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Have you ever gotten all fired up about something that you wanted to accomplish -- a new healthy way of eating, making exercise part of your healthy lifestyle, losing weight, or a new project? And then over time, you could feel your resolve dissolving? Action is the bridge between intention and ... Views: 992
Goal Setting is one of those important aspects of life that I never did single or married. I have always just gone with the flow. Not saying that is a bad; it is I just didn't have any focus and just moved along with life events as they unfolded. After my divorce with my life in complete array, ... Views: 844
Did you know that you can use hypnosis to change your life and achieve your goals? Hypnosis is an amazing mind-body state. Although it's been understood for thousands of years, no one quite knows how or why it works as well as it does, or even what it is.
In this article, we're going to look at ... Views: 837
With any start-up company, there’s usually a pretty common pattern. Your first step as a business owner is trying to find prospects and customers. The problem is that to get customers, you need customers or a portfolio to feature your past work. It’s like the old saying goes. “To get business, ... Views: 876
Of all our emotions, faith is probably the strongest. It is a state of mind that most effects the subconscious. This is important when it comes to putting your thoughts into action in everyday life. If you set yourself a task but are lacking the faith in yourself to complete it then ... Views: 2446
In most cases the fear of failure 'intimidates' people and this is why it can turn so many away from their intentions or goals! On the other hand this same fear can also help strengthen or renew your motivation as well! People often use the benefits they will experience if they successfully ... Views: 1466
As we are ready for another week, keeping the focus on your goals and desires – all the things you truly want – can be a bit frustrating in trying to keep them in your awareness and being reachable. It seems that we get programmed to think more on what we don’t want and we use language that ... Views: 471
When I say use what you have to become successful, I'm not talking about sleeping with every Tom, Dick, or Harry. What I'm referring to is recognizing your talent or what resources you have, and utilizing them to help you be successful. I've been trying to pursue my acting career for awhile now ... Views: 478
There is something truly special about the coming of a New Year. Another twelve months present the perfect opportunity to start over, transform or change your self in some way. Regardless of what you resolve to do, be it to improve your health, develop better relationships with friends, make a ... Views: 703
Recently I had a conversation with a client who we coordinate transactions for, she’d been working hard, and she hadn’t written a contact in almost a month. Needless to say she was frustrated!
She told me she looked around the office saw others were having success, doing the same things she ... Views: 1026
Excellence – the quality of being outstanding or extremely good
What would excellence look like in your life? Would you have your dream job? Are you living in a new city? Could it involve spending more time with your family? Or is it simply having more money in your bank account? It’s ... Views: 2477
If you’re in business, you market. Even if you say you’re not a good marketer, you still do it. But what if there was more to this marketing than anyone ever told you?
And what if THAT'S the reason why your strategies don’t yield results or you feel really uncomfortable doing them?
The ... Views: 1527
When I sit down to think about what I want from my life, grand ideas begin flowing. I want to have a career as a successful physician, I want to own a large estate, breed horses, and travel around the world. All of these goals are lofty, and I contend that I will achieve each and every one of ... Views: 879
There is something very magical that we were all blessed with at birth…and that is the ability to envision something and turn it into a reality for our business which I like to call, ‘Vision Marketing’. If you can see yourself doing a certain something in your mind, you can make it happen. It’s ... Views: 2177
There is a daily blog that I love done by a fellow named Patrick who resides in Michigan. It can be found under “Spiritual River” and is one of the best feeds I’ve been exposed to on the net! I am hoping Patrick and I find a way to work together, I love a lot of his ... Views: 564
Visualize Your Goals daily
Visualization – said to be a very important ingredient in reaching your goals in life.
As Napoleon Hill said in his famous book “Think and Grow Rich” whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe he can achieve
Once you know what I is you want to achieve ... Views: 1350
VIVA LA EVOLUTION!... say NO to New Year Resolutions.
Each year at this time millions of people from around the Globe make resolutions that they hope to keep during the coming year. By the end of February, a large percentage of those resolutions have fallen by the wayside. These resolutions ... Views: 1086
Anything can happen and everything does happen during the NBA Playoffs. The Miami Heat are hot! They have prepared for the worst and are pulling out all the stops. The winning determination of Dwyane Wade and LeBron James is scoring points on the court.
