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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Adaptability as a key to success
- Do you ever stop to consider how much we change and grow as people? I'm not talking so much about "maturing" or physical growth. What I'm driving at is the changes that occur inside of us; the changes in thought and self perception. We are constantly bombarded with an incredible amount of information. Our grandparents didn't get nearly as much stimulation in their lives as we get in a single day. ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Change your results by changing your expectations
- Our expectations get us into a lot of trouble and often cause a lot of stress. We expect our customers to always come back; we expect our boss to behave in a certain way; we expect the company we work for to take care of us; and we expect coworkers to be team players.And when our expectations aren't met, life is not good. Bad feelings, conflict, and unrest, are common symptoms. And, our bus...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Success through discipline - the rewards of discipline
- Many of the problems we have with discipline are caused by failing to realize the rewards that discipline can bring. We focus on the fact that discipline often means doing boring things that we don't want to do and fail to notice that eventually discipline empowers us to do what we do want to do. This article takes a look at some of the rewards of discipline.Julie Andrews, the film actress ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The true bmi of success - what is the true definition of success?
- The TRUE BMI of SUCCESS (B)e a (M)illionaire (I)ndexWhy am I talking about this topic?After mentoring hundreds of people and helping many individuals to be more successful in their lives, I discovered that most of us are lacking in understanding what true success is all about. How sure are we that we are more successful today compared to yesterday? How certain are we that tomorro...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Catching the w.a.v.e.s of greatness
- Greatness is all around us. From Oprah to Bill Gates to Einstein to Stephen Hawkins to Gandhi to Mother Teresa, we read, see and hear it every day and sometimes we even have the opportunity to feel greatness for others and ourselves. Yet, if greatness is all around us, then how can we catch the W.A.V.E.s of Greatness with increased frequency?To achieve greatness begins by waiting. While we ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Self esteem
- Self-esteem is very important. It is the way we view and feel about ourselves that has a profound effect on how we live our lives. These opinions are shaped by experiences within the family, at school, from friendships and in wider society. Self-esteem involves our ability to think, to deal with life and to be happy. Self-esteem is not so much how people view you, but how you view yourself....
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Focus and determination = success
- FOCUSAs you're building your business, you can choose to win or lose. No one sets out to lose, but they do, because they simply do not stick around long enough to win. Winning requires hard work and focus. Focus on what you need to get done and don't stop till you get there.When you're first starting a business, it may seem like you're not getting anyplace or it's slow, but the best ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - You must play by the rules
- You must play by the rules. Everything has rules. You want to play chess then learn the rules. You want to play soccer then learn the rules. You want to play tennis then learn the rules. You want to play life then?.hang on a minute?. Who wrote the rules of life?Who wrote the rules to your life? Did you?When you look at your life you begin to realise that most of the time you are livi...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Busy beavers build piles of sticks
- "Well, you're just a busy beaver, aren't you?" You've either heard or used this cliche, but what do you know about beavers? Let me tell you about something I learned.One night on the Discovery Channel, I watched a scientist determine how beavers knew where to put the sticks to build their dams. It's by the sound of water, he discovered. A recording of running water would soon have the beave...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Self growth - how to overcome your critics
- They all know it's part of the success journey.They know they just can't get away from it.Let me share with you a powerful insight about your success and why it's critical for you to get this.***The more successful you get, the more critics and complainers find their way to you.That's just how it is.And the quicker you realize this, the better off you'll be....
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - More effective communication - weight loss for your mouth
- Language constitutes our belief system. What we believe is true for us or our version of reality at large. One way of re-patterning our beliefs to give us more of the experiences we want in life is to change the way that we speak. Here are some words to begin the process. Use the substitution words as noted. To further affirm this, use 5 practice sentences where the old word would have been used a...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Personal power: implementing change from the inside out
- Personal power is an INSIDE JOB. It doesn't mean getting other people to do what you want them to; it means getting yourself moving toward your goals. What creates the power is a series of attitudinal realities which you create for yourself and by yourself. Therefore, the key resource in managing change is YOU.First and foremost, RESPECT YOURSELF. Are you hard on yourself, self-critical? Cu...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Breakfast of failures
- "If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate." --Thomas Watson, Sr. Founder of IBMBefore the Breakfast of Champions ? there was the Breakfast of Failures:? C.S. Lewis (The Chronicles of Narnia) had over 800 rejections before he sold even one piece of writing.? Oprah Winfrey was not deterred when she got fired from her television reporter's job...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Work smarter not harder
- When you are working over time but yet you do not have any money in your saving, then you do not work smart enough. When you are working two jobs, but still can not pay the bills, then you do not work smart enough. Sounds familiar? If you want to help yourself, read on.May be some of us has heard this term over and over again, and some of us haven't. But what is that really means?In ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Associate with losers and youre courting failure
- "You will be the same person in five years except for the people you meet and the books you read." ? Charlie JonesThink back and see if you can remember, by individual, all the people who had an influence on your life ? good and bad. Do you find that the bad ones stick out like a sore thumb? And why is that?We are told that failure is sometimes good because we learn from it. I believ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How to be congruent and experience balance every day.
