Posts for Month: September 2025

Develop New Healthy Habits: 9 Steps to Success

One of the best ways to succeed in life is to develop good habits. A habit will overcome any type of roadblocks, need for willpower and motivation, or other issues that prevent success.

Step #1: Choose the Habit You Want to Cultivate

When you are ready to develop new healthy habits, it’s best to focus on one habit at a time. Working on more than one causes more stress. By replacing one habit at a time, you’re ... Read more

The Most Effective Way to Break a Bad Habit

A habit is something you do without thinking about it. Many people think of habits as things like smoking, which is a bad habit. However, habits can be bad or good. In fact, the most effective way to break a bad habit is to crowd it out with good habits. 

For example, if you want to eat fewer empty calories and more nutritious food so you can be healthier instead of focusing on eating less focus ... Read more

The Key to Manifesting A Good Life

If you’ve ever heard of the law of attraction, you know that it’s about manifesting your desires. To manifest is an action that you take to make something come into your life so that you remember it’s there. For example, when you bake a cake, a cake will manifest or appear, once you have made it. 

Get Clear on Your Definition of a Good Life 

Have you ever started a project without knowing what the result is ... Read more

How Can I Be More Charismatic?

People who have charisma are self-confident, upbeat, and while they are good persuaders, they’re not arrogant or self-centered. They make people want to be around them, and they’re good at getting people behind their causes. It’s a compelling ability that can genuinely change your life, and thankfully, you can learn to be more charismatic.

Be Fully Present in the Now

One trait that charismatic leaders possess is the ability to be fully mindful and present at all ... Read more

8 Negotiation Skills You Should Know

The negotiation process includes preparing, discussing, goal clarification, working toward a win-win outcome, making an agreement, and finally implementation of the decision.  By looking at the process, you can see which skills will be useful to learn if you want to become a master negotiator. 

Study Effective Verbal Communication 

When you negotiate with people you are communicating with them, usually face to face in a verbal way. Understanding how communication works will help you a lot. You’ll ... Read more

9 Tips for Building Relationships that Work

Building relationships that work takes effort, planning, and an understanding of communication. If you want to build a healthy working relationship that you can trust, you need to develop and maintain good communication skills.

Know Who You Are

Everything you do starts with you. If you don’t know what your own values are or what’s important to you, it will be hard to make good choices in life. Define your values and morals so that when you ... Read more

10 Ways to Work Smarter and Increase Productivity

Becoming more productive at home and work requires planning, scheduling, and paying close attention to the impact of the actions you take. After all, productivity is not about being busy, it’s about getting stuff done. 

    1. Track Your Time – Before you set up a new schedule for increased productivity, it’s essential that you figure out where you’re wasting your time first. Start keeping track of the activities you do, including the time it ... Read more

How to Be More Proactive In Life

A proactive person makes things happen. If you want to make things happen instead of waiting around for them to happen to you, there are ways to ensure that you become more proactive.  You’ll need to engage in planning, understand what you want, and know the steps it takes to go over it without giving up. 

Know How to Plan Properly 

Planning involves more than just making a list of your goals. It’s about making a list ... Read more

8 Revealing Body Language Clues

Your body language may not be something you’ve given much thought about. However, your level of success can often be traced back to the unconscious. You do things  unconsciously every day, such as wiggling your foot when you sit down or fidgeting in your seat. These actions reveal what you really think and how you feel.

Lack of Eye Contact 

In most western cultures, if people avoid eye contact it feels as if they’re hiding something or ... Read more

When Working Hard Isn't Enough

No matter what you want to accomplish, success doesn't happen without putting forth a lot of effort. But even then, it may not come as easily as you think and that can be frustrating. It can cause you to want to quit. But quitting is not the right answer.

If you’ve been working hard but not getting the results you want, it's time to reevaluate. By taking the time to review your goals, your plan and ... Read more

Stoicism: The Key to A Happy Life

To understand how stoicism can be a key to a happy life, you first need to understand what stoicism is. Stoicism is a philosophy of life developed by Hellenistic Greeks and represents a particular way of looking at the problems of the world. 

Along with that is a philosophy that explains that you only have real control over yourself and that once you accept this as fact, you will be much happier.

To better understand stoicism, it’s ... Read more

How to Master Self-Discipline

Self-discipline is something many people lack but everyone should strive to have more of. One who is self-disciplined often has a life full of success, happiness, and satisfaction. Not to mention, they’re likely to have more money and better health.

Being self-disciplined doesn’t mean you never have fun It just means that you know the steps you need to take to reach your goals and you’re committed to doing them, even when you prefer not to. 

