SELF IMPROVEMENT AND MOTIVATION

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.

T here are seven disciplines you must develop if you want to achieve all that is possible for you. You can learn these disciplines through practice and repetition until they become automatic. Goal Setting Every morning, take three to five minutes to write out your top goals in the present tense. Get a spiral notebook for this purpose. By writing out your ten goals at the beginning of each day, you will program them deep into your subconscious mind. This daily goal writing will activate your mental powers. It will stimulate your mind and make you more alert. Throughout the day, you will see opportunities and possibilities to move more rapidly toward your goals. Planning and Organizing Take a few minutes, preferably the night before, to plan out every activity of the coming day. Always work from a list. Always think on paper. This is one of the most powerful and important disciplines of all for high performance. Concentration on your Highest-Value Activities Y

A good story, just for you from a friend to a friend as I also got it from a friend Do you know the legend of the Cherokee Indian youth's rite of Passage? His father takes him into the forest, blindfolds him and leaves him alone. He is required to sit on a stump the whole night and not remove the blindfold until the rays of the morning sun shine through it. He cannot cry out for help to anyone. Once he survives the night, he is a MAN. He cannot tell the other boys of this experience, because each lad must come into manhood on his own. The boy is naturally terrified. He can hear all kinds of noises. Wild beasts must surely be all around him. The wind blew the grass and earth, and shook his stump, but he sat stoically, never removing the blindfold. It would be the only way he could become a man! Finally, after a horrific night the sun appeared and he removed his blindfold. It was then that he discovered his father sitting on the stump next to h

For many of us, New Year’s resolutions are grandly made and easily broken. Why? Because a resolution is just that—a decision. To make a life change, you need more than a decision.  Y ou need a plan. The plan is the guide to put your decision into action so that you can reach your goal. It’s up to you to take steps to get closer to your goal. Learning how to set goals takes practice.  Whether you resolve to lose weight, save money, or adopt a healthier lifestyle, New Year’s resolutions can be hard to keep. By Valentine’s Day, most New Year’s resolutions are a distant memory.  Help your child understand that time and patience are usually involved in making changes. It takes time and commitment to your plan for your resolution to become a habit. Setting a small goal, like getting up half an hour earlier in the morning so that you can get where you need to be on time, may be challenging—it just takes practice. After a few weeks or months, it will just be a positive habi

Make more money, lose weight, and live by the Golden Rule. These are some of the  most popular New Year’s resolutions  around, but the formula for a better future is variable. For some people, learning to manage stress is a more constructive goal than shedding a few pounds. For others, the New Year might be best spent reconnecting with old friends, or taking more time off work to recharge. Come Jan. 1, one in three will vow to make changes that better their lives. Most, however, will collapse long before reaching the finish line. About 75 percent of people who make New Year’s resolutions are on target a week later, but that figure drops to less than 50 percent by July. That doesn’t mean New Year’s resolutions should be abandoned before they even have the chance to come to light. It’s time to knuckle down. In the  words  of the venerated Oprah Winfrey, “Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. Cheers to

New Year’s resolutions are like traffic. As the driver, your focus is intent while trying to “get there;” you see others pass you by; you get held up at a red light that slows down progress.  Distractions such as the radio, crazy drivers, cellphones (in some states) preclude you from focusing on the one thing you should: the road ahead.  In other words, New Year’s resolutions come and go, ebb and flow, only to be revisited the following year. So how do you adopt a new habit to make it stick? It has been said that the only certainty in life is uncertainty; change is the one “thing” we can all count on to always be there—and that guy Murphy always seems to be leading the charge. With New Year’s (Resolution) eve just around the corner, many people want to inspire themselves to become better but don’t for two reasons: they don’t know what to do and they don’t know how to do it. To fill the inspiration gap, here are four goal-setting ideas to spur that (sleepy) motivatio