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- Why Writing Down Goals On Paper Is Powerful - by Submitted on Mar 13, 2011 from Maria ErvingWhy should we write down our goals and dreams on paper? Here's 22 reasons why: 1. Thoughts get easily forgotten and lost in everyday life - We think lots of thoughts everyday; about 60 000 of them everyday! 2. By writing our goals down on paper, we are clarifying what is most important ...
Views: 2151(2 votes) - 5 Secrets to Persuasive Communications - by Submitted on Feb 13, 2012 from Stephanie ScottiLet’s say you’re preparing to speak to your board of directors, present a budget for approval, launch a new initiative or rally the troops in the office. And let’s assume that each of these endeavors requires a persuasive conversation. Like most business people, you approach this task as a ...
Views: 2146 - Success is Yours if You Believe in Yourself - by Submitted on Apr 22, 2011 from Clair SchwanMany of us go through life thinking that success is for the other guy, someone else that has more talent, more intelligence and better "connections." We keep convincing ourselves that we can't do things that would be special, meaningful or profitable. We end up on the outside looking in, and ...
Views: 2146(1 vote) - Success: What Does It Mean To Be Successful? - by Submitted on Mar 29, 2013 from Oliver JR CooperThe word success is widely used in today’s world and it is something that is sought after by many people. People from all backgrounds and walks of life are driven to attain success. And through the media and other means, we are constantly exposed to people who are successful in certain ...
Views: 2143 - ***Gluten-Free Isn't Home-Free - It Can Cause Muffin-Top! Yikes...! - by Submitted on Nov 12, 2013 from Lexis JohnsonWhat’s the one food you probably eat every day that you don’t even know you’re eating, that causes Muffin Top? Just FYI there is one 'food' that’s in almost all processed foods; is often used as a replacement in gluten-free foods; is erroneously revered by many health-food companies & is ...
Views: 2137(2 votes) - How to overcome your fear of Public Speaking As You Read This! - by Submitted on Aug 12, 2009 from Dominic Knight"According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you're better off in the casket than doing the eulogy." -Jerry Seinfeld This morning I had a ...
Views: 2137(1 vote) - ***If it ain’t practical, it ain’t spiritual - by Submitted on Feb 20, 2014 from Rob WhiteIn my book, And Then I Met Margaret, I share twenty one epoch experiences that helped lift me out of poverty into prosperity. I don’t consider it a “How To Get Rich” book by any means, but I do consider it a spiritual self-help book. The book points to many of the everyday, ordinary, unassuming ...
Views: 2135(1 vote) - Resist, Insist and Persist For Success in Your Online Business - by Submitted on Jul 24, 2009 from Parag PalejaI often hear online business entrepreneurs complaining about all the trouble they are having. To the point that they are ready to quit. Everyone feels like that every now and then, but you have to resist the temptation to get caught up in that. There is a difference between those who get past ...
Views: 2132 - Learning Tips: How to Be a Better Learner and a More Successful You - by Submitted on Jan 18, 2015 from Dr. Shirley Cheng, Blind Author with VisionAre you a good learner? Life is about growing--physically, mentally, and spiritually--but in order to grow properly, one needs to be a good learner. The Word of God provides us with valuable tips and principles that will help us be better learners in life. Here are some principles I've ...
Views: 2128(1 vote) - Various Types of Part Time Jobs in Bangalore - by Submitted on Sep 29, 2011 from nidhu guptaIt's time to force your body engine to earn more bucks. In the present era where some people are still doing great efforts to grab the good job with good salary package and at the mean time some people are earning more than their expectations through part time jobs in Bangalore or work from ...
Views: 2126 - Change Your State Of Mind About Money - by Submitted on Oct 24, 2010 from Terry WeberI’d like to suggest to you the following five ideas about money: (1) How you can be rich and prosperous for the rest of your life. (2) Remind you that money is not “the root of all evil,” instead – the “love of money” is. (3) The solution to all of your money problems are available to ...
Views: 2122(1 vote) - Why You May Not Be Achieving Your Goals - by Submitted on Feb 28, 2010 from Thomas AndersonWhile using Goal Trax recently someone asked the question “What do I do when I have my goal created, my steps listed, my motivation clearly defined and then I find myself ‘Stopped’ and not moving forward with my goal?” This is a very common issues that many people face when they want to ...
