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Make Your First Move
James Dicks examinies the challenges of reaching your goals and that a positive and determined approach to all thiings will assist you in attaining the things you want/need in life.

"To Dream The Possible Dream"
If your dreams of stardom as a kid faded before they had hardly begun, take heart. You can still be a star.

Make Money or Make Up Excuses? What's Your Choice?
If you want to reach a higher level of success, there are two things that will catapult you to achieving your true potential – getting rid of your excuses, and understanding the power of perseverance.

Adult Onset ADD - The New Silent Culprit Claiming Many Burnt Out Workers
Most people think that burnout is only a condition for the over ambitious, type A personalities who go at such a tremendous pace that their body and mind just can't keep up. I also think that there is a different type of burnout that is quickly becoming a lot more common. Feeling burnout can also occur when you don't have any ambition. I call it Adult Onset ADD or Ambition Deficit Disorder...

Reaching your ultimate goal
Each work experience is a building block that helps to create your ultimate career goal. The success of a lifetime is comprised of many routine assignments which serve as preparation. No job is too menial and all successful people have paid their dues.This story illustrates the importance of never giving up on your dreams.

Lesson #1: Give It All You’ve Got
“You get what you give,” says Lopez. “What you put into things is what you get out of them.”

Building an Empire: Oprah’s Formative Years

Oprah’s ambition did not diminish with the success of The Oprah Winfrey Show. After her successful acting debut in The Colour Purple (1985), Oprah’s desire to expand into the film and television industry was further fueled. In 1988, Oprah became the third woman in the American entertainment industry to own her own studio when she created Harpo Studios. Oprah’s name read backwards, Harpo is a television and film production, magazine publishing and online media company in one. “I did this to really expand into the areas I wanted to and take over the show to create more time for me to do features and TV specials,” she said.

Lesson #2: Try And Try Again
When Hershey first tried his hand at entrepreneurship, it seemed he would forever take after his father, with one failed business attempt after another. Although he had determination and ambition and he had begun working towards his dreams while he was still a teenager, Hershey found himself unemployed and nearly bankrupt by the time he was 30.

Lesson #1: Don’t Take ‘No’ for an Answer
“If you have a goal, if you want to be successful, if you really want to do it and become another Estee Lauder, you’ve got to work hard, you’ve got to stick to it and you’ve got to believe in what you’re doing,” said Lauder.

The Winning Concoction: Lauder’s Success Factors
She was born the daughter of immigrants and raised in a humble home but she left the world as one of the most successful and wealthiest women entrepreneurs in the world. She has become a household name and her products are as much sought after now as they ever were. How did this once unknown aspiring actress make a name for herself in the fiercely competitive beauty industry?

Lesson #3: Do It Because You Love It
“I’m a geek,” says Cuban. “I love technology. I would be online working with technology regardless of what my day job is.”

Singing All The Way To The Bank: How Lopez Achieved Success
“A few years down the line, you wake up in a certain place and wonder how the hell you got there,” says Lopez. How did a girl from the Bronx grow up to become one of the world’s most renowned actresses, dancers, singers, fashion designers and producers in the world?

Lesson #2: Be Ruthless
“It's my job for Oracle – the number two software company in the world – to become the number one software company in the world,” says Ellison. “My job, is to build better than the competition, sell those products in the marketplace, and eventually supplant Microsoft and move from being number two to number one.”

The Source of Oracle’s Wisdom: How Ellison Achieved Success
“There's a wonderful saying that's dead wrong,” says Ellison. “‘Why did you climb the mountain?' ‘I climbed the mountain because it was there.’ That's utter nonsense…You climbed the mountain because you were there, and you were curious if you could do it. You wondered what it would be like.”

Lesson #3: Be Ambitious
“The road to happiness lies in two simple principles,” said Rockefeller. “Find what interests you and that you can do well, and put your whole soul into it – every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have.”

High-Octane Success: How Rockefeller Reached New Heights
When Rockefeller was 86 years old, he wrote the following: I was early taught to work as well as play, My life has been one long, happy holiday; Full of work and full of play- I dropped the worry on the way- And God was good to me everyday.

