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Blame Game: Recognizing that YOU are Your Problem and Solution

Blame Game: Recognizing that YOU are Your Problem and Solution

Real empowerment comes when you don’t feel powerless, and if you’re blaming something other than yourself, you’ll always feel weak and unable. The more you realize that you are both your problem and your solution, then the greater sense of strength and responsibility you’ll experience.

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How to Protect Your Money, and Your Job, from a Hellish Economy

How to Protect Your Money, and Your Job, from a Hellish Economy

Be sure you’re in a positive frame of mind before reading the news headlines because they will scare the $#!+ out of you. What’s happening in the economy may seem way above your head if you’re trying to understand it, but that doesn’t matter when it comes to protecting your job and securing your financial future.

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Motivation is No Mystery. Here’s How You Get More of It!

Motivation is No Mystery. Here’s How You Get More of It!

Motivation is not difficult, because you’re already motivated to do what you do whether it’s beneficial to you or not. Even the most lazy person is motivated in their laziness. Even the greatest procrastinator is consistent when it comes to avoiding the tasks they keep putting off. Either way, we do what we do for a reason, and the strength of that reason determines the strength of our motive.

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Staying Focused by Banishing Distractions

Staying Focused by Banishing Distractions

Look at what preceded some of your failures, and you’ll find your adversary, broken focus. Look for the times you quit, and you’ll see how the demons of distraction brought you down by poisoning your mind with a thousand temptations. It’s the diversions of life that weaken your resolve, and it’s the power of focus that makes you the master of your future. If you can purge the unwanted remains of what distracts you, you can purify your mind for achievement.

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Why Search for Your Destiny When You Can Choose Your Destination?

Why Search for Your Destiny When You Can Choose Your Destination?

I don’t speak of destiny, but I will talk a great deal about destination. There’s a huge difference. A destination is simply a place that YOU’VE decided to go, and that’s the point. YOU make the choice about what your future will look like, and YOU decide how far you will go with your gifts, talents, abilities, and resources.

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Dark Path: Finding Your True Way to Achievement

Dark Path: Finding Your True Way to Achievement

True, lasting success is not luck. It’s not the result of you just swinging in hopes of hitting something. Achievement in any area of life or business comes by consistently following the strict principles that govern success in those areas. To do that requires regular wise judgments and the discipline to stay on mission. You have a designated course, or path, and the challenge is to remain on it.

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Why Achievement is NOT Like Climbing a Mountain

Why Achievement is NOT Like Climbing a Mountain

AC/DC sang, “It’s a long way to the top if you wanna rock and roll,” and this is the mentality of 99% of motivational thinking. Everything is pictured as an uphill battle. Success is described as reaching the top of a steep mountain, which means that you only fail because you either slipped and fell or didn’t have the strength to climb. Either way, that analogy provides you the opportunity to dress up failure in excuses. There’s a better way!

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Imagine Hell and You’ll Find Your Heaven

Imagine Hell and You’ll Find Your Heaven

What you think is so bad actually isn’t. The more you dwell on something, the more you magnify it. The bigger it becomes then the more it becomes all that you see. This is a vicious mental cycle that you must stop, or you’ll live the rest of your days in self-created anguish.

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Stubborn Persistence: What It Takes to Exceed the Limits of YOU!

Stubborn Persistence: What It Takes to Exceed the Limits of YOU!

Just when you think you’ve tried everything, you haven’t. When you’re convinced there’s no way you can solve your problem, reach your goal, or change your situation, you haven’t even scratched the surface. Solutions abound around you, but it’s your “perspective of possibilities” that halts you in your tracks. Why do we give up too [...]

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Strengthen What Remains: Committing Yourself to Excellence

Strengthen What Remains: Committing Yourself to Excellence

We must strengthen the things that remain, because it’s always a weakness that gets exploited by people and circumstances. Therefore, a commitment to excellence is a form of security, or protection. It helps to shield you from the unforeseen tragedies that wreck so many lives.

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