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Handling Rejection with Style

“A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success.” – Bo Bennett
One of the major roadblocks to self-expression is the fear of rejection. People will go to their grave with the song still in them because of that fear. Wonderful opportunities have been lost and the quality of life has [...]

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The Power of Massive Action

“The truth of the matter is that there’s nothing you can’t accomplish if: (1) You clearly decide what it is that you’re absolutely committed to achieving, (2) You’re willing to take massive action, (3) You notice what’s working or not, and (4) You continue to change your approach until you achieve what you want, using [...]

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The Worst Obstacles to Self-growth

“As long as you believe something, your brain operates on automatic pilot, filtering any input from the environment and searching for references to validate your belief, regardless of what is it.” – Anthony Robbins
The human mind is funny. Once it has accepted a belief, it will hold onto it even in the face of undisputable [...]

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The Path to Successful Living

Briefly described, Social-Proof is that phenomena where people look to others to make up their mind on a particular subject and will then accept whatever they observed as being the gospel truth. Social-Proof is the reason that people in communities tend think alike and have a culture that is specific and restricted to that area.
At [...]

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The Ego – A Stepping Stone or a Stumbling Block

The word “ego” has many definitions. There is Sigmund Freud’s definition, the Law of Attraction’s definition along with many others. However, in the context of this article, the ego will be seen as a close cousin of self-esteem. It will be seen as this mental concept that we have of ourselves regarding our role [...]

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Don’t Cheat Yourself – Live With Passion

“At one time in our lives, we all had a vision for the quality of life that we desire and deserve. Yet, for many of us, those dreams have become so shrouded in the frustration and routines of daily life that we no longer even make an effort to accomplish them. For far too many, [...]

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There is Plenty of Money in the World

The fact is that there is plenty of money in the world. There are also billions of ways to create value that could increase even more the available wealth. Now, with all that abundance floating around, how come the “scarcity mentality” is so prevalent? Why is it that most people believe that there is not [...]

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The Highway to Personal Growth

Ray Kroc, the man who built the McDonald’s Corporation that became the most successful fast food operation in the world said, “The more I help others to succeed, the more I succeed.” Kroc was included in “Time 100: The Most Important People of the Century” and amassed a $500 million fortune during his lifetime.
Whenever [...]

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What is the Ultimate Objective

There are a lot of people out there who go through life imitating puppies chasing their own tail. There is a lot of action and movement but not much results. The main reason for that is that most people never sat down and figured what it is that they were ultimately after. That’s the perfect [...]

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Why the Negative and Self-destructive Habits

The first step in trying to eliminate self-destructive habits is to understand why these habits are entertained in the first place. Understanding why people overindulge in drinking, overeating, gambling, promiscuity and other assorted destructive habits will give us the key to the solutions for these problems.
The main reasons that people adopt self-destructive habits [...]

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Self-sabotage – Why we Do it and How to Avoid it

Sometimes we are our own worse enemy. We start something and then sabotage it. At the time, it seems as it had been some silly mistake or oversight that had done the damage, but, in retrospect we see that the sabotage almost seem to have been intentional.
There are two main reasons why we will [...]

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Two Steps to a Winning Personality

Over seventy years ago, Dale Carnegie wrote the classic, How to Win Friend and Influence People. It’s all about human relationships and how to be more effective when dealing with people.
It’s a great book but it’s not very practical. Who can walk around, meet people and try to recall some fifty different rules that should [...]

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The Personal Planner – A tool for success

Over two decades ago I asked one of my very prosperous friend what the secret of his success was. He went on to explain that whatever success that he was having was mainly due to the fact that he constantly worked with a Personal Planner. The notion resonated with me and I have been using [...]

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The importance of small distinctions

It is the small distinctions that we have made in the past that have brought us were we are presently in life and it is the small distinctions that we will make in the future that will lead us to or away from our intended targets.
Huge and very important decisions that will influence our [...]

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The power of the state of mind

How well or how badly we perform at any given moment depends mostly on the state of mind we were in at the time. Understanding that premise and understanding it well could be one of the most powerful lesson that we’ll ever learn in our lifetime.
Have you ever said anything, or come up with an [...]

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Winning through intimidation part 3

Man and beast live in social hierarchies that are defined as, multi-tiered pyramid-like social or functional structure having an apex as the centralization of power.
In other word, we live in a society that is structured as a hierarchy where power increase as we gravitate toward the top. That rise to the top is done [...]

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Being productive

While I was active on the Anthony Robbins Web Community Forums I was always amazed at seeing comments from some of the members complaining that Robbins was not spending time on his own site. After ten years, Tony had a grand total of two posts and he probably did not even write those himself.
What [...]

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Alone in our world

“Get real” is an expression that we hear quite frequently. What that expression mean is, get a reality check and to stop behaving as though you’re living in a fantasy world. That’s quite funny because we all live in a fantasy world that we created in our own mind and mistakenly believe is real.
Each and [...]

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Charisma and the sense of mission

Almost without fail, people on a mission are seen as charismatic. So, the question that begs to be asked is, which came first, the charisma or the mission.
Charisma is a very elusive trait. It can be found in the most diverse characteristic qualities but it is not attached to anyone of those qualities.
According to Wikipedia [...]

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The key to super-achieving and greatness

Barack Obama said, “Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.”
When we read the biographies of great men and women we find that they [...]

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