Lesson #2: Be Relentless
“I am a hedonist at heart,” says Cowell. “I love the uncertainty and the challenge. I’m also exceptionally competitive and ambitious. It is relentless, relentless, relentless. I can’t help it. Sometimes I’m glad, sometimes I wish I wasn’t like that all the time. I can never switch off.”

Serial Entrepreneur: How Cowell Produced Success

When Cowell was once asked what the secret to success was, he replied, “Work hard, be patient, and be a sponge while learning your business. Learn how to take criticism. Follow your gut instinct and don’t compromise.” It is by following this recipe that Cowell has shot to fame and earned a reputation as not only a great record producer, music executive, and television personality, but also as an astute and successful entrepreneur.

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Lesson #5: You Are Worth More than Your Net Worth

Both before and after Candler became an internationally successful businessman, he had a clear grasp of the fact that he, and every other person along with him, was in possession of a number of intangible assets that went far further in determining his potential for success than did the amount of money he had in his bank account. After all, with less than $2 in his pockets when he first arrived in Atlanta, how else could the astounding success of Candler in starting up the Coca-Cola Company be explained?

Lesson #2: Make A Commitment To Be The Very Best
“My first ambition in life was to be Miles Davis,” recalls Gardner. “I didn’t want to be a trumpet player, an artist or a jazz musician – I literally wanted to be Miles. My mom said to me, ‘Baby, you can’t be Miles. There ain’t but one, and he got that job.’ But I made a commitment at an early age that I wanted to be world class at something,”

Lesson #2: Define Your Priorities and Goals
Ash ran her company under the motto “God first, family second, career third.” Ever conscious of the value of time, Ash knew it was the one commodity she would never be able to get back. Thus, in both her personal and professional lives, she learned early on the importance of practicing disciplined time management.

The Business of Beauty: How Ash Changed an Industry

Ash once said that “people fall forward to success.” In her case, it seems she didn’t fall so much as she ran towards her dreams. With ambition and determination, Ash created not only a successful billion-dollar company but also one of the few to be featured three times in Fortune magazine’s “The 100 Best Companies to Work for in America.” How did Ash break through the glass ceiling of gender discrimination to become a household name around the world?

Lesson #5: Set Goals No Matter How Unreachable They May Seem

“Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I’ll give you a man who will make history,” said Penney. “Give me a man with no goals and I’ll give you a stock clerk.” Penney understood the importance of deciding where he wanted to go, and striving to get there no matter how difficult it may have seemed at the time. His career is characterized by his ambition, his focus, and his refusal to give up in the face of difficulty.

Lesson #4: You Can Control Your Own Destiny

“Those who say that I am taking over the city centre,” says Helu, “that I have already bought up everything, are not going to stop me from continuing my project.” In the early 1980s, Helu began investing in real estate, construction, mining, tires, and paper goods. From there, he moved into telephones, computers, and even clothing. But, it was not so much what he was buying as the rate and scope at which he was buying them.

Unleashing the Magic: How Potter Wrote Her Way To Billions
“The height of my ambition for these books was, well frankly, to get reviewed,” Rowling admits. “A lot of children's books don't even get reviewed – forget good review, bad review.”

Lesson #1: It Is Never To Late To Get Your Start
“When we began to make $10 a day, [my ex-husband] thought that was enough, thought I ought to be satisfied,” said Walker. “But I was convinced that my hair preparation would fill a long-felt want. And when we found it impossible to agree, due to his narrowness of vision, I embarked on business for myself.”

From Menial Worker to Millionaire: How Walker Achieved Success

In 1917, Walker commissioned a 34-room mansion to be built for her on the Hudson River. It was her dream house, something she had worked for years to be able to afford. But when area residents found out who their new neighbour was going to be, they were less than happy. “One of the race,” wrote one newspaper, “is invading the domains of New York’s aristocracy.” The New York Times even wrote, “No woman of her race could own such a place. Does she really intend to live there?”

Lesson #4: Learning by Doing is the Better Way
“[I] learned it by doing it,” says Kelleher, “and I was scared to death.”

Lesson #2: Take the Risk for Your Customers’ Rewards
“I can't overemphasize that we have the right kind of client-relationship people who really have the interests of the client at hand first – not second, but first,” says Schwab. “We are willing to risk short-term revenue to do the right thing for the customer and ensure long-term success.”

