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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Correct your mindset and expel the fear
- The main problem with many of us is we loose our direction in life. We have great aspirations upon leaving school or college but then just loose direction or do not know how to achieve our dreams. We are all taught the academic basics needed to function in today's world. We may then study further to achieve a qualification in a particular field. But we are never taught how to achieve real success....
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - If theres money in a dead mouse...
- My 4 year old son was very excited. I had promised him to tell a wonderful story tonight.As usual, I got engrossed in my work till late evening when I suddenly remembered about my promise.I hurriedly searched my personal library to find a suitable story for my loved one.But, what I found astonished me...I'd never read that book before. I might have bought it a couple of...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Your biggest do it yourself project
- When I meet people and tell them what I do, I often hear, "Oh, you are a motivational speaker," with some amount of assuredness in their voice. While I realize there are many speakers that people lump into this category (some who are my friends and mentors), I strongly disagree with that label.Do I speak? Yes.Can I inspire, challenge thinking, provide ideas, input, and enco...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Letting go of our negativity
- Everyone has something, whether it be a habit, or aspect of their personality, that they wish that they didn't have. For me, that something is fear. I am constantly afraid of just about anything you could name...car crashes, meeting new people, tornados, driving in the dark, sleeping with the closet open, public speaking...you name it, I'm probably afraid of it! This is a negative habit, and certa...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Walk in the light
- It was a mild October night, weeks after the horrific September 11 terrorists attacks on our nation. With a mix of anticipation and apprehension, my husband, children and I, entered the gates of the North Carolina state fair. The fair lights illuminated the sky as thousands of fair attendees attempted to escape into hours of fun and fantasy. While trying to temporarily remove the overshadowing fea...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Is work still necessary?
- I have a confession to make - several confessions in fact.I have at times been stupid enough to believe that work is not necessary to make money or achieve success.A few years ago I joined a network marketing company that promised to create a down line of buying customers for me without any work on my part. I would of course have to pay a monthly fee myself. I was happy to do this....
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Making the invisible visible: the wow behind the how!
- "We must be the change we wish to see in the world." -GandhiWhen was the last time that you truly marveled at something?Can you remember the exact time and place?One of the characteristics that I find very attractive in people is an ability to nurture a sense of "wonder" about life. As fast as things occur today, as quickly as information changes hands we often becom...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Tony robbins - 10 lessons i learned from anthony robbins
- Tony Robbins has been an inspiration for millions. Love him and his philosophy or not, it is undeniable that he has had a positive impact on millions of people. He has sold over 30-million motivational tapes, published three best-selling self-help books, more than 2 million people attended his seminars and another 10,000 (including myself) have attended his mastery university in Hawaii. His core p...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Are you travelling along the slippery slope to your grave?
- When it comes right down to it where ever you go is where you are, whatever you end up doing, that's what you are doing, whatever you are thinking right now, that's what's on your mind, what has happened to you, has already happened.The important part is how are you going to handle it?In other words "NOW WHAT". Like it or not this is all we have to work with. At every momen...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The seven keys to motivation
- Motivation. It's a complicated subject that is studied by many and understood by few. Virtually every aspect of human life -- from the mundane to the life-changing -- is guided, swayed and altered by motivating factors.For instance, what to have for dinner may be motivated by a desire to lose or gain weight. Whether or not to attend a business seminar may be motivated by the speakers, locat...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Keep motivated to succeed online!
- Starting and managing a business takes motivation and talent. It also takes research and planning. Although initial mistakes are not always fatal, it takes extra skill, discipline, and hard work to regain the advantage. Take time beforehand to explore and evaluate your business and personal goals, then use this information to build a comprehensive and thoughtful business plan that will help you re...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How to get up on a down day
- One of the major obstacles to achieving goals is losing the motivation necessary to finish them. Many times the initial surge of energy is lost after the reality of hard work or set backs sets in. Here are eleven things that can be done to maintain high motivation.1. Every day, write down your top three goals . This will keep your goals constantly in your mind, creating an urgency.2....
