person in this world who has never made a mistake. We are all capable of making mistakes in the future so they are no big deal. If you live you will make bad judgments and wrong decisions. There is no way to escape that fact.

Primary topic: Inspiration

1,754 views

By cedric riceRecently published1 topic

Learn to Embrace your Differences

We are all different people and we all fit somewhere in the mosaic of life. If any two of us were the same then there would be no need for one of the two. Differences are the spice of life. The insecure person will attempt to ridicule others who are different. The person who is confident doesn’t have any qualms about who they are and their abilities. They don’t have to lash out at those who are different because they are not threatened by those differences.

Primary topic: Inspiration

1,737 views

By cedric riceRecently published1 topic

Earning the Respect of Others

It is essential for a leader to have the respect of his or her followers. Respect is the key ingredient in the effectiveness of a leader. The leader whose followers respect him will go beyond the call to accomplish whatever they need to accomplish to get the job done. Most people equate being respected with being liked. Often the two are not related. It is good to be liked but you must first be respected. A leader can also be liked but not respected as a leader. Typically this is the type of leader who will not enforce standards but will allow his followers to follow their own whims.

Primary topic: Inspiration

1,730 views

By cedric riceRecently published1 topic

Are you a Peacemaker

It’s best to be a Peacemaker The bible says blessed be the peacemakers which is so true. Now the peacemaker may be blessed because he or she attempts to smooth over things which are not right but I believe that they are blessed because of their state of mind. The peacemaker has to be an individual who is different in character from the people at war.

Primary topic: Inspiration

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By cedric riceRecently published1 topic

Learn to Control your Emotions

Learning to Control your Emotions

Primary topic: Inspiration

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By cedric riceRecently published1 topic

Learn from your Experiences

A wise man will learn from his mistakes and the mistakes of others. I once listened to a Special Forces Sergeant who related his Vietnam experiences to me. One thing that he told me is that he would never be the first to try something new. He would stand clear and see if it worked. If it did he knew that it was safe to do.

Primary topic: Inspiration

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By cedric riceRecently published1 topic

Learn how to Control your Emotions

Most times handling your reaction is just about the most unnatural thing that you can do. It can be done however with a lot of practice and patience. Once you master getting over the urge to react you can win every emotional battle that you will have to go through in life.

Primary topic: Inspiration

1,564 views

By cedric riceRecently published1 topic

Early Childhood Development

The first few years of a child’s development are the most important. It is extremely critical that the right values are instilled in the child at this time. Parents must realize that the values that they instill in the child are critical. The child will learn from what he or she observes. It is during this time that the child learns how to deal with situations and circumstances and it will get its cues from you. Everything that you do during this time is extremely important and will be the basis for success or failure later on in the child’s life.

Primary topic: Inspiration

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By cedric riceRecently published1 topic

Growth in all Dimensions

Growth in all Dimensions The most effective person is the well rounded person. Being well rounded means that you are able to function on many different levels in life. You can be good at one thing but not good at others. When you have a glaring weakness in one area it effectively diminishes the strength that you seem to have in others. No one is good at everything but we can have excellence in one or two areas and be good in many others.

Primary topic: Inspiration

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By cedric riceRecently published1 topic

Managing your time Effectively

I have noticed as I have grown older that there just doesn’t seem to be enough time. Time flies by so quickly and once it’s gone it won’t come back again. I have developed a very low tolerance in my latter years for people or activities which waste time. I grow irritated when I deal with people who just don’t have their stuff together and waste my valuable time. I am always looking for ways to do more with the time that I have but there just don’t seem to be enough hours in the day to do all that I want or need to do.

Primary topic: Inspiration

1,536 views

By cedric riceRecently published1 topic

Good Habits are the Essence of Success

One thing that I believe that all successful people have in common is that they have established a daily routine of good habits which serves to keep them on top. We are trained at a young age to do our homework after school. If you ask me this is the most basic building block to success. Those of us who master this habit are well on the road to success in other areas of life. Let me use my own life as an example of what I am talking about. When I was a child I was smart enough to dodge every effort that my elementary school teacher made to make me do my homework.