‘Til Death Do Us Part: How Wang Created a Following of Loyal Customers
“I never thought I'd be successful,” says Wang. “It seems in my own mind that in everything I've undertaken I've never quite made the mark. But I've always been able to put disappointments aside. Success isn't about the end result; it's about what you learn along the way.”

Lesson #2: Be Ruthless and Refuse to Accept Rejection

At 22 years old, Huizenga was stuck in rut. His high school classmates were all graduating from university and beginning stable jobs. Huizenga, on the other hand, could not seem to find something that suited him. He had tried college, but decided it was not for him after just three semesters. He had tried the army, but that too did not fit his bill. Instead, he had spent the previous five years drifting from temporary work. Huizenga had reached a self-admitted crisis point in not only his career, but in his life.

Creating a String of Blockbusters: How Huizenga Achieved Success
“My father always said working for somebody else never amounted to anything,” Huizenga once said. “You have to be an entrepreneur.”

Lesson #5: As the Head Rooster, You Can Have a Little Fun
Running a business is about hard work, inspiration, and ambition, but at the end of the day, all entrepreneurs need to ask themselves one question: Did you have fun?

Coyote

Met a young man by the name of Coyote who works at the hotel in St. John's. He told us all the cool places to visit downtown. Coyote is interesting to me because he announced to me that he has no ambition, no desire to achieve anything other than climb rocks for the rest of his life. So he goes around from state park to state park and gets odds and ends jobs to give him just the means to work the rocks in the area.

Push or Pull
I have been thinking about the various blogs on leadership lately, and it strikes me that there is a difference of opinion amongst our community on whether employee performance is best improved by pushing or pulling. I believe the best leaders incorporate both into their style.

Are You an Egomaniac? Ten Questions with Steven Smith

Steven Smith has spent the past ten years exploring how great leaders use ego differently than everyone else—how they work, think, collaborate, and who they are. The result of his work is a book he co-authored with David Marcum called egonomics: What Makes Ego Our Greatest Asset (or Most Expensive Liability). His work has been featured by The Dallas Morning News, The Arizona Republic, The Irish Times, Cincinnati Enquirer, and Le Figaro. The topic of this interview is one of paramount importance to anyone who wants to change the world: Ego. Too much? Too little? How much is just enough?

Escaping the Entrepreneurial Seizure: Interview with Michael Gerber

Michael Gerber’s name should sound familiar. I recommend his bestseller, The E-Myth Revisited, as the must-read classic on automation. It brief, it discusses how to create scalable businesses that are based on rules and not outstanding employees; and how to become an owner instead of constant micromanager. Michael also had a enormous influence on me as a first-time writer. His words to me were simple during our first lunch:

Ambition - Good or Bad?

An anonymous writer said that ambition, fueled by compassion, wisdom and integrity, is a powerful force for good. It will turn the wheels of industry and open the door of opportunity for you and countless thousands of other people. Fueled by greed and the lust for power, ambition is a destructive force that ultimately does irreparable damage to the individual in its grasp and to the people within its reach.

The Power To Lead
Do you want the power to lead? See yourself as a work of art!

Dialogue Regarding CATA Post Demonstrates the Productive Power of Social Media

Dialogue Regarding CATA Post Demonstrates the Productive Power of Social Media "116 Campaign" in which I referred to the effort as being self-serving despite a just cause inspired an interesting discussion that demonstrates the power of social media to engage and expand upon a train of thought. In fact I enjoyed the exchange with Sue so much that I felt it warranted sharing with you. So here here the unabridged version:

Learning to Lead
A young mountaineer discovers his ability to lead...as climbing related to life.

Home Based Business Opportunity--Getting Started
You can run your own home based business opportunity on the Internet and get on the path to residual income and financial freedom. It is your best option in tough economic times. Read more...

Money and Marketing: 4 Business Model Blunders to Avoid
Unpredictable, up-and-down cash flow is frustrating to deal with. By redesigning your business model so that every offer flows effortlessly into the next, you’ll not only even out your income, you’ll dramatically increase it as well.

Success or Failure in Online Business
You are building your Online Business, you are working hard and promoting. Do you really think you can succeed.

Characteristics of the entrepreneurs
Dream a big dream, big dreams attract a lot of people!