The Heat’s dream team was originally a ... Views: 1470
You’re annoyed with yourself. Very. Downright angry, now that you think about it. You vowed last month you’d stick to your diet and slim down for the summer, and here you are, berating yourself over that double fudge extravaganza you pigged out on last night.
Which wouldn’t be so bad except ... Views: 1130
“I have found that I cannot predict the stock market except over very long periods. I cannot tell you when the housing bubble will burst - only that it will burst. I cannot tell you when the dollar will stop rallying - only that it will stop. So I cannot tell you anything that, in a few minutes, ... Views: 593
We may not be out of the pandemic quite yet, but many of us are carving out a “new normal” for ourselves. Because let’s face it, life is not going back to what it was a mere two years ago. This actually is a good thing, because we have the opportunity to make new decisions, new choices for how ... Views: 376
I was eating my lunch today and I got a call that reiterated a vital lesson in terms of ways to achieve your goals. Working in sales can be a challenge, that's for sure! It's always interesting to actually receive a sales call, especially when you work in the sales profession and have your own ... Views: 1516
As you spend another Saturday night glued to the television, don’t expect Mr. or Mrs. Right to walk through the screen. Without setting goals to locate the love of your life, you'll continue to remain lonely until you put your best foot forward by outlining a plan for success. One of the best ... Views: 875
Do you remember your first job?
When I was in grade school, I earned money shoveling snow, mowing people's lawns, washing cars and picking up dog poop for neighbors. (I did it free for the elderly). I still carry with me the lessons I learned back then. I learned to be willing and eager to work ... Views: 1940
The first day of every month I think about what I intend to achieve during the month, what actions I need to take and what habits to put in place to achieve them. So, today I created my ‘check off list - how am I doing with my habits in October’ chart I discussed in my recent blog Climb the ... Views: 1158
“Mother nature can be both a straightforward serene cow or else a wrathful tigress. Lest we refrain from behaving in an unruly and unwholesome manner with it for untold time span she can nourish us with the milk of innumerable wealth it possesses but if we render it polluted and vilely try to ... Views: 1658
We just reached the half way point of 2007.
Six months of 2007 are gone.
Six months of 2007 remain.
How are you doing on your Goals?
Are you on track to reach them?
The sad reality is that the vast majority of people won't even take another look at their Goals again until January 1st, ... Views: 835
When you decide to bite the bullet and lose weight, setting weight loss goals can help. These four goals to weight loss success can not only help you with losing weight, but they can also help when you set goals for other things in your life as well such as a career change or changing a habit. ... Views: 799
How many times have you set out to do something, and when it doesn’t work out after the 1st or 2nd attempt, you decide that you’re a failure, you’re not good at it, you’ll never learn how to do it, or it’s not for you?
I often hear a story similar to this from women when I first meet ... Views: 1029
When setting personal goals, everyone holds a different set of expectations for their life, which helps shape the personal desires they wish to accomplish. While one person may want to attend college and become a doctor, another may desire to immediately pursue a business plan after high school ... Views: 15812
Recently, a colleague asked me how I faced my fears when I started my life coaches association and I really had to stop and think about it. I asked her what kind of fears was she thinking of. She replied, “fear of no one signing up (rejection), fear of making a mistake, fear of looking stupid, ... Views: 1186
Webster’s defines the word “commit?as: to pledge or devote oneself
To that definition I add: to pledge or devote one’s attention. In every moment, our attention is committed to something. If you are reading this right now, it is what your attention is committed to.
