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If you are like most people you would probably like to have enough money to live a happy and comfortable life or even better you would probably like to have enough money so that you can live your life with luxury and time and financial freedom. When the movie “The Secret” came out I felt so ... Views: 2050
So often when we talk about going green we are talking about the environment or a conservation project. But I believe that going green should start a lot closer to home. In fact, I believe it should start in your own purse or wallet by minding your money.
In good times, minding your money may ... Views: 741
What are your favorite don’ts that prevent you from doing what you need to do to be successful or happy?
Perhaps you believe you don’t have the talent, the money, the confidence, the know-how, the energy, the time, the looks, the brains, the motivation, or the willpower. Ten big don’ts! And ... Views: 966
When we focus on improving our lives, our first thoughts tend to center around what we can do for ourselves. We create a vision, set goals, read books, and take classes. We take action by implementing what we have learned to fulfill our goals and make our vision a reality. These steps are ... Views: 561
Have you ever wondered why some people just have it all? They’re well liked by everyone they meet, financially set, and attractive, but what stands out most is their beaming sense of self-confidence when they enter a room. It’s almost as if they have a certain “presence” that gives off positive ... Views: 639
Meeting Your Thoughts with Understanding
The Work is a simple yet powerful process of inquiry that teaches you to identify and question the stressful thoughts that cause all the suffering in the world. It consists of four questions that you apply to a stressful thought. It’s a way to understand ... Views: 1663
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.
—Henry David Thoreau
Grains of Sand
How does one advance confidently in the direction of his dreams? One way to do this is to ... Views: 722
The only way you have achieved any success you have had in your life is by making commitments. When you make a commitment to anyone, including yourself, you have set your goal, and you can then start achieving it.
I am sure you, just like everyone else, have many different successes to ... Views: 784
What would it take for you to define yourself as a 'success'?
Hitler was a success in his efforts of conquest and domination, until Moscow and Stalingrad. Jack the Ripper succeeded in maintaining anonymity while mutilating and murdering. Jim Jones succeeded in leading 914 of his followers to ... Views: 921
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We equate failure with a small death. Failure is a failed concept. It is the erroneous belief that you can’t recover from a mistake. It is the belief that you’ll die of shame, blame, embarrassment, or guilt, if you make a mistake, or that somehow you, of all the billions of people in the ... Views: 728
I recently had a chance to interview several groups of extremely successful people. A handful are famous Athletes, several are nationally known artists, writers or political leaders, and all are multi-millionaires.
I asked them for the keys, or essential factors that allowed them to ... Views: 1401
Improving your life means having some idea of which direction you want to go. Think about it: Do you feel that you are on track and moving closer toward your dreams? Are you clear about how to get there from here?
If you are like most people, the answer to these questions is probably no. ... Views: 791
Resistance comes in many forms. It can be an unequivocal “no” or a polite “maybe another time.” It might come in the form of crossed arms, a furrowed brow, or a silent stare. Resistance can also be disguised as feigned interest or displayed openly as outright rejection.
Regardless of the form ... Views: 741
A creative person is generally considered to have talent in painting, drawing, architecture, crafts, and design. Using this narrow definition, many are left believing that they do not have a creative flair. Have you ever thought about your creative ability? Creativity is a talent that we all ... Views: 713
Sailing. Reading. Biking. Sewing. Cooking. Singing. Golfing. Everyone has something other than work and tending to home responsibilities that they love to do.