Targeting Your Niche Made Simple – Start Small, Grow Later

It's perfectly normal to have big dreams when starting a business of your own. Having this long term vision provides both direction and ambition along the way. To really achieve though, you've got to start somewhere and make steady progress-it would just be way too easy to skip from startup right to industry leader, right? The surest way to ensuring profitable growth is to target and earn the trust of your niche. Start small, grow later.

7 Key Qualities Of Successful Entrepreneurs

Do you have what it takes to become a highly successful entrepreneur? Many folks want to own and build their own business-and it is a great thing for those willing to work at it and make things happen. The thing is, sometimes it's also pretty easy to overlook all of the hard work that goes into earning success. In this article, I reveal what I consider to be the 7 key qualities that a person must possess and demonstrate to become a successful entrepreneur.

Road to Success
Consistency on sales and business success demands a day to day commitment to: determination, principle-preparation and positive thinking.

We must step outside our Comfort Zone in order to succeed
When we decide to become an entrepreneur we must change our mindset and habits from our previous employment in order to succeed and this often involves performing tasks and actions that are outside our comfort zone. This article gives an insight into this process.

Socialized Medicine Pros and Cons

Each update on national healthcare insurance I hear on the TV talk shows has a political slant. According to some pundits the countries who use socialized medicine have hurt their economies and are forced to ration medical care to senior citizens. According to others they see the advantage or bonus of socialized medicine and all its positives and see none of the negative aspects of national health care.

Keys to Wealth and Success (part 4) Complacency
Complacency creeps on when you think you have arrived and it is easy to backslide and lose momentum. Always be looking to the next level and look for a mentor who can get you there.

Deciding if a Franchise is Right for You
In these times of financial difficulty people are considering their path into the future. Alot of people are driven by the impulses of ambition, redundancy or even preparation for retirement and contemplating self employment through franchising as a potential way forward. Without a doubt self employment through franchising is not right for everyone.

Pros and Cons of Starting your own Business
An increasing number of professionals from graduate to senior management level consider setting up an own business. There is a large variety of factors underlying these thoughts and tendencies. What are the pros and cons when considering a change from a "secure" employment to running your own business?

Getting creative about flexible working
The advertising and marketing industries are renowed for their last minute bursts of frantic activity as deadlines loom. It doesn't have to be that way, though, says Gary Reid, managing director of Nude, a UK-based creative company.

Why Does The Average Person Fail At MLM?

Anyone considering a multilevel marketing business needs to realize the stumbling blocks they are bound to deal with. Knowing what to expect will have an enormous impact on your success. Some people have an illusion that mlm isn't a legitimate business. Many have this idea because they have witnessed so many failures. Don't be a failure. Know your hurdles and how high you must jump to get over them.

Success Phobia - Do You Have It? 5 Easy Ways To Tell
What do snakes, spiders and success all have in common? If you guessed “sources of fear” or “things we avoid” you are absolutely right. While we can easily understand recoiling from snakes and spiders, it seems a bit strange to actively avoid success. Isn’t success something you highly desire? Or do you?

New Years Resolution for 2009: Start Earning Money at Home
Most people enter the New Year with great plans. They are revved up, loaded with ambition and have plenty of time to transform their lives. Some of the common resolutions for 2009 including start earning money at home are:

Four Steps to Help Improve and Spotlight Your Value
One of the biggest mistakes many women leaders make is avoiding the spotlight. Time after time, our women clients tell us stories of being "lost in the shuffle" when it comes time for promotions and opportunities. Most of the time, it's not because they lack the skills or the ambition to rise up in the ranks, but because they're not visible within their organizations...

The Power of Ambition

Probably like many of you, recently I found myself drawn to yet another Horatio Alger story; this time it´s the remarkable story of Arnold Schwarzenegger. Put aside for the moment his politics, whether you happen to agree with them or not. I would ask you also to put aside for the moment, and I do not ask this lightly, his highly questionable attitudes towards women. But for the purposes of becoming better sales people, it is worth reflecting on some of the attributes that have led Arnold Schwarzenegger to a successful career.

Home Business Expert: How To Overcome Poverty Consciousness
Thinking of poverty never did anyone any good.

