We are currently looking for an Official SelfGrowth.com Guide to "Peak Performance". If you have expertise in Peak Performance and your own website and/or product for this topic, please review this form for complete details. The Official Guide Position is part of our Premium Placement Package
We’ve already completed the first week of the new year and I’m curious how you’re doing with your New Year’s resolutions? To me a new year’s resolution is just another form of a goal.
Roberto and I recently posted our goal setting worksheet for you to use to set your goals. When I shared that ... Views: 844
Little Laws 4 BIG SUCCESS
By
Bill Cottringer
“We don't see things as they are; we see things as we are.” ~Anais Nin.
A long time ago an MIT Math professor friend introduced me to a very intriguing engineering term called perturbation point. These are the few key stress points in a ... Views: 1624
Albert Einstein famously said "Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result."
I love this, live by it and reiterate it to my clients over and over again. This principle has driven my ability to solve almost any problem when it comes to business growth. I ... Views: 855
Finding or replenishing your lost motivation can be a difficult task for anybody and especially internet marketers during the holiday seasons! With holiday 'spirit' in the air comes many distractions that make it hard to stay motivated which can be the kiss of death for the business of many ... Views: 2303
Blog Success is something you must earn and is not simply granted to you for just launching the site! The fact is that to develop a successful blog you must be willing to work and invest the time necessary to earn the loyalty of your readers! Although nothing involved here is difficult, the ... Views: 915
How to be a millionaire requires revising your old money blueprint that is housed in your subconscious mind. Your old money blueprint is the result of the information or "programming" you received when you were growing up.
I remember how my mother and aunts and uncles would say things like, ... Views: 1268
For anybody looking to get more done one surefire way, in most cases, is when you are confronted with a deadline to meet! Although this is NOT a 'strategy' recommended by this writer it has proven to be highly effective at increasing work efficiency due to the sense of urgency such situations ... Views: 883
I can honestly say that most of my life I've always wanted to "know how to be a millionaire." It never occurred to me that the mind played an important role in the creation of wealth, I just figured that I would have to find a way to get a good paying job and work very hard, and then, I would ... Views: 1143
Building self confidence is something that will DIRECTLY influence the level of success you or anybody else may experience! It all stems from the fact that the more self assurance one may feel the more incline they will be when it comes time for actually taking action! Most people tend to shy ... Views: 995
Hey Friends,
Wanted to send out some thoughts on achieving what you set out to do daily. With everything at a fingers touch or click away, I found that every now and then we can easily lose focus on what we need to complete that day (myself included!). The result of losing focus is that the ... Views: 985
“A group becomes a team when each member is sure enough of themselves and their contribution to praise the skills of the others.” Norman Shidle
A fundamental part of being a highly effective team is the ability to make effective decisions as a team, but which way is the best way? In tackling ... Views: 1041
Only Certain People Can Be Successful...
Often time people seem to assume that you can only be successful if you were born into money or you are overly artistic or fate has brought you success. This is an absurd belief… There are factors that contribute to success among all people that have ... Views: 1062
The dark cloak, the top hat, the intense stare...you've seen it many times, the mysterious hypnotist as they approach their subject to make them obey their every command. Dark, sinister...and not even close to reality! When I tell people that I'm a hypnotist, I get a wide range of responses, ... Views: 1559
Over the years I have noticed a strange anomaly, which at first seemed to me, to be counterintuitive. When people try to work fast, they become overwhelmed and slow, whereas, when they concentrate on being smooth, the results they produce are not only better, but they occur faster too. When ... Views: 1174
The pressures imposed by society on us to conform to the norms and expectations of the masses and the notion that anything you can’t touch, feel or see, cannot be real and is most certainly not believable, has forced us to repress our ability to know things before we think or in other words, we ... Views: 1356
In the journey of personal mastery it is important to recognize and own the very core “powers” or functions of your mind-body system. It is important to recognize and own your “Power Zone”. When you do this, you establish the foundation for your personal empowerment, responsibility, and ... Views: 1378
Any small business owner must be confident in their product, idea, service or themselves to start their business.
