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Recovery or No Recovery? That is the Question.
James Dicks examines the discrepancies of what economists are telling us about a possible technical economic recovery and what the American public is actually experiencing.

How to Follow a Path with Heart For Greater Life Success
People often hold the belief that if they get the right job, find the right mate, or earn enough money, they’ll be happy and satisfied. But success is really an “internal job.” Those other factors are just symptoms of life success.

Rising Above Your Setbacks
In order to achieve our loftiest goals we must stretch and grow. Our failures and setbacks teach us what we need to learn in order to get to the next step. You will have mistakes and problems along the way, but the trick is to accept, learn and rise above. This is how lasting success is born!
The Successful Leader
Success needs to be measured not only by financial factors but also by the strength of the people who, when a leader moves on, are able to step into his/her shoes. The good leader achieves both.
4 Steps to a Successful New Life
It’s time to turn the page and accept this as Chapter Two in your life! If you want to make a change and start living a higher quality of life, then you must take decisive action. Success is whatever you make it. Never believe that you are destined for failure while others are just “lucky” in all their endeavors. Everyone has control over his or her destiny. Some people are unwilling to go the distance to achieve their dreams. What is success? Is success the same thing as money, fame, or power? Is it influence over other people? Is it being the best parent possible? Or is success really what you leave behind in this world when your legacy ends?

Creating the Success Mindset
There is a reason that professional athletes visualize hitting a basket, sinking a putt, or hitting a homerun, they are aligning their thoughts and beliefs with their actions. The combination can be formidable. It is the secret to success in business and in life.

WAITING
My wife was having surgery at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester,MN. and I had a lot of time to think about what is more important to me. Betti and I have a good life but she deserves a great life, so I find myself thinking of the steps I need to complete to make that happen. I hope this helps you to refocus your life and you succeed at what ever you desire. Remember: " Shoot for the Eagle, you'll hit the pheasant and you won't eat crow "
THE TEN STEPS TO SELF-RELIANCE
The best way to succeed in today’s crazy economic environment is to become as self-reliant as possible. No matter what the state of the economy, you need to know who you are, your strengths, talents, skills and what you want to achieve.
Control the Distractions
It seems we get distracted so easily and permit even the smallest things to cause it.
The Brain of a Leader
The area of our brain that we allow to control our thoughts and actions is a key factor in determining whether or not we are enabling ourselves and our organisations to deal effectively with new technological advances and rapidly changing circumstances. In this article Doug Long explains the default areas of control used by most of us and gives pointers to using a more effective area of control.
A Positive Mindset is the Key to Success
As a smart and passionate person the journey to entrepreneurial success begins merely with the cultivation of a positive mindset. A positive mindset is the only thing you need to embark on a successful career path, and best of all, it’s free!
How to Change the Internal Mindset - The 3 Steps
One of the most frequently asked question from many people is the following... How can I change the way I think? This is a legitimate question. One should know that wrong thoughts and right thoughts do exist in one's heart and (mind).
12 Rules for Success
Several years ago I generated a list of my own personal rules for success. It was originally 10 items which I called “Whipple’s 10 Commandments for success.” I later added a couple more to make it an even dozen.

Defining Success
We all want to be successful in life. Success has meaning to us in a very personal way. Some people long for financial freedom to be able to live out their lives in relaxation with enough money to pay the bills. Other people define success in terms of power, they want to have a large span of control. Still others think being successful means having excellent personal relationships and love in their lives. there is another definition of success that is provided by two very learned men.

12 Dimensions of Culture Rarely Seen in MBA Books
Most business textbooks define the culture of a company in terms of things like: 1.Physical structure 2.Language and symbols 3.Rituals, ceremonies, gossip, and jokes 4.Stories, legends, and heroes 5.Beliefs 6.Values and norms 7.Assumptions I believe all these things are important parts of the culture, but I believe there are several even more important things that are not on this list. What is your opinion? My view would include things like whether there is an environment of trust and several other key ingredients.

Smart Women Can Learn a Lot About Business from a 3rd Grader
This article is about getting clear and focused on all of key elements of your business. It reminds me of a book report I helped my son with in 3rd grade. There were key elements and you could relate all of these to business.

The Three Elements Of Home Business Success
There are three major aspects responsible for home business success. Each one is vital to the overall achievement of success. They are all closely knit and dependent upon each other. Without one, the others are irrelevant. If you can blend all three together, success will be achieved.
Three Key Tips For a Successful Mastermind Group
The concept of the mastermind group is vividly described by Napoleon Hill in "Think and Grow Rich". Consider the people in your life that are supportive of you. Identify the people willing to give you honest feedback and genuinely want the best for you.
Breaking Down Goals For Success Into Manageable Steps
Chunking. This tool is a valuable resource for helping to develop the mindset for marketing success. It is extremely versatile. Chunking is effective with breaking goals down into easy manageable steps for success. You can also use chunking to clear blocks and work through resistance.
Achieving Your Goals Might Require This
For success, having goals and a plan is critical. That is only part of the picture though. Here is a sensible strategy to add to your plan for your personal and professional growth and change for 2010 and beyond.

Leadership Assessment #23 – Leaders Create Winners
There are hundreds of assessments for leaders. The content and quality of these assessments vary greatly. You can spend a lot of time and money taking surveys to tell you the quality of your leadership. There are a few leading indicators that can be used to give a pretty good picture of the overall quality of your leadership. These are not good for diagnosing problems or specifying corrective action, but they can tell you where you stand quickly. Here is one of my favorite measures. It is the ability to create winners.

Self-Contemplation and Success
Take some time this week (and continue to do this process on an ongoing basis) to just sit and allow these questions to bubble around in your mind. Write down whatever comes up for you.

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.
REWARD SUCCESS AND FAILURE EQUALLY
Success and Failure are two sides of a coin. We need to accept them equally. Failure is nothing but a feedback of your actions. So, never get disappointed when you fail but accept it as a stepping stone for your success.

SUCCESS NEVER COMES OVER NIGHT
Success is the hard earned asset of a person. It just never comes by chance or over night. Lots of hard work, perseverance and involvement helps an individual to gain success.

Two Organizational States
In this article I contrast two extreme organizational states: one with very low trust, and one with very high trust. The contrast is stark. Most organizations operate somewhere between these two extremes.

Identifying a Better State for Your Organization
In this article I identify the start of the strategic process. The first element is to realize there is a better existence for your organization. Ultimately this leads to a vision of the future, but I will save that process for another article.

Clarifying Your Values
Every enterprise should be guided by a concrete set of values. These ahould be very visible and tangible. Unfortunately, mny organizations have not clarified their values. This leads to numerous problms in running the organization because there is no moral or ethical compass. Clarifying values takes time and energy, but it is time well spent. In this article I outline a specific process to do this critical work.

Creating a Brilliant Vision
If your organization does not have a compelling Vision, it is going nowhere. A solid vision of the future is the most important ingredient in any strategic process, yet often organizations just throw out a vision statement as a kind of placeholder to guide action. That is a crime. This article contains a solid process for creating an organizational vision that is brilliant.

Do We Really Need a Mission Statement?
Many organizations confuse the concept of a vision statement with a mission statement. They might say, "Our mission is to become the world leader in windows." Well, that is reallly a vision statement, not a mission statement. A vision statement is always about the future, while a mission statement is all about what we are trying to do today. It is very important to know that. This article will clarify a process to obtain a good mission statement.

Documenting Expected Behaviors
In creating a Strategic Framework, many organizations forget to include a documented set of expected behaviors. This is actually a critical step to do well. This article walks through a porcess of documenting behaviors. It is not rocket science, but it must be done.

Developing a Strategic Plan
Developing a specific Strategic Plan is fundamental to organizational progress. Once an organization has a concrete set of values, a vision, a mission, and a set of behaviors, it is time to document the strategic plan with tactics. This article gives a brief outline of the process.

Drawbacks of Leadership Evaluations
Leadership assessmants are ubiquitous, but there are several issues that need to be considered or the process will be flawed. This article highlights some of the problems with leadership assessments and offers antidotes and a refreshing new perspective on the qualities of leadership that are really important.

Be Open to New Ideas
It is easy to say "be open to new ideas" and most of us believe we have an open mind. Nothing could be further from the truth. We are all stuck with an enormous array of paradigms that limit our ability to see the possibiliies. To be really open minded is a skill that takes a lot of effort to develop. This article may help you see things from a different perspective.

Don't Put People Off
Most meetings are intense affairs where it is important to stay on the topic at hand. When an individual comes up with an idea or concern that is not spot on the agend, often leaders will dismiss the input as a distraction. That can be a big mistake. This article looks at how to deal with distractions in a way that actually builds rather than destroys trust.

Reinforce People Who Challenge
A key leadership skill is to be able to reinforce people who challenge you. This is prticularly hard to do if the challenge is made in public. This article will provide some interesting dimensions on this issue and offer some advice.

Follow Up on Commitments
When I ask people how they define Trust, usually the first definition that comes forward is whether the person does as he says. It is the old "Walk the Talk" expression that is so overused, but so vital just the same. This article offers some thoughts and tips on effective follow up.

Bilateral Trust
Many leaders tend to forget that trust needs to be bilateral to really work. They need to trust people if people are going to trust them. This article puts some perspective on this idea and offers some concrete suggestions.

Trust vs Walking on Eggs
The contrast between a high trust organization and a more typical group is so stark. I wanted to write an additional article on the topic. I call this one Trust vs Walking on Eggs because the comparison really works for me. See what you think.

Perfect Is A Place You Can Only Visit, Not A Place To Live
When is "good enough" actually good enough? The key is optimizing the variables, not trying to maximize each one.

Resolve to Follow the 5 Stages of Planning for a Prosperous 2010
With the challenges and uncertainties facing small business owners in 2010, a well-crafted plan is more important than ever. Many companies with 2009 plans that were “in my head” or “sketched on a napkin” aren’t making plans for 2010; they’re no longer in business. Unless your 2010 plans include becoming a statistic, you must resolve to commit the resources necessary to develop a high quality plan for 2010. Developing an actionable plan that increases your odds of success is as technically demanding as any of the products or services you offer to customers.
Who Surrounds You?
Your posse matters. The people with whom you surround yourself influence and affect your life both negatively and positively. Take stock of your friends and chances are your level of success is about the same as theirs. Are you satisfied with that?
Marketing Strategies: Create Your 2010 Success Blueprint
Move forward into the new year with a plan. Learn how to create your success blueprint and make it the best year ever! This article gives you some great tips on how to create your own personal blueprint.
3 Powerful Ways To Live Your Life The Way You Want
So here is a question I would like to ask you: Do you think it is possible for you to live your life on your own terms? Can you make your goals in any area of your life come true? In fact, dare I ask if you even have any goals that you want to happen within the next 12 months?
Acting Like Adults
It is not uncommon to hear someone say, "People at work act like children most of the time." This is because in the pressure cooker of the working world, the behaviors of people get on each other's nerves, and they tend to regress back to the kind of playground rules that kept society in order when they were children. this does not wear well in an adult atmosphere, so what can we do about it?
Success depends on change
"Men would not have obtained the possible if they had not struggled to achieve the impossible." Max Weber
Assume Best Intent
We can reduce conflict between individuals by establishing ground rules for behavior and holding people accountable for living up to their intended actions. One interesting and helpful rule is to always give the other person the benefit of the doubt when something does not seem right. I call it "assuming best intent." This paper describes how important this little rule can be in an organization.

What Puts Success in Succession?
Succession planning is vital to the long term survival of any organization. Unfortunately many companies do a poor job of succession at various levels. This paper outlines some of the key issues and gives several checklists that can help make these processes work better.
WHAT IS A COMMON QUALITY AMONG SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE?
Successful people have qualities in common. But, one thing in common in all these successful people is that they have experienced significant failures in life or in their work but they have learned from their failures.
Susan Boyle Sings Success
Susan Boyle can teach us all a lesson about how to achieve success.

Self-Belief
How bad do you want success? Do you want it more than you want anything else? Are you persistent enough to keeping pushing forward when you start to to lose faith?
Time to Gear Up: Make 2010 Your Year
Finding the resolve to give even more to getting what we want. Promise yourself now to make 2010 your year
Work at Home Success - A Delicate Balance of the Right Business and the Right Approach
If you're currently involved with an online work at home company and are having little or no success, or you're looking to start a work at home enterprise, I'd recommend taking a step back and objectively evaluating the business you're involved with (or looking to start with) as well as performing a self-evaluation and looking at how you approach your business.
How to Achieve Success: Where Ever You Are – Be There!
Habitual routines and multi-tasking may make you feel busy, but they will not provide the structure both on and off the job that will make you lead a balanced and successful life. Success in any area of your life requires clarity, focus and execution. Success is all about doing the right things, at the right time, in the right manner… and for the right reason.
Sue Grafton is a Success Because She Loves What She Does
Successful people have a clearly defined purpose for their life. Sue Grafton's purpose is writing mystery stories that entertain large numbers of people. My purpose is helping others succeed. My friend's purpose was creating better surgical equipment. What is your purpose? It should be something you love. If you don't love it, you'll get burned out and see your work as a grind. If you love what you do, you see your work as a gift and something to which you look forward every day. As we approach the end of 2009, spend some time thinking about what you truly love doing. Then, and more important, think about how you can make doing what you love your life's work.
American Rejection - Successful entrepreneurs must ignore the experts!
Did you know that American Idol was turned down by every major network! That’s right every major network told Simon Cowell to get lost! Luckily Rupert Murdock’s daughter heard about the pitch and pulled on Daddy’s heart strings and he talked Fox into picking it up.
Are you ready for a Life Coach?
The answer is YES! The real challenge is most people do not have a strong enough self image to hire a coach. They simply hide behind the ”I can’t afford it” or the ”When I get successful, I'll hire a coach.”
Can you really help your employees get promoted?
Why is it most employees don’t want to get promoted? I could never figure that out. Sure they want and even need more money but they always have an excuse on why they are not able to grow. You may even over extend at times and give them free seminar tickets or golden opportunities, only to hear them come up with great excuses why they can’t make it. I recently asked leadership legend John Maxwell what things he was thinking on currently and he said something amazing.

Communication,Sex and Money
Three of the most important things in life and yet 3 things most people do not talk about. Even with their spouses!

Don't wait for a BAIL OUT, Bail yourself out!
Can you imagine a Final Four half time locker room scenario where the team is down and the coach says “Hey guys don’t worry, the NCAA has a bail out package for us.”
The True Colors of struggle
The key here is to embrace the struggle. Why? Because it’s going to come, period. It’s a 100% guarantee that you will struggle at times in your life. It‘s like death, people are so afraid of death yet it’s the one thing you know with total certainty that it will happen. Let’s get back to embracing the struggle. As the #1 Online Life Coach I have some ultra successful high end clients and one of the most popular questions is: “Evan, why is it so hard? “ My answer is why is it so hard for them to understand that the struggle is what brings out the greatness. The struggle in the gym is what makes the champion athlete, the struggle in the cocoon is what properly develops the butterfly’s wings, the struggle in refining Gold and Diamonds is what makes these stones so precious.

