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John Watson - EzineArticles.com Expert Author
John Watson was born in Shanghai at the start of World War II on Dec 31st 1939
His father, a British civil engineer, was given the choice of working in the mines of Northern China for the occupying forces or going to a concentration camp. He refused to work for the invading forces.
As a result the whole family were imprisoned in a concentration camp in the middle of China in 1942. Eric Liddell (featured ... [More]
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- Achieve Your Goal in Three Steps by Focusing on Actions Rather Than Results
[Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] This article explores three powerful lessons about goal achievement from the worlds of mountain climbing and Formula One racing. Achieve your goal by selecting a goal you care about, by focusing on actions rather than results and by taking one step or lap at a time.
- Achieve Your Goals by Avoiding the Gaps and Believing in Yourself
[Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] If you want to achieve your goals avoid the gaps. "What gaps?" you ask. The gaps in taking action on your goals.
- Succeed by Starting Instead of Procrastinating - Five Steps and an Acronym to Help You Start
[Self-Improvement:Success] "You don't have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great." Les Brown What a brilliant quote from Les Brown! We all need to appreciate the fact that we don't have to be great before we can make a start on becoming great.
- Seven Success Lessons From Super Bowl 43
[Self-Improvement:Success] "Defeat is a state of mind. No one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as reality. To me, defeat in anything is merely temporary, and its punishment is but an urge for me to greater effort to achieve my goal." Bruce Lee 1940-1973 In Super Bowl 43, both the Phoenix Cardinals and the Pittsburgh Steelers refused to accept defeat until the full sixty minutes of the game were over and the result was written in history.
- Succeed by Keeping Your Promises to Yourself and Others Even If This Takes Longer Than You Expected
[Self-Improvement:Success] Keeping promises to others and to yourself will ensure your success in almost any area of life and work. Others will respect and trust you and you will trust and respect yourself. Your confidence in yourself will soar and you will start achieving what you thought was impossible. But keeping your promises may be much harder than you anticipated.
- Success Tips From an Action Film - "I Can Do This!"
[Self-Improvement:Success] In Under Siege 2, an action film made in 1995, Steven Seagal, as Casey Ryback, an ex-Navy seal, fights a murderous gang of mercenaries on a train travelling through the Rocky Mountains from Denver to Los Angeles. Casey has the help of a nervous, black porter, with a poor self-image, called Bobby Zachs. The gang have the help of many weapons, years of villainous experience and chopper support.
- Success, Survival and Self-Defense Tips From Bear Grylls in Zambia
[Travel-and-Leisure:Outdoors] Do you live in a jungle or a city? They can be much the same thing! The streets of big cities are often described as jungles. It would be surprising if endangered citizens could not pick up some success, survival and self protection tips from jungle survivors.
- Success Can Be Achieved by Persistence As Much As by Cleverness!
[Self-Improvement:Success] Recently, I heard a self-defence instructor describe how it took him a year to understand how to successfully throw someone of any size over his hip. This hip throw is now one of his favourite throws. He had not given up trying to master this throw but had stayed with the problem until he had conquered it. That is probably why he is an instructor rather than an ordinary student. Persistence helped him succeed.
- Five Time Management Steps That Work
[Self-Improvement:Time-Management] The story of Ivy Lee and the advice he gave to Charles Schwab is well known in the business and self-development world but, even if you know the story backwards, it is still worth studying again and again. It is also worth putting Ivy's Lee's advice into practice on a daily basis. Like many people, I heard the story and tried out the advice a few times. It worked well but then I lapsed back into my usual ways. So I was glad when I came across a retelling of the story recently by Jason Bates.
- Achieve Your Goals by Keeping Right on to the End of the Road
[Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] Have you ever climbed out of your car and walked away in anger because you were being delayed by one red light or traffic jam after another? Probably not. You continued your journey in spite of all those exasperating delays and achieved the satisfaction of reaching your destination. You did not give up.
- Five Success Tips From the Beijing Olympics - Usain and Uwama
[Self-Improvement:Success] Sportsmen and women know more than most about how to achieve success. They are models of commitment and focus. A sixteen day Olympics competition like the one in Beijing offers a crash course in how to be successful not only in sport but in many other aspects of life.