As your business evolves, triumphs are recorded and you soar but when hiccups are encountered like recessions, exchange rates drop and marketing, sales or customer challenges are ... Views: 1304
One of the most important topics discussed in recent years in the field of neuroscience explores the mind-body relationship and the fact (yes, it is a fact) that much of our best “thinking” does not occur in the traditional rational left brain-centered approach. This more thorough scientific ... Views: 1108
With each new day we find that the world has changed a little; on some days it’s changed a lot. Often that change creates uncertainty; a subtle discomfort that comes from not knowing what’s going to happen next.
During times like these the greatest confidence builder available to you is ... Views: 2480
Have you ever had the thoughts “I have too much information and too many choices without a way to choose what’s right for me. I don’t have time to do all I need to do. I need to go on an information diet.”?
“I need to go on an information diet” is our solution to the uncomfortable experience ... Views: 1313
Success always leaves clues. No one around you that has achieved great success has done so in a vacuum. The path they have traveled, to achieve the remarkable success they have achieved, is paved with their own personal recipe or brand for success. One of the easiest ways to invite similar ... Views: 995
Jim Harbaugh has been successful at every level in football. In college at the University of Michigan, he was an All-American quarterback. As the leader of the Chicago Bears and Indianapolis Colts’ offenses, he was known as a modestly talented but gritty, independent and inspirational ... Views: 3750
These days, people often wear their “ability” to multitask as a badge of honor. We’ve all been there: sitting at our desk, computer humming, files open, checking e-mails, talking on the phone, and listening to a colleague all at the same time. Impressive, yes? No. It’s neither impressive nor ... Views: 1402
I find that the best kind of creative inspiration, in any field of endeavor, comes from communing deeply with other life presences, in heartfelt, open-minded, empathic attunement with them. The more deeply we invest our heart, mind, and senses, in communion with other life presences, ... Views: 2398
Ever stop to consider how your productivity influences other aspects of your life! Now we're not necessarily talking about being more productive at work to get that raise or promotion even though that's a definite plus! The focus of our conversation here today is about when you get more done how ... Views: 1233
In my second year in the insurance business I set a couple of records while going for the coveted President's ring. At one point my closing ratio was over 90%. It seemed almost effortless at times. I felt at one with my work, my prospects, and my clients. I was extremely focused and energized, ... Views: 1685
This article is for e-store owners who want to be in control over their business and whose time is too precious to spend it in vain.
What if Your Store Is not That Fit?
Even if you're the lucky owner of Magento, one of the best e-store platforms, it cannot grant your website top ... Views: 878
The weather here in NJ has been pretty stormy lately. A couple of hours ago, it was dark outside. Thunder was rumbling. Everything seemed to be in place for a terrific downpour but the storm didn't come, at least not then. All we got were a couple of raindrops that quickly disappeared. Hours ... Views: 1353
Turning Pressure into a Positive Force in Your Life
By Aimee Bernstein
First published in Holistic Health Magazine
The more you want success, money, love, power or even peace of mind, the more you invite pressure into your life. Think about it. You strive to attain a top-level job and ... Views: 1886
Outlook email client is the application that works stand alone as well as it can easily used with Exchange Server with which entire Outlook data shared on network. Various Outlook items like emails, tasks, calendars, contacts etc can easily saved in OST file format if Outlook user is working in ... Views: 1147
When you plan your work do you try to keep your schedule light or do you focus more on increasing productivity? Many believe that having a busy schedule leads to uncompleted tasks, frustration and stress and therefore does little in regards to increasing productivity! On the contrary there is ... Views: 1413
Success comes to those who have a strong will to succeed, a vision of what they want and finally a plan to guide them to get it. Does that sound really simple and easy to do, well it really is. The challenge you face though, is that as easy as it is to do, so easy is it not to do. It is really ... Views: 1166
Your attitude is so very influential in just about everything you do yet we all tend to occasionally overlook this! For the most part people with a positive outlook seem to be more productive and as a result happier as well! Let's have a closer look at 3 reasons as to why a positive outlook ... Views: 1401
Often the stress we feel when we are about to take a test - whether for school or a job, is the stress we put on ourselves. If you are prepared, and know the material as well as you can, you have all you need to do well, so why are you putting roadblocks up for yourself?