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Our future
- I'm back from Hawaii; it was ten days of physical and emotional mastery. We went from learning from twenty of the planets best speakers in their field, to being pushed physically with a fifty foot pole climb, and then, flying fifteen feet like a free bald eagle to a hanging trapeze. These were some of the most invigorating experiences of my life.If that wasn't enough, a record, forty plus f...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Achieving your dreams
- Have you achieved your dreams? Dreams are an important part of our lives and should not be ignored. Our dreams inspire us to achieve unbelievable deeds, create stunning works of art, bring to life the impossible and give us hope and strength to look toward tomorrow with optimism and determination. But what if no one believed in their dreams and never took a chance to make them come true? Think abo...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Understanding what motivates people to take action
- So I wanted to buy a car. It was a tough choice but I decided that my next new car would be a Volvo. So I drove down to a local dealer and told him I wanted to take a look at a few Volvos and could he help. "Of course" he replied.After viewing a few of the cars I decided to test drive one of them. As I drove around the salesman went on about how great this car is and how customers...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Vanity killed my car
- When I was a freshman in college, my first car was a 1973 Dodge Swinger. Stop laughing! When I first bought the car it was quite sad looking. But hey, it was all I could afford for $700. I decided to save up enough money from my summer job and give my 'swinger' a swinging look. So I saved, and saved every nickel and dime for months.When I had enough money I first had the body of the car str...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How to deal with denial
- Denial is a coping mechanism commonly used when something happens that we really don't want to see. Doing this is actually quite natural. After all, we want to keep our lives in order, and we resist taking in information that we feel would result in a loss for us.A certain amount of denial is actually healthy. For example, right now if you thought of all the bad things that could possibly h...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How to become more patient
- "Lord give me patience ? and hurry!"Have you ever prayed this prayer? You've had plenty of opportunities to, haven't you? I don't know about you, but I tend to overestimate what I can accomplish in the hours I have, and underestimate the hassles that will accompany those tasks that seemed simple when I took them on. Patience is an essential skill for both organizational leaders an...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Habit change--six steps to success
- As every New Year approaches, many of us are doing the usual?thinking, "This year will be different. I'm going to change?(fill in the blanks)?my work habits, my attitudes. I'll lose those pounds; I'll make that difficult choice that's long overdue." We re-make these resolutions throughout the year.But will really follow through until the goals are accomplished? Or will this new &q...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Finding a cure for i disease
- The 21-year-old rookie cop had his big chance to brag on himself at his big news conference. "How do you feel about being the one to capture Eric Rudolph, FBI's Most Wanted?" the reporter asked. The young man's reply: "I was just doing my job, sir. It was all in a day's work." I was struck by this young man's humility, a rare quality in our narcissistic, "me, me, me" ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Dont let failure go to your head
- I watched as an 8-year-old All-Star slid dramatically into second base. Yet the umpire gave the dreaded signal, "Out!" The crowd yelled, "That's OK. Way to hustle! Great try!"Another little fellow swings the bat with all the power he can muster?three times without hitting the ball. Each time, the fans encouraged, "Good swing! Now just pick out a good one and make co...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Dont get hysterical about the historical
- The tension was palpable in the room as I began the first marital counseling session ever for the couple who had passed their 50th anniversary several years before. After a few pleasantries designed to put them more at ease, I invited, "Tell me about what brought you here."Immediately, she straightened up in her chair and asserted boldly, "I'll start!""Go ahe...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Does your battery need recharging?
- A technical support person in a pager company tells the story of a customer call to the customer service center from a man who repeatedly complained he was being paged by "Lucille." He was instructed that he would have to call her and tell her to stop paging him."She don't never leave no number, so I can't call her back," he said. After three such calls, someone thought ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Do yourself a favor--forgive
- "Holding onto anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned." BuddhaI can't count high enough to number the people in my clinical office and in my seminars who have argued... "He/she doesn't deserve to be forgiven after what happened. I just can't let him/her get off scott free!"Yet scientific evi...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Nine reasons to embrace failure
- I've always heard that "public speaking" is the number one most common fear. According to a recent survey I conducted in my e-newsletter, however, this is not the case. Overwhelmingly my readership chose "failure."Like public speaking, failure is not inherently bad. We're conditioned to avoid it, but there are plenty of reasons to change our perspective. Here are nine advantages t...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - After the storm......
- Have you ever wondered why is it that after we go through a bad phase in life we seem to come out better for it? It use to puzzle me too until recently after I stared down a gunman's nozzle I realized why.If you have ever been in a situation like I did and survived to tell the tale you would be more than grateful for everything. And the worst part is that my family home was invaded by gunme...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Rest: the new strategy for business and life success
- No matter how many times you have vowed to change your harried ways, you still find yourself running behind, running out of time, running out of patience and running on EMPTY. Your biggest problem--exhaustion. You are just plain old tired. But you keep going, because there seems to be no way out.Guess what? There is a way out if you decided to take it! Not only a way out but a way that will...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The art of wastebasketry
- Are your filing cabinets stuffed so full that it's difficult to retrieve and file papers? If you're like 80% of the people in the audiences to whom I speak, your answer is "Yes." "Are there things in your filing cabinet you could probably throw out?" Most once again answer "Yes." So what's the problem?Certainly a major stumbling block is time. Some may say clea...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Creating your best year ever
- January is synonymous with resolutions and getting organized is high on many people's list. Unfortunately, perhaps some of us make a resolution, when what we really want is a revolution.Twenty years of accumulated excess weight to disappear in twenty weeks or twenty years of accumulated excess possessions, to find a happy home in twenty minutes. Maybe a more realistic approach would be an e...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How to win over your fears
- If you really want to do something you will always find a way. But if you don't want to do it, you will almost always find excuses.The easiest way to combat fear is by facing your fears. Look for positive approaches to accomplish your goal. If you want to start a business, attend a meeting at the Better Business Bureau. Read some national magazines like "Income Opportunities" or...