- "If you can tell the world who you are and what you believe without breaking stride or hesitating, you are happy with yourself." - Neale Donald WalscheI attended a large networking meeting last week with lots of varying types of businesses and people and one of the speakers was talking about and explaining how online networking had helped him go from redundancy to having his own l...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Becoming a success giant!
- IntroductionSuccess - we all read about it, hear it on the news, and label some individuals as "successful." In this society, a person is believed to be successful, just by measuring the amount of money a person earns, the size and location of his/her house and the vehicles they drive. You are successful if??you vacation in a far-off land, you are successful.?you wear designer...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - It?s sure to succeed
- There are "How to" seminars on virtually every business topic. For the entrepreneur or mid-level manager, business seminars are effective networking tools as well as learning opportunities.During the course of a day you could have a tremendous amount of technical terms thrown at you, presentations on how to analyze marketing information, effective copywriting and sales letters tha...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Emerging as winners!
- People like to emerge as winners by hook or crook and this is what one gets landed up in. It is human nature to desire to become rich, powerful, popular and famous always and forever. On the surface, it appears that we are competing with everyone else in this world and running a never-ending rat race. It is natural for all human beings to desire and work for wealth, power and prestige. Jesus Chris...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Being a winner - ten tips for success
- Have you ever thought about how you want to live, and who you want to become? Everyone has different values and puts them in different order of priority, so what works for others may not be your own recipe for success.To remind yourself about what your life is all about, I recommend taking the time to write down ten principles that you consider most important. It is easy to get off-track at...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - What makes one person succeed while someone else fails
- What characteristics are common among successful people. If you analyze the success stories of history, business or your own personal experience you'll find similar habits and patterns among successful people. You'll find these people to be persistent, hard-working, continually educating themselves and able to adapt to certain situations. You've heard the old adage don't work harder work smarter o...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - No shortcut to success
- Sometimes short cuts are not worth taking. They may bring you quick money but they do not make you become a better, stronger or more skilful person.On the internet a lot of people are promoting private label products. You pay some money and get the rights to put your name on software or ebooks. In other words you claim credit for having achieved something you haven't.So far I have re...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Stop trying harder
- You've been searching for self improvement or personal development. Trying to increase your self esteem, achieve personal growth, have more happiness in your life ? or perhaps reach an important goal.You're on a meaningful quest! But if you're running into problems and barriers ? it may come from something you were taught as a child! Do you remember being told: "Just try harder!"...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The secret of lasting personal change
- Why do diets end up in gained weight? Why do some people fail again and again at business? And why do other people fall into one bad relationship after another ?- in spite of their honest desire for a "good" relationship?Obviously no one *wishes* to fail in their personal or business life. Yet this is an all-too-common problemWe WANT to be in control! We WANT to make our li...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Avoid the thirteen habits of a failure
- Jim Rohn, the success guru and mentor, said, "Failure is a few errors in judgment repeated every day." The word to watch is "repeated."Now there's a difference between temporary and permanent failure. We fail at many things in life; it's all part of our growth and development. A baby starts to walk and falls down, tries again, falls again. Eventually she walks. Failure e...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Innovation management ? measuring failure
- Creativity can be defined as problem identification and idea generation whilst innovation can be defined as idea selection, development and commercialisation.There are other useful definitions in this field, for example, creativity can be defined as consisting of a number of ideas, a number of diverse ideas and a number of novel ideas.There are distinct processes that enhance problem...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How a biscuit taught me a priceless lesson in life
- There are no two greater ironic comparisons than that of a biscuit and life. For over two decades, I'd feverishly tried to bake biscuits. Being a baking 'connoisseur,' I was quite disheartened that I could easily knead & bake home-made yeast, cinnamon rolls and croissants - but try as I did, I could never grasp the technique of making southern-baked biscuits. Regardless whether I used the quick mi...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - What does your success look like?
- What does success look like to you? Our culture often defines success as money, fame, power ? something between a Pepsi ad and a car commercial. But success is more than financial rewards, the "right" car, or the "right" job. The news is full of stories of "successful" people sabotaging themselves with poor choices. Obviously fame and money were not enough to make the...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Reaping the fruit of success in life
- One way to become more successful in your life is to look at the lifestyle and habits of people who are already clearly reaping the fruits of success in life and who are living and growing towards their unique God given potential. What are some common characteristics and behaviour that we can apply to our own lives to help us on our own personal journey towards excellence? I have spent many years ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Stop reading success books and start being successful
- So you want to be successful (whatever that means to you) and you've been to the motivational lectures, seminars and you've read the latest books on how to make a billion dollars in 17 seconds!!!So where's you billion dollars?Well, to many of us listen to and read the advice of others but then fail to ACT, so what do you have to do to be successful?It's not easy to be successf...