I have a friend who ... Views: 2010
Perhaps you have actually dreamed of taking part in a musical instrument and clueless as to what type of instrument is ideal to participate in with? Effectively, learn how to participate in a violin therefore you will never regret it. It can be, by far, 1 from the coolest instruments to engage ... Views: 1412
10 Tips for Overcoming Procrastination
“After all is said and done, more is usually said than done.”
Old proverb
Why do we procrastinate? Over the years, here are some of the things I’ve heard people say in my workshop on time ... Views: 1589
Beware of Charlie-Down-the-Block. Charlie is the (generic) person in your new client's life that tells them they are making a mistake doing business with you. Charlie-Down-the-Block is not a particular individual, but the person who ALWAYS knows better than you what is best for your prospective ... Views: 1317
Be the First to Give More:
The problem with the employer/employee relationship is that most employers will only pay you just enough to keep you and most employees will only work just hard enough not to get fired. What a terrible arrangement!
In order for this relationship to progress, ... Views: 1155
Leadership Strategy Number Eight
Treat the mail clerk and the secretaries and the waiters and waitresses who wait on you with the same courtesy and respect as you do the CEO. People who are rude to people they deem beneath them and nice to people they deem above them are phonies and as a ... Views: 1493
Leadership Strategy Number Six
Tell me about your attitude. You may say, “Oh, John, I’ve heard about attitude all my life. And I know you have heard about attitude all your life, but you haven’t heard about it today. Did you know that it is your attitude, not your aptitude that determines ... Views: 1124
Leadership Strategy Number One
You have to have it before you have it. Let me ask you this: how many of you are driving your dream car? Before you ever had that car, I would imagine you saw it in your garage, saw in your driveway, saw it in both. I’ll bet you saw yourself driving that car ... Views: 1379
As a woman in a man’s world, learning to navigate the realm of business and leadership was comparable to charting a course to a yet undiscovered planet in another solar system. Starting out as young entrepreneurs, business success was something we both yearned for, however, knowing what to do ... Views: 1461
"While this is tough, I am a whole lot tougher." James Loehr
How fast you go out at the beginning of a race is a personal decision. Some athletes end up giving away that control without even realizing what they’re doing. Quickly you are caught up in the energy of those around you. When you ... Views: 1275
Leadership Strategy Number Fourteen
Avoid mingling with co-workers who are not going anywhere. As a matter of fact, avoid mingling with anybody that is not trying to make something out of their lives. This is what the gurus will tell you. Researchers conducted this particular study and the ... Views: 1213
How are you doing on your most important goals? How do you even know unless you are carefully measuring your progress on each goal?
You are not alone. You probably already know that 91% of New Year’s Resolutions -- you know the ones to lose weight, go to the gym, and clean out that junk ... Views: 1728
Have you ever before dreamed of taking part in a musical instrument and clueless as to what type of instrument is ideal to execute with? Very well, learn how to participate in a violin and also you will in no way regret it. It is, by much, one of the coolest instruments to engage in with.
For ... Views: 897
Maintaining your focus can be very difficult when working online due to all the distractions the internet environment has to offer! Of course this can also have a detrimental effect on your work productivity and as any veteran marketer will tell you, this can easily doom your chances of ... Views: 1085
Whether you are an entrepreneur growing your business or the CEO of an international multi-continent corporation, your organization’s sustainable future rests squarely on your shoulders. It is leadership not management that sets the course for an organization and it is the leader’s vision, ... Views: 1409
Most athletes who train to compete spend most of their time preparing for ideal situations. Well if you have been competing long enough you know that eventually you will hit a perfect storm. I’m not talking about where everything works out just as you expected. What I mean is you are going to ... Views: 2151
Has personal responsibility for self and taking control of your life taken a backseat to victimhood and blaming others? Feng Shui is all about taking responsibility for self and creating the life you want, not the life others think you should live or tell you to think.
Feng Shui principles ... Views: 1348