- Success Tips From Demosthenes and Rocky Balboa
[Self-Improvement:Success] Demosthenes, the great Athenian orator of the 4th century B.C., is famous for practising his speeches with pebbles in his mouth to help to cure a childhood speech impediment which probably included a stammer. His life story is a great example of how to turn failure and weakness into success and strength.
- Motivate Yourself With One Great Word Or One Great Sentence
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] Words have the power to motivate humans to take action. Sometimes just one word or one sentence can be enough to inspire massive action. Such words are worth thinking about every single day and can make a huge difference to our lives. This article considers one such word.
- Achieve Your Goals With the Help of Three Steps and Three Acronyms
[Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] This article suggests three steps and three acronyms which can help anyone to crush the obstacles that prevent them from reaching their goals. Many people give up trying to achieve their goals when they are confronted by just one obstacle. Even burglars can give up at the first sign of problems such as a burglar alarm.
- Succeed By Working Instead Of Whining
[Self-Improvement:Success] Some humans waste a lot of time and energy on self-pity and whining when they could be using that wasted time and energy to improve their situation so that they have less to whine about. The dictionary defines whining as complaining in a childish, moaning kind of way. You will find a definitive example of this, from my own childhood, later in this article.
- Motivation Today - Achieve Success And Save Your Life By Getting Off Your Butt And Doing Something!
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] I love reading or listening to 'kick butt' or 'get off your butt' motivation. The effect of the motivation usually lasts for at least a day! Nothing wrong with that. One day with motivation is worth two days without it.
- Succeed By Working Harder - How To Win A Canoe Race In A Crocodile Infested River!
[Self-Improvement:Success] The word 'work' has almost become a forbidden word in some self-help articles and books. The phrases 'work hard' or 'work harder' are regarded by many as a relic of the Victorian age. I disagree with this negative view of work as you will see in the following account of a canoe race in a river which is still full of crocodiles.
- Succeed By Facing Up To A Tough Challenge And By Being Willing To Appear A Loser And A Fool!
[Self-Improvement:Success] On Thursday May 1st 2008, the 'May Day Massacre' took place as local elections were held throughout England and Wales. The victims of the massacre were the Labour counsellors who lost their seats and the London Mayor who lost his powerful role as the Mayor of Greater London. Even Prime Minister Gordon Brown may lose his job as the Labour Leader if he now fails to gain more popularity for the Labour cause.
- Achieve Your Goals Even If You Face A Mountain Of Debt And Your World Is Collapsing Around You!
[Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] Recently, I watched an inspiring BBC TV program about Nick and Lesley Vallance. Their story teaches much about how to achieve your goals and dreams even when your world is literally and metaphorically collapsing around you and you have a mountain of debt overshadowing your life.
- Succeed By Trying To Fly Like Rambo
[Self-Improvement:Success] Many people never find out what they can achieve until life has passed them by and with it the chance to discover what they are capable of. In Rambo III, the hero hijacks a Soviet attack helicopter in Afghanistan during the Afghan-Soviet war. His friend, the Colonel, asks: "Can you fly that thing?"
- Achieve Your Goals By Getting in The Ring And Having A Go
[Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] Spectators often show great bravery when they are well out of range of the pain, problems and criticism that go with taking action towards an ambitious goal. It is the people who get in the ring and make every effort to win who deserve respect whether they win or lose.
- Success Lessons From Superbowl XLII - Succeed Through Desiring, Trying and Believing
[Self-Improvement:Success] Last Sunday, Feb 3rd 2008, BBC 2 featured the Superbowl XLII game from Arizona. Like any great sporting competition, the game taught vital success lessons which apply to ordinary life as well as to sport.
- Achieve Your Goals By Expecting Miracles Instead Of Debacles
[Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] How many times have you had a bad day when everything seemed to go wrong at the worst possible moment? You failed to achieve most of your goals and felt that the universe was against you. Perhaps, the universe was to blame or perhaps you were to blame because you expected things to go wrong. We might be able to avoid such debacles by expecting miracles instead.