Views: 2119(8 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: 2112(1 vote) - Thoroughbred Trivia and Fun Facts - by Submitted on Mar 09, 2012 from Lee Lane-EdgarA horse’s heart weighs not more than 8.5 pounds, Secretariat’s weighed 22! As you all must be aware of the incredible findings of a vet who treated Secretariat regarding the colt’s magnificently pounding heart; it weighed 22 pounds, the heaviest heart any thoroughbred has been found with. While ...
Views: 2110 - Is It Okay to Put Your Work First as a Mother - by Submitted on Jul 09, 2010 from Michaela SibandaYou all know the procedure when you’re on a plane. The flight attendant stands in front and tells you how to put on your oxygen mask and proceeds to tell you that in case of an emergency put your mask on first before doing anything else or helping anyone else. We all know why she gives us ...
Views: 2104(2 votes) - How to be a good seller - by Submitted on Oct 07, 2011 from Morris KimBeing a good seller online involves more than having a great variety of products. It incorporates several factors that can help sellers not only to attract prospective buyers and increase sales but also in building relationships and trust. Being an online sellers myself and getting involved with ...
Views: 2103 - Wolves - the Cherokee Indian viewpoint on the Enemy Within - by Submitted on Sep 15, 2013 from Cris BakerCherokee Indians have an interesting insight on your internal motivation which can change your life. They say two wolves live inside everybody : a black wolf and a white wolf! The black wolf feeds on negativity, it lives to bring you undesirable experiences. It's the enemy within, also known ...
Views: 2100(3 votes) - Everything I Learned About Methodical Decision Makers, I Learned From My Mom - by Submitted on Apr 08, 2011 from Lisa MininniWhatever you’re selling, you must reach out to a decision maker. All kinds of selling techniques are used, but the bottom line is decision makers are people. They have identifiable needs, preferences, and even motivations for what they buy. They have goals, dreams and hopes. That couldn’t ...
Views: 2097(4 votes) - Self Talk Tips - How to Banish Negative Self Talk in 3 Proven Steps - by Submitted on Jul 02, 2010 from Michelle PrinceThoughts have power. They drive our decisions, our goals, our dreams, and ultimately our lives. Are you living the life you've always dreamed of living? If not, then what were you thinking? What were you telling yourself all these years to get where you are today? Did you believe you were ...
Views: 2094(1 vote) - Mindful Warrior - by Submitted on Jun 11, 2017 from Daydree HornerWe’re fully in the swing of Spring and accelerating towards summer. Have all of your goals been accomplished - vacation plans, job search, dating again or fixing the house? Whatever the plan, there’s nothing like the feeling of seeing it through to fruition. However, what happens when we ...
Views: 2091 - The secrets of success they don’t teach you at school - by Submitted on Sep 19, 2010 from Ralph BrownLife can be a slow and inarticulate teacher. Yet a few simple, proven ideas can give us all far more control over our lives. Researchers who observe people who succeed in business, study, sport and relationships are revealing some valuable information about the way top achievers think. For ...
Views: 2089(3 votes) - What are the advantages of 360 degree feedback? - by Submitted on May 25, 2011 from Margaret WilsonThe process of 360 degree feedback is requests in incorporates feedback from the member human resources, manager, subordinate and clients for the excellent presentation review. There is an advantage of using this method. There are some factors that demonstrate the advantages of 360 feedback ...
Views: 2087 - Why are some things similar? - by Submitted on Jul 09, 2010 from Mike EdwardsIs it possible for two or more people living independently of each other to have the same thought? The answer is that it is highly likely on a superficial level, but on an advanced level is highly unlikely. For example, many people perform the same actions at the same time and these actions ...
Views: 2087(1 vote) - 10 Tools to Help Get Your Business Started Now - by Submitted on Feb 08, 2017 from Jane HurstHave you decided that you want to go into business for yourself? There was a time when only those who had the finances for it could do this, but today it is easier than ever for anyone to start their own business. There are loads of great tools that will help you save a lot of money, and the ...
Views: 2083(1 vote) - Version One Is Better Than Version Zero - by Submitted on Oct 08, 2011 from Paul MonaxThat is a phrase that I heard at a recent course that I attended on marketing on the internet. The implication is that it is better to get your first version of a not-quite-ready ad or even a new product out there and see how it goes over, than to have nothing out there at all. And thus no ...
Views: 2082(1 vote) - Has Your Business Hit A Glass Ceiling? - by Submitted on Oct 16, 2009 from Adele Howell-PryceThe term “glass ceiling” is most often used in corporate jobs. It is used to explain the phenomenon where people climb the ladder, get promoted, seem to be on track and then for no apparent reason – their promotion path seems to stall and they get no further. However, in my experience this ...