So, ... Read more

8 Ways to Boost Creativity Anytime

Creativity can be found in all aspects of life. It can inspire you to cook a new type of cuisine, allow you to author a novel, or enable you to simply do your work every day. Creativity isn't limited to only artists or a musician. Everyone has the ability to be creative. When you want to be more creative, try the following ways to boost creativity anytime. 

Listen to music: Take a ten-minute break to listen ... Read more

Train Your Subconscious Mind to Improve Your Life

Your subconscious mind controls your thoughts and many of your actions. It stores the information you have acquired and allows you to retrieve it when you need it. When you live a mindful life, you know your conscious mind is in control of your subconscious mind, and therefore you can train your subconscious mind to improve your life. 

    • Know That You Have the Power to Change – With few exceptions, you can change ... Read more

How to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done

Procrastination is defined as the action of delaying or postponing something. Sometimes that means being late, sometimes it means being on time but not doing a very good job. Usually, when someone is procrastinating, they’ll find every excuse not to do what needs to be done, often busying themselves with other activities to avoid guilt.

    1. Get Organized – Sometimes, people put things off simply because they’re overwhelmed, and everything just seems like too ... Read more

10 Real-Life Benefits of Visualization

Visualization means creating a mental image of something. It's taking the time to thoroughly think through a goal so you can experience the feelings of success before you even take the step. Some people can visualize these outcomes perfectly in their mind, but others use tools like vision boards to help them truly see success.

There are so many benefits to using visualization in your life, let's look at a few.  

More Likely to Succeed

Studies show ... Read more

How to Define What Success is For You

Every person is unique, having different values and goals. That's why each person should have their own definition of success. My definition of success may not work for you and vice versa. Defining success for yourself gives you a customized goal to shoot for. The following exercises will help you determine what success means to you. 

Use a Vision Board

One way to figure out what success means to you is to create a vision board depicting ... Read more

10 Things Influential People Do Regularly

One way to become more influential is to study what influential people do regularly. This will ensure that you can work on learning the skills necessary to become more prominent to the people in your life. 

    1. They Care About Other People – Not only do influential people know how to show that they care about people, but they do care. After all, they know that the more connections they have, the more they ... Read more

Simple Ways to Become More Accountable

To be more accountable in your life, it’s essential to understand what being accountable really means. When you are “accountable” it means that you have responsibility for something and you admit it whether it’s a success, a mistake, or an out and out failure. If you want to become more accountable, which will make you a more trustworthy person who seems more authentic, try out these 10 ways to be more accountable. 

    1. Set ... Read more

Learning to Forgive

One thing that can stunt your growth as a human is not knowing how to forgive people. Not forgiving those who have harmed you in some way is a recipe for self-doubt and being stuck in the past unable to move forward happily and successfully. These steps to help you forgive people will help you if you do them.

    1. Pinpoint the Source of Your Pain – You must know how you got hurt ... Read more

Bring More Optimism into Your Life

It is true that due to genetics, some people are more optimistic than others. However, did you know that you can learn to become more optimistic? If you are committed to being more optimistic, try these 8 ways to become more optimistic.

    1. Practice Positivity – If you tend to first thing negatively try to turn your thoughts around by actively pursuing positive thoughts. If a negative thought comes to your mind, turn it ... Read more

Why Getting Better at Goal Setting Will Make You More Productive

Being productive is a skill that many successful people value. The reason is that when you are productive, you get more done, make more money, and still experience freedom in your life. One way to accomplish more is to get better at goal setting. 

    • Goals Provide Focus – When you set goals properly using SMART goal setting practices, you will end up being very focused on the results that you want to see. ... Read more

Be More Assertive When You're Shy

The very first thing you need to do if you want to be more assertive in your life is to understand what assertive is and what it isn’t. Being assertive does not mean that you are aggressive. You don’t have to be rude to be assertive. To be more assertive simply means that you stand up for yourself, speak up at the time that it’s needed, and respect the rights of others.

Prepare and Practice 

Whenever you ... Read more

How Your Attitude Affects Your Performance

If you struggle to reach optimum performance mentally, physically, and emotionally, it could be your attitude is getting in the way. Studies show a positive correlation between having a positive attitude and performing optimally. In fact, multiple studies back the idea that a positive attitude directly affects performance in a good way while a negative attitude lowers your performance in all ways.  

A positive attitude manifests in many ways. It encourages constructive thinking and gives ... Read more

Crush Your Fear and Be More Outgoing in Your Life

Many famous actors and comedians, despite their success, confess to being shy or to having social anxiety. Shocking isn't it? They are in front of others and a camera every day doing their thing and doing it well. Yet they apparently are uncomfortable and oftentimes fearful 

So, how can you apply this same fearlessness to your life? Try some of these ideas and see how much more outgoing you become.

Accept Your Feelings

There is no point in ... Read more