Goal Setting and Gratitude

January 29, 2010

So, you’ve formulated a list of goals for the coming year and you’ve broken them down into action steps.  You are making sure that you consistently make progress on these steps on a daily basis.  Excellent! However, in this mad quest to achieve bigger and better things, I’d like you to make sure that you [...]

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3 Simple Time Management Tips to Supercharge Your Productivity

January 26, 2010

Here’s a question you may want to ask yourself regularly: What am I doing with my 24 hours? In other words, every day, what do you have to show for burning through another 24 hours of your life? If the answer is, ‘next to nothing’, or ‘not nearly as much as I would like’, then [...]

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7 Ways to Simplify Your Life and Improve Your Productivity

January 21, 2010

Here’s a self improvement tip that is sure to have a long-term and powerful impact on every area of your life as a whole: Simplify … One of the best changes we can make in our lives, that will have a cascading effect in every area of it, is to stop overloading ourselves with long [...]

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Quote of the Day – The Power of Thought

January 12, 2010

Today’s quote comes from the late great Henry Ford: “Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t — you’re right.” Profound!  The power we all have, which is God given, is in our mind.  We can engineer our own destiny, if only we can envision it in our own mind. That which we [...]

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Changing Negative Thought Patterns

January 5, 2010

I was talking with a good friend of mine last night, and he came out with a quote – some self improvement advice actually – that I hadn’t heard before which really had an impact on me … “Change what you’re doing, and you’ll change what you’re thinking of doing.” He told me that a short [...]

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4 Success Questions To Ask Yourself For 2010

December 31, 2009

So, it’s December 31st.  I’ve been spending some time – as many others do – evaluating where I am and where I want to be by this time next year. During this reflective time, I like to refer to 4 very important questions that I need to ask of myself while I’m formulating my plan of [...]

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Are You Self-Made?

December 31, 2009

“We are all self-made.  But only the successful will admit it.” – Earl Nightingale Pretty sobering thought, isn’t it?  But so true – all of our thoughts and actions up to this point have brought us to where we are, good or bad. So if you’re not happy with where you are on your life’s [...]

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Self Improvement Through ACTION

December 31, 2009

Of all the self improvement quotes I’ve read and internalized, there is one that I constantly keep in mind at all times. “Success Doesn’t Happen By Accident … it Happens By ACTION.” This quote always reminds me of the ‘Ready, Fire, Aim’ approach to goal achievement, which holds that instead of planning your attack for [...]

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Self Improvement Quote For Today

December 21, 2009

“If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.” – Buddhist Proverb So true … once we get focused on goal achievement and what we truly want out of life, all we need to do is continue to make a little forward progress each day. Just take [...]

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