Motivational Articles Archive

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How to Stop Worrying
Do you find that one thought gets resolved only to be replaced shortly later by another one? Sometimes you can tell yourself, If I have a good doctors checkup, I'll be so relieved I won't worry about anything small ever again. Then the next day you find yourself caught up in a different read more ...

Dealing with Conflict: Do You Ignore It
Dealing with Conflict: Do You Ignore It. You loan a cd to a friend who didn't return it. This has happened a few times with other items with this person. It's hard to bring up the pattern to her so you don't, but you do feel tension in your body. read more ...

Are You a Perfectionist - Stop Trying to be Perfect
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Being True To Oneself - Being Yourself
Often we are not truly being ourselves but we are people pleasers. This could be a habit developed in order to make our parents regard us a certain way, have our spouse or date see us in a certain light or impress co-workers and our boss. read more ...

Willing to Change. Change Motivation First Step
Even if you feel like you have no motivation, the truth is you do, everyone does. For some people, that motivation may be to just sit around on the couch all day eating popcorn and drinking beer. For others it may be eating 12 bars of chocolate a day. Everyone can be motivated to do both positive and destructive things. read more ...

Integrating Your Spiritual Path and Your Daily Life
Do you find that you have a split between your daily life and your spiritual life? For some people this is felt when that they lose their meditative awareness while driving or interacting with family members. For others it means after leaving church or temple read more ...

What Do You Want To Improve About Yourself
Life is stagnant without growth and that is true for personal development as well. We feel a resistance to changing our patterns, but sometimes we can see strong benefits for personal improvement and that is an excellent motivation. read more ...

Can You Multitask? More importantly, Should You Even Try?
Our culture values multitasking, but many people are not able to do this. Perhaps multitasking is over-rated. When you watch a teenager doing homework, having several IM windows opened, using a cell phone and clicking at war of warcraft does it look productive read more ...

How to Stop Procrastination
Do you have a haunting sense you are doing something else to avoid doing what is needed to get something accomplished? Tim Ferriss says that we often are busy rather than productive and we try to avoid what's uncomfortable that is actually a high priority. read more ...

How to Listen to Criticism Without Getting Defensive
Whether at work, with friends or in family life it's a fact that getting criticism is part of interacting. No one wants to hear things about themselves that seem to insult the ego and sense of self. It is easy to tighten up, lash back or shut down. The harder thing is to try and listen with an open mind. read more ...

Your Greatest Time Wasters and How You Can Avoid Them
Are these time wasters bogged you down from your accomplishments? Many people will not recognize that these are time wasters that they should avoid. Time wasters will halt you from efficient productivity and slow down your work progress. They also make you to procrastinate on your task. Here are the greatest time wasters and how you can avoid them: read more ...

How to Increase Productivity and Lead More Money to Your Pocket
More productivity means more money. Don’t you agree? Yes, especially if you are a self-employed person or an entrepreneur. Your productivity will determine how much money you will earn. Is that correct? Now, here are some ways to increase productivity and lead more money to your pocket: read more ...

4 Wise Men's Time Management Secrets for Ordinary People
Did you remember when your granny told you a saying or proverb in order to teach you something? I’ll not act like your granny, but I’ll tell you some secrets of time management from wise men. read more ...

4 Time Management Traps that Haunt You and Leaving You Behind
What makes you to feel so helpless when you try to control your own time? Always out of deadline, slow work progress, procrastination, and so on. Those are your daily problems. Why you are feeling so slow and horribly manage your own time? These are time management traps that haunt you and leaving you behind: read more ...

Be Your Own Personal Success Coach - Part 3
Writing down goals and taking action on them is just part of the puzzle. Life doesn't always work out the way that we want it to. We have to deal with disappointment, change and unavoidable circumstances. Whether the failure is big or small, it's important to deal with it correctly in order to continue your path to success. read more ...

Be Your Own Personal Success Coach - Part 2
Your first step in being your own personal success coach is deciding what your goals are. After brainstorming all of your goals in different sectors of your life, you'll choose which goal you'd like to start on first. read more ...

