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Creating a Winning Self-image

“The ”self-image” is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.” – Dr. Maxwell Maltz It would be almost impossible to overstate the importance of the self-image. It molded our personality, defined our character, and it directs our behavior. The self-image is the [...]

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Live With Passion – Here’s How and Why

“Live every day as if it were your last, because one of these days, it will be.” – Jeremy Schwartz Our little trip on Planet Earth is a one-time deal and it does not last forever. Depending on how we look at it, that may be a very somber thought or it could be a [...]

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Designing and Building a Life v/s Survival Mode

The position that we are presently holding in life matters little. What is really important is how we feel about it. A person who has the right attitude but only has a penny left in his name is in better position than the man who is desperate because he only has a million dollars left. [...]

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Our Internal Bank of References

We have a mechanism inside of our brain that analyses every one of our experiences, determines what it means and then stores the results in our bank of references. The process started while we were very young and has been going on ever since. That is the process that allows us to perform automatically most [...]

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The Importance of a Life’s Purpose

“Great minds have purposes, little minds have wishes.” – Irving Washington Every moment that we are awake, the little chatterbox in our mind is active. It’s a bit like a radio that cannot be shut off and, just like a radio; we have many different stations that we can tune in. Some of these stations [...]

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Assimilating Self-improvement Technologies

Self-improvement is first and foremost a shedding process. It’s about getting rid disempowering beliefs. It about letting go of the negative past. It’s about erasing the scars of frustrations. It about getting rid of negative friends and acquaintances. It’s about erasing the slate of negativities and starting anew. It may be hard to believe but [...]

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The Best of Tony Robbins – Life Changing Words

One of the greatest milestones in my life came about the day that I stumbled upon the following citation by Tony Robbins, “Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.” When it is well understood and assimilated, this one sentence contains an entire [...]

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Change your Perceptions – Change your Life

As our Universe unfolds in front of our eyes, it creates the setting for a magnificent movie of which we are the Director and eventually the unique spectator. What we do with that movie will either be a film that we’ll enjoy, fear, admire or loathe. That film represents, “Our Reality.” Being able to direct [...]

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The Art of Selective Ignorance

“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.” – Confucius Strange as it may seem, in some cases, ignorance can be a blessing. Most of the world’s greatest achievements came to be because someone simply did not know that it could not be done. That’s when it would be appropriate to invoke the [...]

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The Theory of Egoistic Altruism

You cannot give what you don’t have. Just as you cannot give away money that you don’t have, you cannot spread happiness if you’re not happy yourself. Same thing with love. Unless you are able to love yourself, you simply cannot truly love others. These may be shocking words for some but it’s the truth. [...]

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Guiding Lights for Turbulent Times

“Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values.” – Dalai Lama We live in a fast paced world. What was true yesterday should be questioned today. Either we develop the ability to change and adapt or we fall by the wayside. The age of dogmas is now passé. Everything is open [...]

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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 [...]

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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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The Reason that we Act the Way that we Do

As we forge our way through life, we are guided by our values and our personal map of the world. These two elements determine the way that we think and the way that we act. An understanding of this guiding mechanism is essential for anyone who wants mastery over his own life. Albert Einstein said, [...]

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How to Get Real and Stay Positive

To be positive does not mean hiding the head in the sand and pretending that all is well when it’s not. If your shirt is on fire, it needs to be attended to. If you’re living off your credit cards, you are not in the land of plenty even if you’ve read The Secret and [...]

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How Achieve Self-improvement

Have you ever heard someone say, “I read a book on Positive Thinking once and it did not help me.” If that was not so sad, it would laughable. That’s like saying, “I skipped a meal once and I did not lose any weight.” It’s not what we do once that changes anything. Personal positive [...]

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How to Perform at Peak Level

“Your behavior is not the result of your ability, but of the state that you’re in at this moment. To change your ability, change your state.” – Anthony Robbins The effectiveness of the brain depends on the quality of the chemical reactions and electrical circuits that are going on in that organ at any given [...]

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If You Don’t Take Control of your Life…

“In life you need either inspiration or desperation.” – Anthony Robbins Your ship is sailing. Either you grab the elm and steer it where you want it to go or someone else will do it for you. We are all on a grand voyage called life. It can be a fantastic odyssey of epic proportion [...]

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Scanning the Brain for Virus and Malwares

Our computers are equipped with Anti-virus programs that will hopefully stop any malware from infecting our hardrive and affect the performance of our beloved PC. These programs are quite effective but, just to make sure that we have no bugs, we perform periodical scans. Unfortunately, our brain is not equipped with any Anti-virus program and, [...]

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Why Self-improvement is Such a Slow Process

A wise man once said, “A message can go around the world in less than a second but it may take months or years for that same message to travel from the ears to the brain.” That is especially true when it comes to self-improvement. One of the strongest forces in the human organism is [...]

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