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- Achieve Success in the Face of the Fiscal Cliff - by Submitted on Dec 04, 2012 from Rob WhiteThere is an incredible conversation buzzing about the threat of the fiscal cliff right in front us. It reminds me of the days when my biggest fear was the Fear of Poverty. I reacted to this fear by pretending I was indifferent to money, that it did not matter to me. Of course it mattered, ...
Views: 1942(2 votes) - Achieving Balance in Life - by Submitted on Nov 20, 2014 from Richard GreeneWhat is balance? What is balance in life? We often hear people talk about being out of balance in life or complaining about their life being lopsided. Usually, these complaints involve work and the fact that it can sometimes seem to consume your waking periods. One of the first things that I ...
Views: 1263(1 vote) - Achieving Internet Success – 3 Basic Principles - by Submitted on Jul 19, 2012 from TJ PhilpottAchieving internet success as an entrepreneur is more a product of trust building than technical skills! In fact the better you are in this area the more successful you'll likely become establishing a solid money making business online! Although the internet environment may be a little different ...
Views: 1234(1 vote) - Action Speaks Louder than Words - by Submitted on Sep 11, 2011 from cedric riceThe biggest hindrance that most of us face in not achieving our goals and objectives is that we don’t act aggressively enough to accomplish them. I used to think that if God is on my side every accomplishment would be easy. There is nothing further from the truth and I have learned better now. I ...
Views: 1545(1 vote) - Always Pay Yourself First - by Submitted on Oct 22, 2010 from Terry WeberThere is an old saying:"a word to the wise is sufficient." I know you are either wise or are gaining wisdom swiftly because of your daily prayers asking God to give you His wisdom and show you your truest interest. "The wise shall inherit glory, all honor and good." (Prov. 3:35 and Isa. ...
Views: 1301(1 vote) - An Inspiring Take on What Influences You! Part 1 in the Inner Motivation series - by Submitted on Sep 15, 2013 from Cris BakerAre you internally motivated? The Cherokee Indians say that everybody is, not just the self-motivated! They know that you have both a black wolf and a white wolf giving you internal motivation. Are you Self-Motivated? The self-motivated decide on their own goals and then pursue them. They ...
Views: 1712(2 votes) - Are They Even Listening? Part 1 of the 5 Steps to Mastery - by Submitted on Sep 15, 2013 from Cris BakerDinner with a New Date Without being too obvious, I'd successfully checked out my suspicions. My brand new strategy had worked and my inner smile was vast! I was enjoying dinner with a new date and she seemed to be listening politely. But was she more interested in talking rather than ...
Views: 1566(2 votes) - Are you Being Right - even though you're Wrong? Part 4 in the Self-Sabotage Series - by Submitted on Sep 15, 2013 from Cris BakerStop Confusing the Issue with the Facts "It doesn't matter what you say, I've made up my mind and I'm not going to change it." Such self-sabotage is widespread, you've probably seen it often. Everybody likes to be right. But when the need to be right is exacerbated by the dislike of change, ...
Views: 1781(2 votes) - Are You Giving Yourself Proper Mental Nutrition? - by Submitted on Nov 19, 2012 from Rob WhiteDo you remember the parable? Do you remember the parable about the man with a fig tree in his vineyard? He went to the tree looking for fruit, and there was none. He went back to the tree the next year, and it was still barren. He returned a third year. Nothing! The man then told his ...
Views: 2117(1 vote) - Are You in Complete Control? - by Submitted on Nov 10, 2010 from Dr. Shirley Cheng, Blind Author with VisionImagine someone you do not particularly like coming up to you, and in front of all your friends, begins to passionately accuse you of things you have never thought of, let alone have done. How would you react in such circumstances? In such cases, maintaining temperance is the key; otherwise, ...
Views: 3050(1 vote) - Are you responsible? Totally responsible for your life? Part 1 in the Choice Series - by Submitted on Sep 15, 2013 from Cris BakerAs an adult, are you responsible for the circumstances of your life? Or someone else? It's comforting to believe that someone else is responsible, but is it true? Other people and situations have had some influence, large or small, but you are responsible. Why? Because you did whatever you ...
Views: 1551(2 votes) - Are You Willing to Pay the Price? Part 3 in the Most Important Question series - by Submitted on Sep 15, 2013 from Cris BakerHaving chosen your most important question, see the previous articles in this series, there are some crucial related questions for you to answer. Actions have Consequences Are you prepared to pay the price? Your actions will provide the answer in due course, yet to ensure your future has ...
