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How To Use Momentum Thinking Tools To Deal With Adversities - By Joel Simms (Dr. Mo) Lighten Your Load And Boost Your Momentum - By Joel Simms (Dr. Mo)Ten Ways To Motivate Yourself When You Are Feeling Down - By Joel Simms (Dr. Mo)- Stuck in a Rut? Let Me Show You How to Get Out of a Rut - by Submitted on Nov 26, 2009 from Mark FooHave you ever felt like your life was stuck in a rut? Are you finding it difficult to move forward in your love life, career or friendships? If this sounds familiar, it's time to do something about it. The first step is to pinpoint the areas of your life that seem out-of-balance. It's ...
Views: 1452(3 votes) - The Paradox of Success: Is There A Downside To Winning? - by Submitted on Nov 25, 2009 from Bill ColeHow can being a success possibly be a problem? Don't we all want to be winners? In fact, there are potentially negative consequences in achieving our goals and in being known as a successful person. Let's take a look at this paradoxical phenomenon and formulate some strategies to deal with ...
Views: 1628(1 vote) - The Mental Game of Success: Winning the Game of Life - by Submitted on Nov 25, 2009 from Bill ColeSports champions know how to win and accomplish their dreams. They have learned the secrets of winning and success in sport. The mental game concepts that follow are familiar ones in the sport world. Let's examine these principles and laws of winning in sport and see how we can apply them to our ...
Views: 1474(4 votes) - Why Can't We Change, How Comfort Keeps Us From Success - by Submitted on Nov 24, 2009 from Harlan GoergerIt's November and soon Christmas, a New Year and everyone will be talking about resolutions, goals and how 2010 will be even better than ever. All we have to do is set our specific goals, have a plan and execute! Wait a minute! That is what was done last year and the year before! My ...
Views: 3064(6 votes) - Would You Force a Child to Wear Shoes That Don't Fit? - by Submitted on Dec 19, 2009 from Mariaemma WillisWould you force a child to wear shoes that don’t fit? Then why force an education that doesn’t fit! Well, that’s what is happening to hundreds of thousands of school children every day. And those in private schools or homeschooling programs are not automatically better off. As long as ...
Views: 2063(3 votes) - “A Time for Tradition” – Transition Tip # 3 - Remember Old Traditions and Create New Ones - by Submitted on Nov 23, 2009 from Patricia ClappNovember 23, 2009 Just when you think you have heard it all, you realize you haven’t. In this day and age, when kids (especially teenagers) are being categorized as egocentric beings totally sidetracked with electronic devices along with their own social foibles, we may tend to forget when ...
Views: 2041(4 votes) - Manage Your Mind to Manage Your Time: 28 Tips For Working Smarter, Not Harder - by Submitted on Nov 23, 2009 from Bill ColeAre you working longer hours but getting less done? Are you being asked to do more in less time? Beginning to feel like a hostage at work? Productivity problems can make you feel incredibly stressed--and then you're just spinning your wheels. But there is help. You can use your mind. You can ...
Views: 1725(5 votes) - The Twenty Most Dangerous Myths About Peak Performance - by Submitted on Nov 23, 2009 from Bill ColeWe all perform in some way every day. In what arenas do you want to perform better? To improve your performance abilities, you need to know, understand, recognize and be able to avoid the myths surrounding performance. Top performers are so fine-tuned in their disciplines that they have seen ...
Views: 1522(4 votes) - The Mental Game of Personal Achievement: Reach Your Goals Like the Superachievers - by Submitted on Nov 23, 2009 from Bill ColeWhat rating would you give yourself on personal productivity? Do you have a systematic plan for improving your effectiveness in your daily work? Superachieving business people and athletes know what it takes to motivate themselves, maintain focus in the face of obstacles and drive forward to the ...
Views: 1984(5 votes) - How Superstars Reach Their Goals: How We Can Reach Ours - by Submitted on Nov 23, 2009 from Bill ColeAre superstars born or made? Do they have the genius of supreme achievement by an accident of birth, a favorable environment or from their own individual effort? Whatever the reasons, superstars are a different breed. They must succeed and they will succeed. They have an amazing capacity to ...
Views: 1858(4 votes) - Are You Thinking or Processing? - by Submitted on Nov 20, 2009 from Joyce Shafer, Book DoctorSurely, the mental energy you’re giving current (or old) issues is accomplishing something, right? It depends on if you’re thinking or processing. You, too, may appreciate this exchange between Bob Proctor and Leslie Householder when they met, before she wrote her first book that became a ...
Views: 1615(4 votes) - The Psychedelic Emotional Drive To Success - by Submitted on Jun 10, 2010 from Andre ZiziThis is a chapter of my current book. (Copyright09) The stream waves of emotions drive us to inspiration and elevation. Reason? Effective life mastery comes from a deeper awareness of the stream waves of consciousness that lies within us. This knowledge can only be activated, and acted upon ...
