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Ethic A Tool For Success

There are three ways that we can reach the top pinnacle of success: it can be done illegally, lawfully or ethically. Out of these three options, one is short lived, one is not satisfactory and one is the smart and wise thing to do. No one will deny the fact that some people have made [...]

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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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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 Obsession to Win – A Component for Success

“A loser doesn’t know what he’ll do if he loses, but talks about what he’ll do if he wins, and a winner doesn’t talk about what he’ll do if he wins, but knows what he’ll do if he loses.” – Unknown Success is the end result of multiple victories honorably won. For that reason, anyone [...]

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The Process of Self-actualization

“Not only do you have to decide what results you are committed to, but also the kind of person that you’re committed to becoming.” – Anthony Robbins Basically, self-actualization means working toward becoming all that we can be. It should be a process that starts at birth and last until the last curtain falls. Unfortunately, [...]

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Feeling Good À la Carte

Feeling good is an art. It’s an art that can be learned, practiced and refined. We don’t need to wait for outside influences to make us feel good. It is possible to feel good most of the time and it’s also possible to feel good for no reason at all. For that though, we need [...]

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How to Avoid the Specter of Fear

Fear has to be one of the most unpleasant emotions on the face of Planet Earth. For that reason, the quest for some sort of security is an ongoing process for many people. Some people will seek safety through Divine intervention through prayers. Others will do it by gathering as much money as possible. We [...]

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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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The Power of Questions

“Some men see things as they are, and say, “Why?” I dream of things that never were, and say, “Why not?” — George Bernard Shaw Sooner or later, we are bound to get stuck. We are at an impasse, deadlocked. No solution comes to mind. Why is that? The answer to that is simple. We [...]

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Use It or Lose It – Man’s Search for Meaning

At birth we were given a blank book in which we get to write our life’s story. We are the authors of that book and we can make it an epic story or a tale of crushed hopes and frustrations. Whether we like it or not, we will write that book. Every page represents a [...]

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Movers and Shakers are not Born – They are Made

Movers and Shakers are people who get things done. They are the entrepreneurs who literally create value out of thin air while having access to very limited resources. They are the unstoppable achievers. Eternally on the move starting new projects or resuscitating defunct ones. They are the wonderful alphas without which the economy would soon [...]

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Advice for Rough Times – How to Change your Karma

The EST guru, Werner Erhard, used to say jokingly, “Your karma is what happens to you and what happens to you is your karma.” When things are going well for us, that type of circular reasoning might be funny but when nothing works and it appears that the sky is about to fall on our [...]

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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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How to Stay Positive Through Networking

States of mind are contagious. There is nothing like spending a little time on the phone with someone who’s upbeat and positive to get into a state of positive expectancy and enthusiasm. It only takes a few minutes and the effect is immediate. The focus is realigned, the doubts vanish and the mood takes an [...]

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How to Communicate and Deal With People

One of the most widely accepted misconception about people is that we are creature of logic. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Dale Carnegie said it best when he said, “When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bustling [...]

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Should We Be Realistic or Idealistic

Anyone who has been involved in the self-development world for more than fifteen minutes has heard the admonitions, think big, shoot for the stars, have big goals, become a millionaire etc… Nothing wrong with that. It goes with the territory. But, when it gets down to the nuts and bolts of chartering a course to [...]

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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 Highway to Self-Actualization

The major reason that we set goals and objectives should be because it’s one of the best possible way of optimizing the talents that we were given at birth and in doing so, become all that we can be. The process is also called self-actualization. We were born with noting but potential for growth and [...]

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How to Increase the Quality of our Life

We live in two very distinct worlds. There is the objective world where a tree is a tree and a rock is a rock. That is a world over which we have limited control. It’s a world governed by the laws of physics and the laws of nature. There may be some magic in this [...]

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The Actualization of our Potential

Most people who are in Personal Development set goals and objectives. That is highly commendable. That’s part of Personal Development 101. One of the first thing that we learn when we start studying the subject. No book on self-improvement ever fails to cover goal setting however what is often missed is the real reason that [...]

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