Views: 1739(2 votes) - Are your Habits Shackling your success? - by Submitted on Oct 28, 2011 from Andrew HortonEverything you learn, you either learn from observation, imitation or repetition. This learning, over time gets converted into your habits, which either serve you or keep you trapped in a life of mediocrity. Your habit set, starts to develop, from offhand remarks, fleeting ideas and vague ...
Views: 1692(1 vote) - Are Your Peers Taking You Up? - by Submitted on Apr 26, 2011 from Oli HilleHaving great Peers means achieving your Lifestyle dreams more quickly and with more enjoyment. IMPORTANT: You are the average of the five people you spend most of your time with. It is absolutely essential to surround yourself with people who have the highest possible levels of integrity, ...
Views: 1045(1 vote) - Attract Success By The person You Become - by Submitted on May 25, 2011 from Andrew HortonAttract Success By The person You Become Inspirational Speakers We have an incredible ability to do whatever it takes to get exactly what we “MUST” have. The challenge is to ensure that what we are attempting to achieve is a must have verse a mere want. Search within yourself and uncover ...
Views: 1733(1 vote) - Authentic Knowing comes with Experience. Part 4 of the 5 Steps to Mastery - by Submitted on Sep 15, 2013 from Cris BakerThere's a great divide between theory and practice. You get information from outside, and mental investigation enables you to understand it. But authentic knowing is far more than just understanding. The next step to mastery is to get your own experience, the energy you put into practice makes ...
Views: 1605(3 votes) - Be Trustworthy, follow the Golden Rule - its Context can Change Your Life! - by Submitted on Sep 15, 2013 from Cris BakerDisappointed is not the word for it! Not at what his email contained, but at what it didn’t say. Charles was a new friend, we'd met on a personal development course. He was American, I'm English Canadian, and we’d connected. He told me he was a real estate investor. “I do it both for ...
Views: 2497(1 vote) - Because first names ARE important - by Submitted on Aug 20, 2013 from Greg WeissRecently I received an email from a friend of mine, Nicole Cullen. Nicole emailed her database an invitation to attend a workshop she and a number of colleagues were staging in December 2012. Unfortunately, the email Nicole sent out greeted readers as follows: Hi First Name Concerned ...
Views: 1251(1 vote) - Being Successful By Being Yourself - by Submitted on Apr 27, 2011 from Adam BenedettoBecoming who you are meant to be is to set yourself up for success in life. It is allowing yourself to become not only the best possible you, but activating all the initiative related to your success. If we live our lives in the dark, pretending to be happy because we see success in a certain ...
Views: 786(1 vote) - Best career prediction services in India - by Submitted on Nov 25, 2020 from Sri TulasiAre you facing problems in your current job or searching a job ? consult with our job problem solution astrologer. There are 90% people living around us, who are not satisfied from their job. And many other types of job problems they are also suffering like- not getting opportunities from ...
Views: 559(1 vote) - Beyond Conceptual Thought into Experiential Reality - by Submitted on May 07, 2011 from Frederick DodsonThere is a Spanish word called "Duende" that originally meant spirit entering your body and causing you to view your surroundings, other people and nature with awe and wonderment. According to the dictionary today the word is used to the "mysterious power a work of art has to deeply move a ...
Views: 2517(1 vote) - Book Summary: Good to Great - by Submitted on Sep 25, 2013 from Jim CollinsThe Challenge: Built to Last, the defining management study of the nineties, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the very beginning. But what about the company that is not born with great ...
Views: 852(1 vote) - Bringing the feminine forward - by Submitted on Jan 04, 2018 from Julie Roberts, Ph.D.What does it mean to bring more of the feminine into our culture and why should we do that? Is there evidence that it helps? In a study in Leadership: Women Do It Better Than Men, Harvard Business Review (https://hbr.org/2012/03/a-study-in-leadership-women-do), Dr. Jack Zenger and Dr. Joe ...
Views: 1689(1 vote) - Build Your Resiliency: Resiliency - The Main Component for Success - by Submitted on Dec 20, 2017 from Dr. John SchinnererI speak a lot about resiliency, a key component in a happy, successful and thriving life. Resiliency is the ability to bounce back from adversity with more passion and knowledge than you had before the bad times. Bad times are inevitable. They are the price of admission to the game called life. ...
Views: 4633(2 votes) - Can You Both Be Right? How? Part 2 in the Disagreements series - by Submitted on Sep 15, 2013 from Cris BakerYou disagree. Yet this exploration has found that there's nothing wrong in disagreeing with others, disagreement is entirely natural as well as very common. Although disagreements may be inevitable, understanding that they are not inherently irresolvable will change your life. The good news is ...
