If you want to not only be successful but know that you can repeat that success whenever you want, it’s important that you understand how to develop a success-oriented mindset. It doesn’t happen by accident.
Plan for Success
If you want to be successful in anything in any part of your life, whether socially, personally, or career-wise the only want to do it is to be able to identify what success is and the steps required to ... Read more
Anger is an important feeling that most people experience at some time or another in their lives. Anger is not always a negative thing. Sometimes anger is justified and can be used to ensure you find a solution and act on it. So, to ensure that you control and reduce but also use anger appropriately, check out these ten tips.
1. Take a Time Out – This is especially important if you find yourself ... Read more
Finding ways to practice gratitude each day is a lot more beneficial to you than you may realize. It’s not just about writing down a few things you’re grateful for each day, it’s much deeper than that, and the benefits show the impact daily gratitude has on your life.
1. Feel Happier – Your thoughts control your feelings, not the other way around. Because of this, when you practice gratitude, you will change your ... Read more
This may come as a shock to you, but you’re not the only person on earth that has fears. Even people with very powerful and important positions have fears. Every person who must learn something new experiences fear and discomfort before they learn and have a breakthrough. It’s totally a normal part of human existence and you’re no different.
1. Define the Fear and The Effects it Has on You
When you start to experience ... Read more
Throughout your entire life, you’re going to be confronted by many different choices that you need to make in life. The choices you need to make in life may be small ones like what to wear today or large ones like which career to practice. Some choices also have moral implications that you should consider as you choose different paths in your life.
Understand Your Personal Values
When you die, what do you want other people to ... Read more
When you look forward to doing or achieving something, it is usually prompted by a motivating thought or aspect. Motivation is what drives you to take the actions you need to reach a goal or to accomplish something. Motivation can be positive or negative. You can be driven by a negative thought just as you can be driven by a positive thought.
Set Goals That Provide Direction and Focus
When you need to accomplish something, it’s important ... Read more
Making progress on any goal you set requires commitment. If you don’t have that, you may not see your plan to the end. Setting the right type of goals and setting up a plan for success that includes daily action is the best way to showing your true commitment to a goal.
Know Why You Made the Goal
Whenever you make goals for anything, it’s important to know why. Does this goal help you with your mission ... Read more
Becoming efficient in all parts of your life means that you want to create a well-organized environment that allows you to maximize productivity, whether productivity at work, in a business or just in your personal life. Accomplishing efficiency requires being mindful of what you’re doing and how you’re doing it.
Focus Effectively
The things that you focus on effectively are the same things that you complete. If you focus on each area of life and find ways ... Read more
Living a healthy lifestyle and enjoying doing it is easier than you may think. It honestly is not hard to maximize your health through your lifestyle mentally, physically, and spiritually without giving up on the parts of life you love.
Get Enough Quality Sleep
Unless you’re one of the few people on the planet who has a genetic predisposition to needing less sleep, you need to plan for getting 7 to 9 hours of sleep every single ... Read more
Creativity is described as, “the act of turning ideas from your imagination into reality.” Many people think that creativity only exists in the arts, but this is not true at all. There are many types of creativity that include both the cognitive and the emotional. Because of this, you can be creative in all aspects of your life. What’s more important is even if you don’t believe you’re very creative right now, you can learn ... Read more
If you want to be mentally and spiritually at peace, you need to know who you are, how you fit into the world, and your values. In addition, you also need to understand what you can and cannot control, as well as what is and is not important at the moment.
1. Know Your Core Principles and Values
If you know who you are and what you stand for, you can more easily make good ... Read more
Good character is defined by your integrity, honesty, and accountability. When you have a good character, you can identify your values and principles, while living them out in real-time. Your character frequently also describes your personality because your traits are intertwined in many ways.
Terms that often describe someone’s character are:
• Patient
• Determined
• Fair
• Optimistic
• Kind
• Honest
• Empathetic
• Helpful
The inverse ... Read more
There is a common idea that “life is a rollercoaster” with many ups and downs. It is true that life does have its ups and downs, but it doesn’t have to be out of control. This perception may lead to accepting more volatility than you really need to if you know how to take control of your life.