Unleash the entrepreneur within!
It's not for everyone! As the #1 Online Life Coach this has been a huge breakthrough for many people when they realize that they simply are not cut out to be an entrepreneur, and it's ok. J. Paul Getty in his book How to be Rich talked about the three types of men/employees. The first is just a job mentality type, this person is also known as a Mr. Steady. They feel more comfortable being in a system that someone else creates, they just want to do their job and leave at 5pm. Most of these types take pride in their job and if they need to work some overtime they will, however it will be the first thing they complain about. Regardless they will do their job and show up every day and expect to get paid every two weeks regardless of what is going on in the company.

What is Online Life Coaching?
In the same vein of online higher education we have online Life Coaching. Because of technology top Life Coaches can now reach large numbers of people without giving up their time. This allows for greatly reduced prices which now gives the struggling executive who wants to get promoted access to the same caliber of coaching his CEO is getting.
When to say no to a deal. If you want grow say no!
Wait, before you say, "I did this really small job and it lead to a bigger one, so I never turn down a deal." If you want to think that way, it's OK, but if you want to get to the next level, you need to think differently. I have a very successful client in Hollywood that I work with, he hired me to help him make the jump to the elite level of 8 figure deals. I told him the same thing I'm telling you, say, "No to 80%." He was so challenged by this until I explained to him that the deals he was getting now were the ones turned down by the elite level 8 figure guys. If you want 8 figure deals you have think like an 8 figure guy and NOT take 6 figure deals.

The Importance of Consistency for Sucess
Consistency is the cornerstone of success for yourself and your business. Find out how to apply consistency to your business practices and obtain substantial results.
Tiger Woods needs a Life Coach and so do you!
Dear Tiger, as the #1 Online Life Coach I’m here to remind you that, you do not have ” rights” you only have “responsibilities.” You chose to enter the public realm of Pro sports and you chose to accept the benefits of being a household name. Because of this you surrendered your rights of personal privacy. Do I agree with you that you should have some privacy? Yes! But that doesn’t matter, the world does not work like that anymore. You knew the job was dangerous when you took it. Your squeaky clean image is what repelled the tabloids for the last 10 years. They don’t want to report on a functional family and the moment you chose to be dysfunctional, you sent them a personal invitation to turn your life upside down.

What is Your Personal Definition of Success?
Many people only want to succeed in one area of their life. Others want to succeed in every area of their life. Still others define success monetarily, while even more define success in the materials (toys) they have gathered.
3 Secrets to Enjoying Everyday Life So You May Live Your Life
Can you imagine what your life would be like if you can do, have and become all that you want? Where you can have long summer holidays wherever you choose? Where you can have any car or material item that you choose? Where you can be a business owner if you choose?
What To Do At Your Next Networking Event
Here is a brief guide to help you make your next networking event your best networking event.

The Essential Ingredient in Achieving Your Goals
An article of 924 words describing how to achieve your goals through commitment
Successful People Face Their Fears and Act
Fear is the enemy of self confidence. Self confident people face their fears and act. Procrastination is the manifestation of fear. When you find yourself procrastinating, figure out what scares you about the situation. Is it fear of failure? Is it fear of success? Is it fear of rejection? Is it fear of being embarrassed? Is it fear of the unknown? Once you've figured out why you are afraid, do three things; admit your fear to yourself, embrace your fear, and take action. Action is the antidote to fear. In most cases, you'll choose wisely and your fears won't be realized. In the cases when you choose poorly, you'll find that failure isn't as catastrophic as you imagined. Successful people learn from their failures.

Searching For A Business Idea – Do What You Were Born To Do
There are as many reasons that individuals pick certain businesses over others as there are business failures. But, choosing the right business idea and its path may be as simple as looking within yourself.

The One Key to Business Success! - And three simple ways to do it.
Want the one key to ensure your business success? Find it here – it may be simpler then you think!
Start-up your small business - 5 steps
Starting a small business can be a daunting task for a new entrepreneur. But, there are a few simple steps that you can take to help ensure your success. Incorporate these steps into your early development and you will be on your way to financial freedom.
Prepare for the Worse but Hope for the Best
James Dicks examines the financial year ahead for small business and the American consumer.
Success Isn't Magic
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. He doesn't want you to learn his secrets!
Recipes for Success
Those B School recipes for success need an update.

15 Tips for Career and Life Success
In my work as an executive coach, keynote speaker, leadership consultant and author I have spent the last five years studying what it takes to succeed in your life and career. I have found that successful people share five traits in common: 1. Successful people are self confident; 2. Successful people have positive personal impact; 3. Successful people are outstanding performers; 4. Successful people are excellent communicators; 5. Successful people are interpersonally competent. If you follow the 15 common sense pieces of advice I've presented in this checklist, you'll be able to build a successful life and career.
Avoid Mistakes on the Job
There are some mistakes that you don’t want to make on the job, forgiving boss or not. Read on to learn which to avoid, and why.
Marketing 101: Let People Know What You Have to Offer
What can you do this week to let people know about your business? Here are 11 tips to get you started.

Articulate Your Success Through A Compelling Vision
Evolution is part of nature. Nothing stays the same, yet rather than take advantage of the potential within, the majority of people fight to keep situations/relationships the same regardless of dissatisfaction. More than likely they are subconsciously using familiar habits and strategies to transform expecting new results. It’s ludicrous to expect different results using the same patterns! These actions are more of survival rather than proactive self-leadership in generating opportunities.

Button Button - Do You Have the Right Button?
Starting out on the right foot is essential when joining a network marketing company. Make sure you understand the basics before you start sharing the business with your warm market.
Who Really Achieves Success in Sales?
Whether you have been in sales a short time or for years, achieve a level of success that is rooted in integrity...The kind of success that cannot be matched.

Success Comes From Living Your Purpose
To develop your personal clarity or purpose you need to do three things. First, define what success means to you. Second, create a vivid mental image of you as a success. Third, clarify your personal values. Ask yourself a simple question almost every day. "Did the things I did today support my life’s purpose?" If you answer, "yes," consider it a successful day. If you answer "no," think about what you can do the next day to get back to living your purpose. Have a clear and vivid mental image of what success means to you. Live your life’s purpose every day. If you haven’t clarified your purpose in life, this is a good time to start. Once you get clear on your purpose, live it every day in all your actions.
Fear, Courage and Success
Fear can -- and will -- paralyze you. It can keep you from reaching the career and life success you want and deserve. If you develop the habit of courage, you can beat fear. Repetition is the best way to develop the habit of being courageous. The more you are willing to face your fears -- small and large -- and act, the quicker courage will become one of the guiding habits in your life.

Action, Action and More Action Builds Self Confidence and Creates Success
Successful people are self confident. Self confident people take action. They don't let their fears, or their perfectionism trap them into procrastinating. If you want to succeed you need to be self confident. If you want to become self confident you need to face your fears -- and any other impediment to your success -- and act.
Audience Analysis and Presentation Success
Successful people are dynamic communicators. Dynamic communicators are great presenters. If you want to become a great presenter, you need to spend time analyzing the audience for your talks. My successful colleagues in the National Speakers Association do this. They learn everything they can about who is in the audience and what they are expecting prior to crafting a talk. If you do this, you'll be able to create and deliver solid presentations that will meet the needs of your audiences, and in the process, gain a reputation as a great speaker and dynamic communicator.
High Goals, Outstanding Performance and Success
Successful people are outstanding performers. Outstanding performers are goal oriented. They set high goals, and do whatever it takes to achieve them. Then they set higher goals and do what they must to achieve them. They do this day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year. If you want to become an outstanding performer, you need to constantly challenge yourself by setting high goals. Aim high, and you'll be surprised at what you can accomplish.
Addiction to Praise Hampers Conversation Success
Successful people are dynamic communicators. Dynamic communicators are excellent conversationalists. The essence of good conversation is a willingness to listen to, and learn from, others. People who are addicted to praise, those whose "narcissistic supply" is in short supply, are seldom good conversationalists. In seeking the approval of others, they speak only of themselves and their lives. They seldom take the time to engage other people in conversation and listen to what they have to say. If you want to become a good conversation, get interested in other people. Learn about them and their lives. They'll reciprocate and give you the chance to talk about you and your life.
Surround Yourself with Positive People for Success
Self-confidence is an important key to personal and professional success. Positive people help your self-confidence because they tend to see the potential in you - even when you might not see it in yourself. Negative people, on the other hand, will hinder your self-confidence because they tend to reinforce your self-doubt and negative beliefs about yourself. Jettison the negative people in your life. If you can't remove them completely, do your best to keep them at arm's length. Build a network of positive people by being positive yourself. Think positively. Smile. Speak positively.
Six Tips For Loving The Fabulous Person You Are
Throughout my life, I've encountered scores of people who don't appear to love themselves. They say negative things about their appearance, their lack of success at work, not being a good parent or child, or not making the right choices in life. While it is true that we all grapple with issues related to any of these items, we should spend more time on itemizing and being grateful for our positive attributes and successes, and less time on what we feel is wrong with us, negative experiences, or perceived failures. This article provides some tips on learning to love ourselves for who we are.
8 Ways to Help Others Succeed
The highest calling for any leader is to grow other leaders. Great leaders seek to help other people regardless of their position. When you think about it, helping other people succeed is the shortest route to your personal success. This article gives eight tips to think about if you are really interested in helping others succeed.

Your Clarity of Purpose and Success
Defining your personal clarity of purpose is the first step in becoming a personal and professional success. Use your purpose in life to guide your career and life decision making. Once you are clear on what you want from life, it becomes relatively easy to determine what you need to do to get you there. It all begins with clarity -- and only you can determine what success means for you.
Does Living Your Talents Lead to Success?
If you have a positive attitude, follow your passion, and do what you love, do success and money follow? Success and wealth are never guaranteed in any undertaking in life. There is no guarantee that using Your Talent Advantage will lead to success. Pursuing activities that take advantage of skills and talents at which you are naturally gifted increases the odds of creating life success.

The Tour De France, Relationships and Success
Successful people are interpersonally competent. Interpersonally competent people build and maintain solid relationships with the people in their lives. Just like in bicycle racing, cooperation, sharing the lead and the work are key to creating strong, mutually beneficial relationships. If you get a chance, tune into the Tour de France one July. You'll see cooperation in action, even among competitors.
Successful People Create Their Dream and Make it a Reality
Develop a clarity of purpose for your career and life. Your clarity of purpose and direction is where it all begins. To develop your personal clarity or purpose you need to do three things. First, define what success means to you. Second, create a vivid mental image of you as a success. Third, clarify your personal values. Once you define what success means to you personally, I suggest that you develop a clear mental picture of you as a success. This image should be as vivid as you can you make it.
Success Lessons from Serena’s Meltdown
As you go through life you will encounter many problems and setbacks. You need to react positively to the negative stuff and move forward toward your goals. Serena Williams lost in the semi finals to Kim Clijsters, who went on to win the championship. Serena not only lost, she lost in a bizarre manner that could have been avoided had she chosen to react positively to an unfair setback she encountered during the match. To use a term we seem to hear a lot these days, there is a “teachable moment” here. Successful people commit to taking personal responsibility for their lives and careers. Choosing to react positively to people and events is a good way to take responsibility for yourself.
Success and Your Personal Mission and Vision
Successful people define a clarity of purpose and direction for their lives and careers. Your clarity of purpose and direction should include both a personal mission (your purpose) and a personal vision (your direction). Your mission is your reason for living, why you are on this earth. It is unlikely to change over the long run. Your vision is a short or medium term goal that defines the direction you will take over the next three to five years. It will change are you grow and develop in your life and career. Your vision must be consistent with your mission.
Social Networking, Drunken Pirates and Success
Successful people create positive personal impact. You create positive personal impact by building a solid, professional personal brand; presenting yourself professionally - in person and on line; and knowing and following the basic rules of etiquette. What you post on line - on MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter or any number of places can help or hinder your attempts at creating positive personal impact. Be smart. Think before you hit that send button.
Self Confidence, Mentors and Success
Successful people are self confident. Self confident people surround themselves with positive people. They find mentors to help them build their self confidence. Mentors are positive people because they are willing to give of themselves to help others succeed. When you’re looking for a mentor, look for someone who is highly skilled, is a lifelong learner, is respected by his or her colleagues, has a positive outlook on life and is willing to provide you with direct, constructive feedback. When you find the right mentor you won’t have to go it alone on the road to career and life success.
Self Confidence
There are a few common sense points associated with self confidence. Believe in yourself. Your career success will be built on your self confidence. First, be optimistic. As the Optimist Creed says, "Be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit the presence of trouble." Second, take action. Face your fears and deal with them. Live your life in the career success arena, so you will know the "triumph of achievement." Third, find the positive people around you. Hold on to them. Identify the negative people around you. Jettison them. Find a career success mentor and learn everything you can from him or her.
Career Success and Problem Solving
Outstanding performance is very important to career and life success. It's at the heart of the five success elements. No one can be successful without being a highly competent, outstanding performer. The incompetents and poor performers get identified and asked to leave or are placed in marginal positions pretty quickly. You have to identify the problems and obstacles to becoming an outstanding performer that you face before you can take action and deal with them. Don't call your problems "opportunities" or your obstacles "challenges". Call them what they are, and then get on with fixing your problems and overcoming your obstacles.
Commit to Developing Success Competencies
We all need to commit to taking personal responsibility for not only our health, but for our career and life success. Successful people do the thing they need to do to ensure that they succeed. One way that you can demonstrate your commitment to your success is by becoming competent in four key skills: creating positive personal impact, performing in an outstanding manner, becoming a dynamic communicator and developing your interpersonal competence. If you commit to becoming competent in these four areas, you’ll be on your way to a lifetime of success.
Hard Work, Outstanding Performance and Success
Outstanding performance is an important key to career and life success. As Malcolm Gladwell points out, outstanding performers are hard workers. They know what they want and do whatever it takes to get it. They enthusiastically act on their dreams. This action helps them reach their goals. There is no way around hard work. You have to put in the time and effort if you want to be successful. Ask any "overnight success." Everyone that I've ever met tells me that they spent years and years getting to the place where they became an "overnight success." Set your goals. Work hard. Work smart. And you'll succeed.

Dynamic Communication
Effective communication is vital to personal success and it is an up close and personal endeavor. All of the great communicators I know are great conversationalists. I have one great piece of common sense advice that will help you achieve personal success through effective communication: listen more than you speak. People like to talk about themselves and the best way to get to know them is to ask questions. When you meet people for the first time, ask "get to know you" questions like: "What do you do?" "Where do you live?" "Are you married?" "Do you have children?" Listen to the answers and file them away for future use. Understanding and using the keys to dynamic communication in this article can help catapult you towards achieving personal success. And they will make you a whole lot nicer to be around, too.

How to Begin a Conversation
Successful people are dynamic communicators. Dynamic communicators have mastered three basic communication skills: conversation, writing and presenting. Inviting people to participate in a conversation and getting their agreement before jumping in is an important, but often overlooked conversation skill. People who are invited to join a conversation, and choose to do so, are more likely to be better participants. If you want to become an excellent conversationalist, take a few minutes to explain why you want to have a conversation. Ask the other person if he or she has the time and is willing to participate in a conversation on that topic. Your conversations will be better and more productive if you follow this simple common sense advice.
Create a Vivid Mental Image of Your Success
Successful people define what success means to them. Then they develop a compelling and clear mental image of their success. They use this mental image to help keep their dreams alive and to keep moving forward to what they want in their lives and careers. Creating a vivid mental image of your success is not day dreaming. It's real work -- it's the work of designing your future, so you can take the steps necessary to create it.