Views: 1609(2 votes) - Celebrate Your Victories And Give Thanks - by Submitted on Dec 05, 2007 from Jack CanfieldResearch has shown over and over again that the more you acknowledge your past successes, the more confident you become in taking on, and successfully accomplishing, new ones. As you stay the course and begin to realize your goals, you need to do two very important things: 1.) Celebrate your ...
Views: 1357(1 vote) - Change is Inevitable, Success is optional - by Submitted on Nov 13, 2011 from Andrew HortonThe one new certainty you have in your life in these fast moving and evolving times; is CHANGE. Whether by choice or by circumstance, any change you experience thrusts you out of your comfort zone and into a world of the unknown. We must learn to accept and embrace change in our own lives and ...
Views: 2671(1 vote) - Change Your Perspective to Become More Effective! Part 2 in the Self-Sabotage Series - by Submitted on Sep 15, 2013 from Cris BakerWhat do you actually know? is the age-old question of philosophers and statesmen. A good answer, but not the only answer, is that you know what you have learned and experienced in the past. How can you know if you haven't learnt it, or remembered that experience? Which implies your mind only ...
Views: 1584(1 vote) - CHARTING YOUR COURSE!! - by Submitted on May 06, 2011 from Pat MussieuxAre you feeling lost these days? Were you ever a Brownie or Girl Guide? I recall that one of the badges I got was for camping – and learning your way around the woods. We learned to use a compass. Steven Covey often speaks about the difference between the clock and the compass. Have you ...
Views: 1418(1 vote) - Choosing the Right Business Card - by Submitted on Apr 02, 2019 from Grant DonovanHere at the Men'sFitClub offices, we sometimes get tired of men getting a bad rap for being uncultured. Sure, we like jokes about flatulence and we generally prefer movies where something blows up, but that doesn’t mean we’re complete meat heads. As a matter of fact, one of our favorite ...
Views: 570(1 vote) - Conventional and Authentic Knowledge, the Powerful Difference. Part 5 in the Personal Power series - by Submitted on Sep 15, 2013 from Cris BakerConventional Knowledge The previous articles in this Personal Power series discussed some differences between the logic of the outer world and the intuition of the inner world. You've seen how something can be both right as well as wrong, rather than either right or wrong. This resembles the ...
Views: 1664(1 vote) - Create A Strategic Plan To Succeed In Your Business - by Submitted on Feb 05, 2011 from Menno SpijkstraMost of the time, many managers and business owners are too absorbed in running their day to day work dealing with managing the business, supervising the staff, dealing with clients and customers and creating and developing new products or services. Usually, at the end of the day, after a hard ...
Views: 935(1 vote) - Create Success in Your Life With Five Essential Attributes - by Submitted on Oct 26, 2014 from Winifred BraggWe can all be successful if we practice principles of success. To become successful, one has to be committed to personal growth and development, and willing to perfect practices that lead to a successful outcome. Like any other habit, developing traits that lead to success, requires commitment, ...
Views: 1514(1 vote) - Customer Loyalty: We Need to Talk About Our Relationship - by Submitted on May 11, 2015 from shubham anandEvery customer base is different and must be handled according to their unique needs. As a manufacturer, your customers may include dealers and distributors along with contractors and end-consumers. In channel sales, each member has their own individual or organizational goals. Although specific ...
Views: 827(1 vote) - Daily Disciplines for Effortless Success: Six Steps for Activating "The Secret" in Your Life - by Submitted on Dec 05, 2007 from Jack CanfieldThe first step to using Law of Attraction as presented in the movie The Secret is to clarify exactly what you want. Remember—determine, write down and talk about what you do want, not what you don’t want. Be as specific as possible. Once you have clarified what you want, do the ...
Views: 3098(1 vote) - Decide What You Want - by Submitted on Dec 05, 2007 from Jack CanfieldIn order to get what you want, you must first decide what you want. Most people really foul up at this crucial first step because they simply can’t see how it’s possible to get what they want — so they don’t even let themselves want it. Don’t sabotage yourself ...
Views: 1138(1 vote) - Defining Success - by Submitted on Apr 22, 2009 from Tom HopkinsAt the age of six, Corinne Archer* started putting in long hours training in her sport. Long before she entered her teens, she had fixed her mind on a single goal: to win an Olympic gold medal. From then on, she crushed everything out of her life that didn't contribute to her goal. Every ...
Views: 5779(1 vote) - Designer Reacts to Kanye West's New Merch Jesus is king - by Submitted on May 04, 2020 from Naeem AkramOh, Kanye West you Have done it haven't you Partner you Have Done it if you guys have not seen he has just dropped a brand new merch line in accord with his brand new album we will need to talk about it since you know exactly what as a designer on the surface of this. It makes my skin creep ...