Think of your favorite pastime, but not quickly—slow down and really put yourself in the moment of teeing off on an ideal course, or ... Views: 1025
"If you have a plan of attack, you instantly increase your chances of success." We've all heard that before, right? The truth is, success does not merely land in our lap. We can do incredible things if we have incredible things planned, but it's up to each one of us to map it out and create the ... Views: 848
As my mom receives treatment for a lingering illness, I can’t help but think about what she has done for me and our family. As a young boy, my father used to remind me that without Mom, our family would have crumbled. “In every good family, there’s always a good mother behind it,” he ... Views: 664
For every successful venture, I have yet to see complete, undaunting achievement without accompanying failure. Oftentimes, we think of failure as a tragedy; it’s true that it can be a temporary setback. Nevertheless, every great endeavor has a degree of darkness in its past, often masked in the ... Views: 2144
The generally accepted concept of success and failure is incorrect. People consider success and failure to be opposites. To understand why this is incorrect, consider the concept of failure: for many, failure is when we do not succeed at an assigned task, goal, project, or objective. The reality ... Views: 526
AN IMPORTANT “YES, BUT...” CAVEAT OF BALANCE BEING AN ASPIRATION POINT
By
Bill Cottringer
For much of my life I have faithfully bought into the total virtue of the ‘golden mean’ of balance between extremes being the only way to go. This safe road has generally worked out to my benefit, ... Views: 775
I always tell people to follow their intuition… in business and in their personal lives. All the facts may be on the table, but if your gut tells you something else…you best listen to your gut. If you're confused, don't do anything. I follow the tenet, "If in doubt, don't." I follow the ... Views: 1654
How about those New Year’s Resolutions? What’s your track record of sticking to your commitments and achieving your goals? Well here’s why goals fail and what you can do about it:
What's as exciting as turning a new leaf, a clean slate, a fresh start? Motivated and hopeful, you get rolling on ... Views: 864
Have you ever read a self-help book or attended a self-help workshop and become all fired up about the excellent techniques and ideas, only to find that after a few days the teaching faded, and you really did not manage to improve your life significantly?
A very important part of accepting new ... Views: 806
For years I have been involved with comedy improvisation, where performers create scenes with each other spontaneously. As demonstrated in the popular television show, “Whose Line Is It Anyway?,” the group is usually given a topic from the audience, and then they create a scene without a script. ... Views: 833
Throughout history, many Eastern-based ancient cultures, including India and China, have hypothesized the existence of a universal energy that flows through the physical body of all living things. On the basis of spiritual traditions, they believed that a subtle energy body surrounded all living ... Views: 976
I waited patiently for the attractive woman seated before me to answer my question. Neatly groomed and well dressed, Andrea appeared every bit the successful, polished businesswoman confidently perched on an upper rung of the corporate ladder. Yet, when she did answer, her voice belied a ... Views: 2513
One of the biggest factors affecting whether or not a person will fail or succeed at any particular endeavor is the belief he holds in his mind when he embarks on it. My experience as a life coach is that most people have a remarkable knack for making assumptions about their goals that are just ... Views: 1244
Over the past six months, my life has changed in leaps and bounds. I got married, got pregnant, and moved out of a small NYC apartment into a four bedroom house on ¾ an acre of land in North Carolina. I am loving every minute of it! Meanwhile, I have some good friends who have wanted to move ... Views: 754
Is our insatiable appetite for information giving us heartburn?
In these economically turbulent times, people around the world are worried, depressed, and fearful. Now, more than ever, it's vital to look forward and see our way beyond the current circumstances. It will require vision, a ... Views: 605
For a long time, one's IQ (Intelligence Quotient) was considered the leading determinant of success (financial and personal). However, as more studies looked into the lifestyles and success factors of those with high IQ's, it became clear that this theory did not bear itself out. Many with high ... Views: 4533
Gain a clear understanding of what has the ability to or what does make you vulnerable in your profession and then protect yourself against it. For example. an individual who is just getting started into real estate sales who has financial challenges (a short supply or exhausted reserve funds) ... Views: 1127
How might your life and home-based business change if you were certain that you couldn’t fail, if you knew that everything you attempted was guaranteed to succeed 100%? What would you do differently? What risks would you take? What journeys would you embark on? In short, how would your material, ... Views: 1564
Not too long ago while in my living room, I spied a wasp clinging to the window. Not liking wasps all that much I went over to see if he was on the outside or the inside of the window. As it was, he was trapped between the glass window and the window screen. He had obviously flown onto the ... Views: 2555
Healthy humans are both blessed and challenged by a drive to be all that we can be. We’re too often tortured, though, by internal and external signals that tell us we have to be more, better and different than who we really are.
