Self Improvement To Success

The Real Secrets To Success - "It's what you learn when you think you know everything that counts the most in life."  Basketball Coach John Wooden What's the "secret" behind successful business owners? It's simple - they have a coach. We all have blind spots, particularly when it comes to our business. Have you noticed how easy it is to give advice, but when it comes to your life you can't see the whole picture? Emotions can get in the way of making clear decisions. Who do you turn to when you need answers? Do you operate your business from the highest level of thinking and action? Do you feel you are doing all you can, and yet, it just isn't enough?  The old model of learning from your mistakes is not effective. It's too expensive and time consuming. A single mistake can ruin you in today's fast paced business environment. A coach is an inexpensive insurance policy. Coaching is a profession that has synthesized the best from psychology, ...

The root cause for procrastination . - Why is it that we as human beings often behave in ways that we don't really want to? How often have you said or done something only to cringe at the thought of it afterwards? The truth is that your behaviour is mostly driven by your unconscious mind, especially behaviours that is hard to explain from an intellectual point of view. Procrastination is knowing what to do, having the ability and desire to do it, but still you don't do it. Although there are many apparent causes for procrastination, the root cause for this illogical behaviour resides in your unconscious mind.  Your conscious mind is very limited in its ability to deal with life. That over which you have conscious control is mostly limited to one thing at a time. This is why using your willpower to create any real change rarely works long term. What you need to do is to change your automatic behaviour which resides in your unconscious mind, that part of you that controls all the...

The Secret To Business Success : Act On Your Ideas - The real secret of a success is simple: Do something about your ideas. Each of us has seen a new idea and said, "Why, I thought of that a year ago." We say it with scorn, but we should direct the scorn at ourselves, not at the person who had the drive to do something about it. Successful idea men generate ideas all the time, and they don't hoard them. They do something about them, even if they give them away. There are a lot of other satisfactions than money in doing your. When I give an idea away and see it acted upon, I get a great thrill of satisfaction and accomplishment. The important thing is to keep having ideas and to keep putting them to work. Most of us are lazy, however. We mean to do better, to improve ourselves, to make this year better than last one. But we fall down, we forget, we drift. There are ways we keep prodding ourselves into reaching farther, to going beyond ourselves. We must, just like an athle...

The Secret to Positive Thinking to Attain Your Life Goals - The topic on the power of positive thinking has been gaining widespread popularity lately. Main reason that causes the surge in popularity is due to the release of many book and DVDs on The Secret. Many of us seek happiness in life and you may gain happiness through the incredible power of positive thinking. You may be the one of the many thousands confused by the claims that the teachers in the movie The Secret make. While It may sound ridiculous to some that the power of positive thinking has the ability to get what we desired, you need to see a bigger message being displayed in the movie. You need to read between the lines. Let's say that after watching the movie, I decided to apply the power of positive thinking.  I tend to focus my thoughts on road rage. I used to enter my vehicle thinking about other drivers that come too close to the rear of my vehicle. This pet-peeve really got under my skin and I actually began t...

THE SECRET TO SUCCESS - Most people are looking for the secret to success; the secret to being a millionaire; the secret to winning at working. To help them find it, Amazon.com currently inventories 1,797 books promising success secrets, everything from "Mustang Sallies: Success Secrets of Women Who Refuse to Run With the Herd" to "The 21 Secrets of Self-Made Millionaires." So, if you're one of those looking, I'll save you some time. The bottom line is this - there is no secret. There's no magical formula to follow; no short-cuts to take or lottery tickets you can purchase. People who are winning at working know it takes persistence, determination, commitment, passion, practice, focus and hard work. There are no secrets to any of that. Just look around.  Take Chester Carlson. Chester became a rich man as the successful inventor of an electrostatic paper-copying process that later became the Xerox Corporation, even though twenty corporations rejected his...

The Secret to the Rich Jerk’s Success - We’ve all seen this Rich Jerk guy floating around the net claiming he’s worth millions. Whether or not it’s true, no one knows for sure. But one thing we do know is that the Rich Jerk is popular. He’s well known and he’s selling tons of copies of his ebook that has now become infamous within the internet marketing community.  So how exactly did he achieve such phenomenal success? How does he expand his reach across a wide spread audience to pull in thousands of potential customers every single day? Is it a revolutionary tactic that only a handful of marketing geniuses on the planet are capable of performing? Of course not. The Rich Jerk is successful primarily due to one thing: branding. While you may be inclined to think branding is nothing more than a fancy logo or a spiffy business description, branding is actually a whole lot more. The Rich Jerk has managed to create a tremendous buzz around his product because he’s branded himself effec...