Views: 618(1 vote) - Difference between topper and You! - by Submitted on Jun 06, 2020 from Sri TulasiWhat’s the difference between a topper and you? A topper has focus and you don’t. A topper is clear about his goals and you are not. A topper is persistent and you are not. A topper never waste his time and your favorite app is instagram. When you are listening to Sandeep Maheswari they ...
Views: 868(1 vote) - Diligence Leads to Success in Business Online - by Submitted on Feb 27, 2011 from TJ PhilpottAchieving success in business on the internet is something most anybody can do since financial barriers are not necessarily a factor. The fact of the matter is the most important resources needed for business success will come from your own willingness to invest the effort and time! Staying ...
Views: 855(1 vote) - Discover the Satisfaction of Seeing How It All Fits Together. Part 7 in the Personal Power series - by Submitted on Sep 15, 2013 from Cris BakerThe effort you put into overcoming your self sabotage increases your personal power. If you allow the self sabotage mechanism to win, you feed it - which improves its inner strength and decreases yours. So whenever you just know you should do something, that's a great opportunity to increase ...
Views: 1603(1 vote) - Distinctions lead to Clarity, Clarity gives you Power. Part 6 in the Change My Life series - by Submitted on Sep 15, 2013 from Cris BakerThe value of goals, of knowing where you're going, was discussed in article #5 in this Change my Life series. And most people start by wondering what they should do, what should they change. Change is vital because unless you make a change in your life, nothing will change in your life. You ...
Views: 1849(1 vote) - Do We Have a Common Purpose Here? - by Submitted on Jun 01, 2010 from William CottringerDo We Have a Common Purpose Here? By Bill Cottringer “Life is a promise; fulfill it.”~ Mother Theresa. I have been thinking about this question for a long time now during my life’s educational classes—my journey through formal schooling, interacting with a wide variety of people, ...
Views: 1788(2 votes) - Do You Check Out What They Say? How do You Decide? Part 2 in the Approach to Life series - by Submitted on Sep 15, 2013 from Cris BakerHow do you Make Up your Mind? How do you make up your mind? Do you think things though for yourself? Or do you look at the person suggesting an idea, and ask yourself how well-known or how famous they are? Do you assume that their success in acting, or singing, or whatever makes them an instant ...
Views: 1588(1 vote) - Do you defer gratification by doing it now or later? Part 2 in the Most Important Question series - by Submitted on Sep 15, 2013 from Cris BakerYou saw that there are four important questions which you can ask yourself as you make a decision. Those questions, from the first in this Most Important Question series, are: Do I feel like doing it? Do I want to do it? Is it me? Do I want the results that doing it will bring? Which ...
Views: 1715(1 vote) - Do you just Know About It, or have Authentic Hands-on Experience? Part 4 in the Do What Works series - by Submitted on Sep 15, 2013 from Cris BakerDo Only What Works To achieve the results you want, you need to do what works and not to do what doesn't work. And it's your job to ascertain which is which! Once you know the difference you'll be more effective in achieving your goals. When you have experience in a field, it's natural to ...
Views: 1651(1 vote) - Do You Like to Be Challenged? - by Submitted on Aug 31, 2010 from Lisa MininniFrequently, small business owners are excited to build their business, but often have lulls in their motivation. What most people don’t realize is that you derive your motivation from your natural hardwiring. When you create awareness about your natural hardwiring, you will be able to tell ...
Views: 3492(1 vote) - Do You Really Understand? Or are You just Informed About it? Part 3 of the 5 Steps to Mastery - by Submitted on Sep 15, 2013 from Cris BakerDo you understand the information you've been given, or are you just informed about it? There's a crucial difference between being informed about something - just knowing about it - and understanding it. Do you Just Have the Information? When you've just received some information from ...
Views: 1554(1 vote) - Do you Think Consciously or Unconsciously? Part 2 in the Choice Series - by Submitted on Sep 15, 2013 from Cris BakerThoughts can be seen as one of two types. Thoughts that just appear, random ones you haven't chosen to think. And thoughts that you choose to think. The first are generally far more numerous. Normal thinking - random thoughts - bring the regular consequences which people experience much of ...
Views: 1869(1 vote) - Do you Wonder What To Do? Yet your Real Choice comes Earlier! Part 3 in the Choice Series - by Submitted on Sep 15, 2013 from Cris BakerYou always have a choice, they say. And they are right, you do have a choice, always! But not the one you think you have. Some people look at their possible responses, asking themselves how to react in the situation; should they do this, or that, or the other? Do you ever wonder how it will ...
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