Posts Tagged ‘success’

The Other Epidemic Of Obesity

It’s high time business slimmed down and stopped fooling itself with crash ‘diets’ of job cuts and outsourcing

The media are happy to keep reminding us that people in the developed world, especially the United States, are growing ever fatter; that obesity starts in childhood and continues thereafter to pump itself up on a diet of junk food, sodas, and ’super-sized’ portions.

Yet what we almost never hear about is… » Continue

April 23 2008 | By Adrian | Tagged: business, career, success, waste | 4 comments»

Can the Lifehacking Concept Help You Live Until the Singularity?

Most geeks know who Ray Kurzweil is. Most musicians do too, and so do many blind people. Kurzweil has invented so many things in so many different fields, it’s hard to know where to begin.

Perhaps one of the things he’s most famous for, aside from inventing the first reading machine and some awesome keyboards (the kind a musician plays), is his support—or, really, evangelism—for the concept of the Singularity.

The… » Continue

April 8 2008 | By Joel | Tagged: lifehacking, motivation, risk, success, system | 10 comments»

Welcome Failure

Very often the best way to test an idea is not to analyze it but to try it. The organization that implements lots of ideas will most likely have many failures but the chances are, it will reap some mighty successes too. By trying numerous initiatives we improve our chances that one of them will be a star. As Tom Kelley of IDEO puts it… » Continue

March 27 2008 | By Paul | Tagged: creativity, failure, imagination, leadership, Management, problem-solving, success, thinking | 10 comments»

8 Ways to Take It to the Next Level

No matter what you’re doing, there comes a time when you are going to want to take things up a notch. Maybe it’s your career — even if things are going along fine right now, ultimately you’d like to get a promotion, increase your client base, or reach a larger audience. Or maybe it’s a hobby that you think you’d like to turn into a career.

Getting started… » Continue

February 4 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: branding, career, marketing, niche, Productivity, success | 17 comments»

Where You Are Depends on How You Look at Things

One of the big differences between people who are successful in life and business and people who aren’t is how they look at things, which in turn shapes how they make decisions. If you aren’t satisfied with your progress up the corporate ladder, the value of your investment portfolio or your ability to find a partner you might have more success by altering how you look at things and… » Continue

February 4 2008 | By Susan | Tagged: decision-making, perspective, point_of_view, success | 4 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 | 23 comments»

How to Use a Notebook to Make 2008 the Best Year Ever

The notebook has been around forever. Do you remember your first one? It probably had very wide lines and perhaps a spiral binding. You used a fat pencil and traced letters until they became second nature. Before long you learned script. Then you migrated to pens. Some of you, dear readers, are now Moleskine aficionados and are selective and perhaps downright snooty about your pen choice. The lefties here… » Continue

January 7 2008 | By Susan | Tagged: goal setting, gtd, meditation, new_year, notebook, planning, Productivity, success, tool | 30 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»

8 Ways to Achieve Success in 2008

I don’t believe in resolutions. The idea that a trick of the calendar should be the driving force for real change in my life seems silly. And yet, there’s no denying that a year is a good block of time to think with — long enough to carry out big projects and short enough to keep the end-goal in sight. Plus, a year is a good block of… » Continue

December 26 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: commitment, goal, motivation, resolution, success | 22 comments»

How to Sell Yourself on Lifestyle Change

It’s coming up on that time of year again. You know, the time where you seriously commit to the same resolution that you seriously committed to last year… before life got in the way and it evaporated into thin air.

Depending on who you ask, up to 85% percent of all New Year’s resolutions involved some element of lifestyle change, be it weight loss, exercise, better nutrition, improved life-balance or… » Continue

December 26 2007 | By Jonathan | Tagged: change, motivation, planning, resolution, selling, success, weightloss | 19 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»

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»

10 Reasons You Aren’t Achieving Success

A couple of months ago, I asked you not to fear failure, saying that embracing failure — or at least the possibility of failure — was essential to success. But, of course, in the end the goal is to succeed, and fear of failing isn’t the only thing that keeps us from succeeding.

I speak from experience here. Six or seven years ago, I was the picture of… » Continue

November 9 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: failure, goal, lifelesson, success | 43 comments»

How Do You Stop Comparing Yourself With Others?

Competition is a big part of human nature. For some more than others. It’s in our nature to compare and judge.

Everyone has their own gauge for success that has usually been conditioned by various factors; school, work, TV etc. However, it doesn’t have to be this way and Brian Kim understands this when he writes, “Don’t think hierarchy, Think journey”.

If you keep focusing on everyone else’s journey, you’re… » Continue

October 24 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: people, success | 1 comment»

Do you suffer from bad luck?

Here’s how to improve your fortune

Are you one of those people who are always suffering setbacks? Does little ever seem to go right for you? Are you dogged by constant instances of sheer bad luck? Do you sometimes feel that the universe is out to get you?

Let me let you into a secret: your luck is no worse—and no better—than anyone else’s. It just feels that way. Better, still… » Continue

October 1 2007 | By Adrian | Tagged: control, life, loser, luck, success | 30 comments»

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