Create Your Success by Acting With Enthusiasm
Successful people commit to taking personal responsibility for their career and life success. They decide what they really want out of their life and career. They create a vivid mental image of themselves having what they want. And then they act -- enthusiastically. They seize the day and do whatever it takes to get what they vividly imagine and ardently desire. Commit to taking responsibility for your success. Seize the day -- and act.
Interpersonal Competence
Interpersonal competence is the fifth key of career and life success. No matter how self confident and how good at creating positive personal impact or how great a performer and dynamic a communicator you are, you will not achieve life success without interpersonal competence. By taking the time to understand yourself and others, build strong relationships and resolve conflict positively you are well on your way to achieving life success. The greatest life success is found by those who truly seek these things.
Commit to Your Success
Successful people commit to taking personal responsibility for their own success. They realize that personal and professional success are the result of focus and hard work. If you want to succeed, you need to look for the opportunity in failure. Successful people don't give up. They keep on working towards their goals with a single minded focus.
How to Create Positive Personal Impact
This article is about positive personal impact. My work as an executive coaching consultant has led me to conclude that people with positive personal impact have three things in common: 1. People with powerful personal impact develop and constantly promote their personal brand. 2. People with powerful personal impact are impeccable in their presentation of self. 3. People with powerful personal impact know and practice the basic rules of etiquette.

Keep Your Fire Stoked
In so many ways this fire can be compared to a marketing team of professionals. It is nice to sit and watch the fire, watch the flames flicker but soon if you only watch and don’t feed your fire it dies down. You start to feel the chill back in the air. You must get up and put on another log on the fire.

Do You Love Being a Champion?
Objectives help you realize that “failure” is NOT an option and aiming to win creates a frantic, accelerating and absolutely delicious and inebriating state of mind.

Plug Into Your Personal Vision to Pull You Forward
This past week I had some interesting conversations with clients and friends about feeling stuck, uncertain, overwhelmed or frustrated about changes they’re trying to make in their life.
Making More Money
Making more money begins as a thought. Entrepreneurs develop plans of action to accomplish this. After a plan is devised and acted upon the entrepreneur expects to get what they desire; to make more money.
6 Business Coaching Tips
Do you have a routine to follow with each new business coaching client, or new team member? These are the steps I follow, to ensure that I don’t miss an important step in laying the foundations for their future success, and the success of our coaching.
Move Yourself First
Leaders move themselves in the direction with speed. Now a day, speed is the way of living; if you are without speed, you are dead.Leaders are always initiative. They took the responsibility for making things happen. It is very difficult to become successful without initiative. Procrastination is the fertilizer that makes difficulties grows. How someone can achieve success with procrastination quality. Initiative is a tool of compass of the successful people.
Tiger Woods, Personal Branding and Success
Creating positive personal impact is one of the competencies all successful people possess. You create positive personal impact by developing and nurturing your unique personal brand, being impeccable in your presentation of self, and knowing and following the basic rules of etiquette. Your personal brand should be uniquely you, but it should be built on integrity. Integrity is doing the right thing -- even when no one is looking. As Tiger Woods's case demonstrates, a lack of integrity can lead to serious consequences for a carefully crafted brand. Now, everyone is looking and most people aren't liking what they're seeing. So take a lesson from Tiger -- one he's learning the hard way, build your personal brand on integrity.
Choos to Win or Choose to Lose
Traffic is slow, business is weak, the economy stinks and banks aren't buying. Repeat this mantra one hundred times and see how you feel. I promise you that if you replay this message enough you will believe it as absolute truth and become depressed and desperate. No matter what circumstances are present the choice is simple; you choose to win or choose to lose.
The Secret to Success
Learn the secret to being truly successful in business and in life. You can make it happen starting today.
Business-Building Lessons Learned in 2009: What Highly-Successful Small Business Owners Are Doing that You Can Do Too
I know some small business owners who’ve experienced unprecedented growth this year. I’m talking growth that would be considered stellar in a good economy. So, what are successful entrepreneurs doing differently?

The Only Way To Have Real Employment Security
Self-employment is the only option available to protect your personal and financial wellbeing regardless of the condition of the economy. Working for someone else strips you of the tremendous power you have over fate. You become a passive player in your own life; success suddenly becomes a question of whether you get lucky or not. Self-employment is your ultimate leverage with which you can take back what’s rightfully yours-the power to set your own destiny.

5 Activities That Separate Successful People from the Rest
I have been observing the activities that separate top successful people from the rest across different industries, and have noticed that they have common characteristics. Although one can argue the number or variety of traits they share, I’ve noted five traits you can model if you want to join the ranks of the top 10% of successful people.
10 Steps for Developing Your INDIVIDUAL NETWORKING PLAN
10 Steps for Developing Your INDIVIDUAL NETWORKING PLAN

How Increasing Your Self-Esteem Increases Your Bottom Line
We hear from everywhere that if we just learn that one right strategy, create the perfect look for our business or take one more class that our business will grow, we’ll get rich and all will be well. Now, I’m not saying these aren’t important. You do need to think about your brand image, hone your skills and have a great plan. However, in order for any of that to work for you, you first need to feel great about being you.

Engaging your Employees
the importance of an involved employee base
Find the RIGHT Job
James Dicks examines the U.S. job market in the current economic downturn
Is 5 Years Long Enough To Get Rich Quick?
James Dicks discusses of getting "rich" in the short term and the methods that have worked in his own life
Know Your Credit
James Dicks examines the importance of checking your credit report
Leadership Traits of the USMC
James Dicks examines the importance of leadership development in today's business environment.
Lessons of Leadership
James Dicks discusses the importance of leadership traits in the business enviroment
Making Your Business Fiscally Fit in Tough Times
James Dicks examines the challenges businesses face in today's global recession
Success and Failure Are Learning Experiences
James Dicks examines how failure, if treated correctly, can help lead to future success.
Things Leaders Do Part 4
Activities leaders do daily that are required to make businesses grow, this is the fourth of the five. These actions have been proven to be essential to the building and flourishing of any successful enterprise.

Why You Must Master Self-Discpline
How many times have you felt the urge to take a small break and watch TV while you are in the middle of writing an article? Or perhaps you’re in the middle of making your prospect calls, and suddenly you decide you want to chat with your friend about weekend plans without completing your other calls? I know it’s important to take breaks once in a while, and you should to recharge your batteries, but have you ever experienced taking a break, and suddenly that break turns into a few hours and you suddenly don’t want to do that task anymore? Most of us have been guilty at one point or another, but it’s important to complete income-producing tasks to put you closer to your goals. Out of all the skills, mastering self-discipline and focus is key to success.
Be carefull, Success may not be all that you expect
We all strive to be successful. But what is success? How is it rated or determined? How has your success been achieved? Has it been at any cost, to others or to yourself? The danger, today, is that success, almost exclusively, has now come to mean achievement in a particular field of endeavour. Success, for you, may be a collection of exquisite material items and great financial wealth; or to be in a position of power and influence. The trouble is that anything that is external to you can be lost. Hence the requirement for insurance, security guards, fencing, keys and locks, and for those with power and influence – minders to watch their backs! Lasting success is internal. It is contentment and being happy with yourself.

Dont attack Life It is a process
Attacking Life as in a campaign is not a good idea. Accept that Life is a process from birth to death (and paying taxes!!). Learn to live with the ups and the downs. Anything else will be stressful and cause problems. This will not bring life harmony.

Experience a Sense of Accomplishment While Enjoying Your Career
Have you asked yourself why some businesspeople appear to attain their goal more progressively than others do? The road to success and accomplishments seem to come within their grasp so easily. While they are periodically bombarded with several problems and challenges, they never allow themselves to slacken their optimistic outlook.

What Do You Really Want - a Job or a 'Calling'?
Knowing what you want in your life and career is the most important step to achieving it. So what do you want – a job or a “calling,” and are you prepared to get it?
How to Plant the Seeds and Reap the Harvest of Success in Network Marketing
If you’re new to network marketing and prefer to build a business offline, start planting a lot of seeds. Seeds take time to grow, and you reap what you sow. The more seeds you plant, the bigger your harvest. So what exactly are the seeds? The seeds are the prospecting tools provided by your company, and the soil is your prospects. Hand out your prospecting tools, like brochures or videos, to as many people as possible. Now that you planted these seeds, let the prospecting tools do most of the work for you. Before you hand out any of these tools, ask them some pre-qualifying questions. You can simply ask, “If I could show you a way to make extra income part time that won’t interfere with your current job, would you at least take a look at it?” If your prospect says yes to this question, hand them the prospecting tools.
Successful Entrepreneurs and The Importance Of Building A Team
Many entrepreneurs see themselves as soloists, single individuals boldly taking risks by themselves. What many have learned the hard way is that success requires a team of people who can add their unique talent and skill to the mix. Every entrepreneur needs to understand their own skills and talents, and also know what skills and talents are needed in other team members.
Goals Lead to Success
Goal setting is one of the most natural things that we do as humans. But most people don't fully harness the power of it. Here are some easy to implement ideas you can use to achieve more of your goals more often.
Achieve Your Dreams And Never Ever Give Up
If you are trying to do something better in your life, having a better lifestyle or for example travel, in other words you have big dreams (and you should have big dreams) probably you met with the opinions and advices of you friends, family members and other people. And I bet that they told you that you are crazy, that you are only a dreamer and that you should come back to the earth or something like that. And I want to give you a great advice: do not listen them. Do not listen opinions of people who will distract you on your way to your dreams and goals
Stop Trying to Be Normal
Stop trying to be normal. It undermines your success and keeps you in a state of mediocrity. It's an interesting phenomenon. This idea of being "normal" starts to take hold in high school...
Why Building Trust is Necessary for a Successful Network Marketing Business
The most successful network marketing business owners will tell you that the key to their success was their ability to create a relationship of trust with the people they sponsored into their organization. You need to sell your prospect on yourself first, and then built a relationship with that customer until they have a reason to remain loyal to you. In order to sell yourself and build a successful network marketing business, you need to focus entirely on the prospect. Don’t focus on yourself, your business, and your products. Instead, you need to learn about your prospects wants and needs by asking the right questions.

A Case For Loving Your Job
What if you could wake up everyday loving what you do? What if you could focus more on having a lifestyle than having a career? This article makes a case for Loving Your Job by using your own gifts and talents to make the world a better place.
How to Make the Mastermind Group Unlock the Door to Success
I came across the concept of the mastermind group after reading Napoleon Hill’s book Think and Grow Rich. According to Hill, the mastermind group is formed when two or more minds work actively together in perfect harmony toward a common definite object. Hill noted that every successful person in history had a mastermind group that helped him achieve greatness. No one mind is ever complete in itself, so you need to have a mastermind group to help you achieve those objectives.
6 Proven Ways to Conquer Your Fear of Public Speaking
Cicero, renown world speaker and philosopher said, "I turn pale at the outset of a speech, and quake in every limb and in all my soul." Read Exodus to learn about Moses' fear of public speaking. John Dryden described his fear of public speaking this way, "Whenever I speak a cold sweat trickles down all over my limbs as if I were dissolving in water." I know how it feels to have running stomach, sleepless nights and disappointed audience.

Why We Need to Create Associations of Success
To thrive in any entrepreneurial venture, we need to create associations of success. Most of us have heard the saying that we are the average of the 5 people with whom we are most closely associated. Your associations of success will help you follow through with your plan and achieve your goals. You can have the greatest vision and put together the most complete plan of achieving that goal. However, being surrounded by only negative and unsupportive people will derail your plans of making your goal and vision a reality.
What Do We Do Now?: Options for Allocating Scarce Resources When You Haven’t Planned Ahead
Although advance planning for resource allocation is the ideal scenario, many organizations found themselves caught short by the severe constraints imposed by the economic downturn. What are the alternatives when organizations are operating in crisis mode and there is no “Plan A?” Given the need to make decisions about how to curtail their operations immediately, there are two options that can help in the short-run: (1) increase inputs or (2) decrease outputs - each with several alternatives
Getting Support in Times of Change
As a coach and a psychotherapist, I’ve worked with hundreds of people each year who are going through dramatic change of some kind or another, and are in need of support from their families, friends, colleagues and others. We often discuss what healthy support is, and how it feels when we receive support that gives us the strength and confidence to persevere. What does helpful support look like?

3 Key Habits of Successful People
Over the years, I’ve had the opportunity to observe the daily habits of highly successful people across different industries. Although there are several habits that successful people incorporate into their lives, there are three that stand out that they practice consistently.

Success: The Choice is Yours
As an entrepreneur, you have the freedom to take your business in any direction you see fit. Being a successful entrepreneur ultimately depends on your quality of mindset.
Successful People Beat Procrastination
Successful people are self confident. Self confident people are optimistic. They face their fears and act. They surround themselves with positive people. Procrastination is the manifestation of fear. When you find yourself procrastinating on any task, identify what you fear about that task. Once you identify your fear, you'll find that you can put it behind you and get on with the job at hand. Procrastination and fear are the enemies of self confidence and success. Face them head on, and you'll not only build your confidence, you'll succeed in your life and career.
Successful People Develop Their Natural Talents
Successful people commit to taking personal responsibility for their lives and careers. As Eleanor Powell said, "What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God." She took personal responsibility for using her God given dance talent to become the world's greatest tap dancer, and become a vaudeville, Broadway and Hollywood star. What are your God given talents? What have you done to develop them? Commit to taking personal responsibility for developing your talents. It's the best way to thank God for giving them to you, to help others, and to create the successful life and career you want and deserve.
First Comes Talent, Then Comes Success
Developing a system and judging success by how well someone follows that system, requires a perfect process that everyone can master. The reality is that the most successful people achieve their success either by not following the system or by being unaware of its existence.
How Organized Are Your Marketing Plans?
A road map (marketing plan) will help you to see how overlapping plans and campaigns affect each other. More importantly, use your marketing plan and marketing calendar to track your results. This will allow you to see clearly which efforts were profitable and which should be discontinued.
What is the Secret of Success?
I have always wondered what was the secret of success, and it all made sense after listening to Earl Nightingale’s recording of the Strangest Secret. I’d like to share the main points of what he discussed, and encourage you to apply the secret of success in your life.

Rise Above Adversity!
Don't let anything stop you from being the success you were meant to be!
Are You a Go-Giver? 4 Ways to Start Giving More to Get More in Your Business
Are You A Go-Giver? Most entrepreneurs are highly motivated and ambitious and often referred to as “go-getters.” While being dubbed a go-getter can be a compliment, try being a “go-giver” to get even more out of your business! Here are 4 Ways to Become a Go-Giver:
The Close of the Decennium
Ten years have passed, that were never short of interesting, even without modest embellishment. We will look back on these days soon. Some years will be remembered with favor others with a wince. We may find ourselves slightly awestruck at the amount of bitter peaks and the somber valleys.

The Philosopher
It was a heavy and wet morning when the trees let out quiet sighs, aching from the fresh weight of the evening’s frost. A man sat in his study watching exhausted leaves tremble and fall, spilling light with each pirouette. It was a morning not unlike any other for this man. He rose at seven, as was his custom. Washed his face with cool water and prepared for the morning’s conversation and walk with Mr. Wellington.