All great traditions teach about a noble seed that is unique in ... Views: 1375
Benjamin Franklin was one of the founding fathers of the United States of America, but to call him just a scientist would not do him justice.
He was a noted author, satirist, civic activist, inventor, statesman and diplomat.
Franklin is credited as being foundational to the roots of American ... Views: 532
As a coach, I know very well how important goal-setting is. Also, as a coach, I know that goals aren't all that they're often cracked up to be. As critical a competency as goal-setting is, if misused, sometimes it can have some very unfortunate consequences. I want to take some time in this ... Views: 872
This past January, my maternal grandmother, Jessie Hunter, passed away after ninety-five exceptional years. I would like to dedicate this article to her, and share with you the model of her success.
Born Jessie M. Culp in Detroit, 1911, she was president of her high school graduating class, ... Views: 1110
Why is it some people can achieve more than others in their life?
It is because the beliefs that they have for themselves gave them the extraordinary strength to achieve extraordinary things. It is our beliefs that gave us our expectations and the expectations will define your reality.
If you ... Views: 594
Despite the overwhelming obstacles we may encounter in our daily lives, anyone can achieve the success they envision for themselves. But no one can choose to be successful--there's no one choice that accomplishes that. We can, however, make daily choices that later result in success. Rudy ... Views: 1111
I remember the day like yesterday; my brother, Kyle, and I had set a goal of writing our first book while we were still teenagers. It was a lofty goal that definitely required we step out of our comfort zone...way out! Part of us was unsure if we were capable of achieving this goal we had set. ... Views: 1030
Use Your BRAIN !
This is an exercise in the application of Mental Photography (ZOX)
I like to paint pictures. More precisely, I like to paint pictures for you to have some idea what it would be like for you to be using Mental Photography. And, if you already use Mental Photography, how to ... Views: 1014
In English idiom, "2 left feet" refers to an inept dancer and generally, a clumsy person. Putting this meaning aside, I wish I had 2 left feet so that I don't have to worry whether to go left or right, so I'll just stick to left and let Life happens as it always does, and if I walk left long ... Views: 586
A key to success that is often overlooked is the art of feeling good. In these trying times, it's easy to let circumstances get you down, whether you are directly affected by the current economic cycle or simply spending too much time watching or reading all the bad news. While it's certainly ... Views: 610
TEN SUCCESS PRINCIPLES TO IMPROVE TRAINING RESULTS
By
Bill Cottringer
Here are the ten best common sense principles to understand and apply in order to improve the quality of your training efforts and the actual results you get:
1. Separate “training” from “teaching” in your mind and ... Views: 975
It is easy to make excuses when you fail – you can blame it on the economy, or your genes, or your upbringing. But the bottom line is that you are in charge of you.
You know from personal experience - it’s extremely rare that things go exactly as planned. What differentiates ... Views: 693
Success is an easy word to throw around. If you ask anyone if they would like to be successful, you are more than likely to get a “yes, of course!” type of response. I mean who doesn’t want to be?
Some people say they are working to be more successful. But how many people actually think about ... Views: 473
Everyone has the ability to concentrate – sometimes; while playing your guitar or piano or during a spellbinder of a movie - total concentration.
However, at other times your thoughts are scattered and your mind races from one thing to another. This is especially frustrating for a writer. ... Views: 884
All of us, to some degree, have experienced the outcomes of some endeavor. It may have been horrible or just bad, or maybe mediocre or all right, or really good or great or absolutely fantastic. Too some degree, in my short 50 something years, I have experienced all of these outcomes.
If you ... Views: 846
Where do you come from? I don't mean the physical location, but the people you come from - your environment. You see, the lessons you learned growing up are likely the beliefs you now carry with you. These beliefs shape who you are, how you do things, how you interact with others, and yes, ... Views: 583
What should you be aware of when you look for God’s blessings in your life? Often, when a Christian tries to go into business for himself, he hits wall after wall. When a Christian gets interested in affiliate marketing, he can expect difficulties. There are many factors in play and I want ... Views: 543