Daydream Your Way to a Better Life
One of the most popular self-help books ever written on depression is Feeling Good by Dr. David Burns. He identifies several cognitive distortions the depressed suffer from. One of them is Overgeneralization. This is the practice of “viewing a single negative event as a never-ending pattern of defeat.” If you lose your job, suddenly you are worthless and you will never amount to anything. If you look at your 401(k) statement and you’ve lost 35% of your nest egg, suddenly you’ll never be able to retire and you’ll have to be a Walmart greeter when you’re 85 years old. When things are bad, it feels like everything is bad and they’ll always be bad. Read the Rest of This Article »
The 5 Keys to Success
Someone once said, “The key to happiness is having dreams. The key to success is making your dreams’ come true.” Today I want to talk about making your dreams come true. I want to talk about five keys that will help turn your dreams into reality.
Without further adieu….
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How to Make Life Work in Your Favor
Thomas A. Edison failed 10 000 times before he invented the light bulb.
Henry Ford had to overcome many obstacles before he could succeed, for one he had only had up to 6th grade schooling in his life and still he become one of the most successful men of his time.
Napoleon Bonaparte met with temporary setbacks time and time again, but each time he was able to turn it into a benefit earning him more love from his followers.
People often forget the path that successful people have taken, forget all of the temporary setbacks that they have had to overcome.
As you can see, no success is made over night; no success is a straight arrow. Time and time again we fall. The question is, do we have the courage to pick ourselves up again? Read the Rest of This Article »
How To Train Your Mind For Success
I’ve been thinking a lot about the subconscious mind and how it manifests itself in our life. Nearly all goals that are successfully achieved start as an idea, and with positive vibes, eventually turn into reality. As personal development seekers, it’s up to us to train our minds for success. I looked around for a long time before I finally found something that does just that.
It’s called autosuggestion, and I learned about it in Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich. Autosuggestion is just a way of influencing your own subconscious. We unconsciously program our selves in this way, day in and day out. You can actually learn to take control of this process and get some pretty powerful results. Read the Rest of This Article »
The Great Pyramid of Khufu and The Greatest Secret of Achievement!
Entering the Great Pyramid of Khufu—the most magnificent and only remaining monument of the seven wonders of the world—was a strange and wonderful experience, and one of the major transformational points in my life.
The journey inside the pyramid is divided into three parts. Come along with me…
First I go through a very narrow passageway that angles up between huge stone blocks. The ceiling is very close to the floor, so I have to stoop over with my chest almost touching my knees. Tourists must move in a long line because the passageway is only wide enough for one person. The place is permeated by an ancient smell of mystery and magic. It’s dark and cramped and hot; we’re all sweating, slightly frightened, and hardly breathing. How come it’s so hot in here? It’s very cold outside—one of those freezing, windy winter days. I can almost feel the weight of these six million tons of stone. Read the Rest of This Article »
The Roles of Attitude and Aptitude in Success
“Your attitude, not your aptitude, determines your altitude.” – Zig Ziglar
Success is something that every individual strives to achieve.
Every single person in the world has their own goals and dreams. Young or old, male or female, black or white, rich or poor, all have the same drive and desire to live life in the best way they see possible. Trying to succeed is an integral human behavior that pays no heed to superficial and emotional factors. We are built to want something more, to improve ourselves, and to be a better person than who we were yesterday. How does one succeed in life? This is a common question that one asks countless times. The answer depends on how you view yourself. You know yourself more than anybody else. This means that you can have the most precise answer from within you; and no one else can come as close to the correct answer than you can. However, there is always something you can do to ensure that you do find the answer. Read the Rest of This Article »
Re-Defining Your Path to Success
Why do so many people fall short of their goals, even when they actively prepare and plot out a course of action? The answer is surprisingly simple.
Our motivations are flawed.
Oh, we formulate our plans well enough. We envision the end results. We plan our steps out carefully. But there is one crucial element that we often forget. And that is our motivation. Or, more importantly, the fact that our individual motivations are based on words, and that these words have meanings.
This probably doesn’t surprise you. Of course words have meanings. There are entire dictionaries that prove that fact.
But I’m not talking about meanings in the literal sense. I’m talking about meanings in the personal sense. For many of us, words carry several layers of contextual meaning and association in addition to their literal meanings. And this little fact, hidden in plain sight, is often the thread that unravels many of our best-laid plans.
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7 Ways To Get What You Want According to Napoleon
Napoleon Bonaparte needs no introduction. Widely regarded as the greatest general who ever lived, his exploits are almost the stuff of legend. Like many great people, he is a controversial figure, and some historians regard him as having set back the Economic progress of Europe by a generation, though others dispute this.
Clearly, Napoleon was a driven man who aggressively sought power and had a great sense of his own personal ability. Whatever we might think about Napoleon and his legacy, however, he enjoyed enormous success as he built his empire, and much of his thinking has application for us today as we go about the business of building our own lives. Read the Rest of This Article »
7 Must Read Success Lessons from Stephen Covey
Stephen R. Covey is the author of the best-selling book “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.” His book has sold more than 15 million copies around the world since it was first published in 1989.
Covey believes that success occurs when you align your values with the universal and timeless principles that exist in our world. Covey teaches that values govern people’s behavior, but principles ultimately determine the consequences.
Covey has also written several other books including: “First Things First,” “Principle-Centered Leadership,” “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Families,” and “The 8th Habit.”
Covey is currently a professor at the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University.
There’s a lot we can learn from Stephen Covey, so without further a due….
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4 Ways to Turn Failure into Success
The word failure is so often misinterpreted. Failing doesn’t mean that you have failed. It is an opportunity to learn on your path to success.
No one ever succeeds on their first attempt, they always face situations they didn’t expect and often end up somewhere completely different then they initially thought.
Your job is to work hard and smart, adapting to change and situations, learning from your mistakes to turn the inevitable failures you will face into a grand success.
1000 failures
The difference between successful people and unsuccessful people isn’t how often they fail; it is how many times they try. Successful people fail just as often, if not more, then everyone else. The difference is that they keep picking themselves up again and again, try new things and at last find something that works. Read the Rest of This Article »
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