Views: 2081(2 votes) - Learning How to Control Yourself - by Submitted on Dec 14, 2009 from Willie HortonNormal people are out of control. This is not an observation, a theory or an opinion. This is a statement of scientific fact. Decades of research, all the way back to 1936, prove conclusively that the normal person is not in control of themselves, rather they are controlled by their ...
Views: 2078(2 votes) - Play Small Or Live Out Loud - by Submitted on Oct 28, 2008 from Gladys AndersonThe famous poem by Marianne Williamson makes me think about how often we bury our aspirations under a bushel of self-doubt, insecurity, fear and procrastination. When we shrink, minimize and deny our strengths, talents and God given abilities, we shortchange ourselves and the world. All of us ...
Views: 2078(1 vote) - Success Principles: 6 Common Excuses for Failure that can Help You Succeed - by Submitted on Oct 20, 2009 from Krystal KuehnNinety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. ~ George Washington Carver There never was and there never will be another person exactly like you. Your way of thinking, your appearance, you inherent talents and interests, your skills are like no ...
Views: 2075(4 votes) - Self-Accountability Empowers Solopreneurs - by Submitted on Mar 01, 2011 from Young KimHaving a strong sense of self-accountability is the cornerstone of success and productivity. Self-accountability simply means you are holding yourself responsible for your successes and failures. Most of us feel a sense of accountability towards our managers, co-workers, clients, customers, ...
Views: 2074(4 votes) - How Do People Build Billion Dollar Companies? - by Submitted on May 14, 2015 from Lucas ThomasThey Bring People into Their World. Questions. Have you ever been sucked into another world? Feeling it was so real, you escape the confines of this reality to feel like you were there? Breathing it? Living it? Escapism. Statements. This process and how you feel is ...
Views: 2070 - NLP: 3 Steps To Attract Great And Positive People Into Your Life. - by Submitted on Oct 11, 2007 from Emmanuel SeguiAttracting great and positive people tells a lot about your personality. It tells that you’re great and positive as well. It tells that extraordinary people want to be around you. Follow the 3 steps below and learn how to attract great and positive people into your life to attract more money, ...
Views: 2070 - Stop Limiting Your Own Success - Get Out of the Box You've Built for Yourself - by Submitted on Apr 22, 2011 from Clair SchwanFor many of us, our lives consist of a series of steps that tend to follow the same pattern - we build a "box" that we believe is a comfortable place to be, we put ourselves in it, and then wonder why things aren't working out the way we'd like them to. It's often self-defeating, and many times ...
Views: 2066(1 vote) - Are You Prepared to Deliver Your Halftime Speech? - by Submitted on Jun 08, 2010 from Chris Williams“Where there is no leadership the people fall, but in an abundance of counselors there is safety.”- Proverbs 11:14 It’s hard to believe five months of 2010 are already history. As we approach the halfway point in one of the most unique times ever to do business, what message will you deliver ...
Views: 2063(8 votes) - Are Your Fears and Fairytales Holding You Back? - by Submitted on Jul 14, 2010 from Alexandria JoyThe power of communication is what the listener does with the message, not what the message does to the listener. Messages, stories, speeches, movies and advertisements that move people deeply do not do so because they are powerful in themselves. They do so because they touch the audience's most ...
Views: 2061 - Is PASSION Important To Success In Business? - by Submitted on Dec 09, 2010 from Debbie RustonObserve the most successful business people you know.....a common characteristic you will find is that successful people are passionate about what they do. Without passion for what you are doing, you might as well stay in a job you don't like. Business ownership gives us a new freedom. ...
Views: 2061(3 votes) - Interviews With Successful People: Harry Gregson-Williams – Composer - by Submitted on Oct 31, 2015 from Oliver JR CooperI was watching a film called The Equalizer and soon after, I started to listen to the soundtrack. I had appreciated the music while I was watching the film, but it was only upon listening to the soundtrack that I felt truly touched by it. I began thinking about what it would be like to ...
Views: 2060 - Retain and Attract Customers in 2012 - by Submitted on Jan 10, 2012 from Terrie AndersonI have noticed a scary decline in the level of customer service offered around the globe, in most businesses, in the past few years. Seems the tighter the economy, the less emphasis was placed on what should have been the critical element for sustainable success – retaining and attracting ...
