"I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well." - Diane Ackerman
The Effects of Consumer Debt
"Consumer borrowing in the UK has now crashed through the £1 trillion barrier. 80% of this is due to credit card borrowing, loans and mortgages. How are people managing to handle their debt and what effect is debt having on families today?"
Worried About Debts?
"Having trouble paying your bills? Getting dunning notices from creditors? Are your accounts being turned over to debt collectors? Are you worried about losing your home or your car?"
Eight Ways to Consolidate Debt
"Next to winning the lottery, a debt consolidation loan is a debtor's dream. With one monthly payment and a fixed monthly payment schedule, you can actually see an end to those monthly payments."
Credit Repair - Understanding The Basics
"Credit means that you are using someone else's money to pay for things. It also means that you are making a promise to repay the money to the person or company that loaned you the money."
Use A Debt Checklist To Examine Where You Are
"A Debt Checklist allows you to look at items and areas of your financial life. You need to examine these to gauge how you stand. Even if you believe you are in good shape take a close look at these areas to be sure."
Craving For Financial Freedom
"Have you ever felt trapped in a Rat Race and wished to retire quickly but rich?
Have you ever felt that you are spending way too much time working with your boss at your office instead of with those you love? Your spouse, children, friends?"
5 Ways to Organize Your Finances
"If you haven't balanced your checkbook in awhile, or you lose your incoming bills before they're paid or you put off filing your tax returns because it's just too difficult to get everything together, than it's probably time to organize your finances."
Overcoming the Fear of Money
Many people, it seems, have a fear of money. Does the thought of having a lot of money make you uncomfortable?
How Much Do You Need To Earn Per Hour To Achieve Your Yearly Financial Goals
Have you ever asked yourself what your highest income producing activity is?
Failing Forward Successfully
"Hopefully you make a mistake now and again, because failure can actually be good for you and your business. If you haven’t made any mistakes for a while, you may be playing it too close to your comfort zone and not stretching yourself far or fast enough to achieve high level goals."
What Is Failing Forward?
Failing forward is about leveraging mistakes; making a realistic assessment of risks and the ability to live with the downside...
If you don't feel like doing something or start doubting whether the activity has any value, do it 'anyway' and then see what the results are later after you have completed the activity."
5 Reasons To Journal Your Goals
"Writing out your goals, sharing them with others and actually visualizing your success will bring you powerful results! It doesn't really matter how you record your goals..."
Take Responsibility for Reshaping Your Life
"We say we want to eat better, feel better, and look better. But in order to make our goals materialize, we have to take responsibility for what we want by taking the appropriate actions."
Make Greatness Your Goal!
If greatness is your goal, whether in your business life, your personal relationships or your own personal growth, here are some guidelines to get you on your way.
How to Set Intentions that Energize You
We've all heard how crucial it is to set intentions, goals and targets. Powerful goals electrify us. Clear intentions energize and pull us forward.
One Hundred Goals? YES! One Hundred Goals!
Was this speaker stark raving mad? One hundred goals? He thought I could come up with 100 goals for my life?
Do Your Goals Match Your Passions?
Making sure our goals are properly matched with our passions only makes sense. If you have the wish to move up the corporate ladder, start your own business...
Establishing Dreams and Goals
One of the amazing things we have been given as humans is the unquenchable desire to have dreams of a better life, and the ability to establish goals to live out those dreams.
Reaching for the Goal
Can goals be easily reached? This question is in most of our minds. Some tend to think that goals are hard to achieve and that only very clever people can be true achievers!
Goals - Write Them Down Create Your Life
Writing brings things into the real world makes them tangible so have you written down your goals yet? If not why not?
Goal Setting a plan of action or Get off the Couch
We have talked a lot in the last weeks about having conversations with yourself. We talked about overall goal setting...
A Leader’s Ultimate Goal - Connect to Engage!
It's been said many times that true leadership is measured by ones ability to motivate and influence others.
Top Ten Tips for Low Self Esteem
"If you suffer from low self esteem (or have been told you do), or treat people with low self esteem (or think you do), please read on."
The Secret to Self-esteem
"Have you ever thought about what really creates self-esteem? Having a deep sense of inner worth is important to all of us, but many people have some false beliefs about what creates confidence in our own merit as individuals."
Practice, Practice, Practice
"It may sound silly but the key to self-confidence and building more self-esteem is through practice. Practice what it is you want to feel more confident about and eventually, the confidence will show itself."
Improving Your Self Esteem
We have to learn to pat ourselves on the back. To help you, I suggest a self-pride list.
Giving Up Too Soon
"So you feel beaten up and bruised and you're ready to quit. You have no support system or the one you have is pathetically inadequate for the goals you've set. You're so tired that the couch is looking more and more inviting everyday."
Commitment, Persistence, Victory!
I used to think that I knew what commitment and persistence meant. Trying hard. Making a lot of attempts.
Ending Procrastination
Perseverance is about as important to achievement as gasoline is to driving a car. Sure, there will be times when you feel like you're spinning your wheels, but you'll always get out of the rut with genuine perseverance.
FEAR Don’t Let it Control You!