How to Stay in the Game for the Long Haul by Working in Success Cycles
My mentor taught me that by working in success cycles, you will stay in the game for the long haul. Just like nature works in seasons, there are also success cycles. There is a time to learn, a time to produce, a time to harvest and reap the rewards, and a time to rest. Most people live busy lives and try to squeeze in as many activities in the day as possible. We start the day working on one project, and then we get side tracked to do something else. A few hours later, we jump back into the same project we started with, but somehow lose the momentum and rhythm to do it. We try to multitask as much as possible. I’m not saying that we should stop multi-tasking, but sometimes we need to step back and perhaps focus on one thing at a time. We should learn how to work in success cycles.
DE-CLUTTER YOUR LIFE
De-Cluttering our lives can be an extremely liberating exercise. There are many types of clutter than can hinder us having the quality of life we want and deserve.
Is Fear of Failure the Vibration You Feel Most Strongly?
Have you ever awakened in the middle of the night worrying about what if the clients don't show up? Or what am I going to do if... Or maybe just felt that sense of, "What am I doing wrong? Why can't I get a break?"
Check for Consistency - It's How the Tortoise Beat the Hare
Remember Aesop’s fable of The Tortoise and The Hare? Both were in a race, and the hare dashed off to an incredible start. He became complacent, and even arrogant to the point where he took a nap, thinking that he could wake up and still beat the tortoise. When the hare woke up, he dashed as fast as he could to the finish line only to find the tortoise celebrating victory.
Start Taking Action Now - You'll Be Closer to Your Dreams
Do you know what keeps people from achieving their goals or living their dreams? It’s not taking action. You can spend all the time in the world envisioning your future, setting goals, creating affirmation statements, meditating, and networking with successful people. However, if you spend all your time preparing and don’t take any action, your goals won’t materialize. Yes, you have to start taking action to make your goals and dreams come true.
6 Parts to UnReasonable Success
Going beyond what you know you can do is the first step of being "UnReasonable." Learn how to take your business to the next level by setting unreasonable goals and following these six simple steps for success.

80/20 – You Keep Hearing It – But What Are You Doing About It?
Everybody loves to talk about the 80/20 rules of selling, but did you know that 80/20 rules apply to most things you do and are in life.
Helping Young People Find their Path: Strength Based Coaching and the U.S. Public School System
It amazes me how many children graduate from high school and even college with little idea of what they want to do with their lives and often even less of an idea about what their natural skills are. One of the reasons is that most schools fail to recognize multiple types of intelligence and teach to only two. I am convinced that much of the confusion about life and career direction that I encounter occurs when people who don’t fit the standard mold do not get recognition for their natural skills.

Today Is The Beginning Of Your New Life
Self suggesstion statements will change your life. They will harbor you from all negativity that surrounds us each day. With little effort you can stand up, stand out, and rise above the average person that does not believe they need to improve. Success is your! You were born to succeed! What went wrong? Just open your mind, reprogram yourself today!
Who Do You Know?
When building any business it is just a matter of the number of people you talk to about your business. If you are not comfortable talking to people, especially, total strangers, you have to get over that. Then once you can talk to people, you need to know how to handle rejection, because it will surely happen. So, the challenge is going to be to handle it and then move on. However, that isn't always so easy.
Get The Right Answers When You Ask The Right Questions
Key questions to ask yourself that have the power to elicit the answers that are vital for you to manifest your dreams.

Adding Structure To Your Home Business is Imperative
Structures in life are necessary. Without them the human, unless naturally the high structures type spoke of in a previous article, will wander aimlessly from task to task. This is easy to do when promoting online because one site will lead to another. Each offering to nickle and dime the business owner with small costs to promote their URL. Each one seems small but when added up over the month, can be a large chunk if not exceed the advertising budget set aside.
Don't Let Addictions Impact Your Success!
While all this publicity is going on for the H1N1 Virus, people are dying from a disease far more prevalent in our country. Addiction is the physical or mental dependence on a behavior or a substance. To take that a step further, dependence means that despite the harm it is causing in their lives, they are powerless to stop. It is not limited to drugs and alcohol.

Six Rules for Prosperity in Life and Business!
Success in life has rules just like everything else in life. If there is hot there is cold if there is sadness then there is joy. If there is poverty then there is Prosperity. Recognizing that everything in the universe has a set of criteria that defines it makes everything understandable and achievable. Success is no Different. I have compiles six guidelines for Prosperity that can be utilized by anyone with the desire to achieve.
The Winner's Edge - It Separates the Winner from the Loser
So what separates the winners from the losers? It’s having the winner’s edge. It’s the little difference that makes all the difference in the world and separates people from the rest of the pact. The winners take the potential they were born with and live up to that potential. The winners make things happen, while losers simply let things happen. The winner’s edge lies in your attitude. The sharpness of that edge will all depend on whether your attitude is positive or negative.

Don't Bother Setting Goals
Don't bother setting goals. It's a waste of time. Let me explain why I feel this way about goals and then offer a better alternative. See if this scenario sounds familiar...
How Do You Define Success?
Our society is way off track about what is regarded as success. Discover how you define success and if your definition is serving you well.
Strive for Harmony, not Balance!
Balance is impossible! Just ask any entrepreneur about balance in his business or talk to a new mother about balance! Ask the newlyweds about balance or an Olympic athlete about balance. It doesn't exist in their world. As the #1 Online Life Coach I'm here to tell you that doing anything of great value requires you to be out of balance.

Why Developing Mental Toughness Will Bring Great Results
You will achieve great results through developing mental toughness. So what is mental toughness? It is the desire of taking control of your emotions in performance situations. Some people claim that they work well under pressure. My mentors often argue that the statement is a myth, and pressure can actually hurt you. With added pressure, the chances are high that you will start having negative self-talk, and then lose belief in your ability to complete a task or project.

Are You a World Class Thinker That Produces Great Results?
Have you ever wondered why some people work very hard, but never seem to get great results? While others seem to work effortlessly, sometimes with minimal work, and achieve great things? My mentors told me that the difference all lies in their way thinking, and I’d like to share with you these points.

Are You On Purpose?
Are You On Purpose?
A Clear Goal Creates Momentum
Achieving the UnReasonable is only possible when you set clearly defined, measurable goals. Learn here how to fine-tune your goals to make the UnReasonable realistic.

Success: One Conversation at a Time
Success: One Conversation at a Time
How Effective Are Your Work Habits?
How Effective Are Your Work Habits?
Four Ways to Fuel Your Passion
If you want to take that quantum leap towards achieving your goals, a great way to do so is to fuel your passion. Passion is what separates champions from the rest of the field, and can keep you going for the long term. Passion is what drives you to get you closer to your goals. If you’re about to undertake a major goal, make sure you follow these four things that will help fuel your passion.
What Do You Want to Be When You Grow-Up? Really, what do you?
I was recently asked that question by a colleague of mine, and without hesitation, the words just rolled out of my mouth.

Top 7 tips of how to not lose sight of, and realize your business vision
Can you see the forest from the trees, or do you tend to get caught up and lost in the tree brushes of your business? Learn how to stay focused so you can make money and meaning in your work, and not engage in analysis paralysis, which is what contributes to stuckness.
6 Steps to Personal & Business Wealth
Wealth is not just about how much money you have. When you decide to start a business there are many factors that could hold you back from moving forward. Have you considered your personal life and how this could be impacted?
Objective Reality
If you want to create results that are truly important to you, it is critical to separate your identity (who you are) from the results you want. Feeling good or bad about yourself has little bearing on the quantity or quality of your results. If you doubt this, consider famous people with extreme self-doubts or poor self-concepts who produced spectacular results. The results of standardized tests indicate that students who "felt good about themselves" often performed lower than the scores they predicted they would achieve.

5 Marketplace Implementation Lessons from a Corporate Strategy Execution Consultant with 25+ Years of Experience
The best-laid strategic plans often go awry once exposed to the light of day and the rudeness and ruthlessness of reality. These difficult times call for a disciplined, thoughtful approach to execution of strategy in the marketplace.
How Do You Know If YOU Respond Effectively To Adversity?
You've heard the saying, "Change your thinking - change your results". It's true, but do you know what thinking needs to change and from what to what? It's not just about heaving positive thoughts on top of a dismal situation. Nor is it about denial. A bad decision followed by hopeful thinking doesn't change the bad decision into a good one. Understanding how the High Performer is able to achieve a desired outcome is the first step we must take to improve our own productivity.
How Do You Know If YOU Are A High Performer?
In order to answer this question and know if we are a high performer, we must first define the term 'High Performer'. The simple definition is a person who achieves the best results. It's not just someone who works hard. More specifically it is someone who is able to produce desired results and achieve more of their goals. When we compare high achievers to those who fall short, a discernible difference exists. But this comparison suggests that everyone falls into either one group or the other - achiever or non-achiever. It's not quite that black and white.
How Do YOU Create The Outcome You Want?
WARNING: There is information ahead that involves looking at yourself as the cause of your own short-fallen results. Do NOT read any further if you're not opening to the idea we always play a role in creating our own experiences and outcomes!! Instead...Keep doing what you have always done and wish for improved results then let me know how that works out for you.

How Do YOU Create The Outcome You Want?
WARNING: There is information ahead that involves looking at yourself as the cause of your own short-fallen results. Do NOT read any further if you're not opening to the idea we always play a role in creating our own experiences and outcomes!! Instead...Keep doing what you have always done and wish for improved results then let me know how that works out for you.

It's Not MY Fault...REALLY!!!
Let's face it, it can be daunting to realize you are the one who didn't do it right. To make matters worse, it can be even harder to see it. We can think we did things right and still be wrong. We can be told and refuse to believe. In B.C. people were told the earth was round but rejected it for thousands of years. Instead they thought it was flat, stationary and the center of the universe. They were wrong...for hundreds of years. And just like the person who believes his results are not his doing, he is wrong as well. Somewhere along the way, many people became fearful of failing. As a result, some don't try while others refute their participation in causing an outcome. They detach themselves from poor results and believe they weren't responsible while thinking there is no harm being caused...WRONG AGAIN!

Incorrectly Assessing A Job Applicant's Motivation
In today's highly competitive and turbulent business environment, hiring average employees can spell "failure". Companies can not afford mediocrity while their competitors are striving to be the best. Hiring impacts profits in more ways than most companies realize. A Harvard Business School study determined that more than 75% of turnover could be traced back to poor hiring practices. The decision to hire -or not to hire- plays a significant role in turnover. The leading contributor to turnover is often not what happens after the employee is hired, but rather the process leading up to it. And turnover is not always bad if it's a bad hire that's leaving. You have to wonder if you really are hiring the best we can.
Smart Women Entrepreneurs Can Learn a Lot from the Olympics
This article is about using some common practices of Olympic athletes to take your business to the next level of success. It offers tips and solutions on how to set yourself up to achieve your own level of “gold” in your business. These are simple solutions that, when done regularly and effectively will produce results.

Are You Doing the Moon Walk --- Going Backwards While Moving Forward
The death of Michael Jackson recently was a tragic event. No matter what you thought of Michael personally, there is no doubt that he was one of the most talented entertainers of all time. His singing and dancing talent showcased so effectively by his performance in the video and album “Thriller” will be remembered forever as the Capstone of his career. I, like millions of his fans, mourn his passing. However, the one thing that I remember the most is his invention of the “Moonwalk”. The “Moon Walk” is a dance move that looks as if you are going forward when in reality you are moving backward. Michael made that move famous. His tragic sorrowful death reminded me of that move. The Moon Walk itself brings to mind how many businesses often struggle to achieve success; doing things that are supposed to gain market share and create success.
Do Rich People Think Any Differently?
How wealthy people think
If You Don't Like Where Your Parents Were At Your Age - Do Things Differently
Don't follow people you know for the sake of following them....you have the capability to create your own success
Learn To Stay Focused On Your Goal
How to stay focused on your goal
Play The Money Game To Win!
Playing full out to create big wins in your life.
How Do I Fire My Son Toby? My Wife Won’t Allow It
"I love Toby. He's my oldest son, he's Vice President of Sales but he just doesn't get it. My daughter should be running this business, she's brilliant but she's married to a surgeon and doesn't want anything to do with wholesale distribution. She's quite happy with all the charity work she is involved in. My youngest son has potential but he's only twenty two and just isn't ready to take over a 0 million dollar distribution business. Two events have occurred recently that are wearing on me a little. First, I transferred 75% of my stock equally to my three kids, 25% each. All three receive a salary although my daughter rarely appears at the office due to her charity work. The second event occurred after I hired a succession consultant to help me transition into retirement. He told me that Toby was incompetetent.
Success Isn’t a Mystery in any Economy
My first piece of advice on success today for anyone willing to listen is simply to turn off the news. Don’t listen to CNN. Turn off the Fox News network, NBC, CNBC and all the other networks that are sensationalizing everything that is happening in our economy on a minute to minute basis. I have made a conscious decision not to listen because a high percentage of what you see on television today is pure garbage designed simply to improve ratings. I refuse to listen to a constant diet of negativity. In fact, I refuse to even associate with negative people. I suggest that each and every one of us has an obligation to protect our attitude.
Critical Success Factors
If you don't know the few, really important things you need to carry out to achieve your mission - how can your staff. Identify them - and communicate them. Then everyone knows where to focus their efforts.
5 Tips To Help You Finish What You Start
Have you started a project that you had not finished due to depleting self-motivation, where you start strong, emotionally charged, then you doubt you will finish it, your motivation is reduced, then after a short while you stop working on the project altogether? Have you had enough of this cycle?
An Important Key to Success
Most great successes stem from your ability to be fully prepared and to feel absolutely certain that you can accomplish what you want to achieve in any line of business. Self-confidence is the crux that allows you to achieve your true worth in any business aspect. As you become more confident, you abandon worry, hesitation, anxiety and side-step fear of failure and rejection.
Are You Ready to Improve Your Self Confidence Level?
Did you know that you always determine and judge your self confidence by how you performed in a similar situation sometime in the past, whether it was a week ago, a month ago or as a young person?
Are Your Beliefs Holding You Back
Many people either tried to give up smoking or did all they could to lose weight, but in the long term were unsuccessful. Why is that?
Coach Yourself to Success
The importance of work right now, when money is less available than we are accustomed to, when all around us people are being made redundant, has multiple facets. The most obvious reason is that you want to keep money coming in, even if it’s only a small amount; and when we work, not only are we making money but we may be inclined to spend less because we’re busy.
Did You Know That Your Beliefs Are Not Real?
Do you think it really matters what you believe? Or to put it in another way, do you think it matters what your beliefs are in your financial area, business or career, or your relationships? What about in your health and fitness area?
How to Have That Winning Success Mindset
Be honest, are you one of those people who crave success, but getting either nowhere or making very little headway? Why do you suppose that is?
Make It Your Destiny To Accomplish Great Things In Your Life
We are now into a new year. Make it your decision, as of this moment, not to let your past dictate your future. What is gone is gone – forever. The year 2007 and all those that precede it are gone. Now is the time to move on, look ahead optimistically and do and become what you want: to be the best in any area that you choose, so you may design your own destiny.
New Years Resolution: Do it with a difference in 2009
Year after year we sit down with our special New Year notebooks, a bunch of coloured pens, and we start our list of resolutions, which seem to be surprisingly familiar.
People With Self Confidence Get Noticed
Those people who do not have self confidence end up not achieving very much in life. On the other hand, those who possess a good level of self confidence achieve many things; their aspirations, goals and dreams.