Be Your Own Personal Success Coach - Part 1
When you have personal and professional challenges, it's sometimes hard to keep your eyes on your end goal. The field of success coaching is growing rapidly as people are searching for a support person to help them reach their dreams. But you don't need a professional to help you when you follow these tips for being your own personal success coach. read more ...

100 Business Motivation Goals
You know that regularly viewing physical or mental pictures or videos of what you want or even need in life, boosts your motivation to reach your goals - personal and in business.Here are a hundred business goal motivational ideas to get your desires and energy super-boosted! read more ...

Meditation - How to Begin?
A very effective, natural process by which we can improve our mind’s health and restore its peace and kill feelings like depression, constant feeling of fear and regret usually of the past deeds, fear about the future and also losing of focus and attention is meditation. read more ...

Common Mistakes When Trying To Use The Law Of Attraction
The law of attraction is a magnificent thing. To make it work for you, you need to stop making these common mistakes. You need to start dreaming big, figure out specifically what it is that you want, make a commitment to it, and be patient and not give up. The law of attraction will allow you to accomplish anything if you allow it to work. read more ...

5 Keys to Boost Productivity and Eliminate the Tendency to Put Off Tasks
Do you often have the tendency put off tasks? How many tasks do you accomplish each day? Can you call yourself successful at getting stuff done? Can you accomplish the tasks you impose upon yourself? If not, then you should read this short article. It will guide you to eliminate procrastination and boost your productivity. Here’s how read more ...

The Worst Time to Make a Decision
So when is the absolute worst time to make a decision? And how do you help yourself by choosing to make decisions at the best time for you, your dreams, goals and ambitions read more ...

Brain Training Change Your State Sonic Vitamins
Brain traing. Feed your brain and change your state. Fed up of buying every self improvement, subliminal course that just doesn't work long term? Guaranteed brain training read more ...

Liberate Yourself From Self-Limiting Thoughts and Feelings
The only purpose discouraged feelings serve is to keep your thoughts on what you can’t do. And with your attention fixed in this fashion – on what seems impossible – there’s no room for discovering what is possible – for what you can do. read more ...

Are the Choices You Make for Your Success?
Whose success are you striving for? Is it the success you truly want. Measure your success focus against the happiest of your times and see if they measure up. read more ...

10 Easy Steps to using the Law of Attraction for Manifesting Prosperity
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Manage Stress with the Waterfall Technique
Stress has a powerful influence on how we feel, emotionally, mentally and physically. This powerful technique can be used anywhere to help you relieve stress and relax. All you need is two minutes and a quiet place where you can close your eyes. read more ...

Power of Dreams, Stuart Goldsmith
Stuart Goldsmith discusses the power of your dreams - and that the only real way to live your life is to live your dream to it's fullest. read more ...

Law of Attraction – Be Like A Great Actor To Be Successful
"Unlock the Secret of Law of Attraction By Following Three 'Obvious' Steps" What if I see something that causes me heartache or if I dont want to think about some bizarre experience? read more ...

Dale Carnegie Training Prepares Ouimet Scholars for Life Off the Golf Course
Dale Carnegie Training Prepares Ouimet Scholars for Life Off the Golf Course read more ...

Success and the Subtle ‘Something’
Success is defined as how much we triumph and prosper in fame, fortune or happiness, while we are travelling on our lifelong Journey, even though we may face obstacles and adversity. read more ...

Success is Your Choice - Design Yourself a Brighter Future!
The ultimate truth about success, and the hardest thing for some people to accept, is that you are in charge of your own destiny. Your level of determination is the only thing standing between you and your goal. Some would argue with this idea, but thousands of the world's most powerful people have reflected the same concept. read more ...

Self-Improvement Balancing Act
Focusing too far in one direction can be as bad as doing nothing. The measure of your effort balanced against your 'whole self' is one key to enjoying and sustaining true balance, harmony and happiness. Yes, focus strong effort on the 'worthy' goals, while remembering and making note of all your needs ... read more ...