Views: 2059 - Success. Why You should Value the Struggle - by Submitted on Jun 24, 2020 from W.T. & Pamela HamiltonThe struggle is a necessary inconvenience. It accompanies every ambition, every success and it prevails in every failure. But there can be no real sustainable success without the struggle. It’s an unfortunate truth. The sooner we accept this truth, the sooner we can champion it. Once ...
Views: 2056 - I feel the earth move under my feet: a story about resilience? - by Submitted on Jan 02, 2013 from Rob White“It was 1:00 a.m. Who the hell is calling me at this hour!?” Who? Oh, just my neighbor in California (I was in Boston at the time). He called to tell me that an earthquake had moved under their feet out there, and reduced my 48 single-family home development in Watsonville to a pile of ...
Views: 2053(2 votes) - The Four Basic Rules for Personal and Professional Success - by Submitted on Jul 07, 2014 from Rand GolletzWhen I went into business for myself over a dozen years ago after spending decades as a corporate executive, I knew pretty quickly that I needed help building my business. I needed some "rules of the road." I also needed perspective and equanimity that I simply did not have. I knew how to do ...
Views: 2053 - You Can Choose To Be Chosen – Chose WOW - by Submitted on Dec 05, 2012 from Rob WhiteIf you’ve not been chosen to live a life of WOW – you can choose to be chosen. WOW is my acronym for: Wonderfully Obsessed with Winning. For me, this is a confidence builder; it’s an expression of wonder that motivates me to think higher. When I speak WOW with enthusiasm, the word opens my ...
Views: 2053(3 votes) - "Porcupines" And Your Success! - by Submitted on Nov 04, 2007 from Harold Duarte-BernhardtCategory: Success “PORCUPINES” AND YOUR SUCCESS! Harold J. Duarte-Bernhardt Porcupines have always elicited uncomfortable feelings in my mind! I have watched them walk at zoos, and since I was a young child I decided I never wanted to have an encounter with a porcupine. They are ...
Views: 2052 - Top Ten Reasons People Don't Achieve Their Goals - by Submitted on Dec 26, 2009 from Dawn AngierTop Ten Reasons People Don't Achieve Their Goals Here's a quick rundown of most of the things that keep one from achieving the success they seek. If you're not accomplishing your goals or not reaching them as easily or as quickly as you think you should, use this as a checklist ...
Views: 2051(6 votes) - 3 Things To Catapult Your Business to Success - by Submitted on May 08, 2013 from Carrie GreeneI said, "Does anyone have any questions for me?" The response, "Yes Carrie I do. Since you've been in business for over ten years will you share the top three things that you believe have led to your success?" It was a question I didn't expect so I thought a moment ... here's the answer I ...
Views: 2048(1 vote) - The Best Way To Thrive Is To help Others Survive - by Submitted on Jun 04, 2010 from William CottringerThe Best Way To Thrive Is To help Others Survive By Bill Cottringer “We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.” ~Jose Ortega y Gasset. The best way to thrive is to help others survive…but first you have to master surviving ...
Views: 2048(1 vote) - How Brain Storming Leads to Online Success - by Submitted on Jun 16, 2010 from TJ PhilpottWhether you are aware of it or not brain storming is a very large part of any success in business you may have online. All too often we get caught up in the day to day tasks involved in our businesses and use these accomplishments as our measure of success. Well true as it may be that there are ...
Views: 2047 - Embracing Emotional Detachment - by Submitted on Mar 09, 2012 from John G E FryeThe value and benefit of emotional detachment must not be understated. We all need to feel valued, important, a sense of recognition... THIS IS ME! 'Me' is important, however allowing the emotional 'Me' to determine your sense of wellness and positive self-image in place of just being, ...
Views: 2046(1 vote) - Get Organzied & Bust Clutter in 8 Simple Steps! - by Submitted on May 05, 2011 from Sasha Lauren, Americas Trusted Organizing Expert (not current)"Home is the nicest word there is." Laura Ingalls Wilder How would you like to live in the peaceful, organized envirnoment you deserve, learn to maintain your space easily, and focus on what is really important to you? With some clear guidance, this doesn't have to be complicated. Here are ...
Views: 2046(1 vote) - America’s Great Advantage Creating Divergent Industries - by Submitted on Aug 05, 2009 from Geoff FickeThe American economy is the growth engine of the industrial world and will continue to be so, as long a steady stream of innovative, divergent products is successfully created. The history of capitalism is replete with cycles of unique, needed product and technology advances that exponentially ...
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