Take Responsibility for Change
If you manage or supervise others, both in the home as well as in the work environment, you may find the information in this article useful. Staff can often seem to let you down, behave in ways that appear to be inefficient, conflictual or disinterested, and this is an additional and unnecessary burden on top of all the other issues you face at work.
Your Belief System is Why Money is Hard to Get
Have you ever sat and pondered what beliefs you may have? Those beliefs that are responsible for running your life, on automatic, irrespective of whether they are limiting or enhancing beliefs?
Do You Have What it Takes to Be Successful as a Franchise Owner?
Franchising can offer you a wonderful opportunity to be in business for yourself - while providing the training, systems and support you need to be successful. But it takes the right sort of person to be a franchisee. Do you have what it takes?

90% Of People Have No Goals
Wow, an astonishing 90% of the population has no ideas or plans for what they want out of life! Without a solid life plan to take a hold of, these “drifters” will not have direction or the peace of mind to maximize their lives.
Negotiation Checklist to Ensure a Successful Outcome
Purpose of negotiation is to resolve situations…negotiate more effectively with help of this negotiation checklist & ensure a successful outcome.

Goal Achieving Process Part 2: Dreaming Big Dreams
The next step in the goal achieving process is dreaming big dreams. This is my favorite part of the process because it unlocks my inner child and opens up my creative faculties. We are all creators of our experiences, so why not make them as big and exciting as possible? Big dreams help you tremendously with goal achievement, especially since big dreams give you power and enthusiasm. When obstacles get in your way and things don’t go according to plan, big dreams make up for it with energy and enthusiasm. Small dreams don’t really give you any kind of power.

Communicators Are Millionaires
The best communicators in nearly every area receive the highest financial rewards. Years ago I received one of the best pieces of advice I've ever heard. It was the idea that "Our income will be in direct proportion to our level of communication". Learning how to communicate well enhances our lives in ways we can not even imagine. Upgrade your communication and elevate your income.
What Are You Waiting For? The Time is Now: Claim Your Talent Advantage
Each of us is born with a unique set of natural personal skills. When we learn to recognize and develop these personal skills into their full potential we are living our Talent Advantage. Applying this principle to our daily lives creates a greater sense of joy and life fulfillment.
Random Acts of Success
Nylon is one of the more useful human inventions and its discovery was an accident.
Increasing Your Success Isn't As Hard As You Think It Is
As a career coach and researcher of working women’s work-life issues, I’ve embarked on a national research study on Women Succeeding Abundantly, in order to learn first-hand the essential ingredients in thinking, beliefs, choices, and behaviors that create and maintain “knock your socks off success” in women. I want to learn from women who can raise their hands today and say, “Yes! I feel tremendously successful on my terms, and am able to live life joyfully and with great gusto."
Goal Achieving Process Parts 4 & 5 - Implementation and Accountability / Repeat Process
I’m now completing my series on the Goal Achieving Process with parts 4 & 5 here. There are two major reasons why people don’t reach they’re goals – they lack action (implementation) and follow-through (accountability). You may have the biggest dreams, and create S.M.A.R.T. goals, but without taking any action and following through your goals, then it’s worth nothing at all. You need to have a means and method to implement goals, and then follow-up. This all comes as a result of accountability.

Surrender to Know Deep Fulfillment
Many people live with the belief that fulfillment is about how much they can acquire on a material level only to be left disappointed by each new possession, award or accolade. Happiness and fulfillment has very little to do with what is manifested on the outside. Happiness is an inside job. Granted, there are outward things that do invoke feelings of joy, but it is something that manifests from the inside out, rather than from the outside in. Learn what this something is to have a deeper level of happiness.

Your Law of Attraction Movie Script
Many people believe Law of Attraction (LOA) information is a recent discovery. When one first happens upon LOA this IS true; they've had a breakthrough that allows for a different view of life. Perhaps they discovered LOA by way of a conversation, movie, book, seminar or article. Those who are open to the information find their life takes on a new dimension; one they had no idea existed. Learn when it all began and how you can create more of what you desire.

Disagreeing With Brian Tracy: Self-Discipline Is Not The Most Important Success Principle
In his book The Power of Discipline,Brian Tracy talks about self-discipline being the most important success principle. He went on to define self discipline by quoting Thomas Huxley, who said, "Do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not." But should we just cast aside how we feel about certain actions in business? After all business does affect the lives of all people and their families. Is self-discipline a recipe for capitalism without a conscience? I advocate putting feeling and emotions back into business.It encourages a sense of purpose and meaning back into business. If you chase success without emotion you will never find it because the pursuit of success is about obtaining a feeling of being successful. Success is essentially an emotion.
Key Management Insights - Thriving On Success
When you manage a team, they will look to you for the mood the team will take. Successes will only come when you are fully engaged - and more...
Change what you do
January is named after the Roman god, Janus who had two faces - one looking back and the other looking forward. Now is a good time for you to do both. Review the past year to list and celebrate your accomplishments. Also review your setbacks armed with hindsight to crystallize the wisdom you gained. Looking ahead - set your goals and map your path. But don't expect to keep doing what you are doing and get more. Prepare to change your approach just to get the same results. If you want to improve - do something dramatically different.

Five things you should do right now to keep your small business growing
This has been one tough year for business. The economic storms have hit virtually every industry and every market and taken a heavy toll. But still, there are plenty of businesses who are doing well, and some are going strong. What is it that makes those businesses so successful in trying times like these? Certainly there are many factors, but here are five common factors that you are likely to find in every one of those standout businesses. Learn these five and your chances for success will go up.
Five Positive Traits to Enhance Flexibility
Flexibility is often cited as one of the most important traits of every successful entrepreneur and leader. It is the ability to adapt your behavior to treat others the way they want to be treated. If you want to become more flexible in your way of interacting with others, cultivate the following 5 positive traits.

Do What You Love to Do! An introduction to finding your life's purpose
Everyone wants to be successful. However, there are many people who say they don't know what their life's purpose is. The answer to this question is right inside of you!
Choose to Live Your Potential
This article is about one of the greatest tools we possess -- The power to make choices!
Prayer, Faith and Action!
There is more to prayer then just asking for stuff. What is extremely important is what you do after you have prayed.
This Wonderful Recession
Now is the time to express our true spirit and not let the state of our economy get us down. We have the potential inside to rise above any obstacle in our way.
If You Plan to Succeed … You Need to Believe You Will!
I can't tell you how many times in the past where I've said I was going to accomplish something, set out a plan, and didn't accomplish it. Now there were many reasons why I didn't get it done but the biggest reason I didn't is because I simply didn't have a strong enough belief that I could. I've heard the saying a million times: "Whether you think you can, or you think you can't ... You are right! This saying is so true. Think about it for a second...
If You Want Something You Don’t Have … TAKE ACTION!
Let's face it ... each of us want things we don't currently have and circumstances we'd love to improve. The question is how bad do you want them, and are you willing to do what it takes? I've often found myself complaining about how busy I am and how difficult it is to accomplish all that I want to. About 18 months ago I decided to keep track of everything I was doing throughout the course of each day so I could attempt to figure out how I could maximize my productivity and accomplish more. To my surprise ...
Starting New Habits is Uncomfortable … But Necessary for Success!
Well I survived my first day of my new commitments, and you know what? It wasn't that bad! I'm not saying that it was easy. If I did ... I'd be lying! Every time we start new habits it is very uncomfortable, but if we continue to do things the same way over and over and follow our old habits ... we can expect to live with the uncomfortable feeling of never achieving more. In my opinion, the second we stop striving to become better, we begin to die. You tell me ... What could be more uncomfortable than death?
Just Because You Are A Negative Whiner Today, Doesn’t Mean You Can’t Change!
Alright so I just told you yesterday that if you encounter someone who is always complaining or moaning you need to realize they are simply a complainer and moaner so you shouldn't waste your time asking why... And now I am telling you just because you are a negative whiner today, doesn't mean you can't change! What's the deal? Ha ha! Well there is one huge difference. If you find yourself dealing with a negative whiner you have absolutely no control over that person, and attempting to change them is absolutely impossible. The only person on the face of the planet we have any power to change is ourselves. If you can find it within yourself to absolutely believe that the only person stopping your from changing, is yourself ... You should feel empowered!
Owning a Small Business Can Be Like Living Alone On An Island
Can you remember when you decided to start your business? I am sure you felt the same nervous excitement I did! I remember when I first told my plans to my Mom. She said, "That sounds exciting Pete, but wouldn't you rather get a job with a big company so you can work hard and have a pension some day?" My response was, "No Mom, I don't want to be in a position where I know exactly what my paycheck is going to be each week." I wanted to know I had the ability to build something that would produce a large income, and perhaps one day I would build it to a point where I could sell it for enough money that I could retire to an island somewhere and drink pina coladas in the sun every day.
Prosperity: From Striving to Thriving
Honor your values in order to thrive, flourish and prosper
Find a Quality Mentor - Are Looking For Advice in All the Wrong Places?
If you've ever found yourself consumed by a challenge, unable to see which way is right......check your rolodex and make sure you're getting advice from the best sources, not the most available.
10 Very Necessary Underlying Success Goals!!!
These 10 underlying success goals will help you to accomplish your current goals and get them off your list for good!

It's All You, All The Time And It's All Good!
You are the reason for your success or lack of it! It's your choice!
The Joys of being Responsible or Discipline Means Freedom (and some warm fuzzies)
The joys of being responsible. Discipline means freedom. They do sound rather contradictory, don't they? But if you gently focus on the rewards of discipline, rather than any sense of stingy self denial, all will make sense. Working with a very broad definition of "rewards" will also help.
Creating Personal Success
Creating Personal Success ---- Every manager, every employee and every leader that has any drive at all strive to be successful. Success starts with self awareness. That means understanding your personal strengths and weaknesses. It also means having enough humility to work on those weaknesses. Both the Democrats and the Republicans were preaching change in the presidential election. I only mention that because I really like the buzz words --- "Yes We Can" that have been used by both campaigns during the Presedential election process.

Empowerment - Ten Tips to Avoid Micro Management
I deal with a lot of leaders that confuse delegation with empowerment. I am often told, "I don't micro manage, I empower my employees." However, when we start digging into specific situations, we often uncover the difference between delegation and empowerment. It is really not that difficult to ascertain the difference. Delegation is simply getting someone else to perform a specific task for you. "Tom, can you move these for pallets for me to make some room for a new shipment coming in tomorrow?" Empowerment sets a little higher expectation that encourages the employee to use their own creativity and innovation.

Is Your Life Messing With Your Mind? Letting Your Natural Skills Take the Lead
What is going on that so many are not happy with what they do? Everyone is born with innate potential for a unique set of capacities, skills, and abilities. Unfortunately, very often this potential is left undeveloped, as people seek to build their lives and careers on capacities and skills that are outside their innate potential. A life built on acquired skills will mess with your mind. It will keep you exhausted physically, psychologically, and emotionally.

The View From The Top
When you take your trip to the top of the world, remember to take time to enjoy the process of getting there or in other words...enjoy the journey. Focus on the things you are grateful for all around you and on what is good in your life. You will find your arrival will be more satisfying once you get there if you have enjoyed the effort you put into it.
Tell Your Story
More than ever today people want to know you are human, you might be a successful business person but are you like them? Do you ever make mistakes or lose your way. Sharing how you created the success you have, the life you always dreamed about can help so many people, including yourself.
Goals setting tips for your business pt1
Rocco here from Bluesilver Business ,Marketing & Property Consultant goals and planning is very important to succeeding in life it helps you and the people around you to see where you a heading in life helps get what has to bee done on a daily or weekly basses

10 Commandments of Wildly Successful Network Marketers
10 great tips for any network marketer new or old in this business to step up personal development and create network marketing success
Don't Ring the Bell - Develop a Success Mindset
The visual and the symbol of the bell in the movie, GI Jane can teach us about developing a success mindset. Here's what it taught me...
Enlist Your Self Control and Achieve Even More
Self-control is defined as “control of oneself” or the “ability to master one's desires and impulses. Philosophically speaking self-control could be described as the exertion of one's own will. Psychologically, self-control usually refers to a person’s self-perception, belief system, as well as the ability to set boundaries on their own behavior. Among some scientific communities, the issue seems to be whether or not what we perceive as “normal” is truly an accurate setting to work with. Most people assume that self-control is healthier than impulsiveness. However, this has to be compared to each person’s value system – their community

Learn To Increase Your Confidence for Greater Success
Confidence is generally thought of a mental state of being “certain.” Confidence could apply to the knowledge one carries that his viewpoint is true. Confidence could also apply to a permanent emotional state of mind, as in self-confidence: having high self-esteem in general and especially when considering a specific capability. Case in point: some people who struggle with self-doubt in most aspects of their life, but who are confident in one belief. Confidence has sometimes been called a “self-fulfilling prophecy”, since those that have it succeed just as they predict, whereas those who lack it fail because they worry too much about not having it.

STRUGGLING TOWARD A CONSTANCY TO PURPOSE
One of the unfortunate realities of our time is the tendency we have of allowing other persons and society define the meaning of success in our lives. In doing so we absolve ourselves from any meaningful internal dialogue and true understanding of who we are and why we were meant to be here or our purpose/mission in life. Those who regularly read my bulletins know that I have some pretty strong opinions about how we all should live our lives. This statement seems contradictory to my opening remarks but stay with me and I will explain. I thought it would be interesting for us to examine how four different generations might view success based upon what we have come to know about them and what they value. Perhaps from this cursory examination we might get some ideas for what truly constitutes SUCCESS?

Psychological Diversity
Diversity is all around us. Most often people associate the word with differences in ethnicity, language, gender, values, sexual orientation, culture, economic class, or religion. Psychological diversity is often overlooked but is the most important kind of diversity because it is at the core of explaining the differences between people.

4 Ways To Effectively Tame Your Stress
Are you stressed? Here are four ways to rapidly and effectively get your stress under control. Learn how to optimize your stress levels so they fuel your progress instead of draining your energy.
Does Success Change You?
Imagine this scenario... You spend years working hard to succeed. During these years, you have some success, mixed with lots of false starts. But you never really reach the level of success you dream of. And then something shifts. Everything begins to work, and your fame and fortune take off...
Work from Home
One of the fastest growing sectors of the business world right now is that of Internet entrepreneur.
Smart Women Know Who to Ask
This article is about making sure that you ask the right people when you have an idea for your business. It’s essential that you get your advice, mentoring and coaching from the right people. People who are successful, positive and inspirational. Get advice from people who’ve accomplished the kinds of goals that matter to you.

Help on How To Kick Those Time Wasting Habits
The goal is to slow down and be focused on the highest pay-off activities that will produce the results you desire in the timeframe you want – personally and professionally.