Views: 1851(7 votes) - The Four Crucial Phases Of Home Based Business Success - by Submitted on Nov 19, 2009 from Daniel HerznerIt's probably a pretty safe bet to say that you have a desire to succeed in a home based business of your own. After all, there's a good reason why you're reading these words, right? It could be that you've already found your work from home business opportunity and now it's time for you to take ...
Views: 1587(18 votes) - How Your Intuition Can Help You Make This Year Your Best Year Yet - by Submitted on Nov 18, 2009 from Chantal CookeDo you want to move house, change careers or improve your love life? If so, learn how to use your intuition and let it guide you in all that you do. Your intuition works in parallel to the Reticular Activating System in your brain that draws your attention to those things that are in line ...
Views: 1074(5 votes) - Winner Takes it All - by Submitted on Nov 16, 2009 from Lori SnyderHave you ever had two thoughts about one situation? And were those thoughts both positive and negative? When I recently had such an opposing thought, it really started me thinking about how our thoughts impact our lives. Think about it, a few of the great universal laws ruling our wonderful ...
Views: 1517(7 votes) - Are you making decisions without knowing your VALUE? - by Submitted on May 01, 2011 from Bernadette BoasAre you an individual sole proprietor or the head of a business with multiple (even hundreds of) employees? As the leader of your own business you need to understand your worth and value to the business in order to determine how, when, who, and why you are making the decisions you are within ...
Views: 1598(9 votes) - Life Success in 3 Steps - by Submitted on Nov 13, 2009 from Lynda-Ross VegaWe all recognize that the growth that takes place between birth and ages 18 to 21 are pretty dramatic. But physical, emotional and intellectual development continues throughout your life even if the changes are less noticeable. One of the most exciting areas of adult development – and one ...
Views: 1137(6 votes) - What Is Your Core Safety Switch That Stops Your Success? - by Submitted on Nov 13, 2009 from Joyce Shafer, Book DoctorYou may have a core “switch” set to keep you safe. What if self-sabotage is actually your switch doing its job? Maybe it’s time you give this a closer look. You can apply what follows to any area of your life where you feel attaining success is a struggle, but let’s start with ...
Views: 1440(9 votes) - Self Control - by Submitted on Nov 13, 2009 from Deborah McIncrowThe art of saying “no,” moving in a different direction, being in control and making the decisions that support your chosen visions for self requires your unrelenting efforts to uphold and follow through with the actions that support your visions. It calls for you to be strict with yourself and ...
Views: 1436(6 votes) - Why Resiliency Decides Your Health & Longevity - by Submitted on Nov 12, 2009 from Hal WechslerWhy Resiliency Decides If You Get H1N1 Flu And Survive Yaacov Stern, professor at Columbia University Medical Center offers research that even though the brain has amyloidal plaques and neurofibrillary tangles – signs of Alzheimer, patients with Cognitive Reserve will survive and thrive. ...
Views: 1377(4 votes) - BEING OKAY WITH BEING AVERAGE - by Submitted on Nov 12, 2009 from William CottringerBEING OKAY WITH BEING AVERAGE By Bill Cottringer “Ain’t no man can avoid being born average, but there ain’t no man got to be common. ~Satchel Page. In reality, the great majority of people fall within the “average” range of the so-called Bell Curve. Most people are average in ...
Views: 6404(6 votes) - Every day's an Adventure! Step outside your box... - by Submitted on Nov 11, 2009 from Mary Dee FreemanI love the scene in Men in Black when they open the locker to find an alien world living inside. The aliens didn’t realize that there was a whole other world outside their locker. They were fine with their box. Imagine what would have happened if they took them out? It would have been ...
Views: 4528(5 votes) - How to Make Important Life Changes - by Submitted on Nov 10, 2009 from Amber RosenbergIf you're like many of my clients, you may want to make big changes in your life - for example, a new career, more time with family or a healthier lifestyle - but you don't know where to start, life gets in the way or you end up feeling stuck. So, what's holding you back? Perhaps it's ...
Views: 1166(5 votes) - How Can a Fake Smile Produce Health and Avoid Stress? - by Submitted on Nov 10, 2009 from Hal WechslerHow Can a Fake Smile Produce Health And Avoid Stress? Howard Hughes owned a major airline called Pan-American World Airways from the 1930s to December 4, 1991. Pan-Am required all its flight attendants (Stewardesses) to be thin, attentive, and consistently smile at the passengers. Of ...
