Posts Tagged ‘achievement’

10 HARD Ways to Make Your Life Better

Some of the most worthwhile things in life aren’t easy. One of the things I dislike most about “power of positive thinking”-style personal development philosophies (such as “The Secret”) is the implication that if you just have the right attitude and the right state of mind, the rest will just fall into place. I think it causes a lot of hurt and disappointment in people who invest their time… » Continue

March 14 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: achievement, growth, life, personal-development | 71 comments»

Key to Innovation: Becoming an Observer

We all need to innovate to stand out from the crowd. But what is the key to innovation? The answer, or at least an important answer, is becoming an observer. By observing how we and other people do things, we will spot opportunities for improvements. The more we observe, the more opportunities we will find. We can then work to provide solutions for some of the problems. By becoming… » Continue

January 24 2008 | By Donald | Tagged: achievement, business, creativity | 16 comments»

Three Basic Steps to Get Your Desire with the Least Effort

How can we get what we want? The book Simpleology contains five laws to help you get what you want:

The Law of Straight Lines: The shortest path between two points is a straight line. If you want to get a particular result, take the fastest and most direct route. Don’t add any extra steps.
The Law of Clear Vision: In order to hit a

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January 14 2008 | By Donald | Tagged: achievement, performance, Productivity, success | 24 comments»

20 Questions to Help You Reflect the Past Year

Now we are approaching the end of the year, and it’s the perfect time to reflect how we have done in the past year. We can then take some lessons for the new year. One good way to reflect, I believe, is using four facets of prosperity:

Material prosperity
Spiritual prosperity
Physical prosperity
Social prosperity

These four facets give us a complete and balanced view of prosperity. By reflecting on them, you… » Continue

December 27 2007 | By Donald | Tagged: achievement, health, planning, question, relationship, self, success | 20 comments»

Achieving Your Dream: How to Take the First Step

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.Lao-tzu

Do you have a dream deep in your heart that you want to pursue? If you do, have you taken the first step necessary to achieve it? Taking the first step is perhaps the most difficult thing to do in achieving a dream. There are a lot of mental obstacles that make it difficult to take that first step.

Here… » Continue

December 14 2007 | By Donald | Tagged: achievement, goal, motivation, success | 10 comments»

How to Get Gutsy

“If you wanna run with the big dogs, you’ve gotta get off the porch.” This was the sage advice given to me some years ago as I considered my first entrepreneurial venture. You’ve got to take risks. Be gutsy. All of which led me to wonder what guts really is. And, more importantly, if you don’t have it, can you get it?

What is… » Continue

December 10 2007 | By Jonathan | Tagged: achievement, business, networking, speaking | 9 comments»

Avoiding Mediocrity: Do You Dare to Be Different?

Following the herd is a sure way to mediocrity.
Patti Wilson
I don’t know about you, but one of the things I’m afraid most in life is mediocrity. For me, life is too precious to be lived in mediocrity. Life is a golden opportunity, and we should use it as good as we can. Living in mediocrity means we do not use the opportunity as good as we should.

Unfortunately, many people… » Continue

November 28 2007 | By Donald | Tagged: achievement, attitude, life, success | 15 comments»

Thanksgiving and the Stories We Tell Ourselves

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving here in the U.S., possibly the most important secular holiday of the year. On this day, football is played, families come together and fight, vast quantities of turkeys are consumed, and stories are told. Stories of family and football, of course, but also a particular story, the story of the United States in its infancy, when beleaguered pilgrims came to American shores fleeing religious persecution… » Continue

November 21 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: achievement, self_improvement, story, thanksgiving | 13 comments»

Four mental foibles we all cherish - and how to get rid of them.

As human beings, we have a natural wish to improve ourselves, and are always looking for ways to be more efficient, focused and fulfilled. However, we also have the opposite tendency to cherish certain limitations that prevent us from achieving these exact things! Let’s go into four of these limitations in detail.

1. Imagining the worst possible future.

When something bad happens, our mind often has a tendency to compound it… » Continue

November 6 2007 | By Shane | Tagged: achievement, behavior, limitation | 9 comments»

Nine Ways to Live the Lifestyle of a Champion

Most people recognize a champion only when he steps up the podium, but he actually has become a champion far before it. In fact, he has become a champion years before that glorious moment. Why? Because to reach that moment, first and foremost he has to become a champion in his daily life. He has to train hard for years, control his diet, and deny a lot of pleasures… » Continue

September 4 2007 | By Donald | Tagged: achievement, attitude, Lifestyle, performance, success | 4 comments»

Success recipes most people know, but too few follow

If you want to look back on a life that fills you with joy, conventional rules for success are not the place to start

Don’t chase money, power, or status.
If they come to you, that’s fine. But most conventional ideas about success go wrong because they focus on outcomes instead of on the processes of living. Outcomes come around from time to time, but life itself—the process of living

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July 2 2007 | By Adrian | Tagged: achievement, career, success | 40 comments»

5 ways to reclaim some of your attention.

A few weeks ago after realizing here just how many hands were in my attention wallet, I put at the top of my GTD projects list a new project: Reclaiming my attention. I suspect it’s going to be one of those long projects - there are so many people, companies, causes, information sources and things out there, all wanting slices of your attention until you have nothing… » Continue

May 29 2007 | By Bob | Tagged: achievement, attention | 2 comments»

Creating the “future you”

The goal of self-improvement is always to create a better future, whether you state that as your target or not. That’s why many of the approaches on offer make the link between behavior and results. They tell you to act in a certain way and imply that the results you want will surely follow.

There’s a problem with this way of thinking. No one can tell what events and challenges the… » Continue

May 7 2007 | By Adrian | Tagged: achievement, improvement, motivation, vision | 3 comments»

Throw a lifeline to your future.

It can be pretty discouraging when after a long week of hard work you realize you are not one inch closer to the future you want.

Sure, you’ve worked all out, chopping through tasks left, right and center, fulfilling all your (conflicting) roles for various people in your life, and here it Friday, your brain feels like boiled mush and you’re bone tired. What’s worse, you know in your heart… » Continue

February 23 2007 | By Bob | Tagged: accomplishment, achievement, future, lifeline | 17 comments»

Want results? Frame your work.

There’s a technique I use to get blocks of work done well. I evolved this technique as one of a host of survival mechanisms over the past few years in response to losing more and more time to IFS – Information Fatigue Syndrome. If you read blogs (and you obviously do), surf sites, scan RSS feeds and get tons of email you know IFS – you just don’t… » Continue

February 16 2007 | By Bob | Tagged: accomplishment, achievement, information | 6 comments»

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