My Way or the Highway: The Power of Perception
It is impossible to experience how other people perceive the world. While you can gain an intellectual understanding and a sincere appreciation of perceptual differences, you cannot have the actual experience of someone else’s perception. Your Perceptual Style is at the core of a vast array of natural skills and talents that make you uniquely you. Claiming your natural talents and doing more of what you do best will bring you tremendous satisfaction, meaning, success, and happiness.

Business and Life Lessons From "The Apprentice"ª
Donald Trump knows a few things about business success and leadership. Here are five lessons you can put to use immediately to move forward faster at work, business and life.
So, You’ve Made It – But, How Well Is Your Business Doing?
Ever wonder if your business is doing as good as it can? What about understanding if your business is doing as well as your competition? Or, if your business is squeezing the most profits out of the assets and resources it currently has?
Serving for Success
The elements of business success go far beyond simple bottom line calculations. Success comes from an attitude and focus on serving others, not just our balance sheets.
Action, Not Confidence, Is What Counts For Career (and weight loss) Success
The importance of taking action in order to reach or accomplish goals in your life
Planning Is The Key To Career Success
The importance of planning your route to success one step at a time
Are You a Real Leader or Just an Imitation?
The easiest way to suppress discretionary energy, the energy given willingly - no matter what it takes, is a style often used by "Imitation Leaders" that scrutinizes every decision an employee makes. It can kill the employee's spirit. It destroys trust. Leadership imitation is often just a symptom of ineffective planning, too much compassion and the inability to judge performance and develop bench strength. The "Imitation Leader" usually has a shoot from the hip mentality that encourages micro management and does not allow employees to develop their skills and maximize their potential. One of the many warning signs is a high turnover rate. The reason is simple; good employees just won't tolerate micro management and they will leave to find employment that will challenge them and help them grow.

Change on Purpose
More than ever before, our current economy demands of most companies the ability to achieve measurable results that are specific to profitability, growth, cost containment and operational effectiveness. Of course, none of this will be possible without leadership and organizational change. Without change your company becomes stagnant, uncompetitive and boring. A leader's major responsibility is to create change, instigate change and then manage change effectively. In spite of the fact that creating change is a key competency required to be an effective leader, most people resist change. This includes leaders themselves. However, effective leaders accept change as a positive force and they are able to convince those that follow them that change is nothing more than a road map to a new and better destination.
Manage your Assets but Lead your People
I have had suggestions made to me by owners, presidents and CEOs that would baffle the mind of most professionals that have integrity. For example, I once was asked to fire an individual because his wife's illness had caused the company to reach their catastrophic cap in their insurance program. This same owner would intentionally run mail that contained checks to his vendors through the meter at two cents so they would arrive with postage due. He thought this was a great cost savings idea until the government sent him a cease and desist letter.

Has Your Sales Force Lost Their Passion
Nowadays, salespeople must be problem solvers able to generate solutions for customers in their time of need. Therefore, they must possess a great deal of knowledge about your customers' business. They must actually define what those needs are because the customer may not know, nor take the time to explain if they do know. Customers want you to have the knowledge and intelligence to comprehend and analyze their problems before showing up at the door. Customers will listen and buy from the salesperson that finds the "pain" and takes it away. Sometimes going back to the basics is part of the answer to rekindling the passion. That means revisiting best practice in all areas including targeting, goal setting, customer profiling and action planning.

Developing Your Management Team
Your management team must have an edge. They must be courageous enough to take risk and have an unrelenting readiness to act. Popularity is not a requirement but the ability to generate respect from the employees is without a doubt one of the most critical attributes. They must be relentless in their efforts, unconscious about personal sacrifice of their time and the willingness to go beyond normal expectations. Tough decisions are commonplace; uncharted territories will be the norm. Honesty and impeccable character is a must. Being decisive, doing the right thing, setting clear objectives, motivating and inspiring employees and creating a sense of urgency are challenges that must be met by all members of the management team. Every single member of your management team has to make a difference.
Smart Women Have a Winning Offense
This article is about how important it is to create a trusting and happy relationship with your clients---especially when they are brand new. It’s key to foster good communication and be in touch with them on a regular basis.

Self Improvement And Setting You Up For Success
Everything that happens to us happens in purpose. And sometimes, one thing leads to another. Instead of locking yourself up in your cage of fears and crying over past heartaches, embarrassment and failures, treat them as your teachers and they will become your tools in both self improvement and success
Living Beyond the Statistic and Claiming Your Talent Advantage
Building your daily actions around your natural skills means claiming Your Talent Advantage. Knowing what you do naturally well makes a difference in all aspects of your life; family, friendships, hobbies, work, everything. People are happiest and most satisfied in life when they are engaged in actions and activities that draw upon their natural capacities, skills, and abilities. Don’t become part of the statistic of people who hate what they do. Life is too short to spend it toiling at something that is no fun.
Retreat To Advance Into A New Decade
Learn how taking a retreat can help you renew, refresh and begin again by following this five-step process created by Eileen McDargh.
The Little Things
The mastery of the minor is essential for the conquer of the great.
Create A Culture of Consistency!
First published in Food & Drink Magazine in January 2010, this story focuses on 6 steps to create a choiceful business culture. Choice: High performance, engaged team members; nothing less.

Deal with stress or it will deal with you
An extreme case of stress leading to a breakdown becomes a life affirming experience shared by a businessman who hopes his story prevents others from such suffering.
What Successful People Avoid in Their Communication
There are key, unbelievably overused sentences you must make efforts to consciously avoid in your communication, especially in these uncertain economic times. Check those who use these sentences frequently and chances are they are not on your list of the people you consider successful in any endeavor of life. I call them de-motivators and dream busters or responsibility deflectors. The moment you utter any of them, you surrender your desire for immediate action and “borrow” time to wallow in self pity-which is a dangerous move that will never bring either tangible or intangible results.

Hidden in Plain View
Why is your life the way it is, and not the way you would like it to be? The answer to this question is hidden in plain view. Before I give you the "plain view" answer, please allow me to explain something that will help you to understand your life better.

Reality Modifier Exercise
Here's a really cool exercise that could answer many questions in your life and help thrust you into a new understanding of yourself. Enjoy!

Unfreezing Your Dreams
If you really want to improve any area of your life, you have to courageously face the things you can do right now. Do those things and experience the next level of life. Repeat this process to the level of success or happiness you desire.

Taking the High Road
If you want to start playing a bigger game, you'll want to carefully read this short article. I'm going to share with you some simple, yet profound principles to help make some amazing changes.

What are you feeding your mind?
Eating healthier, causes you feel better. What you feed your mind, has an effect on your whole life.

How to Make Your Customers Feel Welcome
In this excellent article the author shows you and your employees how to create the kind of atmoshphere that makes your clients and customers prefer to do business with you over the rest of your competition. Too often small business owners blame the economy and the government for their slumping business. If they would only look a little further they would identify a major cause of their business decline-their own attitude towards their clients and customers.
How to Start Thinking Outside the Box by Looking Outside Your Business
When it comes to growing our business, you don't have to be as original or smart as you think. By simply observing other successful businesses you can learn how to makeyour small business more successful and profitable. The following example will show you how one company is being successful.

The 4 Things Your Customers Want
Here are four things your customers really want. If you can provide them consistently you will make theme them life-time customers. So easy to do, yet so often not done.
An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Problem Fixing
How to prevent problems with customers by doing things that will help your organization gain new business not lose it.
How Not to Communicate with Your Customers
This article will give you the "don'ts" of not participating with your customers. A must read for all employees and managers.
Hunger Pains
Can mediocrity dull the hunger pains for excellence? Can accepting the status quo doom your team to mediocrity? Staying hungry for that which provides the most benefit is extremely challenging and often illusive to many organizations. There are many factors that contribute to lost hunger. This article will focus on some common reasons we lose the drive toward excellence. Though not exhaustive, your team can certainly reach break-through by addressing these individually and collectively.

Beware of The Barrier of Busyness
Busyness mistaken for productivity saps our energy and means we achieve less than we are capable of. Here are 10 tips to ensure you are not bound by the barrier of busyness.
Have You Looked in the Mirror Lately? (article and assessment)
How important is it for you to get a medical checkup? It may not be the most pleasant experience you can have done, but it is certainly necessary to help ensure proper health for your body. The same is true for your mindset! I think you'll really enjoy this latest post, it's an article and assessment for personal improvement! We need to regularly evaluate our mind – and mindset – just as we do our bodies.
From Failure To Success - A Story Of Letting Go
Sometimes you have to let go to succeed.
Treat Little Customers Like Big Customers
Learn how to create lifetime customers by using some simple but critcal strategies.
The Benefits of Working
Many older adults view work as a worthwhile activity that they have no plans to retire from.Each person in the work place can find satisfaction in a job well done with pride. It is this spirit that sets the successful person apart.
Discovering Your Potential for Success
Dr. Wayne Dyer said that ”Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose.” Sadly, though, too many of us are obstructed from living the lives that we choose…but obstructed by what? The secret is that everything you need to succeed is already inside of you! Each one of us already has what it takes to live life on our own terms…we just need to be taught how to tap into that potential.
How to Lubricate Your Business.
All equipment requires preventative maintenance and your business is no different. A little care and consideration will go a long way to prevent problems. The smooth operation of processes makes the success of any venture more feasible. The leaders mindset and attitude affect everything about the business.
Why Harvesting Your Thoughts Can Make the Difference in Winning and Losing
People go through thousands of thoughts each day. It's just a matter of deciding which things should remain in the brain and which ones are forgotten to be remembered another day. It is very helpful to practice some mental exercises so that you can harvest your thoughts very well and focus on your goals and objectives better. You may find that you can accomplish more things and be really great just by gathering thing in your head.

It all begins with an Idea; How to Develop a Business Plan
This is an article on how to develop a business plan. If your dream is to own a successful business, take the time to read this article and put these words into action and design your blueprint for success. I do not take credit for these action steps, as a video producer, I have learned them from great people who I have had the privilege to work with over my near 30 years as president and CEO of Primeau Productions Inc. I want this article to be like a paper coach, one that helps you succeed in business. As President and CEO of Primeau Productions, Inc. and Our AfterCare, LLC.I have learned about business success from many mentors I have had as friends throughout the years. Some of the world’s greatest contributors like Floyd Wickman who taught me how to sell. Terry Brock who taught me how to use technology to build relationships;

Collaboration – The New Competition
Over the coming years, we will see collaboration become the new competition. Markets around the world are crying out for collaboration as innovation and differentiation become scarce in a sea of commoditised products and services. Sales people who see themselves as collaborators, both internally (colleagues, departments) and externally (customers, competitors), will prosper more than ever.
Always Do It the Right Way.
Always doing things the right way is the most efficient and productive means of achieving anything, but the way they are done affects our attitude and spirit each time we see it.

How's Your Communication?
In order to be as successful as you want to be, you must have greatcommunication skills.
The Magic of Entrepreneurship
James Dicks examines the benefits of creating your own small business.
Your pre-call & post-call checklist
How well did your last sales call go? Did you achieve what you set out to achieve? Do you know what your next course of action will be with that customer/prospect? Do you have evidence that a real sales opportunity exists? Using a pre-call and post-call checklist is a very useful process when assessing the effectiveness of your sales calls.
Visualize to Keep your Eye on the Plan
Making your goals come alive and keeping a focus on what you intend to create and accomplish, well that can be challenging when life begins to happen and unexpected events occur. Here's how I help my clients keep an eye on their goal plans.
Teflon New Year’s Resolutions
New Year's resolutions are usually about a change that is desired, but why is it that so many fail at achieving the change? What does it take to create lasting change and make it stick.
If You’re Not First, You’re Last
How to become and remain first in your customers eyes and dominate your market.
Communicating for Success
Communication is vital for success and in the NEW Economy it will prove to be of immeasurable value in getting and keeping customer. Customers are in the driver's seat and customer service is now the mandate. The first line for most companies is the phone. Make mistakes here and you will see it reflected in your Profit and Loss statement.
What do you think of yourself?
Did you know that your self image and the beliefs you hold about yourself are a defining factor in whether or not you'll achieve your goals? Read that again. This means that your self esteem is a direct link to your success. Read that again. This means that your self esteem is a direct link to your success.
How I Turned My 'Dis-Orders' into Success
Using individual disadvantages to your advantage...
Decisions, Decisions, Decisions
James Dicks examines the need to make some critical decisions that will affect your future financial life.
6 Steps to Reclaiming Time in Your Day!
What is the no. 1 answer you hear these days in response to the question: "Hey, how are you?" All I ever hear people say is "oh, busy……I'm so busy!" My goodness, I am so sick and tired of hearing that from people. We're all busy – but, for me, my preferred answer to that question is simply: "I'm so happy, thanks!"

The Positive Leader, Put Your Mind To It
James Dicks examines the importance of positive leadership
A born salesperson
For seven years I sold equipment and network services for AT&T. I even won several awards and twice was selected to the Council of Leaders, an honor given to the top 3% of the sales force. I am however not a typical sales type. Employers who use the DISC behavioral assessment would screen me out as a candidate for a sales position.
Business Lesson from a Farmer
200 years ago 95% of the population were farmers, today only 2% are farmers. There were some very practical wisdoms learned on a farm about life and about how to handle hard times. Every entrepreneur and business person should read this lesson from what farmers knew about the practical wisdom of surviving hard times.
Why People Fail
The reasons people fail and the exact procedures for creating success
How to Motivate Your Staff and Employees to Do Their Best
While it’s true that you can’t really motivate your employees; they have to motivate themselves; there are some things you can do as an owner or manager to create the proper environment for employees to provide their own self-motivation, i.e., to do what is expected of them. To do this, you need to find out what motivates your employees.

The 4 Things Your Customers Really Want
There was a study conducted by Delta Airlines a few years back and the results were so startling that it became quickly obvious that these results could apply to all types and sizes of businesses and organizations. The study centered on what their customers really wanted from Delta Airlines.
Smart Women and the Six Feminine Energies(TM)
This article is about women embracing what’s really important to them right now in their lives. It’s key to hone in and take action on what drives you, what fuels you, what energizes you. This is a key to living on purpose and with passion.

Is Your Attitude Helping or Hurting Your Success?
I’ve found myself talking often this past week about attitude and how your attitude is both completely under your control and the #1 predictor of your success. I’m sharing some of my absolute most inspiring quotations on the power of attitude as my article this week. Pick your top few favorites that really resonate with who you are and use them as mantras this week.

6 Ideas for Following Up With Your Clients!
Do you have ANY idea how much money is sitting right in front of you - right under your nose?" What I am talking about is communicating and connecting with your current clients.
Smart Women Understand “Life is an Occasion”
This article is about celebrating your life by making it into something that you are proud of and happy to live in. It offers tips and solutions on how to make your life more of an “occasion” with having more of what you want and less of what you don’t. This, of course, means that change may need to take place. Letting go or taking on what’s necessary to make your life an “occasion.”

Are you “what” you know?
Consistently being who you are solidifies relationships in all areas of your personal and professional life, and the opposite is true if you want to scare folks off. They would leave skid marks and run the other way.

