SELF IMPROVEMENT AND MOTIVATION

Distractions only have the power that you give them. To avoid being overpowered by distractions, see them for what they are.What is it that resonates with your passion and fires up your positive enthusiasm? Whatever it is, that's the thing to focus upon.When something interrupts your focus, don't fight it. Simply notice it, quickly decide whether it is worth any more of your precious attention, and if not, peacefully let it go.Don't get angry or resentful that the distraction happened, and don't become obsessed with something that really doesn't matter. Just take a deep breath, smile as you remember your purpose, and move on.You don't have to be dragged this way and that by random events and circumstances. You can easily stay clearly focused on your dreams, your goals and your intentions.Your thoughts are yours to choose, and your attention is yours to allocate. Decide to give your attention to those things that matter most, and move purposefully ahead no matter...

Perhaps the greatest challenge you will ever face in life is the conquest of fear and the development of courage. Fear is, and always has been, the greatest enemy of mankind. When Franklin D. Roosevelt said, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself,” he was saying that the emotion of fear, rather than the realty of what we fear, is what causes us anxiety, stress, and unhappiness. When you develop the habit of courage and unshakeable self-confidence, a whole new world of possibilities opens up for you. Just imagine-what would you dare to dream or be or do if you weren't afraid of anything in the whole world? Develop the Habit of Courage Fortunately, the habit of courage can be learned just as any other habit is learned, through repetition. We need to constantly face and overcome our fears to build up the kind of courage that will enable us to deal with the inevitable ups and downs of life unafraid. The starting point in overcoming fear and developing courage is to look at the ...

In 1928, the magazine Sales and Marketing Management surveyed American Businesses to determine how efficiently salespeople were using their time. They discovered that the average salesperson in America was only working 20 percent of the time, approximately one and one-half hours per day. This finding caused bells to go off throughout the sales industry. The idea that salespeople were only working ninety minutes per day became the emphasis for improved training, better time management skills, better supervision, and better control of the activities of salespeople. Double Your Sales In my sales programs, I teach what I call my minutes theory. It is based on a simple equation. If you are in sales today, 100 percent of your sales and your income are generated by the number of minutes hat you spend face-to-face with prospects and customers. If you want to increase the number of sales or the amount of money you make, you must increase the number of minutes that you spend in actual selling ac...

Possibility of success You can make your life a triumph in spite of every adversity. Or you could make your life a mess in spite of every advantage.Success does not depend on where you start. If it did, no one would have ever been successful.Success comes from what you choose to do with whatever you have. It is fully available to anyone who decides to make the effort and the commitment.Whatever the day holds, it also holds the possibility of success and achievement. Whatever the situation may be, there is a way to create real value from it.Choose to see the positive possibilities, and you will. Choose to follow those possibilities, and success takes root.The opportunity for success is always yours, and so is the responsibility. Decide to do what it takes, and create the success that is your own special destiny.

Each setback provides an opportunity to recover. And each time you recover, you grow stronger.The route to your goal is not a straight line. There will be many times along the way when you find yourself off course.When that happens, it can seem like your destination is unreachable. Doubt, fear and apathy will take hold if you let them.The key is not to let them. For as hopeless as the situation may feel, there are actions you can take that will enable you to quickly get back on track.Much of the substance of achievement is in becoming skilled at making a quick and solid recovery. Each setback gives you the chance to practice and strengthen and refine that valuable skill.Know that whatever has slowed you down can provide you with a way to move more effectively forward. Quickly get back up, and feel the new strength you've gained.

The reality of your life is driven by your concept of what is possible. Whatever you are certain of, is certain to be for you.You cannot change the laws of reality, and there is no reason to do so. For reality can accommodate whatever possibility you dare to imagine.Know that it can be done, and there is most definitely a way. Commit the whole of your true self, and it will be.Dream big, wonderful, meaningful dreams and purge them of every trace of doubt. Your own unique dreams are yours precisely because you are the person who can fulfill and experience them.Pay no attention to those who claim that the best days have passed and the best opportunities have all been taken. Life's abundance has no limit, and grows to whatever proportion you choose to imagine.Give your time, thoughts, efforts and commitment to express that abundance in your own special way. Know without a doubt that it is possible, and it is.

When you decide to do it, begin to do it. Give substance to your commitment by acting on it right away.Intention is powerful, and yet there's something your intention must have in order to survive. That something is real, solid action.Make your choice, and then immediately give power to it by taking the first step toward it. There is always something you can do right away.When you act, you seal the commitment. When you act, you create momentum.The way to make sure you stay in motion is to get yourself in motion right away. When the reason for your decision is still fresh in your mind, give power to that decision by acting on it.Accomplishment occurs when you go beyond merely thinking about it. Get up, get going, get moving and you will indeed get it done.

Can you define easy? What makes one task easy and another task difficult?What one person considers difficult another person finds to be easy. In fact, difficult and easy are largely what you define them to be.Do you see certain accomplishments as out of reach because you assume that they're too difficult? Perhaps it's worth looking again, knowing that you have the power to decide what is difficult and what is easy.When you take it easy, then you have the power to make it easy. When you make it easy, then you can get it done.Though the job may be complicated and challenging and demanding, you can choose to make it easy by the way you think of it. Instead of avoiding what you assume to be difficult, you can dive right in to what you decide is easy.Choose with your own thoughts to make it easy. And you'll choose to make it happen.