Primary topic: Inspiration

1,528 views

By cedric riceRecently published1 topic

Growing Old Gracefully

One thing about life is that we are constantly ageing. There is absolutely nothing that we can do about it. We can try to use products which make us look younger or we can take vitamins and supplements and spend hours at the gym but no matter what we do and how hard we try we are going to grow old. The one way that we can take control is to try to grow old gracefully.

Primary topic: Inspiration

1,520 views

By cedric riceRecently published1 topic

Make the Right Choices

Make the Right Choices Every choice that we make in life whether it is big or small has consequences attached to it. We are not in control of everything that happens in life but the overall responsibility is ours. The sum of our choices generally is the reason that we are in whatever place that we are in today.

Primary topic: Inspiration

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By cedric riceRecently published1 topic

Tips on Managing your Anger

Anger is a natural emotion. It occurs as a defensive response to an unlawful aggression, threat, force, violence and intimidation to your well-being. Sometimes being angry is fine and warranted because it is a natural emotion. The benefit of anger is that it spurs us to action. The problem occurs when anger spurs us to the wrong action. If any two people are confronted with a situation their responses will be totally different. A response which angers one person may just be a laughing matter to another. This lets us know that we either choose to be angry or to not be.

Primary topic: Inspiration

1,494 views

By cedric riceRecently published1 topic

The Reason that we need to Forgive

The Reason that we need to Forgive

Primary topic: Inspiration

1,473 views

By cedric riceRecently published1 topic

Learn how to Walk on Water

Learn to Walk on Water

Primary topic: Inspiration

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By cedric riceRecently published1 topic

Making a Life Change

Making a life change is a time consuming and difficult task. Making a change is probably the hardest thing to do because to do so requires that we change the way that we think and operate. Our habits and our outlook on life have been ingrained since birth and they are hard to change. Fundamental change is so very difficult because it digs so deeply into our basic fabric.

Primary topic: Inspiration

1,465 views

By cedric riceRecently published1 topic

Learning to be Persuasive

Learning to be Persuasive

Primary topic: Inspiration

1,464 views

By cedric riceRecently published1 topic

Choose to Control Yourself

Self control is a conscious choice that we have to make. It has to be a definite choice because sometimes control is very difficult to maintain. In other words when you choose to be in control you have to have a made up mind and determination. If you don’t learn how to exercise control and do it in certain situations you will lose the battle. Self control is an indicator of maturity. The mature man or woman doesn’t become emotional and blurt out when angry or hurt. He or she will calmly evaluate the situation and rise to the occasion when they respond.

Primary topic: Inspiration

1,463 views

By cedric riceRecently published1 topic

What is a Self Fulfilling Prophecy

I have used this term in many of the articles that I have written because I tend to write on self improvement issues and this term can be used to explain many of the causes of the circumstances that we sometimes find ourselves in. This term can refer to good as well as bad issues of life but applies to social issues more than any other. The connotation is that when you have caused the conditions that you find yourself in by your actions of doubt or faith you have created your own self fulfilling prophecy.

Primary topic: Inspiration

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By cedric riceRecently published1 topic

Losing one Battle does not Lose the War

We will always suffer from setbacks in life. Some of them will be drastic and some will be minor but they will occur. The true measure of a man or woman’s grit lies in the amount of resolve that they will show in order to recover from a setback. A setback will cause you to miss your dream or goals if you allow it. It is very frustrating to give your life and time to a goal only to see your dreams dashed to pieces. If you can recover you will be successful. The key is to never give up on your aspirations.

Primary topic: Inspiration

1,440 views

By cedric riceRecently published1 topic

You are what you Think

We are captive to the thoughts that we allow to take control of our minds. There are always different trains of thought which comes into each of our lives to influence our actions. The thought that wins is the thought that latches on and controls our actions so in that sense we are what we think.

Primary topic: Inspiration

1,438 views

By cedric riceRecently published1 topic

I Liked the Old School Best

We definitely live in a different day and time. The new mentality, even the new corporate mentality seems to be self preservation at all costs. It seems to me that there is no such thing as customer’s rights anymore. Business is designed to make all of the money it can possibly make regardless of the satisfaction of the customer. It used to be that when you purchased an item you purchased it on your own conditions. That just doesn’t seem to be the case these days.