Five Ways to Stay in touch with Clients and Prospects without Breaking the Bank
Most entrepreneurs do marketing whenever they have a minute to fit it in-or they don’t do it all. But if you’re not staying in front of clients and prospects regularly they’re sure to forget all about you and the value you offer. That means you’re losing business…

Are You Stuck in a Revolving Door?
Being stuck in a revolving door is a terrible place to be. Passing by the world and those around us, we want stop the cycle but have no understanding how. We may cry out for help but the answer is still within us. These same principles affect our lives and must be overcome in us if they are to be conquered.

Motivate Yourself to Success
Motivating yourself is not easy, but essential for any business chief. It should not be neglected if one wants to thrive in our current economy.
Think Big For Success
Thinking big will lead to creating a large online business. The very thoughts that exist in your mind can become a reality very quickly.
The 4 Stages of Your Home Business Success
There's four simple stages on the road to success when being in a home based business. Many have come before you and many will follow, but only 3% make it to the fourth and final stage.
To Succeed, You Must Stop Doing This!
As women entrepreneurs, one of the things we do all the time is to pass through our successes very quickly! Well, I'm here to tell you that this habit, this practice, must stop. It must stop here and it must stop now. Let me tell you why.

Strategic Foreclosure
James Dicks examines the current state of the U.S. housing market.
Time Management
The world’s most precious resource is not oil, gold, or the almighty dollar; it is time. Since it is a finite resource and no one knows how much time they are guaranteed, it is important to maximize efficiency in all of your business ventures.
3 Practical Steps to Achieve Success
Want to be more successful? People sometimes think there is a secret to achieving success that they don't have access to. Learn how you can practice some basic steps that will help you transform your business and your life.
Creating a Strategic Vision - Are You Making These 3 Mistakes Most Organizations Unknowingly Make?
Lack of a commonly understood strategic direction leads to misaligned efforts and poor decisions - and this can end up fatal to your business.

Smart Women Make It Happen
This article is about taking steps to go from where you are right now in your business life to where you want to be in the future in terms of your business. There are some steps that you will need to take in order to create the life you want. This article gives you 6 tools to think about as you get on your journey from where you are to where you want to be.

Improve Motivation - If Something Works Use It
Finding the things that motivate us and keep us on track is the key to success in life. Identifying ways to keep enthusiastic and motivated in the midst of stress or difficulties is the most important element. And, when something works, use it.
How to Thrive on Change in the 21st Century
People love change and they hate change. They want to see the models of the new automobiles for the next year, but they hate the fact that they have to change their area code on their telephone number (and everything else that has their telephone number on it). They love the fact that their new cellular telephone has the latest upgrades on it, but they dislike the chore of having to sort through their trash and put recyclables in a separate container. They like the idea of ATM machines but fear the loss of their job due to a downsizing of their company. Learn the 4 A's in dealing with change and learn how to use it to your advantage.
Powerful or Just Busy?
You can be busy and stay stagnant or be discerning and choiceful in what you do and pack a punch. What's it going to be?
Raise the $takes for Success
3 steps to funding your dream business
Start Your Dream Business
If you’ve been dreaming of starting your own business, and are ready to put your plan into action, then we’ve got advice for you. Read on for the first steps any would-be entrepreneur needs to take in order to launch his or her own business.

Instilling Pride ~ A Key to Eliciting Excellence
Eliciting excellence in others is the essence of leadership, and one of the most effective means of eliciting excellence is to instill a sense of pride in those around us. Instilling pride has a myriad of benefits - quality of work and workmanship improves, creativity and innovation increases, collaboration is facilitated more easily, and people are willing to "go the extra mile" to do their best.
Adversity – Mountains – and Fulfilling Your Dreams
Adversity offers opportunities to stretch beyond where you are to new dreams and not be swept into the negativity of fear, guilt, blame or self-doubt. The new dream may be one that has been stored in the “someday” folder, but needs to be opened with fresh eyes that say, “This is the time to do something about making my dream come alive.”
Celebrate Failure
Leaders should not only celebrate successes, but failures as well.
Failure is Not Fatal!
I know that, for many people, the number one fear in life is supposedly public speaking! In my opinion, right 'up there' on the list, is the fear of failure! I hear this all the time and it drives me crazy.
A New Measurement of Leadership Success
The incorporation of ethical and foundational values into the measurement of a leader's success will help ensure that organizations and institutions operate in ways that contribute to society in meaningful ways. One such measurement is VOP.
4 Ways to Raise Your Bottom Line by Being Adventurous in Your Business
To be adventurous means that you participate in exciting enterprises and bold undertakings. Are you adventurous in how you run your business? What would it look like for you if you were? Here are 4 Ways to raise your bottom line by being adventurous in your business.

Don’t Be a Victim – Take Charge of Your Life!
It's really easy for many people to fall into the ‘victim mentality' and I hear it a lot these days! Now, please realize that I am talking about things over which you have control - like birthday celebrations, weddings, the way you run your business and so on.
Don’t Overlook the Wealth of Intellectual Capital
“We’re forced to close because the bank will not loan us the money we need.” Phrases like this have been heard too many times the last several years, and yes, it’s unfortunate, but here’s my perspective: “Companies don’t fail due to a lack of financial capital. They fail due to a lack of intellectual capital.”
Knowing your Next Sales Hire Will Be a Great One
Many struggle with knowing what to look for when hiring sales people. Struggle no longer. Here are proven sales selection methods that will aid you in building a dynamic sales team
Solo worker? Why waking up earlier may help.
You should feel reassured that Manhattan's best and brightest solo workers also have the same problem we all do of rolling out of bed on time -- and these are some brilliant and amazing people! Find out how to wake up earlier so you can be more productive.

To become your best self, you need to become a slightly different person.
If you're reading this newsletter, chances are you're a successful person already. However, there is a next level to who you are. Learn how to achieve that. Learn how to transform into that person, faster and more easily.
Are others holding you back from living your dreams?
When you're in the process of discovering what you really want, all kinds of blocks can arise. Some are from within yourself, and others are from the people around you. Read about how the people who you spend the most time with may actually be holding you back from realizing what you want most in life.
Lies that prevent success
All of us have been brought up to believe a variety of lies. Lies about what kinds of people we are, what we are capable of, what we deserve, and what we can expect out of life. Learn what these lies are and how to rid yourself of this negativity. Then it's easier to bring in the success you deserve!

Dreams Do Come True!
This article is encouraging words and tools for those who want a change! You can create your destiny, only if you have faith and believe. Check out my website for upcoming events and updates,

Entrepreneur's Success Center- Why Businesses Fail
Businesses fail in great numbers. The more recent the start-up date the more the odds of success are against you. The odds of success are slim and you will need to be prepared. In this series of Entrepreneurial insights and helps you will increase your chances of success.
Entrepreneur's Success Center- Six Steps to Marketing Success
Entrepreneurs need marketing help Entrepreneurial success is often achieved on the back of a sound marketing plan. Here is a six step marketing plan that never fails. Great information for the entrepreneur that has no formal marketing training. Follow this plan and become the "lead dog."
Entrepreneur's Success Center- The Business Plan
You wouldn't travel from your home or place of business to Brazil without a plan to get there. Too many businesses fail for lack of a plan. The plan does not have to be perfect but it does need to be flexible. Develop a plan and increase your successes. This brief article lays out the essential of a business plan.

Manifesting Reality - Changing Your Life by Changing Your Thoughts
We donft come into this life knowing what is best for us, there is no little instruction book taped to our side as we enter the world. We spend the majority of our life just playing it by ear. Sure, most of us have some help from our parents, grandparents and teachers along the way, but the real day to day living is left up to each of us and what we think is best. What we donft realize is thatfs just it, itfs our thoughts that are the most important aspect directing our lives. gEvery thought of yours is a real thing -- a force.h Prentice Mulford (1834--1891)
How Effective Teams Succeed
Make no istake about it, it takes team work to make the dream work in any organization. Discover what it takes for successful teams to succeed.
One Word that Determines Your Happiness and Success
I believe there is one single word that contains the key to both happiness and success in life. In this article I describe the word and why it is critically important to each of us.
More lessons from MasterChef – Can you take the heat?
As the saying goes, “If you can’t take the heat get out of the kitchen”. Once again MasterChef has served up some great life lessons. Last year I wrote about the great leadership, coaching and mentoring we can learn from MasterChef. Again Garry, George, Matt and the other guest chefs showed us how to excel in this area of leadership. On this occasion, I want to comment on ‘Resilience’ and dealing with setbacks and challenges, and how MasterChef gave us a window into how people handle stress and demanding situations. The time pressures and increasingly difficult tasks set for the contestants showed us how well they were able to manage themselves under pressure and produce the goods. You could often see the demands of a given situation getting to a number of the contestants. It was unrelenting at times.
The Art of Feeling Good in Life and Work
What is the one thing we all want in live? To feel Good! It sounds so simple. But is it? I took a careful look at my own life and asked myself: When do I feel really good and what does it take?
When 'LESS IS BEST'
Often the key to achieving more is actually through doing less. There is a time to act and a time to reflect and a time when 'less is best'.
Do You Avoid Failure Like the Plague?
What are you sacrificing by focusing on avoiding mistakes and failure, rather than on learning and growth? Fun? Joy? Love? Success?
Build a Financial Plan “as you see it”
My goal is to help you achieve that kind of discipline, so that you can move from where you are to where you want to be. That means slightly different things for different people-there's no "one size fits all"-but that is the fun and beauty of financial independence.

Using your dreams and goals to create wealth Part 1
I thought, you can go where you want to go and do what you want to do, when you want to do it. What I had to discover-and in fact didn't discover for many years-was that having the money wasn't as important as knowing what to do with the money once I got it. In reality, as it turned out, money was only a tool.

First Step-Using your dreams and goals to create wealth Part 2
To take your first step and set your mind on the course to financial success, you must begin to dream. You must begin to envision the kind of life you desire. For some of you, this will be easy, because you have dreamed all your life. For others, it will be more difficult. Why? Some people simply don't know how to dream-they've never tapped into their imagination deeply enough to let their thoughts run free.

Own Your Success
When you don’t fill a program or get a new client signed on how do you deal with it? Are you blaming the economy or too much competition? Or do you look at what you could do differently to convey the value of working with you?
Life's Formula
Five keys to happiness.
JUST ASK
IF YOU NEVER ASK, THE ANSWER IS ALWAYS NO! HERE ARE A FEW TIPS THAT WILL HELP YOU GET MORE OF WHAT YOU WANT OUT OF LIFE.
TIME, TIME, TIME ….IS NOT ON MY SIDE!
Many say the WORLDS GREATEST ROCK N’ ROLL BAND is the Rolling Stones! Mick Jagger and the boys once had a big hit whose lyrics went, “Time, Time, Time, is on my side, Yes it is….” With all due respect to the wisdom of Rock N’ Roll, I believe that the Stones were dead wrong! If they were right then why do so many of my business coaching customers say that they never have enough time to get everything done that they need done. Why do they say that life would be so much better if they just had 25 hours in a day?

EVERY BUSINESS NEEDS A CEO!
The idea of the value of a title in business today is debated far and wide and I agree in most cases titles are important, however for successful businesses in today's rocky business environment are discovering the need for the changing meaning of certain titles or the addition of certain titles to the necessary line up of key employees in their organization. The new thoughts may surprise you!
LET’S DANCE!
I almost got shot the other day! One of my coaching clients called to tell me about a very successful meeting that they had just completed that ended in them getting a very important new customer. This was a real tough one and one that we had worked on to create a powerful strategy plan to sue in the coming meeting…and the plan worked!We celebrated. I celebrated for my customer...and I think everyone should celebrate any level of victory in business today. It's a great way to stimulate the slow or lost passion in the employees, leadership and even ownership!
Dreaming is fun, isn’t it? Part 3
Someone once said that what the mind can see, the body can achieve. I believe it. I go a step further. I believe that the mind must see it before the body is able to work for it. Look at another realm of human endeavor: sports. When Roger Bannister broke the four-minute mile, he saw it long before he did it. Over and over in his mind, he later recalled, he visualized doing what had been deemed to be impossible. Interestingly enough, once Bannister did what no one else had ever done before, others quickly succeeded in doing it.

Principles of Wealth Creation
To accomplish your goal of becoming financially free, you will need to master specific principles of wealth creation. No, these aren’t some magical set of principles we found scratched in papyrus scrolls in the ruins of an ancient temple. They’re contemporary, commonsense principles. At the same time, though, they are magical, because they create the basis for a sound foundation of wealth creation.
A millionaires dreams
Financial freedom is your dream. As long as you can dream, you can continue to succeed. Show me a person who has no dream, and I will show you someone who is poor. A millionaire dreams, and then sets out to make those dreams real. Once you stop dreaming, you stop the magic. That’s because you have created the world you wanted. You stop moving forward, because your dreams have ended. Either you are content to live with what you have or you are constantly frustrated because you don’t have enough-or you learn to dream again.
It's Not Easy Being Lucky
It's not easy being lucky. Not easy at all. Most people that are considered lucky...created their perception of being lucky because they had the discipline to consistently apply skills; knowledge and work ethic to their lives and overnight (years later) they're lucky. In this article we'll examine a list of exactly what it takes to earn the right to "Be Lucky".
Four Essential Strategies for Effective Communication
In this article, Mike Friesen describes describes effective communication as an engaged, useful exchange of information. With this in mind, great communication must engage compassionately, logically, with presence, and systematically and Mike explores each strategy in turn.
Characteristics of Personal Mastery (Part 2 of 2)
Personal mastery means excelling in the areas of heart, legacy, mind, action, and treating others well. In this second of a two-part series, Mike Friesen explores the last three characteristics in detail.
All Talk and No Action? – Turning decisions into commitments
How can you walk your talk? Five key steps on how you take decisions and then act accordingly,keeping in mind that decisions are not effective without action commitments.