Five Bad Habits that Contribute to Low Self Esteem
Are you quietly and steadily building Low self-esteem? The language you use, the self-talk that goes on ... these easily changed habits, built up over time can be changed to result in a more confident, positive and outward looking you. Choose to have High self-esteem ... read more ...

The Importance of True Goals - Identify Your Goals
So why exactly are you NOT doing what it is your truly want to? Now, only a few people will reply that they are ... because they have identified their nature, dreams and made them in to Goals. Have you identified your 'purpose', identified your goals? read more ...

Time Management - Get Your Priorities Right!
One of the most important and discussed topics on any entrepreneurial forum is about time management ... there just doesn't seem to be enough hours in a day! So what do you do? Slowing down time would be good, but not many of us have access to to a time machine ... so? So Karl Warren (also without a time machine) shares his time management strategies ... read more ...

Do Less and Accomplish More!
More than likely you have experienced the feeling of being so busy that you just could not get anything you needed to do ... done. At times you may even find yourself procrastinating on certain tasks because you really do not have the time to get them done. read more ...

Your Job From Heaven | Get the Job You Want
I now want to share with you an amazingly powerful method of helping you to realize what your dream job might be. read more ...

How to Design Yourself a Daily Affirmation ... part two
In the last part, we discussed the basics of affirmations and how to write them so they are positive and in the present. In this part, you’ll learn more about the nature of affirmations and how to use them properly. How do Affirmations work? read more ...

Schadenfreude and Stress
Do you have all the support you need from friends, associates, and loved ones?I am going out on a limb here and say, I will bet you do not have all the support you need from friends, associates and loved ones. On the surface, people will talk about all the support they are getting from others; however in most cases this is just not true. read more ...

Create Your Own Self Motivational Guide Book ...
As you live life, motivating yourself, you'll come across 'stuff' that hit home, leave a mark on your motivated soul. The 'stuff' (quotes, photos, conversations, meetings, glimpses, chance meetings, happy accidents ...), that has really meant something to you in your quests, the words and phrases that help you do better in the 'now'. read more ...

Stress and the Law of Attraction at Work
Everybody is talking today about the law of attraction. What is the law of attraction? In short the law of attraction states that “whatever we hold in our minds, our bodies begin moving toward the subject of what we are thinking.” read more ...

How to Design Yourself A Daily Affirmation, part one
Daily affirmations can help keep your mind focused and your creative energy in line with your goals. Affirmations go beyond positive thinking and create lasting change in your mind to help you change your life. read more ...

An Introduction to Mind Mapping
If you’ve ever sat down to do a project and felt completely overwhelmed by your ideas, you may have use for a mind map. This brainstorming and organizational tool is used by professionals in many walks of life to get their thoughts in order. read more ...

Design Your Own Career Quiz
Design Your Own Career Quiz – 3 simple questions to ask yourself - Part 1. read more ...

Stop Procrastinating & Get a Life!
Avoid, back out, beg off, bow out, cop out, shy from, weasel out, wimp out, worm out, put off ... So which words are you using to 'avoid' what you simply need to do ... ? read more ...

Have you let yourself age prematurely?
Do you find that you are dragging each day instead of having a feeling of contentment? You can see this even in some people even early in their twenties. Aging is partially one's attitude and is not just chronological. Have you seen someone that has given up early in life? That is so painful to see when the sparkle has gone out of someone's eyes and there is simply listlessness. read more ...

Just who exactly are you ... being?
Are you being yourself ... or the person your family, friends or work colleagues want you to be? Often we are not being our true selves, but are more concerned as being people pleasers. It may seem now that this is normal ... that you have to fit in ... but how much of you are you 'loosing' by playing the majority game. read more ...

Have a Success Plan
"To Make Serious Money, You Must Know What You Want and Have a Plan for Achieving it." by Stuart Goldsmith read more ...

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