Life has a way of bombarding us with elaborate lifestyles and luxuries of the rich and famous and sometimes not even famous people. From celebrities and professional athletes to founders and CEO’s of Fortune 500 companies to the local millionaire who owns a small chain of stores in the area. Whether we admit it to […]
No matter how much envisioning, planning, organizing, analyzing we do, nothing will change until we take action! It sounds simple enough and we all know it to be true, so what holds us back from doing it? For many of us, the reason we don’t take action has to do with the fear of failure. […]
What is confidence? Does having confidence mean that we have specific knowledge, necessary skills or certain abilities? Although some or all of those qualities may help, they are not necessary for us to have confidence. Despite what some of us may believe, it is possible to have confidence in ourselves even though we may not […]
Whether we like it or not making decisions is something all of us have to do on a daily basis, multiple times a day. We are constantly making decisions and most of the time we probably don’t even put much thought into it. Decision making happens on a few different levels. There are small level […]
When we think about the idea of wanting to achieve financial success, one of the first questions we probably ask ourselves is, “how are we going to get there?” And where is “there” exactly? Sometimes that thought is so overwhelming that we just don’t know where to start. It is exactly at that point that […]
At many points in our lives we’ve all experienced and have expressed our doubts about things. Of all the many different things we’ve doubted, the one most important thing that may be holding us back from achieving success is that we doubt ourselves. We doubt our own abilities to bounce back from setbacks and failures, […]
Having the ability to keep trying when things seem impossible, to push past our comfort zone, to not give up when it gets difficult, almost always leads to success. The great thing about the idea of not giving up is just that…it’s an idea! It requires no higher education, no monetary investment and no formal […]
One of the most powerful abilities we possess as individuals is the power to choose our attitude. We can’t always control our circumstances, but we are the only one who can control what we think or how we think. It’s completely up to us to figure out how we want to look at the world […]
It’s too late to prepare for opportunities when they come, that’s why we have to prepare for them before they show up. We often live our lives hoping for that big opportunity to come our way, we dream of what we would or could do if we were given a chance. Many of us may […]
When it comes to striving to achieve success in anything we do, working on our weaknesses is not enough. Not only is it not enough, it’s actually a hindrance to reaching our true fullest potential. Focusing and working to improve our weaknesses is a hindrance in the sense that it takes our time and focus […]