The Art of Successful Business Relationships
Unless you are an island to yourself, so much of life has to do with relationships. Consider your relationships, personally, professionally and spiritually. If you were to rate the support you receive from the people in your life between zero to ten, with ten being exceptional support and zero having no support whatsoever, how would you rate your relationships?
Five Leadership Secrets of an Aviator
A former fighter pilots suggests five lessons from aviation that link directly to leadership.
Resolving Conflict
The value of conflict is a controversial topic in many circles. Some organizations thrive on conflict for its own sake while others avoid conflict at any cost. Either extreme is dysfunctional as conflict can play a vital role in a healthy organization. The challenge is to focus, use and defuse conflict.
Character and Competence
When hiring for and growing employees within an organization, it is essential to consider both character and competence traits. The single best strategy for helping a company improve results starts with hiring the right people for the right business needs. It is far better to leave a vacancy unfilled rather than fill just because “any warm body in the chair will help.” The pain and cost of making poor hiring decisions is unnecessary. Sprinkle the hiring process with a bit more deliberation and patience and watch the long-term results take an upward course.
Disagreement and Disrespect
An important concept for successful leaders is to recognize disagreement and disrespect are two completely different concepts. Confusing or combining the two concepts guarantees a dysfunctional organization.
Leadership Acumen
What is leadership acumen? Leadership always yields tangible business results in the long-term. Since acumen is about insight and wise action, let’s consider it in context of great leadership and excellent business.
Focus Your Dreams to Make Them Come Alive
What will you be interested in after you buy all of those lavish things you always thought you wanted? What’s beyond the bigger car, the faster boat, and the fancier house? Whatever they are, those are the really important things.
Are You Building Your Foundation of Success: Six Secrets of Motivating Yourself for Success
Are you creating your foundation of success? Are you motivated to take on challenges that others are not willing to do? The following is a story of someone who did and achieved great success in his life and how you can, too!
Are You Singing Your Song of Success? Five Secrets to Following Your Dreams and Achieving More Success in Your Life
I ask you the following: Are You Singing Your Song of Success? Are you letting your song of success go silent? The following are five secrets that will guarantee that your song of success is heard and you can also live your dreams:
Career Advice: Three Secrets to Telling Your Story for Career and Life Success
Did you ever tell your story? The following career advice story will show you how to put your career on the fast track.
Your Seed of Greatness (Three Secrets to Using Adversity to Become Great)
What can we learn from James Blake’s journey through adversity to greatness? The following are three keys to making adversity work for you:
The Secret to Living Your Dreams: Five Techniques to Living Your Dreams!
How many times in our lives have we said the following? If I had more time, I would have acted on my dream of... If I didn’t need this job, I would have pursued my dream of... If only I had (you fill in the blank) ten years ago, I would have achieved my dream of... I am sure you can add a dozen more "If I" dream statements. There are people going through life everyday working at jobs they hate, in situations they tolerate, and living a life that they disown because they settled for an "If I" mindset.
Ten Action Steps to Motivate Yourself to Great Accomplishments
Let me ask you this question, "Are you motivated to achieve great accomplishments in your life?" The following are ten action steps you can apply today to achieve more success in in your life:
Success Techniques: Connect the Dots! Your Roadmap for Success
Here are five reasons why taking the time to connect the dots will give you a roadmap for success in your life.
Success Starts with a Can Do Attitude: Three Secrets to Creating More Success
The TV interviewer interviewed Nadia’s new coach and mentioned that Nadia, who was rated in the top twenty players in past years, was fast becoming one of the top five players in the world. The interviewer asked Nadia’s coach about this, and the coach said, “In the past, Nadia had people around her that concentrated on what she ‘can’t do.’ So Nadia would concentrate on what she couldn’t do, especially in challenging situations on the court, and it would frustrate her. I am concentrating on what she ‘can do,’ and she is a much better, confident player and is mentally much happier.”
Five Steps to Creating a "Goal" Medal Life - Part I
You don’t need to be a world class athlete to achieve success in life. However, you can use many of the same techniques that these athletes use to accomplish their goals. The following are five tips that will help you stand on the winner’s platform in life.
Five Secrets to Creating a “Goal” Medal Life – Part II
Recently, Joy and I had the pleasure of speaking at a conference in Baltimore, MD. The other speakers included Ms. Deborah Phelps, mother of six-time gold medalist in the 2004 Summer Olympics swimmer Michael Phelps, and Agatha von Trapp, the 91-year-old daughter of Captain and Maria von Trapp, the family on which the movie “Sound of Music” was based. To say the least, there were a variety of subjects discussed that day. As I listened to Ms. Phelps describe Michael’s achievements, I realized that his story had many of the secrets of success mentioned in my September article, Five Secrets to Creating a ‘Goal’ Medal Life. Let’s go over these goal setting five secrets again and see how you can apply them.
Five Goal Setting Secrets to Jumpstart Your Life
Another year is upon us and you have your list of resolutions or goals you want to accomplish in the upcoming year. It's time to plan your goals so that it's not just another conversation this year, but a focused plan for success. I will share with you five goal setting techniques guaranteed to help you achieve more out of life. Use the goal setting techniques listed below to help you achieve your targets.
Five Career Advice Secrets for Being the Perfect Employee Everyone Wants on Their Team – Part 2
The following are five career advice secrets for being the perfect, motivated employee that everyone wants on their team, putting your career on the fast track, and creating great relationship with management.
Dream Big but Start Small: A Recipe for More Business Success with Less Stress
Lots of mindset gurus say you shouldn’t even consider failure as an option. But not everything you do, or launch, in your business is going to be wildly successful. So how do you play big without taking big chances…

Where Baseball Meets Business
Sometimes I think that we make business success all too hard! In most cases the basics are ignored in favor of the latest new and usually complex strategy, theory or latest best seller unveiling the new secret success silver bullets. But sometimes, most of the time in fact, if we just slow down and face the fact that the truth may be in the simplicity of the solution. Simple is not always easy. Simple is not always cool or flashy. But, SIMPLE works! In this article we'll briefly discuss 3 key rules that could become your benchmark for future personal and business growth.

Are You A Smart Cookie When It Comes to Overwhelm?
This article gives tips and strategies for understanding and getting control of overwhelm. Overwhelm is one of the biggest challenges for today's successful woman.

Change Your History to Expand Your Business
What if I told you your life was like a movie? And the person standing next to you right now is viewing a very different movie. The way you experience anything and everything comes from your perception.
Do You Wear Success Blinders?
Women often find themselves in the position of multitasking; trying to complete too many things at once. With too much on our plate, it is often difficult to concentrate on what your high value are and spending the time and focus that they require. The article gives some tips on how to put your success blinders on and increase productivity.
How Franchisors can Reach the Top Using 10 Building Blocks to Excellence
Top performing franchisors have best practices that they follow. These top ranked franchisors adhere to operating principles that are an integral part of their franchise program. Read about the building blocks to franchisor excellence.
Staying Positive about Business Success in a World Full of Negativity
With negative messages coming from everywhere, finding the positive can be a challenge. Here are some strategies to build a great support system to keep a positive attitude and a positive trend in your business.
A key to your turnaround
Self-development is a challenge, yet if one understands what is needed, success can be yours, here are some insights.

BUSINESS SECRET WEAPON THAT ROCKS!
So definitely, planning for your future is important....and creating a written plan which combines both "Personal and Professional/business" goals...it is a definitely "must do".
GKhair, the International Leader in Innovative Hair Care, Launches Global Promotion of its Acclaimed GK Hair Taming System with Juvexin™ and Full Line of Professional Hair Care Products
Going global is today's entrepreneurial dream and companies like Global Keratin are living that dream.
7 Reasons You Hate Marketing – And How to Learn to Love It
Marketing is not what you think. And the sooner you can embrace your “inner marketer,” and learn to love her, the happier and more fulfilled you’ll be in your work.
Why Million-Dollar Coaching Promises Should Make You Leery
There are many more ineffective, self-serving coaches who aren’t capable of helping you reach your high goals. If you’re broke, and are told you can go from that to a millionaire in a year because you’re following this one coach’s program (and not doing all the inner and outer work it truly takes to be abundantly successful), then you’ll be sorely disappointed and waste a great deal of time and money in the process.
Be Your Own Hero!
There are many kinds of heroes in life – war heroes, super heroes, emergency services professionals. Have you ever considered yourself in this category?
The 12 Hidden Crises of Entrepreneurial Women
Several years ago I conducted a yearlong research study with over 100 working women across the country about professional crises in women and how we can reclaim our lives to overcome them. I was astounded by the findings, and felt they were so universal and important for women, I wrote a book called Breakdown Breakthrough about these 12 crises, offering a three-step holistic model to break through these challenges once and for all.
Smart Women Know Success Leaves Clues
This article is about 9 success “clues” that can take your business from “surviving “ to “thriving” The good news is they are low cost to no cost and easy to implement into your business dreams and goals.

Entrepreneur's Coaching Center-When Optimism is Bad
One would almost think that optimism was essential to business success. No so say the panel of experts. Optimism can be responsible for failure. See what the experts have to say.
Is PASSION Important To Success In Business?
Observe the most successful business people you know.....a common characteristic you will find is that successful people are passionate about what they do. Without passion for what you are doing, you might as well......
COMMITMENT Leads to SUCCESS
Ask any successful person from any walk of life about the importance of commitment. You will find that anyone that has had or is having success in any area of life is totally committed to do what it takes. Does this mean that individual doesn't have life's challenges that get in the way? Not at all...they have learned to work around the challenges...... Let's break down what this looks like. Here are a couple of scenarios that could come up.... First example - I have decided to do specific things to get the result in my business I am looking for. It could be doing some marketing for my business, or it could be finishing a project for an existing client. Some sort of challenge arises. It could be a number of things. Maybe the phone lines are down so I can't make the calls or the internet is down and I can't do the

How to Profitably Thrive on Change in the 21st Century
In this article you will learn the four steps you and your organization must go through in order to successfully use change to your advantage.
5 Spices of Retail Design
This week as I was channel surfing I came across a cooking show on one of the Food Network. After unveiling the dish, the chef and his co-judges introduced each ingredient used in the dish. As the ingredients were placed on a back lit table the names of each one appeared. The whole presentation was a testimony to the art and science of visual merchandising.I couldn't stop wondering if there was a secret recipe to designing retail projects. A recipe requires ingredients and if those were placed on a table such as the one I saw on the show, what would be the words that would light up? Like any good dish, would the success of the project depend on how the ingredients were used?
Potential: Are You Using Yours?
Astronomers recently discovered that there are three times as many stars in the universe than was previously thought. Up till now, they have seriously underestimated the number of other suns in other galaxies – and that means there must be many more planets orbiting them where other life forms might exist. Mind blowing! Which got me thinking...where are you seriously underestimating yourself?
Don't Pull Up The Seeds When You've Just Sown Them
All new ventures of goal-building follow a set pattern in which your initial euphoria is quickly replaced by lonely struggle. Don’t let this phase fool you into giving up as it does for so many. This article will show you how to treat this phase as an essential part of your success.
... and start all over again!
For every entrepreneur who eventually attains wealth and power, there are many more who, in the eyes of the world, are either only moderately “successful” or who are considered “losers” because no matter what they do, they seem to only ever be disappointed. Over the years I have spent much time (and money) in working with this second group of people - helping them regain confidence and enable them to “pick yourself up, brush yourself down, and start all over again”

Are You In The Game?
Something I see often in working clients, is that dreams often get stalled and even die because the person just didn’t get in the game. What do I mean by that?
4 Secrets to Setting Goals (Goals You'd Really Love to Achieve!)
Here are my best secrets for setting great WOW goals and achieving them.
Be Yourself: Imitation is Suicide
All the qualities and characteristics that make you unique are part of your essential, true self. And when you are being true to yourself you are attractive to others.

How Entrepreneurs Can Build Self Confidence
I’ve recently read several research articles that find women exhibit a lack of self-confidence in their own abilities as entrepreneurs compared to men; many women do not feel comfortable calling themselves entrepreneurs; and, fear of failure is higher for women compared to their male counterparts. Here are five tips to build your entrepreneurial confidence.
Reinvent Yourself
We each have something that delights us, that we enjoy doing and most times a yearning to share that with others in some way. And this essence that wants to break out leads you to reinvent yourself – many times over the course of your life. Let’s talk about some of the obstacles that keep you from doing things you love and how to work around them.
Speaking to Grow Your Business Part II: Create a Presentation That Sells
Speaking is one of the top ways to get new clients/customers. People get to know you and you instantly start building a trusted relationship. Now that’s the way to grow a business quickly! I made the following 3 mistakes when I first started putting together presentations. I don’t want you to do the same, so here we go!
Speaking to Grow Your Business Part III: Marketing Tips to Fill the Room
There are several low/no cost ways to begin speaking. I would begin speaking for free –I did and it was a great way to build my database quickly. Here are my 4 favorite tips for building your reputation and becoming slightly famous with speaking.
The Millionaire Mindset
Do you have a millionaire mindset? Ok, maybe you don’t want a million or think that’s too high a goal. That’s ok. The purpose of this article is to get you thinking about the way you think about money.
The New World of Work
What's happening as a result is that many Americans feel betrayed. No longer can you count on a job for life or a paternalistic relationship with your employers. Your sense of security has been shaken. So how can you best deal with this?
Want to Spend the 2nd Half of Your Life YOUR Way?
Are you considering self employment in order to live life they way you’d like? Nearly one in five pre-retirees say they want to start their own business after retirement. And many of you are chomping at the bit and want to start now –to heck with waiting for retirement. Learn what it takes to be self employed.
What’s Love Got to Do With It?
Now, let’s clarify what I mean by “love.” That little four letter word has tons of different meanings in the English language. For the purpose of today’s article, let’s go with “affectionate concern for the well-being of others” and “strong predilection, enthusiasm, or liking for anything.” If you want to be successful, you have to genuinely care about others. When I was a teen, I read the famous 1936 book by Dale Carnegie -“How to Win Friends and Influence People.” When you’re a teen, you REALLY want to win friends. It resonated with me and I immediately began to implement the principles he outlined.

Your Mindset and Your Money
The way you think and the beliefs you hold are reflected in how successful you are (success defined as YOU would like it!) and how much money comes into your life. These are not new ideas. In 1937, in the midst of the Great Depression, Napoleon Hill published the book Think and Grow Rich. He was inspired by billionaire Andrew Carnegie to take on an enormous project – to interview 500 of the most successful men at the time (today we KNOW at least half of these would be women) and to determine what they had in common that contributed to their success.
My Own Worst Enemy
I was so surprised to find these beliefs inherently buried in my subconscious. Guiding my thoughts, my behaviors and my dreams. I thought I was far beyond my old habits of financial limitation - but guess what? I only limited them to my subconscious. They were still alive and kicking in the back of my mind.
4 Effective and Efficient Actions that Drive Your Success
As a business owner, it's imperative you focus your energy on completing actions that drive your success. When you spend your workday procrastinating or refusing to delegate low-priority tasks, you are losing money as well as preventing your business from growing. Below are some tips that will drive your success.

PLANNING FOR SUCCESS – PART 1 – PURPOSE
How was this year for you and your business? That’s the question that every business owner is or should be asking themselves at this time of year. Unfortunately a very high percentage of business owners are afraid of the answer so the questions are avoided. Now is the time that you must, however face the facts. Did I have a good year? Did I have a bad year? What did I do right? What did I do wrong? What can I do better? Now is the time to ask the question and begin planning. The time to begin planning is not mid January, it is now. This will be the first in a series of article on planning for growth and success in business and your personal life.This article is the first of four that will discuss those critical and sometimes hard to face questions that might separate you from those in business and those going out of business
The key to success: in order to succeed…
Bill Wynn, Managing Director of Project Resource Limited highlights what traits and mental attitude people need to succeed.
The Top 10 Things Coaching Marketers and Training Schools Won’t Tell You
I’m sharing below what I know to be true about the coaching business, based on not only my personal experience, but also my honest and authentic conversations and connections with hundreds of coaches nationwide and in other countries.
Diminished Value and Gap Insurance “Know your Rights”
Did you know that if you are in an accident that you can get a second check from the insurance company for diminished value on your automobile? There are numerous financial strategies that can and will assist you and your family achieves financial success.
The Difference Between Desire and Commitment
Have you ever wondered why some people seem to be so successful and get what they want so easily? For many of us, bringing our desires into reality is a real struggle and we can easily lose heart and think we'll never succeed.

A lot of the difference comes down to have a desire for something versus forming a real commitment to having it in your life.
Smart Women and The Way Things Are
This article is about how having a positive perception on life can truly make the difference between success and survival. Your life unfolds according to how you feel about the future. It offers 3 easy to follow tips that you can use right away to change or enhance your views.

You Are Your Best Asset
Become an ambassador for yourself, ypur company and your country.
Give Your Goal 4 Days