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Advice that will put you on the path to success; tips, tricks and nuggets of wisdom from trusted experts and motivational mentors.
Ask For Help.
It doesn't matter what you are going through, you just need to always remember that there is at least one person that is always going to hear you out. Whether you struggle with mental illness, family issues, drug abuse, alcoholism, marriage struggles...there will always be someone there you can go to. I know this because i was in this position once.
By Keiten Day4 years ago in Motivation
The Fastest Way To Help You Manifest Your Dreams Into Reality
Have you ever wanted to manifest your dreams into reality? If yes, then you have come to the right place! In this article we will look at the fastest way to help you manifest your desires. This is the point where most people get stuck, because they don’t know how to actually do it... This information has been kept from you, but not anymore! In this day and age, people are finding that it’s harder and harder to reach their goals and dreams.
By Nolwazi Hadebe4 years ago in Motivation
5 Positive Choices Needed to Sustain a Healthy Life Balance
Do you consider your life and what it takes to maintain your equilibrium and health? As a mindset coach, I've seen that most people get caught up in life's numerous duties without considering if there is an imbalance in one or more of them. A person seldom stops to reflect on their life until a crisis, such as a health issue or other triggering event.
By Rahau Mihai4 years ago in Motivation
The Courage to Hope
Recently, hope has been discussed a lot, but one thing was left unsaid. The fear of hope. Everyone who dares to hope faces the danger of being let down and feeling unsuccessful. Our society places an excessive amount of emphasis on achievement, which exaggerates the risk of failure and disappointment. I coach a lot of folks who are hesitant to pursue their goals in the absence of security.
By Rahau Mihai4 years ago in Motivation
Attitude Adjustment - How to Change Your Attitude!
Recently, I've spoken in this column about emotional hygiene and doing the essential upkeep on your emotions, as well as your physical body and home. Health warnings advise us to routinely wash our hands to stop the spread of infections. Did you know that you may alter your attitude at any time by "washing" your mood as well?
By Rahau Mihai4 years ago in Motivation
Is Determination Alone Enough to Change Those Bad Habits?
Most of us have been taught that everything is achievable with enough effort. But sometimes willpower alone won't be sufficient to break a pattern that we've been repeating for years. Being determined is undoubtedly a necessary component for altering your behaviors, but in my 20 years of mentoring and coaching entrepreneurs, I can assure you that it is insufficient.
By Rahau Mihai4 years ago in Motivation
Working for a future you
It’s easy to get caught up in the moment and do things that have an immediate impact, but often these are the things that can hold us back in the long run. We need to learn to think about the future and work for the version of ourselves that we want to be.
By Syed Balkhi4 years ago in Motivation
Laughter and Endearment
Being able to laugh or chuckle is a freedom that often fear to exercise. I think that probably individuals fear that laughter and joy are synonymous with ridicule and fear. In a very questionable social climate with everyone on edge about determining some underlying meaning for every statement (no matter how trivial) , it seems that laughing is not fashionable.
By The M.A.D. Dad4 years ago in Motivation
7 Amazing Habits To Kick Start Your Dreams
You are the master of your destiny, so you must have a clear vision of where you want to be. But if you're anything like me, it's easy to get caught up in the day-to-day and lose sight of your dreams. So here are 7 habits that will help kick start your dreams:
By Hassan4 years ago in Motivation
BELIEVE IT’S POSSIBLE
The number one problem that keeps people from winning in the United States today is lack of belief in themselves. ARTHUR L. WILLIAMS Founder of A.L. Williams Insurance Company, which was sold to Primerica for $90 million in 1989 Napoleon Hill once said, “Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” In fact, the mind is such a powerful instrument, it can deliver to you literally everything you want. But you have to believe that what you want is possible. YOU GET WHAT YOU EXPECT Scientists used to believe that humans responded to information flowing into the brain from the outside world. But today, they’re learning instead that we respond to what the brain, on the basis of previous experience, expects to happen next. Doctors in Texas, for example—studying the effect of arthroscopic knee surgery—assigned patients with sore, worn-out knees to one of three surgical procedures: scraping out the knee joint, washing out the joint, or doing nothing. During the “nothing” operation, doctors anesthetized the patient, made three incisions in the knee as if to insert their surgical instruments, and then pretended to operate. Two years after surgery, patients who underwent the pretend surgery reported the same amount of relief from pain and swelling as those who had received the actual treatments. The brain expected the “surgery” to improve the knee, and it did. Why does the brain work this way? Neuropsychologists who study ex-pectancy theory say it’s because we spend our whole lives becoming condi¬tioned. Through a lifetime’s worth of events, our brain actually learns what to expect next—whether it eventually happens that way or not. And because our brain expects something will happen a certain way, we often achieve exactly what we anticipate. This is why it’s so important to hold positive expectations in your mind. When you