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Top 10 Traits of Highly Successful People We have all read about people who are successful briefly. They win a gold medal, make a fortune, or star in one great movie…and then disappear. Or, there are those like Marilyn Monroe and Howard Hughes who achieve extraordinary success, at the cost of their own lives. The One Two Punch For Success: Authenticity And Alignment Want Success? Use this easy three step process to discover your authentic desires and move into alignment with these desires. This process move you from "stuck" into "action" and quickly into Success! Life Versus Lifestyle A well designed life will include health, wealth, love, work you love, and much more including a lifestyle that pleases you. Practicing Discipline In Life I’ve been thinking a lot about what I believe to be the central challenge facing our clients right now, along with the rest of our society. It’s not an original concept by any means, but more and more I come to believe that it is the key to unlocking every success principle in existence... To Be A Champion Become A Child Ever wonder how those champion recruiters in your company manage, month after month, to get the most new recruits, the biggest bonuses, the largest paychecks? How to Successfully Set Your Goals Would you like to achieve positive results in your life and get what you really want? This tried and tested goal setting strategy is an effective way to set and achieve your goals. A Method For You to Achieve Anything That You Want in Your Life You can achieve anything you want. Yes, you can. Let me tell you how to turn your obsession into reality. You can do it via a little technique that I am going to outline for you. Why Taking Action is Not The Answer to Self Improvement Have you ever made up your mind to do something, did it and then had disappointing, lackluster results? Well, you're definitely not alone in that. The Top Ten Ways to Stay Focused on Your Objectives As a speaker in the area of goal setting and achievement I am often asked my opinion on what I believe are the keys to reaching one’s goal and objectives. While the answer to this question alone can take up a half-day seminar, allow me to spend the next few paragraphs covering the top ten. Dreams, Conflicts and Priorities In the heat of the pursuit of our dreams, it is easy to forget about our priorities and live our lives out of synch. It is an ongoing battle. There is a price to pay for our dreams, and we must be ready to pay the price. However, there is a limit to the price we have to pay. This depends on our priorities. Herein lie the conflicts in the pursuit of our dreams. The Importance of Direction We can't get where we want to be without an accurate map. Here are some simple steps that can help you be on your way toward your goals. A New Conversation About Dreams: Who's Directing Your Life? While aspects of you encourage, “Go for your dreams,” simultaneously other parts threaten, “Don’t you dare.” A cast of characters lives inside of you and at different times you may receive conflicting or contradictory messages. If you are want to be happy, successful, and fulfilled, consider putting your “dreamer” in the director’s chair. 5 Steps to Create Solid, Powerful Goals You know where you want to go, but how do you get there? You may find that making some decisions is easier than others. What do you do first? How long will it take? Will you need help getting there? This article shows you a simple, Five-Step Goal-Setting Process. How I Ditched My To Do List: You Can Too! Is your to-do list dragging you down? Are you frustrated about what you don't accomplish during the day? Consider chucking the to-do list for a day and making a to-be list today. The Be Smart and Soar Method to Breakthrough Goal Setting Here’s how improve on the “old school” method of goal setting. When you build out the SMART techniques for planning and combine them with the SOAR™ method for implementation, you’ll have a strategy that will allow you to work with elevated confidence as you achieve optimal success. Goal Setting and Interviewing Do you want to "hit your interview out of the Park?" This article will give you rules for going on an interview, what to during the interview,how to review the job questions they may ask you, and provide you with a list of questions you can ask them... Creative Visualization: How to Supercharge Your Goal Setting Do you know the single best way to "supercharge" any goal setting is through visualization? What is visualization? And how do you do it for maximum goal achievement? What Would You Like to Accomplish in the Next 90 Days? "What would you like to accomplish in the next 90 days?" Here are 10 steps to get you there. Finding Your Employement Niche Most workers don’t know what they want to do. This leads to stress, confusion and unhappiness as they drift from job to job. The days of having one job for life have mainly passed us by. We need a broad education so that we can move from one occupation to another with relative ease. Then we need to specialize in one area and find a mentor to become an expert. Achieving Your Goals There are things you want to achieve in life aren't there? A bigger house, a nice car, a better job? This article will show you how to harness the power of your mind to achieve your goals. Develop Your Soul Goals! When thinking about goal setting many people fall into the trap of only focusing on goals for themselves! By focusing on what we can get through goal setting we miss the real magic which is unleashed when we set soul goals ... develop your soul goals today! Setting Goals for Success Setting goals to reach success is like climbing a mountain. It takes a very long time to reach the top. The Power of the Negative Can negative feedback, or criticism, provide you with useful information for improvement and development? It may seem counter-intuitive, but there is potential to benefit more from criticism than praise. What Do You Really, Really, Really Want? If the 90s British pop sensation 'the Spice Girls' ever get remembered for anything, I hope it's for bringing the question 'now tell me what you want, what you really, really want?' to the mass consciousness Now you may laugh at this, but when you really, really think about it, is there a more important question you could ask yourself? A New Conversation About Dreams - The Power of Intention By setting an intention, you make it clear to yourself and others, just what you plan to do. Set an intention to redefine what it means to be serious about your dreams. Requirements for Successful Goal Setting and Achievement Goal Setting is an extremely powerful technique for accomplishment, but for Goal Setting to really be effective requires more than just writing a list of dreams and filing it away. This article will present important