If you want something in ... Views: 654
Look at your life right now and ask yourself this question, "What am I committed to?" You won't have to go far to find answers; they'll virtually leap up at you. Perhaps it will be easier to see what you're not committed to. For example, I'm committed to having an organized working environment. ... Views: 724
Have you noticed that when you are fully committed to issues that affect your life or to an important cause, goal or even a relationship; you become bold, decisive, gutsy and unstoppable and are able to attract support and resources from people who have the answers or the help you need? It’s ... Views: 2391
If you’re expecting good things most of the time, please stop right in this moment and give yourself a pat on the back! Bravo to you! Realistically we should all be expecting good things at all times. Truth appears that most times, most folks tend to expect somewhat unfortunate outcomes. Think ... Views: 1298
Take a look at the title of this article: What are you really trying to accomplish? Have you ever sat down and answered this question. Don’t we all set goals directly or indirectly during our life? We set goals to get a good job. We set goals to get married and have children. We even set ... Views: 3154
The question of the day is:
What Are Your Dreams?
If I asked you what your Goals were, you might struggle to describe them in detail. If I asked you what your "dreams" were, you would most likely be excited to provide a clear, concise, colorful desription. The greatest life skill is learning ... Views: 1061
“We are engineered as goal-seeking mechanisms. We are built that way. When we have no personal goal which we are interested in and which “means something” to us, we are apt to “go around in circles,” feel “lost” and find life itself “aimless,” and “purposeless.” We are built to conquer ... Views: 516
The CEO of Black and Decker once said, ‘People don’t go into a DIY store because they need one of our drills. They go because they need a hole in the wall.’ Wonderbra in their internal communications to staff say this, ‘We do not sell underwear. We do not sell lingerie. What we sell is ... Views: 1352
We’re going to break out of our typical blog format today and make this more of an exercise. A lot of us are in back to school mode, so let’s take your business to school.
I want you to take a moment and think about your competition. Who are they? Let’s pull their websites up and take a look; ... Views: 441
Today’s topic is “what direction are you going” – is it in the direction of where you wish to go due to a predetermined thought process? Or, are you just going in the direction away from what you don’t want in life? There’s a huge difference, pick the wrong ... Views: 948
Today’s topic is “what direction are you going” – is it in the direction of where you wish to go due to a predetermined thought process? Or, are you just going in the direction away from what you don’t want in life? There’s a huge difference, pick the wrong ... Views: 770
Quite a lot really!
For most of us here in South Africa work pretty much grinds to a halt over the Christmas & New Year period. Through tradition New Year is the time when we evaluate our lives and set resolutions. However, 70% of people don’t even bother to do this anymore because by the ... Views: 861
"The joy of being is the joy of being conscious." ~ Eckhart Tolle
Some of the readings on the subject can be a little too abstract for me. When I read Eckhart Tolle's The Power of Now, a mindfulness classic, I trusted that being present was important, but I have to admit… I didn't really get ... Views: 697
"The joy of being is the joy of being conscious." ~ Eckhart Tolle
Some of the readings on the subject can be a little too abstract for me. When I read Eckhart Tolle's The Power of Now, a mindfulness classic, I trusted that being present was important, but I have to admit… I didn't really get ... Views: 702
SWOT stands for Strength, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats - strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats in Swedish. It is a planning tool and approach for defining what needs to be done to develop a company. SWOT can also be used by associations and individuals.
What does SWOT ... Views: 647
In today’s hectic world, a typical morning involves waking up and tending to personal needs (i.e. hygiene, breakfast, etc.) and preparing to go to work. Often, in the process of the ‘everyday’ and ‘getting things done’, we neglect the things we need to energize and motivate us, whether it’s ... Views: 2097
Every January, I write down a set of goals. Some are financial. Some relate to my business. And some are personal. When I put my new list down on paper, I feel powerful and confident. Here are the things I will accomplish this year. Clean and simple. I imagine how I will feel when they are ... Views: 848
If there’s one thing I noticed about our sheltering-in-place time, it’s that complaining did absolutely nothing about it. Zip. Nada. Complaining about the lack of work didn’t magically produce more work, ditto lack of income. Complaining about the ordeal – pardon me, challenge – of ... Views: 672
WHAT IF
In life we often ask "WHAT IF!" For example what if the world is square and not round?, what if Darwin's theory is incorrect and God is the creator of this world? WHAT IF is certainly needed to challenge our way of thinking, however repetitive WHAT IF thinking can sometimes hinder great ... Views: 758