Home Business Expert: How To Set Your Goal – Short, Mid And Long
Learning how to set your goal - short, mid and long has many advantages. The principal tool for motivation in any home business is goal setting, without which the whole thing may go haywire.

Hiring the Right People for the Tangible, Intangible Jobs

With the marketplace and economy improving and one of the first areas they beef up (and cut) are marketing and sales. Hiring technical people is fairly easy you look at their education, advanced studies, design/development track record. Hiring sales people is more difficult - a lot more difficult. You're buying tangible and intangible features because he/she may be good but not right. Good at what they do but wrong for your organization, your corporate personality, your market/customers. The article won't deliver guaranteed results but it might help you make the right decision for your organization, your goals.

WHY AND HOW TO MAKE MAKING CHOICES THAT ARE IN YOUR BEST INTEREST A DAILY OCCURRENCE

The dictionary defines choice as “the act of choosing; selection; the power, right, or liberty to choose; option; an alternative”. We sometimes hear ourselves or others say, “I have no choice,” when really what we mean is “I feel obligated.” There is always a choice. Sometimes one must choose between two unattractive alternatives and often times making the choice that is best for you carries with it repercussions from friends or coworkers, but that isn’t the same as actually having no choice at all. I encourage and challenge you not to confuse hard choices with no choices.

It's Lonely at the Top
Being an entrepreneur or leader in a small business can be a lonely place. Find out how to get the support you need to be EVEN more successful.

Thinking of Franchising Your Business?
Being the owner of a small and successful business, you may have considered franchising this business to further enhance its opportunities for growth and expansion, Well, you’re not alone.

Re Engineer Yourself To Be A Manager
These articles come in a six part series: 1) The essence of managing 2) Re-engineer yourself to be a manager 3) How to go from employee to supervisor in 6 months 4) How to go from supervisor to entry level manager in 6 months 5) How to go from entry level manager to mid level manage in 6 months 6) How to go from mid level manager to top-level manager in 12 months

Hot Party Franchises For The Fun Entrepreneur
All work and no play makes jack a dull boy. While you probably have to type that quote a couple hundred times to really drive the point home, it's true that without balance in your life, you're likely to go as crazy as Jack Nicholson in The Shining. Here's a few party franchises that let you run your own successful business and have fun at the same time.

What is Your Destiny?
Maybe you (secretly) know what your true destiny is, but have gotten to a point where that spark of a vision has almost been extinguished. Maybe you have tried “everything” and feel that your “destiny” is one of mediocrity – living check to check, not having much of an impact.

So You Have A Desire To Have A Home Based Business

Do you have a desire to have a home based business? If you answered "yes", then there are some things that you will need to know and understand as far as what it takes to start a home based business. By not equipping yourself with the knowledge of the steps that are necessary to starting and successfully operating your home based business, you will quickly learn that that it is impossible to succeed.

Innocent Drinks: profile of Richard Reed, the fruit smoothie king

Innocent Drinks are one of the UK's best known brands, and a small company with big ideas. The company turnover is heading towards £100 million and the business is expanding rapidly across Europe. I heard Richard speak recently and felt that their ethos of sustainability driving profitability is very similar to the principles behind many women-owned businesses. In short, Innocent focus on procuring ethically, reducing and offsetting carbon emissions, recycling and putting something back through charitable living.

6 Smoking Ways To Keep Affiliates Motivated
In an ideal world all net marketers would have top performing affiliates who poured in traffic and created sales. However, we don't live in that world. A merchant is lucky to have one affiliate who is constantly motivated and selling. The rest may never make a sale and, after a month of trying, will lose the ambition to keep pressing forward.

Manage Stress to Boost Productivity
If you want to be at the top of your game, spend the time to determine which “rituals” help you to alleviate stressful feelings and be committed to taking care of yourself. I have a Zen Buddhist saying on the wall of my office which says, “Live half for yourself, and half for others.” It’s a good philosophy to live by.

Which is it - Strategic Plan or Strategic Plan of Action?

We've heard the clichés about planning and failure. So, what is the major obstacle for people to simply jot down what's already in their mind? My view is that the act of writing things down makes the idea concrete and attached to commitment and responsibility. In our CYA (cover your assets) culture, one understands the anxiety that can be attached to writing out a plan. Here are several strategies to help you break that cycle and move forward. If procrastination and commitophopeia aren't your issues, congratulations.