replace your old negative expectations with more positive ones— when you begin to believe that what you want is possible—your brain will actually take over the job of accomplishing that possibility for you. Better than that, your brain will actually expect to achieve that outcome. “ YOU GOTTA BELIEVE” You can be anything you want to be, if only you believe with sufficient conviction and act in accordance with your faith; for whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve. NAPOLEON HILL Best-selling author of Think and Grow Rich When Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Tug McGraw—father of legendary coun¬try singer Tim McGraw—struck out batter Willie Wilson to earn the Phillies the 1980 World Series title, Sports Illustrated captured an immortal image of elation on the pitcher’s mound—an image few people knew was played out exactly as McGraw had planned it. When I had the opportunity to meet Tug one afternoon in New York, I asked him about his experience on the mound that day. “It was as if I’d been there a thousand times before,” he said. “When I was growing up, I would pitch to my father in the backyard. We would al-ways get to where it was the bottom of the ninth in the World Series with two outs and three men on base. I would always bear down and strike them out.” Because Tug had conditioned his brain day after day in the backyard, the day eventually arrived where he was living that dream for real. McGraw’s reputation as a positive thinker had begun 7 years earlier dur¬ing the New York Mets’ 1973 National League championship season, when Tug coined the phrase “ You gotta believe” during one of the team’s meetings. That Mets team, in last place in the division in August, went on to win the Adapted from “Placebos Prove So Powerful Even Experts Are Surprised: New Studies Explore the Brain’s Triumph Over Reality” by Sandra Blakeslee. New York Times, October 13, 1998, section F, page 1. National League pennant and reach game 7 of the World Series, where they finally succumbed to the Oakland A’s. Another example of his always optimistic “ you gotta believe” attitude was the time, while he was a spokesman for the Little League, that he said, “Kids should practice autographing baseballs. This is a skill that’s often overlooked in Little League.” And then he smiled his infectious smile.
By Daniel Joseph 4 years ago in Motivation
BE CLEAR ABOUT THE REASON BEHIND EVERYTHING YOU DO?
Without purpose as the compass to guide you, your goals and action plans may not ultimately fulfill you. You don’t want to get to the top of the ladder only to find out you had it leaning up against the wrong wall. When Julie Laipply was a child, she was a very big fan of animals. As a result, all she ever heard growing up was “Julie, you should be a vet. You’re going to be a great vet. That’s what you should do.” So when she got to Ohio State University, she took biology, anatomy, and chemistry, and started studying to be a vet. A Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship allowed her to spend her senior year studying abroad in Manchester, England. Away from the family and faculty pressures back home, she found herself one dreary day sitting at her desk, surrounded by biology books and staring out the window, when it suddenly hit her: You know what? I’m totally miserable. Why am I so mis-erable? What am I doing? I don’t want to be a vet! Julie then asked herself, What is a job I would love so much that I’d do it for free but that I could actually get paid for? It’s not being a vet. That’s not the right job. Then she thought back over all the things she’d done in her life and what had made her the most happy. And then it hit her—it was all of the youth leadership conferences that she had volunteered at, and the communications and leader-ship courses she had taken as elective courses back at Ohio State. How could I have been so ignorant? Here I am at my fourth year at school and just finally realizing I’m on the wrong path and not doing the right thing. But it’s been here in front of me the whole time. I just never took the time to acknowledge it until now. Buoyed by her new insight, Julie spent the rest of her year in England taking courses in communications and media performance. When she returned to Ohio State, she was eventually able to convince the administration to let her create her own program in “leadership studies,” and while it took her 2 years longer to finally graduate, she went on to become a senior man-agement consultant in leadership training and development for the Pentagon. She also won the Miss Virginia USA contest, which allowed her to spend much of 2002 speaking to kids all across Virginia, and more recently she has created the Role Models and Mentors for Youth Foundation, which teaches kids how to be better role models for one another. By the way, Julie is only 26 years old—a testament to the power that clarity of purpose can create in your life. The good news is that you don’t have to go all the way to England for a year abroad to get away from the daily pressures of your life long enough to create the space to discover what you are really here to do. You can simply take the time to complete two simple exercises that will help you clarify your purpose. YOUR INNER GUIDANCE SYSTEM IS YOUR JOY It is the soul’s duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion. DAME REBECCA WEST Best-selling author You were born with an inner guidance system that tells you when you are on or off purpose by the amount of joy you are experiencing. The things that bring you the greatest joy are in alignment with your purpose. To begin to home in on your purpose, make a list of the times you have felt most joyful and alive. What are the common elements of these experiences? Can you figure out a way to make a living doing these things?
By Daniel Joseph 4 years ago in Motivation