"Fear. What is it? Can you touch it? Can you hold it? Can you show it to another person? I can almost hear you from where I am sitting."
Turning Fear Into Power
How would your life shift if you moved into what you feared not away from it...
What Confidence Is (and Isn't)
Traditionally, confidence is defined as "trust in" or "reliance upon". When you have self-confidence, you trust in, or rely upon, yourself. Possessing confidence in yourself means...
Goal Setting - Road Map To Achieving Your Career Goals
"You can only set informed career goals if you acquire plenty of information about the career choices open to you. This will require research which can be conducted online or through a local library."
Top 15 Goals Quotations
"The most important thing about having goals is having one."
-- Geoffrey F. Abert
Achieving Your Goals by Using One Word
"One of my favorite techniques for achieving goals is to use the word 'anyway' as often as necessary.
If you don't feel like doing something or start doubting whether the activity has any value, do it 'anyway' and then see what the results are later after you have completed the activity."
5 Reasons To Journal Your Goals
"Writing out your goals, sharing them with others and actually visualizing your success will bring you powerful results! It doesn't really matter how you record your goals..."
Take Responsibility for Reshaping Your Life
"We say we want to eat better, feel better, and look better. But in order to make our goals materialize, we have to take responsibility for what we want by taking the appropriate actions."
Make Greatness Your Goal!
If greatness is your goal, whether in your business life, your personal relationships or your own personal growth, here are some guidelines to get you on your way.
How to Set Intentions that Energize You
We've all heard how crucial it is to set intentions, goals and targets. Powerful goals electrify us. Clear intentions energize and pull us forward.
One Hundred Goals? YES! One Hundred Goals!
Was this speaker stark raving mad? One hundred goals? He thought I could come up with 100 goals for my life?
Do Your Goals Match Your Passions?
Making sure our goals are properly matched with our passions only makes sense. If you have the wish to move up the corporate ladder, start your own business...
Establishing Dreams and Goals
One of the amazing things we have been given as humans is the unquenchable desire to have dreams of a better life, and the ability to establish goals to live out those dreams.
Reaching for the Goal
Can goals be easily reached? This question is in most of our minds. Some tend to think that goals are hard to achieve and that only very clever people can be true achievers!
Goals - Write Them Down Create Your Life
Writing brings things into the real world makes them tangible so have you written down your goals yet? If not why not?
Goal Setting a plan of action or Get off the Couch
We have talked a lot in the last weeks about having conversations with yourself. We talked about overall goal setting...
A Leader’s Ultimate Goal - Connect to Engage!
It's been said many times that true leadership is measured by ones ability to motivate and influence others.
11 Questions To Kickstart Your Dream
What's your dream? Want to give your vision a jumpstart? Write down your goals and use these questions to speed up delivery of your dream.
The Most Important Questions
One of my favorite questions to ask people is “Who are you?” – A simple enough question. Yet the responses that I get ...
How to Attract Success
"I was invited to a luncheon as a guest. To my amazement and delight Will Rogers was the speaker. This was one of the last speeches Will Rogers ever made because a few weeks later he and Wiley Post started their flight around the world. We all know the tragic death they met in Alaska."
Strategic Planning: Your Blueprint to Success
"To become successful, you must first plan for your success. Strategic planning can be your blueprint to achieving your goals and planning for future growth. In addition, strategic planning can get you focused on your marketing approach and also help to build a supportive team of employees."
So What is Success Anyway?
"Well I’ll tell you what it’s not. Even thought many of us like to periodically visit our own personal Fantasyland complete with its mansions, servants, fancy cars and trips to exotic places..."
Your 12-Point Plan for Personal Success
No one becomes successful by accident. Success requires making a plan and sticking to it. It is simple, but does require...
Program Yourself for Happiness and Success
"Learn how the programs you give yourself determine what you bring into your life. Change your programs, change your life!"
Ten Things Successful People Know That You Don't
What do extraordinarily successful people know about life that you don’t? Are they just a lot luckier, smarter, or harder working than you?
It is a Challenge to Succeed
It is a challenge to succeed. If it were not, I’m sure more people would be successful, but for every person who is enjoying...
What Does Success Mean to You?
Many people view success in terms of power, wealth, or fame. This is not the true success that a lot of us strive for and accomplish every day.
Success Is Just A Drop In The Ocean
I've just returned from a family holiday to Portugal. And yes it was very agreeable, thank you for asking. One afternoon I was lazing by the pool,...
The ‘Why’ of Goals and Life Goals
For this article, I use 'life goals' as being your life purpose or passion. 'Goals' are outcomes or desires that people choose for themselves.
Dreaming Your Dream
We’ve all had experiences when we were involved in an activity where time passed without our ever having noticed. What were the activities you loved as a girl or as a young woman?
Take Your Passion and Make It Happen
I know that for most of us, when we think about passion we immediately imagine some hot, young lover whisking us away to a tropical island paradise, ripping our clothes off and making mad passionate love to us until we have to beg him to stop.
The Power of Passion
Improving this single attitude makes your days fly by. You wake up excited to work. You make the right decisions. You get more done in less time.