- Summary Of Success Lessons From The 2007 Rugby Union World Cup Part 15 - Shock The World!
[Self-Improvement:Success] There are few if any new success lessons but many of us may well need reminding of the ones we already know. One way to remember success lessons is to see them applied in different environments such as the world of sport.
- Success Lessons From The Final Of The 2007 Rugby Union World Cup Part 14 - England Expects
[Self-Improvement:Success] On Saturday October 20th 2007, England played South Africa for the world cup. The English newspaper headlines quoted the famous order given by Nelson on a distant October day just before the battle of Trafalgar: "England expects!"
- Success Lessons From The 2007 Rugby Union World Cup Part 13 - Quit Talking And Begin Doing
[Self-Improvement:Success] Like all sports, rugby provides success lessons which apply both to sport and to life in general. The Rugby Union World Cup has been an event full of shocks, incidents and comments which teach success lessons that could apply to anyone.
- Succeed By Doing And Not Doing
[Self-Improvement:Success] God bless Kacper Postawski for this simple but profound saying: "Success happens whenever you decide to do something and you DO IT. Or whenever you decide to NOT DO something and you DON'T do it. I know it sounds simple, but 99% of people can't even do just that!"
- Success Lessons From The 2007 Rugby Union World Cup Part 12 Cheetah Speed Kills The Pumas!
[Self-Improvement:Success] Like all sports, rugby provides success lessons which apply both to sport and to life in general. The World Cup has been an event full of shocks, incidents and comments which teach success lessons that could apply to anyone.
- Achieve Your Goals and Resolutions By Applying The Acronym - APA!
[Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] Many people decide to make one or more New Year's Resolutions every year. However, some experts claim that approximately 90% of these people will fail to achieve their resolutions. Many will have given up by the end of January!
- Success Tips From The 2007 Rugby Union World Cup Part 11 - The Gambler Advises England
[Self-Improvement:Success] Like all sports, rugby provides success lessons which apply both to sport and to life in general. The World Cup has been an event full of shocks, incidents and comments which teach success lessons that could apply to anyone.
- Success Lessons From The 2007 Rugby Union World Cup Part 9 - David Loses to Goliath!
[Self-Improvement:Success] After the double miracle of the Saturday quarter finals on October 6th 2007 when England beat the unbeatable Australians and France conquered the invincible All Blacks, the Sunday quarter finals were eagerly anticipated. However, I no longer really cared who won the cup. Saturday, October 6th 2007 was enough to make me believe miracles can still happen. The rest of the world cup would be just commentary for me. It no longer mattered that much who would be the final winner.
- Success Lessons From The 2007 Rugby Union World Cup Part 10 - 'El Mago!'
[Self-Improvement:Success] In the evening of Sunday, October 7th 2007, Scotland played Argentina in the Stade de France in Paris. It was the last game of the quarter finals. England and France had shown Scotland the way by ripping up the form book and defeating the favourites. Could Scotland do the same against Argentina -the team that had beaten France in the opening game of the world cup?
- Seven Motivational Tips For Christmas or Similar Events
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] I woke up yesterday morning feeling low on energy and overwhelmed by all the tasks needing to be done before Christmas. Some of you might have had the same feeling! Are there solutions? Yes!
- Success Lessons From The 2007 Rugby Union World Cup Part 8 - Allez Les Bleus!
[Self-Improvement:Success] In the first of the quarter finals, on Saturday, October 6th, England had conquered the unconquerable Australians. Could France, later on the same day, stop the unstoppable All Blacks and send them home, like the Australians, to watch the semi-finals on TV?
- Success Lessons From The 2007 Rugby Union World Cup Part 7 - Swing Low Sweet Chariot!
[Self-Improvement:Success] Rugby, like all sports, can teach anyone how to achieve competitive success and how not to achieve it! It also teaches principles that can bring spectacular success both in sport and outside sport.
- Achieve Your Goals And Save Money And Lives By Checking, Double Checking And Even Triple Checking!
[Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] Recently, a fine young Brazilian, with all his life in front of him, was shot in the head seven times on the London underground by the police. The police thought he was a terrorist but had not taken the time to check who he actually was. To be fair to them they thought he was about to set off a bomb and did not, at that point, have the time to check his identity. This should have been checked much earlier.
- Achieve Your Goals By Following The Law Of Attraction Through Thanksgiving
[Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] On November 22nd 2007, it was Thanksgiving Day in the USA. Some aspects of Thanksgiving Day are similar to Harvest Festival celebrations in the UK and elsewhere. It makes sense to give thanks but not many people realize just how powerful gratitude can be?
- Success Lessons From The 2007 Rugby Union World Cup Part 6 - Crazy Horse
[Self-Improvement:Success] Rugby, like all sports, can teach anyone how to achieve competitive success and how not to achieve it! It can also teach basic principles that apply to achieving success of any type.
- Success Lessons From The 2007 Rugby Union World Cup Part 5 - Stay Enthusiastic Even If You Lose
[Self-Improvement:Success] Rugby, like all sports, can teach anyone how to achieve success and how not to achieve it! It is full of key success lessons for those who love the game and those who don't. France showed the rugby world how not to achieve competitive success in the opening game of the world cup against Argentina. They made mistakes early on which gave their opponents the confidence they needed to win.
- Success Tips From Visiting The Dentist And Reading A Great Book On The Way!
[Self-Improvement:Success] This article is based on a minor mishap that happened to me about a month ago. In the end, I learned some useful success lessons. You might find some of these lessons handy in your own life. You will never know unless you read this article! If you hate visits to the dentist, just skip the first half of the article!
- Achieving Your Goals and Dreams - Great Advice From A Dying Man
[Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] In 2007, Randy Rausch, a pioneering computer scientist and teacher, gave his last lecture to a packed audience. He had been diagnosed with terminal cancer and had been told he had six months to live. For the first three months, he would feel healthy.
- Reach Your Goals Now Through Effort And The Law of Attraction
[Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] Effort is not a very popular word today. Many people, including me, expect instant rewards for minimal or zero effort.
- Success Lessons From The 2007 Rugby Union World Cup Part 4 - Deja Vu?
[Self-Improvement:Success] Like all sports, rugby provides success tips which apply both to the sport in question and to life in general. The rugby world cup is a treasure chest of incidents and comments which are full of valuable success lessons that could inspire anyone whether they are interested in rugby or not.
- Success Lessons From The 2007 Rugby Union World Cup - Part 3 - The Cibi
[Self-Improvement:Success] Like all sports, rugby provides success lessons which apply both to the sport and to life in general. The Rugby Union World Cup is a treasure trove of incidents and comments which teach valuable success lessons that could apply to anyone.
- Success Lessons From The 2007 Rugby Union World Cup Part 2 - The Haka
[Self-Improvement:Success] There are few new success lessons. Most people just need reminding of the ones they already know. One way to remind yourself is to see success laws applied in different environments like the different sporting environments.
- Success Lessons From The 2007 Rugby Union World Cup - Part 1
[Self-Improvement:Success] There are few if any new success lessons. But we may well need reminding of the ones we already know. A good way to remind ourselves is to see these success laws applied in different environments. One exciting environment is sport.
- How To Program Success Into Your Mind Today!
[Self-Improvement:Success] I hope you are fit and thinking powerfully. If you are not, start acting as if you are. The following article will explain what appears to be a silly suggestion.
- Success And Survival Tips From The Crocodile Island
[Self-Improvement:Success] Five friends went on a fishing trip down the Zambesi. Their terrifying story was dramatised recently on a UK Channel 4 program.
- Success Lessons From The Builders Of The Brooklyn Bridge
[Self-Improvement:Success] The Brooklyn Bridge in New York cost about twenty-seven lives to build. The first man to die was the designer of the bridge John Roebling, an immigrant engineer from Prussia.
- Positive Thinking - How To Smile In The Face Of Illness, Old Age And Death
[Self-Improvement:Positive-Attitude] Jane Tomlinson, a middle aged woman from Yorkshire, died on Monday night, September 3rd, 2007 aged 43. She was one of the most inspiring human beings to have walked this earth.
