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Attitude: Creating Positive Attitude
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You gotta learn how to tune strings before you can become a rock star!
That concept holds true if you want to be a successful business leader. It isn't a question of patience. It's a question of competence. It's about what it…
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Success & Self-Reliance
It seems to me self-reliance weakens or slips away from time to time. You may not know it has slipped away because some successful people develop the ability…
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Knee-jerk Thoughts & Half-Baked Ideas
Automatic thought happens when the brain is switched ‘On’ and the mind is switched ‘Off’. Automatic thought has two forms: True/helpful Insights Knee-jerk…
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The pros and cons of crastination
It seems to me we ought to re-define procrastination. While dictionaries generally define it as delaying or putting off doing something, in day-to-day…
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Don't agonize over things done.; don't hold too dearly prizes won.
Mistakes are a fundamental piece of the human condition. Everybody makes mistakes. At least, that's our perception. We perceive others making mistakes …
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Where there's a will there's a way. [Where there's no way there's no will.]
I can not conclude they will fail to meet their goals. While that might always be a possibility, it makes no sense to conclude it shall be the outcome. I…
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When the going gets tough the tough get going...[that's the way to go].
You can count on certain people. You can count on them when the path is smooth and easy. And you can count on them when the path is rough and the going is…
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Courage - Spirited Leaders' #1 Value [revisited]
Courage is our company’s Key Value. In summary, we have chosen Courage for our Key Value because: Courage enables Self-Knowledge and When it is backed by…
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The Bi-Polarity of Our Thoughts...and what to do about it
Thoughts range from the sublime to the hideous, from blissful to terrifying. Thoughts range from tiny and fleeting to all-consuming and ground-breaking…
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Victim or Victor?
"Our circumstances and environment are formed by our thoughts." Charles Haanel ‘The Master Key’ , (1917) *** You either believe that, disbelieve it, or you…
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What do you think about the "Law of Attraction"?
Some people believe the Law of Attraction [is a, if not the, fundamental law of the Universe. The Law is often described in terms of Universal Mind or…
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Victims of Time…Let's rally against that pathetic Fate!
Time is not the scourge of us. We are not pawns to be battered about by heartless Time. And, Time cannot be our scapegoat or our excuse for lack of success…
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When expectations are out of synch with reality
Sometimes expectations adjust themselves to fit the realities of situations; sometimes expectations do not align well with realities of situations; sometimes…
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Carried away with and by technology
Have you noticed technology is a double-edged sword? Technology makes our lives easier by automating tasks, which reduces our manual processes and workload…
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Learn how to kill negative thoughts before negative thoughts kill your willpower
Since willpower is tough to do and negative thinking is easy to do, the brain favours negative thinking.
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Baby Boomers Hitting the Breakwalls of Change
We are surrounded by swelling waves of Future Shock . As the relentless waves of change ebb to regain momentum then gush with renewed vigour, many Baby…
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Are You Superior to Circumstances?
”Our main thinking habit is to analyse situations so that we can recognize standard situations and then apply standard answers.” Edward de Bono ` The Six…
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We do not have to fear fear itself!
In his first inaugural address, in 1933, U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt said, " The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. " Starting with this…
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Enough about Attitudes of Entitlement
First we coddle and spoil children rotten. Then we complain about children exhibiting attitudes of entitlement. We talk as if this is something new. We talk…
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Problems playing along the path to Success
Everyone has problems. And most people struggle to solve their problems. One thing seems clear: if we do not change the way we think and act then we will not…
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When you annoy people, you don’t make money!
When you run a company, from time to time, you may think your employees want to run the company their way. Perhaps, it isn’t that the employees want to run…
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When you annoy people you don't make money.
Annoy people and don't make money. Don't annoy people and make money. Those are the two options. Rarely is there any middle ground. Rarely can you annoy…
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Had it with Negativity?
If you've had it with Negativity - Step Away from it & Step Up to a better place. Negativity - yours and your tolerance for others - it's your choice. Yes …
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Yes, we cry out for help...
When Emotional work gets too heavy, we cry out for help. Using the Transactional Analysis “Parent- Adult -Child Model”…and some facts-of-life thinking: when…
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5 thoughts about Achievers & Achievements
Expanding our limits - what benefit we receive when someone or some situation causes us to achieve what we couldn't. Even the great Ralph Waldo Emerson…
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Putting a finger on your entrepreneurial pulse
A few years ago, I wrote a little piece titled “Driven to Construction” . It considered the 3 forces that drive entrepreneurs: A burning desire to achieve, A…
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My fiascotic day
I’ve had many good days. I’ve had some bad days too. Such is the nature of life. Until recently, I had never experienced a fiascotic day. This fiascotic day…
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There’s something about “The Details”
"God is in the detail" "The devil is in the detail" Regardless, it seems to me most people have a love-hate relationship with “the details”.
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A Little Argument Against Being Negative
When you focus on the negatives, you snuff out other peoples candles. What's worse, you smother your own candle...giving it no chance to burn brightly. And…
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Improving Focus...i.e., Focus on Work
Some thoughts about focusing on our work... It is important that we continue to remind people of the importance of concentrating on their areas of work…