Personal Development

7 Creative Visualization Techniques To Get The Law of Attraction Working For You

By: Douglas Robert Creative visualization is an easy way to crystallize your desire and ensure that you attain it. It’s a valuable tool for improving lives… solving problems… and attracting all you can imagine. Whatever you want is yours for the taking, if you can direct your mind in this single direction. But...

Goal Setting Secrets of the Real Life Indiana Jones

Remember when you were 15? Can you recall some of the dreams you had then? How many have you accomplished? My reflection on that is what attracted me so strongly to the story of John Goddard, of whom the LA Times called, “The real life Indiana Jones,” and one of his expeditions, “the most amazing...

Great Goals Make You Stretch!

I began enhancing my personal energy level three months shy of my 40th birthday and after 2 years of struggling with clinically-diagnosed depression. During this same period, I was challenged, immensely by the debilitating effects of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and being rendered permanently partially disabled as the...

1 Step Program to Achieve All of Your Goals

In Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen’s original “Chicken Soup for the Soul,” I am reminded of the short story titled “Another Check Mark On the List.” This is a story about a 15-year-old boy named John who, on one rainy day, when it was too wet outside to play, he decided to write...

Ten Tips For Setting (And Keeping) Life Changing Resolutions

It’s time for that annual ritual of making (and breaking) our New Year’s resolutions. There is something about the idea of being able to start over that motivates us to pause (at least briefly) and reflect on our lives as they are, as well as how we would like them to be. Yet how many times have you thought back...

How to Achieve Your Big Goals With Small Steps

A friend of mine showed up this morning and proceeded to tell me how he and his mother had spent the morning hanging an antique clock on the kitchen wall. He had other things that he thought he should be doing, like getting his new business going or finding a job, but he choose to spend the time with his mother, doing...

The Power of Positive Self-Talk

By: Brian Tracy Perhaps the most powerful influence on your attitude and personality is what you say to yourself, and believe. It is not what happens to you, but how you respond internally to what happens to you, that determines your thoughts and felling and, ultimately, your actions. By controlling your inner dialogue,...

The Courage to Take Action

By: Brian Tracy Perhaps the greatest challenge that you will ever face in life is the conquest of fear and the development of the habit of courage. Winston Churchill once wrote, Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend. Fear is, and always has been, the greatest enemy...

Taking Personal Responsibility

By: Brian Tracy Did you ever stop to think that everything you are or ever will be is completely up to you? Just imagine! You are where you are because of who you are. Everything that exists in your life exists because of you, because of your behavior, words and actions. Because you have freedom of choice and because...

Sharpening Your Conversation Skills

By: Brian Tracy There are three aims and purposes of conversation. The first is the plain enjoyment and pleasure of self-expression and interaction with other people. One of the most enjoyable things we ever do is to spend time with people we like and whose company we find stimulating. This potential pleasure is the...

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