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Bitterness is poison that affects your attitude and the way you live your life. You may have a good reason to feel bitterness but it does not improve the quality of your life. It does instead alter your attitude and behavior and causes you to live without joy and inner peace. When you feel ... Views: 1034
There are a lot of ways to improve your life out there, but how to you pick the RIGHT one for you? Well, first of all you have to get out there. The bottom line is "seek and you shall find" holds true to this day! If you get clear on what you want, it likely will come. Even if it doesn't come ... Views: 1824
Sometimes, “life just happens” (and I know a thing or two about life happening!) And when it does, there are days when everything can just feel overwhelming.Your energy level drops, apathy sets in and you’re just ready to throw in the towel, back down, or just plain quit. This can show up in ... Views: 1156
When Carly Fiorina became the CEO of Hewlett-Packard years ago, she lamented that the culture had become one in which “anyone can say ‘no,’ but nobody can say ‘yes.’” How decisions are made is a significant part of any company’s culture. Like Ms. Fiorina, most executives wrestle with the ... Views: 1121
INSIDE RELATIONSHIPS
BY JAN DENISE
RELEASE: FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 2009
You Choose: Honored Guest or Guest Of?
Especially if the economy has you in crisis mode, you might be looking for a savior, somebody who has everything and wants to share. After all, you have a lot to contribute, albeit ... Views: 1220
It's funny that as the sports leagues start back up, the sports media want to start trying to forecast who will win which honors. Of course, the biggest individual trophy is always league MVP. Even in football, when they're still just in training camp, reporters already want to discuss who the ... Views: 828
One of the key inhibitors to success is doubt, especially self-doubt. In order to achieve, especially at the highest level, you have to virtually ignore what people say about you.
Not that you should ignore criticism-that which will help you improve-but if you've worked diligently at a goal, ... Views: 1646
Like the Scarecrow, Lion, and Tin Man in the Wizard of Oz I sought an expert to provide me with what I already held.
Over a decade in corporate America led this Type A into physical distress. I was fatigued and irritable. My muscles were tight and painful. My digestion and reproductive ... Views: 1299
I recently received an e-mail from a friend of mine regarding choices specifically a person's ability to choose their own attitude of mind and how one can look at any situation either positively or negatively and its direct effect on the outcome of that particular situation.
Even though we ... Views: 4146
In order to live your best life, you must first believe that you have the personal power and authority to create your own life experience.
Believing in your self sounds like such a fundamental concept and yet we all experience times in our lives when we suffer periods of self-doubt and ... Views: 1430
Today I received a message from a new client who hired me to help her get on track with growing her service based business. Her greatest challenge is knowing how to streamline her efforts to accomplish more in a shorter period of time.
Like many people, she is busy all day long, but not ... Views: 1332
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 ... Views: 1301
Boudoir art is a medium for women who need to build their confidence or just have to convince themselves that they are really beautiful. Currently the media has bombarded us with the right standards for beauty, sexuality and other related things. Most of the time, many women tend to become so ... Views: 662
How do great speakers become great? How do Olympic athletes get so good at what they do? Practice, practice, practice of course. But there's one, often overlooked factor - they learn by doing.
It's important to prepare for the big events in your life. Say, for example, you are asked to ... Views: 1028
Almost two decades had passed since I last saw Leroy. So when we finally met to catch up no topic was off limits. We spoke about all kinds of things. Our conversation eventually steered itself towards the subject of perception and how it informs our beliefs and actions. I told Leroy about an ... Views: 1666
My objective is to help you to point your creative imagination and inquiring mind in the direction of all the positive things that abound and to try to highlight all the wonderful possibilities, which are available to you. I want you to learn to look for and see all the abundance, possibilities, ... Views: 1596
“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and ... Views: 1181
In the years I have been involved in Internet Marketing, there is one activity a great many people avoid; building their opt in subscriber list. This is a huge mistake and likely the primary reason the majority of people who attempt to utilize the power of the Internet to market their businesses ... Views: 1086
Attitude is Everything !
A very old saying but it always drives the point home. There's none other than your attitude which defines how far you go in life. Interviews and the selection procedure hence are no different when it come to this magic word known as "Attitude". People feel that ... Views: 1406
Until recently, scientists believed that your brain was “fixed” after early childhood. In other words, whatever you’ve got is what you are stuck with for life. But now we know that far from being fixed, your brain has amazing capabilities of changing its very structure.
For example, take ... Views: 1020
Your Attitude and strength of Character will determine your Altitude.
One of the most important choices you must make every day is the type of attitude you project to everyone around you. A positive, optimistic attitude will empower you and set the tone for great success and fulfillment. ... Views: 4587
Good attitudes bring good results, and bad attitudes bring bad results. It’s that simple.
And getting a good attitude is fairly simple. Just feed your mind a steady diet of positive inputs, and you will have a powerful positive attitude.
Try my “9-Day Mental Diet.” It will change ... Views: 2108
There is part of you engaged in this physical realm, that side that can feel the supple texture of fine leather, enjoy the flavor of a well prepared salade nicoise, absorb the beauty of mingling colors on a canvas painted by Marc Chagall, languish in the resonance of an orchestra playing a ... Views: 1772
It is a fact that we all have bad habits, whether we admit or not. And it is also a fact that we all have to pay a price for our bad habits, in one way or the other.
I am giving below some of the bad habits that are a big hurdle in the way of your success, prosperity, health and happiness in ... Views: 1459
It really helps when we walk on solid ground. We can be confident in our steps knowing there is a good chance we won’t stumble or worse, fall and hurt ourselves. And reality is no different.
Try to imagine if you can a world where you could not believe anything was true or untrue. Nothing had ... Views: 1271
When you don’t like something, what do you do?