Leadership Transformation

It is imperative that leaders go through a personal transformation process in order to bring about effective change within an organization. People, productivity, and profitability are the tools that make an organization successful. Through personal transformation, you will understand that you can be wounded and still learn from your mistakes. You will learn how to forgive yourself and others. You will learn to deal with reality while being comfortable with changes. Most importantly, you will create and motivate movement, as well as positive changes not only in yourself, but also in the people around you, and in your environment.

Rule 6 Do Something Thats Totally Outrageous
This is Rule #6 in a series of articles on "21 ways to Increase the Power and Profit of Your Advertising Without Spending an Extra Cent," by Brad Sugars.

Are You Ready to Work for Yourself?
There are certain things you have to keep in mind while you are thinking about working for yourself. You must have some experience and enough money to start a business of your own. Also, you need to make sure that you know which line of business you want to follow and that your family is with you.

Your Goals for 2008: Staying On Course
How can you insure that your professional objectives for 2008 are not only more realistic than they were in 2007, but also bigger and more in line with your personal values and beliefs?

Top Qualities of Small Business Owners
Many people dream of owning their own business. The idea of getting rid of the boss, making your own hours, and doing something that you love is quite tempting, especially if you are burnt out from the corporate rat race.

How to Boost Your Bottom Line by Strengthening Your Power Factor
Your Power Factor is a combination of your energy, your bandwidth and your support systems. As entrepreneur's, our greatest asset is our creativity and ambition. But if our Power Factor is being compromised, then your bottom line can take the hit.

Small Business Success Secrets
Small business success is about turning your passion into profits . The secret to small business is discovering and living your life's purpose.

Your Dream Job - Go For It! (Even if You Currently Have a Good Job)
Do you have a good job but wonder if you can have your dream job? The difference between a good job and the right job may seem small, but it can make a huge difference for your long-term career satisfaction and for your health and happiness.

Trevor Manuel and the "Plunder of Skills"
Trevor Manuel, South Africa's long-serving Minister of Finance, has had a busy time of it. When he hasn't been demanding reform at the IMF, he has been lecturing the US and Western Europe on their theft of valuable skilled people from our nation.

How to Create Your Personal Work Life Balance Plan
Creating a Work Life Balance Plan is not hard but there are some crucial issues to explore. In essence, you need to 'Plan your work and plan your play'. You may also need to deal with conflicting demands on your time and energy. Here is how to get started.

Moving Forward: International Community
Freer access to industrial country markets and greater and more predictable aid are needed to support sustainable development (included under Goal 8 of the MDGs).

Money Management

I have come across a lot of entrepreneurs in my years of business – micro entrepreneurs and CEOs – and there is one thing that I often seen as being the difference between the two. Entrepreneurs who are just starting out are passionate, full of ideas and ambition, and determined to succeed. CEOs, while often equally as passionate, have one thing that many others don’t: money management skills. Startup entrepreneurs are in business to make money, but many do not know what to do with it once they have it. Since success is rarely a one-time stroke of luck, read on to discover some money management tricks that will help you stick around in the long run.

Ambition, Resilience and Starting Over

Judy Elder was the General Manager of Microsoft's Consumer Division in 2002. Shortly after she gave this inspiring speech, she had a brain aneurysm and died at the age of 47. Judy talks about ambition and why we shy away from embracing women who have ambition. Feeling confident in yourself takes a lot of trust. Believing in yourself can carry you through some very tough times as this article will show you.

The Eternal Childhood: Jim Henson Is Born
“When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world,” said Jim Henson. Henson would fulfill his youthful ambition by not only becoming the most famous puppeteer in modern history, but by changing the nature of puppetry itself and inspiring the minds of millions of children worldwide.

Effective Workplace Relationships - How Much Do You Want It?
Whilst management is all about getting the best from the people in your team, they aren't your only focus. You see, the extent of either success or failure all depends on your personal drive and ambition as well...

INTEGRATE, DON’T IMITATE
What really ignites our passion for our business? What fires up our ambition and causes us to make crucial decisions about what career paths we want to follow – and what level of success we want to attain?

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