Primary topic: Inspiration

1,435 views

By cedric riceRecently published1 topic

Who are you with

Who are you With If you have an allegiance anywhere in life where does that allegiance happen to be? In other words who are you with? True allegiance is the closest thing possible to guaranteed success. When you are close to a person or thing that thing becomes the very fabric of your own being and you become one. When you are one you will do whatever it takes to prevail in that thing because you will guard it according to your own sense of survival.

Primary topic: Inspiration

1,428 views

By cedric riceRecently published1 topic

Learn how to Set and Focus on your Goals

As I began to get this article together I realized that I don’t really know what my goals are. Yes I have goals but they are not specific so I guess that I am writing this article for myself as well as you. It is important that we have a clear picture of what our goals are and the direction that we want to go.

Primary topic: Inspiration

1,406 views

By cedric riceRecently published1 topic

Techniques for Increasing Productivity

I really enjoy what I do for a living but there just don’t seem to be enough hours in the day to get everything done. I am self employed but I have to figure out ways to get more productive and squeeze more work into my day so that I can make a better living. I honestly need to add a full time employee but I can’t afford one right now so I just have to make do with what I have which is me.

Primary topic: Inspiration

1,401 views

By cedric riceRecently published1 topic

When is a Leader in Charge

Many will say that if a leader is not visibly causing movement all of the time he or she is not in charge. I believe that a leader is effective and in charge when that leader has the group moving in the right direction. If a leader has a group moving to accomplish a goal then that leader is effective. Now some leaders are more effective than others and their groups will move faster and with more passion but others are in charge also.

Primary topic: Inspiration

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By cedric riceRecently published1 topic

You have to get your Mind Right

If you want to win in life you have to get your mind right. When I make this statement I think about the movie entitled “Cool Hand Luke.” For those of you who don’t know, this movie was about a prisoner who was on a southern chain gang. Luke was the one convict who refused to conform to the established system. The warden had to tell Luke to get his mind right because he wouldn’t go along with the program.

Primary topic: Inspiration

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By cedric riceRecently published1 topic

You can Still Win

Even if you are late in the last period of the game you can still win. Never give up on the possibility of scoring no matter how bad things may seem to be. Sometimes all it takes is a good bounce of the proverbial ball to turn things around. If you are in the right position you can be the one who catches it.

Primary topic: Inspiration

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By cedric riceRecently published1 topic

Learn to set and Keep Goals

As I write this article I write it knowing that setting and keeping goals is my own personal weakness. I have a definite sense of direction and work diligently but I know that if I wrote my goals down and followed a systematic plan to accomplish them I would do much better. When you break your goal down into a list of steps tp follow to get where you want to go you will do much better. Good intentions are just that but they must be accomplished with some sort of a detailed plan. The plan serves to keep you on track. You should follow the steps but don’t end up being a numbers cruncher.

Primary topic: Inspiration

1,388 views

By cedric riceRecently published1 topic

Relationships Require Work

I have been around for a few years and one thing that I am learning is that relationships require work. If any relationship is to be positive at all both parties are going to have to put in a lot of extra work.

Primary topic: Inspiration

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By cedric riceRecently published1 topic

Keys to Reconciliation

The first thing that you must do is to divorce your mind of all hostility. Hostility in your mind will come through in your conversation, attitude, and demeanor even if you try to hide it. The best way to handle this is to just divorce your mind of all negative thoughts about the person that you want to reconcile with, even if you feel that they are justified. Find good qualities in that person and focus on them. If it takes you a while to clear your mind then take all of the time that you need. We all have good and bad points. Just remember that you have your bad points also.

Primary topic: Inspiration

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By cedric riceRecently published1 topic

Can you sell Yourself?

We live in a time where we are taught instant gratification. The industrial age has changed the very fabric of our being. The information age goes hand in hand in with this change or what I call a reformation. In past times people very seldom ventured far away from the place of their birth. There were some good points which were the result of this. The best point is that people formed bonds which were not easily broken. There was a time when a man or woman’s word was a thing of value just like silver or gold. These days it seems that it just doesn’t matter at all.