steps that will help to define and achieve goals with more success. How To Achieve Any Goal, NOW! Too often, people think that their goal is out of reach and they must wait to achieve it. The fact is that people don't even realize what their REAL goal is! Once we discover what we are REALLY going for, achieving your goal is a blink away. Create Your Path to Success What is the secret to realizing your goals? There are key steps that can ensure one's success in achieving goals. In this article, we walk the path together step by step to answer the key questions... Vision Means Passion - What's Yours? Interestingly, the word vision can be interchangeable with the word passion. But small business owners often forget to promote the true reason for being in business. They’ve lost touch with their passionate vision. A Proper Mission Statement Can Drive Your Life Forward Most people measure us by our accomplishments -- what we’ve done. In my experience, most people compile their track record of accomplishments BY MISTAKE; that is, we don’t have a plan, we simply react to opportunities as they arise. In other words, our accomplishments are externally motivated, not internally driven. What this argues for, of course, is a consciousness of mission -- what life is really all about for us -- you and me. That’s what this short article will discuss -- your Personal Mission Statement. How to Improve Your Life Every Day Everyone desires to be a better person, yet that can seem to be an unattainable aspiration. Discover how you can start to consciously take steps towards that goal everyday... Put Wings On Your Dreams Dreams are important -- not the sleeping kind -- but the kind you have for your future -- the kind that keep you going. But dreams are not enough. They don't take you where you want to be. Dreams need wings. . . Excellence is Never an Accident Excellence is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction, skillful execution and the vision to see obstacles as opportunities. Hustle While You Wait "All things come to those who hustle while they wait." Edison's quote gives us some insight into how this amazing man transformed the world, one idea at a time. Here are some ideas about how you too can change the world, even if you are not yet ready to make your big move. Plug in with a Purpose Have you ever been lost? In a city? On a road? And would give anything for a map? In the back country? Up a mountain? And would give anything for a compass? Most of us ARE lost and don't even know it. And if we do, we don't realize that our map or compass is right within reach! Score A Winning Goal “A successful attempt at scoring” - Let’s break that definition of Goals down a little. When you attempt a goal, does that mean you hit the mark you were shooting for? Or does it mean you tried? And if you tried [attempted] and did not hit the goal you intended does that mean the attempt had no value? Ready, Set, Change! Change is never easy, especially when it requires us to dramatically alter the way we’ve become accustom to living our lives. Leaving our comfort zone, no matter how much we dislike it, requires a combination of bravery and determination, as well as education in that area. Are You Stuck? Consider Changing Your Focus! If you sometimes feel as though you’re caught in life’s quicksand, you have a lot of company. We work, we struggle, we try to do everything we possibly can to move on to a higher level of well-being... Giving Up Too Soon So you feel beaten up and bruised and you're ready to quit. You have no support system or the one you have is pathetically inadequate for the goals you've set. How to Break the Cycle of Postponing Your Dreams Do you have a dream, but keep postponing it because you feel trapped by the responsibilities of life? Five Steps to Goal-Setting What would you like to achieve in your lifetime? Author Basil S. Walth once said, "If you don't know where you are going, how can you expect to get there?" Goals On The Wall Surprisingly few people regularly make lists of their goals and even fewer put their lists where they can see them. This article suggests that it is worth doing both. It also takes a look at the life goals of Minnie Driver and Genghis Khan. Focus on Your Goals To fulfil your dreams, you have to break it down into actionable segments, goals. Fulfilling the dream involves achieving the goals that make up the dream. Make Your Goals Stick The amazing thing about the future is that if you wait, it will always come to you. No doubt you sat down and created your share of New Year's resolutions to conquer this year. The unfortunate truth, however, is that most people's resolutions fizzle and die before the first quarter is even over. It doesn't have to be this way! Hearing and Seeing Your Destiny As a child, I read an autobiography of Annie Sullivan. She was the woman who brought Helen Keller out of her dark and silent world and into a place of understanding few of us in the hearing and seein... Manage Your Expectations When I was a newbie in 'the game of life,' I wanted to succeed beyond my wildest dreams. I wanted to make it big and take on the world, all at once. Driving To Your Goals Every time you get in your car to go anywhere, you are working on achieving a goal. There is somewhere you want to be, so you take action to get there. Eight Steps to Taking Control of Every Situation in Your Life Like it or not, we are all gladiators. We go to sleep and wake up in a social arena from which there is no escape. Challenge upon challenge confronts us... Manifesting Your Dreams and Desires What are your dreams? Are you in a place in your life where part of it feels limited or exhausting? If so, it is the time for you to begin manifesting your dreams and desires. The 11 Basics of Goal Setting Ever wonder why you accomplish some goals and not others? More importantly, do you want to know how to accomplish any goal? Action Achieves Goals It is very easy and a lot of fun to talk about dreams and goals and a great future. Achieving these dreams is not so easy as all wise people know. We need to build our dreams on the solid ground of action rather than the shifting sands of talk. Successful Living by Mastering Our Past When driving, we need to check our rear-view mirror every few minutes to perceive dangers lurking behind — tailgaters, hecklers, over speeding cars, and drivers under the influence. Writing Your Personal Vision/Mission Statement I recently spent some time revising my personal vision/mission statement for my coaching practice. While doing this, it occurred to me that the vision I have for my work is closely related to my pers... Working on Your Groove We all come to a point in our lives, like in the movie “How Stella Got Her Groove Back” that we lose sight of who we are. Life has so many possibilities if we just open ourselves to recieving them!