Views: 3780(4 votes) - Healing Miracles: How a Mother’s Love Helped Her Blind Son SEE - by Submitted on Feb 18, 2010 from Zeeva International aka Zeeva Natasha ZazhinneEveryone thinks once you’re blind, you’re blind. That’s it. A permanent condition. When I was blind, they told me it was forever. The doctors told me so. The Braille Institute told me so. They all said “Accept, adjust, and learn to live in the world as best you can.” I became blind due to ...
Views: 2848(4 votes) - You’ve stayed too long, move on! - by Submitted on Nov 06, 2009 from Natasha AllenHow do you show up to the world everyday? Are you impacting life or is life having an impact on you? What is the legacy that you are leaving? Have you stopped long enough to consider this? Recently, I ran across the scripture Deuteronomy 1:6-7 “…You have stayed at this mountain long enough. ...
Views: 5813(4 votes) - How to Analyze Information - by Submitted on Nov 03, 2009 from Avil BeckfordEvery day we are bombarded with problems to solve and decisions to make. And the quality of our solutions and decisions are only as good as the information they are based on. With so much information at our fingertips, how can we systematically analyze the information for better results? How can ...
Views: 20717(4 votes) - 7 Steps to Achieving Almost Any Goal Fast - by Submitted on Nov 03, 2009 from Rasheed AliLet's set the record straight. Achieving success is not super easy, but it can be fast if you do a few things right. If you think you’re going to read about S.M.A.R.T. goals or anything remotely close to the ordinary, you’re in for a rude awakening. That’s not what this article is about. I ...
Views: 2279(8 votes) - How to create more Success and Achieve your Goals - by Submitted on Nov 03, 2009 from Darren FlemingCreating more success and achieving your goals in life is a worthy goal that will make your life much more enjoyable and rewarding. It will take work, effort, stretching beyond your comfort zone as well as persistence, determination and tenacity, but isn’t that what makes life worth living ? : ...
Views: 827(4 votes) - How Do You Limit Yourself? - by Submitted on Nov 03, 2009 from Avil BeckfordAre we hardwired to automatically place limits on ourselves? We set limits on our earning potential, on how much we can accomplish in life. We are either too young or too old, have too much or too little education and the reasons go on and on about why we cannot do something. Many of us suffer ...
Views: 3786(4 votes) - Overcoming 5 Common Barriers to Achieving Success - by Submitted on Nov 03, 2009 from TJ PhilpottAchieving success is a very fulfilling moment for anybody willing to endure the effort and sacrifice it took to accomplish goals they had set for themselves. The sad fact is however that many fail to ever meet their goals and objectives leaving them feeling empty and discontent. Whether it is ...
Views: 1355(3 votes) - Do You Use This Powerful Success Habit Daily? - by Submitted on Nov 03, 2009 from Daniel HerznerIf you want to learn how to succeed in life, then there's a habit you need to develop starting today. And note I said "habit" which means you'll need to put it into practice every day. This important habit is something you'd also want to use if you wish to learn how to succeed in business ...
Views: 1466(3 votes) - Marry YourSelf First: The 13 Most Important Questions for Your Best Life - by Submitted on May 20, 2010 from Ken DonaldsonHere’s something everyone can relate to: Your Car. That wonderful and amazing piece of technology that takes you from one place to another… usually without any difficulty. And what is one big element the car relies on to get you there? The tires…those round rubber donuts which ...
Views: 2679(4 votes) - What Is Your Key To Success? - by Submitted on Nov 01, 2009 from Roseanna LeatonThere are many steps to success in life, be it in business success, financial success or relationship success. One factor which is at the heart of success is that of perseverance. Most people think of success in terms of their business or acquisition of wealth, although ultimately most will ...
Views: 1071(4 votes) - Say Goodbye to New Year Resolutions - by Submitted on Oct 30, 2009 from Joyce Shafer, Book DoctorNo, it isn’t too early to consider this; it is exactly the right time. The very things you do or don’t do about resolutions are what you do right now. And, you can do them differently starting today. First, it’s important to understand why resolutions you make any time fizzle out. For one, ...
Views: 1495(7 votes) - Where Are You In Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy Of Needs? - by Submitted on Oct 29, 2009 from Sharon MikrutAs a social work and psychology student, Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs was a theory in which we focused a great deal of time. According to Maslow, there are five levels of needs, ranging from physiological to self-actualization. It is difficult to move from one level to the next without ...
Views: 2442(5 votes) - What do You Really Want? - by Submitted on Oct 28, 2009 from Kaileen SherkWhat do you want? It seems like a simple question—and yet why does it seem so difficult to answer? I have watched my clients and potential students go through the struggle. Well, I want this… but I also want that. I want to have a successful career but what about my family? So, what I have ...
