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Building Self-confidence and Self-esteem

There is a little guy hiding inside our brain that watches and evaluate everything that we do. That little fellow is in charge of setting the mark that will determine our level of self-confidence and self-esteem. Sigmund Freud gave the little guy a name. He called him the Super-ego. That’s his real name, however we [...]

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The Ten Minutes a Day Success Kit

The title of this article sounds like of one of those cheesy add that tells you how to build a fantastic physique by training just a few minutes a week. The good news is that you won’t have to make twelve easy payments for it and I won’t lie to you.
Seriously, if you are willing [...]

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A Sense of Entitlement

From Alexander The Great to Donald Trump and from Napoleon Bonaparte to Arnold Schwarzenegger all great Movers and Shakers had one belief in common. The believed that they were born to be great. They believed that they had been blessed by the gods and entitled with a special gift.
Were they born with that belief? [...]

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Succeed and Improve your Health

Tony Robbins defined success as, “Conducting your life in such a way that it gives you tons of pleasure and very little pain.” By that definition, success would be, beyond the shadow of a doubt, the best possible way to restore, promote, protect and enjoy the highest possible level of physical and mental health.
Stress [...]

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Fueling on High Octane for More Personal Power

Personal Power has been defined as the ability to take action. On the other hand, it is a well-known fact that the worst stumbling block on the way to success and personal accomplishment is the inability to take action. Most people know what to do to succeed but can’t seem to get themselves to take [...]

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Why Bad Things Happen to Good People

Most of us were brought up with the belief that if we were good, we would be rewarded and good things would happen to us. However if we were bad, we could expect that life would somehow punish us.
That may be a sound moral lesson to teach children; unfortunately it has nothing to do [...]

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The Quest for Personal Growth

Life never stands still. It is either on the upward trajectory of growth or on the declining path of impending extinction. As humans, it leaves us with two options; we can let nature and outside circumstances follow their natural course or we can pursue the quest for personal growth and self-actualization.
We are never too old [...]

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The Metaphoric Logo

“With all the power that metaphors wield over our lives, the scary part is that most of us have never consciously selected the metaphors with which we represent things to ourselves.” – Anthony Robbins
With a single image, a metaphor can represent an entire concept. Perfect examples of that would be the cross, the flag or [...]

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How to Influence People

Whether we know it or not we are constantly selling. Every time that we try to influence or convince someone, we are selling. Whenever we try to be accepted by others, we are selling. The great leaders of this world were all master salesman. They convinced others, they pushed their agendas through, they were selling. [...]

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Dragon Slaying Versus the Comfort Zone

Mark Twain said, “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
The story of evolution is a tale of [...]

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How to Perform at Peak Level

Anthony Robbins said, “The difference between acting badly or brilliantly is not based on your ability, but on the state of your mind and/or body in any given moment.” When the state of mind is peaking, we perform at our best and when it’s slumping, life becomes a comedy of errors.
In today’s world, a [...]

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Communication 102 – Getting the Message Across

Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “Who you are speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you’re saying.” The man was right. The words that we use matter little, the message that we convey starts and ends with whatever is in the heart. When it comes to communicating, the heart will always prevail over the brain.
With [...]

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We Are All Role Models

When I was only about six or seven years old, the local chief of police was a bodybuilder. We lived not too far from the police station and in the summer time, I could watch him train in the backyard of the station. I was very impressed with his physique so I asked my dad [...]

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The Essence of Dignity – How to Get It

Dignity is defined as the quality of being worthy of esteem or respect. That is a very loose definition and not exactly what will be discussed here. By essence of dignity we mean that particular quality that is seen in a leader that makes that person stand out above the crowd. It is what can [...]

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How to Build a Clientele

Walt Disney said, “The key to outstanding and lasting success is to provide such a good product or service that your clients will want to come back and bring their friends with them.” That’s the secret that made Disney the phenomenal success the it turned out to be. That fundamental axiom is also the pillar [...]

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The Difference Between Greatness and Mediocrity

In today’s competitive world, races are no longer won by minutes but by milliseconds. The winner and the looser at election time are separated by slim margins. The odds are narrowing down, the competitions getting more fierce and the difference between success and failure in the business, professional and entrepreneurial world are getting smaller and [...]

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How to Handle the Fear of Rejection

No one will dispute the fact that fear of rejection is one of the major reason why people fail to take action. Dreams are put on the shelves and some of the more promising projects will never see the light of day because of that fear. Anyone who ever hopes to achieve anything significant will [...]

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How to Get out of a Rut

It is said that the only difference between a rut and a grave is the fact that one is deeper than the other. That may be accurate or not but it is a hard fact that being in either of those place really stinks. The main reason that it does stink is that it creates [...]

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What shapes you? – What guides our behavior?

If we want to be on control of our behavior and if we want to know the reason that people act as they do, we must understand what shapes us and what guides or behavior.
There are two major elements that shape us and direct our behavior. These are, the way we see the world [...]

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How to get promoted and climb the ladder of success

There is a law of physic that says, “Water seeks its own level.” That law confirms the fact that until a substance has completely filled the place that it is presently occupying, it cannot fill a larger vessel.
That is true in physic and its also true in life. Before attempting to fill. or occupy, a [...]

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