Most people complain about it. According to research, most people complain once a minute during a typical conversation.
Shocking, right? It was to me.
It’s so socially acceptable to complain that it may not even strike you as strange in ... Views: 833
"Don't die with your music still in you" Wayne Dyer
A very profound statement that is a reminder that no matter how old you are or where you are in your life, take a leap of faith and choose to live a life of passion and purpose
I’ve never understood why we choose to live based on our age, ... Views: 1225
I am sure that you have heard the phrase, “It is not your aptitude, but rather your attitude, which will determine your altitude” When you commit to project a great attitude to the world, everyone around you will respond far more positively to you and they will want to be supported by you and ... Views: 660
Ever have the feeling that your heart has a mind of its own? Turns out you were right. Ever acted on a hunch that you really couldn’t explain logically but you felt very strongly that it was the right thing to do?
Neuroscience — the scientific study of the nervous system — is really ... Views: 977
As I write this article, I’m on a plane heading home from quite a transformative trip working in an all-day 1:1 with one of my coaches. (Yes I have a coach too, more than one actually, and plan to until the end, because there is absolutely no substitute for that kind of support in my business.) ... Views: 741
Sitting on my closet floor with an intense audible cry and more tears than you could imagine, I felt the most intense sadness. My dream is waiting? What dream?
Your view of me was quite converse to my reality.
YOUR VIEW LOOKING IN:
Handsome husband and two healthy girls
Big home with ... Views: 1150
It is good to have positive expectations. And it is good to have plans. This is why goal-setting in the New Year can help you move forward.
However, sometimes we have too many expectations. These can come from your family and friends, or they can come from you. For example, a friend can be a ... Views: 1146
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” ~ Oscar Wilde
In our early years, our awareness of self wasn’t well developed. It seemed that obeying our parents and pleasing them with our performance was what life was about. As we grew, we began to see that our opinions didn’t always match ... Views: 974
What is important for you?
What is your foundation of life?
Freedom, love, creativity, health, honesty, courage, gratefulness, legacy,
intelligence, joy, happiness, fun, peace, playing, acknowledgement, security, control,
respect, unity, truth, accountability, and others. You make your own ... Views: 1636
Ever had one of those days? You know . . . a day where everything seems to go wrong? You break the coffee pot, step on a piece of glass while cleaning it up; are late for work because of the huge line at the gas station; hit every red light, and miss the green one because the driver in front of ... Views: 1049
There is often the debate on what has the most effect on how a person ends up. Is it how they were brought up? Is it the events that happen in their lives? Is it the circumstances that surround them? While these factors may have some impact, the thing that has the ability to change your ... Views: 971
Being aware of yourself and feeling great about yourself this helps a lot in making your work-life a lot better. The way you do this is by having a correct sympathetic view of your values and strengths these are the qualities that make you feel great about yourself. The process starts by ... Views: 1210
I was at the Farmers Market with a friend the other day. We were having a great time, laughing, talking, hanging out, when she suddenly began to look as though a cloud had come over her face. She looked like she was angry and sad. I thought she might cry at any moment. I asked her what was wrong ... Views: 1610
Success is a quality, not a quantity. The quality you call success is a feeling. Totally separate from the stuff you accumulate. You could have 10 cars and a great title, but if the feeling of success is missing, you're not successful.
You feel successful when you attain anything you deem ... Views: 1418
I got this strange idea in eighth grade. To run for student body president is not a surprising decision for most outgoing, popular people. But I was neither. In fact I tended to daydream, read books that were not on the required list, and sit in the table at the far corner of the cafeteria with ... Views: 1118
I got this strange idea in eighth grade. To run for student body president is not a surprising decision for most outgoing, popular people. But I was neither. In fact I tended to daydream, read books that were not on the required list, and sit in the table at the far corner of the cafeteria with ... Views: 981
Mavis was a beautiful young woman, but she was in prison !
I worked with this capable and promising young woman for many years. Unfortunately, underneath all that beauty lurked a sad secret. She had a “habit of thought” that she was worthless. That she would not and could not be successful. ... Views: 1052
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Your Tipping Point - by Eric Taylor – SelfGrowth.com’s Chief Inspiration Officer
Dear High Achiever:
THE TIPPING POINT I’m about to talk about is personal. I say that right out of the chute to be clear that this FYI isn’t a book review of Malcolm Gladwell’s best-seller, The Tipping Point. Any references or similarities to what he wrote will be purely coincidental.
So now ... Views: 936
“I can’t handle this,” Susan cried, contemplating her daughter’s dwindling college fund. I know how she feels. When I think of the changes I’ve had to deal with in my life—having to lie flat in bed for a year due to back pain, going through a devastating breakup, dealing with the financial ... Views: 1655
Value. What are your services really worth? What do your clients get as a result of buying your products or working with you? The price you place on your products and services is really no more than what you think you are worth.
One woman I worked with charged $90 an hour for coaching; yet ... Views: 1182
You have heard the phrase – No Man is an Island – and like most of us, it sounded good to you. It was true as much as we thought about the many times we have tried to do something and then found we needed help.
However, once we analyze that a little more closely we can conclude that ... Views: 968
“If you fail to be a lizard in your own land, you will fail to be a crocodile in another land.” – Akan proverb
In today’s world, the essence of the individual is at the centre of conversations and the forefront of design and production. All around you, everything is about you. The whole ... Views: 1254
Oh, the list of thoughts that try to prevent us from taking the risk of loving wholeheartedly is quite long, but there are a few that always top the list, buzzing and darting in and around your ears like mosquitos in summer. I recently wrote about the “I wish he was taller” thought, and I’ve ... Views: 1022