Views: 1254(8 votes) - ***Moving Through Limiting Beliefs and Fear to Fulfill Your Purpose and Live Your Best Life - by Submitted on Oct 28, 2009 from Kamila Harkavy“Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot. Seek the path that demands your whole being” - Rumi "There's a difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in doing something, you do it only when circumstances permit. When you're committed to something, you accept no ...
Views: 2285(12 votes) - The Iron Butterfly - by Submitted on Oct 28, 2009 from Fireflies Team"Well, are you sure ma'am? Okay. . . if that is your final decision. . . thank you. . . thank you very much." With his trademark style Elvis Presley was not used to being turned down or refused. But in the 1970's, when a popular Elvis wanted to sing one of Dolly Parton's' songs, she ...
Views: 952(4 votes) - 80/20 Rule - by Submitted on Oct 27, 2009 from Tom HessThe 80/20 Rule by Tom Hess Note: This article uses "musicians" as an example to illustrate a very important law of success - The Pareto Principle that is used by successful achievers (in all areas of life) around the world. It will benefit you greatly to think about how this topic ...
Views: 1110(4 votes) - Wanting vs. Having: Disabling Hypnotic Language - by Submitted on Oct 27, 2009 from Jack EliasWanting vs. Having -- I hear it from almost every client, but hearing it from all these people at once somehow made it a fresh new phenomenon. This is one way I like to look at the problem: 1) Our subconscious mind is always listening, especially to what we say to ourselves over and over. ...
Views: 2552(2 votes) - Multiply your Power to Achieve: Establish a Mastermind Alliance - by Submitted on Oct 24, 2009 from Shanshera QuinnThe mastermind principle consists of an alliance of two or more minds working in perfect harmony for the attainment of a common definite objective. When a group of individual minds are coordinated and function in harmony, the increased energy created through that alliance becomes available to ...
Views: 1744(4 votes) - How To Instantly Double Your Reading Speed - by Submitted on Oct 24, 2009 from Daniel HerznerHave you ever had the desire to speed read? Just imagine how helpful it would be in your daily life to at least double your reading speed. Especially today in the information age, learning how to increase your reading speed would be such a helpful tool for so many of us. It boggles the mind ...
Views: 2828(5 votes) - Is Mainstream the Wrong Stream for You? - by Submitted on Oct 24, 2009 from Joyce Shafer, Book DoctorFor many, mainstream is like a tailored suit; for some, it’s like a straightjacket. Are you swimming in the wrong stream or against the current? Mainstream, in this writing, means demonstrating via your life, work, relationships, etc., an “acceptable” model or role model, as much as ...
Views: 1595(6 votes) - Fear - by Submitted on Oct 23, 2009 from Stephanie FrankLet’s take a close look at the concept of fear. Not fun, you say? Fear isn’t your problem, you say? Are you sure? Or is that denial talking? Like many people, I had unconsciously run much of my life based on my fears. I was always finding excuses for my self-defeating behavior, unfortunate ...
Views: 1498(3 votes) - What do you want? - by Submitted on Oct 23, 2009 from Stephanie Frank“What do you want?” I call this the four words that move you forward. I find that most people have never really taken the time to sit down and ask themselves this question, and then not only see themselves with what it is they really want, but imagine their future with no limits. Can you do ...
Views: 1367(4 votes) - 3 Tips to Getting More Done with Less Stress - by Submitted on Oct 23, 2009 from Stephanie Frankip #1 Feeling like you can’t get it all done? Schedule Focus Time every day. This is the time you are not to be disturbed. Turn off the phone, shut down email and determine your biggest need for action at this time. Then set your timer and get it done! Tip #2 Tired of losing phone ...
Views: 1450(4 votes) - Lovely Linens - by Submitted on Oct 22, 2009 from Deborah McIncrowSheets and blankets and cases, oh no; as we approach the haunted holiday now is the time to take a gander in your linen closet/drawers; is it enough to scare the pants off Martha Stewart? How are your layers upon layers of folded bed sheets looking? Are they concealed from everyone’s view for ...
Views: 1168(3 votes) - Dream Big: Our Dreams Are Useless Until We Do This - by Submitted on Oct 22, 2009 from Matthew TooneWhat are your dreams? We each have them, and they literally shape our thoughts and hopes. But, do you actually believe your dreams are possible? The unfortunate reality for most of us is that our dreams remain only as thoughts and wishes and never convert into actions. Ask yourself this ...
Views: 1350(5 votes) - Writing & Publishing a Book – It Is Possible If You … - by Submitted on Oct 22, 2009 from Matthew TooneThe other day I ran into a woman who asked me the typical question that seems to be a common start to many conversations. She asked: “So what do you do?” First of all, being an entrepreneur who has his feet in many waters, I never quite know how to answer that question. However, considering I ...
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