Do Your Goals Match Your Passions?
Making sure our goals are properly matched with our passions only makes sense. If you have the wish to move up the corporate ladder, start your own business...
Discover What You Really Want To Do
Are you doing what you really want to do or did you just fall or wander into the job you now have. As a friend of ours once said...
Your Life's Purpose
Where is the purpose of your life hiding that it needs to be found?
Creating an Effective Study Environment
"If you are like me, you find it extremely difficult to study in the average house hold these days. There are just way too many distractions."
Why Do You Want a Degree?
"There are many reasons people seek degrees in today’s day and age. As a grown adult, it may seem like an unrealistic goal, but it is achievable."
"I can hear the jokes already and most of them are not politically correct. Let me throw out a word that we often don't attach to work and yet I think it is a word of redemption, of contribution, of achievement, of community, and ultimately, of legacy."
What to Do When You Hate Your Job
"I hate my job. It’s boring, frustrating, unfulfilling. I would LOVE to find a career that has passion and meaning; one that makes me want to jump out of bed in the morning. But..."
Changing Careers is Challenging
Changing careers is challenging - but not impossible. Here are six key things to consider before taking the leap.
How to Adopt a Loosing Attitude
We have all heard the expression, “Where your heart is?, your treasure will be also.” Allow me to modify this tried and true wisdom, to create an equally valid point...
Associate With Positive People
By the way, as you continue to associate with positive people, the law of attraction starts to kick in.
21 Days to A Positive Attitude Habits
This may come as a surprise... but your attitude is more important than your aptitude in determining your success in life!
What Constitutes a Good Life?
The ultimate expression of life is not a paycheck. The ultimate expression of life is not a Mercedes. The ultimate expression of life is not...
Focus
To have a goal is like having a road map. It shows you where to go, and where not to go. Would you begin a trip to an unknown city without first looking at a map? Probably not.
How do Tiger Woods and other Tippy Top World Achievers do it?
Here's a New and Startlingly Simple method, that Really Works... to sharpen your personal and business FOCUS to world class level... just like the world's top performers do it...!
21 Ways We Waste Our Vital Life Forces
"All creatures in life are created to reach their natural fruition. The Great Life generously provides all of them with everything they need to fulfill their promise."
Break Through the Barrier Between You and Real Peace
"If we wish to find peace we must understand something of its life. Here are a few such facts: Peace is the natural radiation of a living Now..."
A Lesson in How Haste Wastes Life
"Waking up to ourselves describes a whole new level of being self-aware. We no longer know ourselves simply through the thoughts we have about ourselves..."
7 Essential Ingredients for a Balanced Life
"Many women have one clear priority -- get through the day. Sure, no one will deny the importance of that, but it's simply not enough. Many women go through life on autopilot.
Discipline is Essential for Self Improvement
"Most of us are regularly exposed to information offering get rich quick schemes and ways to make our fortune for little or even no effort. This is probably even more the case for students of Self Improvement than for most other people."
The Gift of Failure
"During this Thanksgiving holiday, we are reminded to reflect on the bounty in our lives. Most of us have jobs, family, a place we call home and food on the table, and for these things and our ability to obtain them we should be grateful."
Michael Jordon
"An obscure outfielder for the St. Louis Browns, Dick Kryhoski, once observed, "The first time I saw Ted Williams hit, I knew God hadn't created everybody equal." The same can be said for basketball superstar Michael Jordan."
How Not To and How To Think Creatively
Article reprinted with permission from nationally syndicated columnist Harvey Mackay, New York Times #1 bestselling author.
What Am I Going To Do With The Rest Of My Life?
Unexpected life changes. Anticipated transitions. Long, sleepless nights. What do these three things have in common?
Why Do Some Affirmations *Work* - and Others Don't?
By definition,an affirmation is a statement repeated time and again either verbally or mentally-or written down. The words of the affirmation statement...
Hope is Not An Energetic Business Strategy
I've written before of The Role of Hope In Business. It does have a role, but as Donald Trump clearly states in his newest book, Trump; "Hope is Not a Strategy."
But I Don't Want to Wait THAT Long
Years ago I worked in a camera shop with a man named Sam who was constantly bemoaning his bad luck. He often talked about Mr. Dawson...
Are You Going Where You Want to Go?
In order to have fun while you conduct an effective review and renewal of your goals, first silence the Inner Critic...
Never Break Another Habit
Got a habit you'd like to break? Smoking? Overeating? Drinking? Complaining?
Creating Opportunity
An enterprising person is one who sees opportunity in all areas of life.
Your Personal Strategic Plan
A few years ago, it occurred to me that you could have a personal strategic plan that would help you individually...
You are a Genius - Unlocking the Power of the Mind
In week one, we discuss ways to unlock and tap into the incredible powerful potential you have in your mind.
Life is a Do-It-Yourself Project
When the carpenter finished his work and the builder came to inspect the house, the contractor handed the front-door key to the carpenter.
The Awesome Power of Taking Action
I've always known how important it is to have goals. And that once you have a written goal you must take some action towards achieving it.