Set Boundaries
One of the most important aspects of being able to control your own life is to set ... Read more
Having the ability to think strategically maximizes your problem-solving skills. When you improve your strategic thinking skills, you’ll enable yourself to be able to plan any part of your life, business, or job logically and quickly. You’ll be able to use your mind to make better decisions that align with your values and the intent you have for the situation.
Keep Your Mind Open
Being open-minded doesn’t mean that you’re being gullible. When you open your mind ... Read more
There is no way to get around it, but life involves stress sometimes. There is good stress and bad stress. For example, if you’re planning a massive event for your business that’s good stress, if your child gets the flu the night of your work party, that’s bad stress.
Both types of stress can cause issues in your health and mental state without even realizing it. There are ways to manage stress and mitigate it, so ... Read more
Many people move through life without a plan and somehow end up in a good place. But far more people go through life without a plan and end up not being happy with where they are. If you really want to like where you end up, craft a life vision statement to guide you through your life successfully.
Oprah Winfrey’s Vision Statement: “To be a teacher. And to be known for inspiring my students to be ... Read more
Positive affirmations are self-talk designed to reprogram your subconscious and boost your vibration frequency. It might seem strange to do but think about the fact that you probably currently use negative self-talk all the time.
How many times have you done something and called yourself stupid or looked in the mirror and allowed negative thoughts coming to mind? Probably more than you even realize. Negative self-talk affects your confidence, lowers your good vibrations, and places the ... Read more
One way to get more out of life and to become an influential person who is trustworthy is to be someone who has high moral standards and values and demonstrate that fact with your actions. The best thing about that is that the more trustworthy you are, the more trusting you will become.
Know Your Core Values
It’s hard to make decisions if you don’t know what you want your core values to be. For example, if ... Read more
When people think about “creativity,” often they are thinking about typical things we all view as creative such as writing a novel, painting a masterpiece, writing a song, decorating a home or other thing that is seen as artful. However, creativity is much more than art.
If you want to tap into your creative mind, you’ll need first to accept that you have a creative mind, even if you’re not artistic or musical. Tap into your ... Read more
Some people fear failure, and others fear success. That might seem nuts to fear success, but success brings responsibility, and some people are afraid of that too. If you really want to be more successful it’s time to work through your fear.
Signs of Fear of Success
If you fear success, there is a chance that you actively avoid success. You don’t make goals, remember deadlines, or aren’t self-motivated, or often second-guess yourself. Making decisions is difficult ... Read more
While dream interpretation is often met with curiosity, it’s also seen as junk science. However, even if one interpretation of a dream may be conjecture and opinion, the fact is – dreams do mean something, and they can give you information that you need to create a successful and happy life.
If You’re Mentally Healthy
Many people report more dreams when everything isn’t going well mentally and emotionally. If you’re having a challenging time in life, that ... Read more
Sleeping well every night is essential to your success. When you sleep better, you tend to be a healthier weight, have less anxiety, and it increases your ability to meet your obligations in life – plus of course have some fun too.
1. Eat Right – Try to eat enough nutritious foods during the day. Avoid any type of digestive issues before bedtime, to help you get to sleep each night without having to ... Read more
When studying people, one thing that becomes clear is that if you were born into a middle or lower-middle-class family that had struggles making ends meet you will have a far different mindset, as compared to wealthier counterparts.
People can have different mindsets even if they had the same amount of money, but if the perception was that they had means, they acted differently than people who did not think they had means.
Define What Wealth Means ... Read more
Being at the mercy of your emotions can cause a lot of otherwise capable people to lose control of themselves. Not controlling your emotions can cause you to send the wrong message to people you are communicating with and even make people lose faith in you. Controlling your emotions doesn’t mean stuffing them and ignoring them, but it means overcoming the emotions to ensure that you make good choices.
Acknowledge Your Emotions
When your emotions are triggered, ... Read more
Technology is advancing at unprecedented levels, and it’s only going to get faster. According to Moore’s Law all technological changes occur faster and faster doubling approximately every 18 months. Because of this fact, if you want to keep up in the world, continuously seek to master new skills.
If you want to master a new skill, it’s imperative first to ask and answer a few questions:
Are You Really Ready?
Do you have the right background to learn ... Read more
