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Instant Confidence: Just Add Water

What most don’t realize is that confidence, like any other muscle, needs exercise and nourishment. Here are five exercises you can do that will raise your confidence levels and the best part is, you don’t even have to break a sweat! So take an hour, grab a pen, a pad and your appointment book. Continue reading

Goals

Why Goal Setting Is A Complete Waste Of Time (unless you do this)

If you struggle to achieve your goals, my good friend Bill Bartmann, the author of “Bailout Riches” and once named by Inc. magazine as “The Billionaire Nobody Knows” gave me an awesome tip to trick your mind into accomplishing exactly what you want to, every single time. Continue reading

How To Measure and Greatly Improve Your Productivity

We’re not productive because we are not AWARE of our moments of being unproductive. Our minds get distracted by a cool video on YouTube, or an interesting article we read on Yahoo News, or a phone call or one of a myriad of other things. Continue reading

5 Favorite Books That Nourish The Soul

If you were to look up the term “personal growth,” the words that would most likely pop up would be self-improvement, success, goal-setting, etc. But I believe that personal growth also involves deepening one’s relationship with God. In this Easter season, I’d like to offer you five books that I return to over and over because they nourish my soul. Continue reading

45 Quick & Easy Mood Lifters

We all feel this way from time to time. Often, all we need is a good distraction to shake us out of the funk.

Here are 45 quick and easy mood lifters that you can use right now: Continue reading

self improvement

The Seven Stages Of Failing At Self Improvement

When you resist the journey or try to short-cut the process to get their faster, you end up mostly spinning your wheels.

Frustration comes into the picture because you’re trying too hard to change your movie from Forrest Gump to Top Gun, instead of just making Forrest Gump the best darn movie it can be. Continue reading