Primary topic: Inspiration

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By cedric riceRecently published1 topic

Everyday Discipline

Discipline is the most basic building block of success. There can not be success without discipline. You may be successful without having other personality traits but you can’t be successful without discipline. Discipline will cause you to have habits which may not be convenient for your feelings but these habits will get you the victory in life.

Primary topic: Inspiration

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By cedric riceRecently published1 topic

Adjust your Environment and Win

The winner wins many of his battles because he has learned to manipulate his environment. This is essential and many victories have been lost simply because the person fighting the battle did not take advantage of every element of his environment.

Primary topic: Inspiration

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By cedric riceRecently published1 topic

The Secret to Making Friends

The person who has a multitude of friends pays the price to keep them. Friends are like a garden. You have to plant the seeds, water them, fertilize them, and periodically you must pull up the weeds that get in between. The popular person must devote the majority of their time to maintaining their friends. Popular people are people persons. If you want friends you have to be willing to sacrifice time and effort that you could devote to other ventures to maintaining and cultivating those friends.

Primary topic: Inspiration

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By cedric riceRecently published1 topic

Getting Outside of Tradition

Tradition is good but there are times when it just doesn’t help anything at all. We must learn how to keep it in its proper place and not allow it to rule our lives. There is nothing wrong with observing traditions but the human tendency is to become blinded by them.

Primary topic: Inspiration

1,298 views

By cedric riceRecently published1 topic

Score a Life Touchdown

There was a mental exercise that I used to do which was interesting and intriguing to say the least. I thought that it was beneficial in helping me to improve my own frame of mind. I’ll tell you about it and let you make the decision for yourself.

Primary topic: Inspiration

1,292 views

By cedric riceRecently published1 topic

The Key to Preparedness

Do you Prepare for your Upcoming Day The key to having as smooth a day as possible is being prepared for the challenges that it will bring. The worst thing that you can ever do is to procrastinate when you have an upcoming task. There is always something that you can and need to do in order to be ready for it when it comes.

Primary topic: Inspiration

1,280 views

By cedric riceRecently published1 topic

Learning Self Comtrol

Self control is never talked about much in this society, but it isrnnecessary in order to be a success in life. We must master self control techniques and learn how to apply them to our lives. This isrnnot optional for success it is a must. I can name several areas in my own life where I had to learn how to apply self control to help me to do better in life. One of those areas was fiscal responsibility. I used to spend every dime that I had in my pocket whenever I went shopping. I realized that I had a problem and I had to come up with a solution. My solution

Primary topic: Inspiration

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By cedric riceRecently published1 topic

Put your Wisdom on Steroids

Wisdom is honorable but wisdom on steroids is unbeatable. We know that the definition of wisdom is the application of knowledge but when you add some steroids to the wisdom that you have you become like Neo in the matrix. When Neo figured out the deal he was able to get inside of the bad guys and fight his way back out. Rather than just reacting to what they were doing in his own strength he added some steroids to what he knew and figured out how the program ran. Once he got it and the light bulb turned on in his mind he was a sure fire winner. Why, because he had supercharged his wisdom.

Primary topic: Inspiration

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By cedric riceRecently published1 topic

Why is the Divorce Rate so High

There are many reasons why we have such a high rate of divorce nowadays and no one person can realistically say that he or she can adequately answer that question. I will attempt to make some of my own observations about the situation and back them up with what I perceive to be fact.

Primary topic: Inspiration

1,247 views

By cedric riceRecently published1 topic

Develop Success Patterns

Success is just as much of a pattern as anything else in life is. Many times successful people are not smarter than others, nor do they have more common sense, they just have personal habits which make them successful. As a matter of fact I have seen people who are successful who didn’t really seem to make good decisions most of the time. The key to their success seemed to be that whenever they did make a decision they put it into action.

Primary topic: Inspiration

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By cedric riceRecently published1 topic

How to become more Productive

The man or woman who wants to get more out of life strives to become more productive. When we think of productivity we normally think of a workplace contribution but productivity can apply to our hobbies and also to sport. When we talk about being more productive we are talking about getting more bang for your buck so to speak. In other words we want to get more or better work done in less time or with less effort.

Primary topic: Inspiration

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