- Achieve Your Goals By Writing Out Your Plans And Doing Them
[Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] Why do so many people spend more time planning their holidays than they do planning their lives? Perhaps, because people enjoy planning their pleasures but fear planning anything that might cause them pain or effort. They don't want to create a rod for their own backs.
- Achieve Your Goals By The Awesome Power of Belief
[Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] When I was about twelve, I had an operation on a toe. It was wrapped up with a surgical bandage and I went home. I was soon in great pain. The local doctor said I was making a fuss and should leave the bandage alone.
- Reach Your Goals By Doing Something
[Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] Action is 'doing something'. The above phrase is how the Cambridge online dictionary defines action. I like this definition because it encourages action. Action is 'doing something'. It is not necessarily doing something perfectly or even well.
- Achieve Your Goals Through Self Discipline And Will Power
[Self-Improvement:Personal-Growth] Currently, a well known singer is being criticized for not showing up at her concerts. She has demonstrated her lack of self-discipline to a wide public who will think twice about buying tickets to her future shows in case she isn't there! Nor can any of us feel smug. She is not the only one to fail to follow through on her plans. Self-discipline and willpower are needed in her life and in ours. Self-discipline and will power mean much the same according to at least one dictionary.
- Achieve Your Goals In Spite Of Boredom, Lack Of Enjoyment And Slow Progress
[Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] Boredom causes many to give up taking action on their goals. Some people even give up on their dreams soon after they start working towards them. Practicing scales put a road block in the path of my piano playing ambitions. I did not know how to deal with the boredom of practicing tuneless combinations of notes with awkward finger movements that the hands were clearly not designed for!
- More Success Secrets From A Rugby Union Hero
[Self-Improvement:Success] After helping England win the world rugby union cup in 2003, Jonny Wilkinson is often asked to do promotional work. As usual, he over delivers and treats others the way he would like to be treated. For example, he does not like to disappoint kids who have come to one of his kicking clinics. He teaches them the way he would like to have been taught.
- Success Secrets From A Rugby Union Hero - Do Not Cut Corners!
[Self-Improvement:Success] In November 2003, Jonny Wilkinson scored the points that won the rugby union world cup for England. Millions watched spellbound as he aimed a drop kick at the Australian posts. He had already missed three drop kicks. This kick went over and England had won. Jonny immediately became a hero to millions. Four years later, in 2007, the cup is being played for again. This time, teams will compete in France rather than in Australia.
- Achieve Your Goals By Starting Now And Taking Some Action Every Day
[Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] Now is a wonderful word. Take action on your next goal or task now and immediately feel the worry and frustration lift from your shoulders. Do something right now and you will sit up straighter and stand taller immediately. Take some kind of action today and, preferably, now. Even if your action only lasts one minute, you will feel better, healthier and more dynamic.
- Achieve Your Goals Now By Ditching Your Excuses
[Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] Recently, I watched 'The Jeremy Kyle Show.' Jeremy is a no nonsense talk show host who tries to sort out the broken relationships of his guests. Many have feeble excuses for their irresponsible behaviour. Jeremy puts them right. In this episode, he spoke to a father who had separated from his partner and their son. His former partner complained that he had the opportunity to see his son at weekends but seldom took advantage of this opportunity.
- Success Tips From The Winner of the UK Apprentice In 2007
[Self-Improvement:Success] In the middle of June, the highly entertaining 2007 UK Apprentice series drew to an end. Sir Alan Sugar commented:
"And so the end is near. All I am looking for is someone who is drop dead shrewd."
- Success Tips From The Martial Arts - How To Avoid Envy
[Self-Improvement:Success] Today's article is about envy both in the Martial Arts and in life in general. Envy can be a huge obstacle on the path to success. Wikipedia describes envy clearly:
Envy is an emotion that "occurs when a person lacks another's superior quality, achievement, or possession and either desires it or wishes that the other lacked it."
- Success And Survival Tips from Nigel Marven's Big Cat Adventure - The Miraculous Power Of Confidence
[Self-Improvement:Success] In 2001, Nigel Marven, the courageous naturalist, traveled far and wide in his 'Big Cat Adventure' program to research the big cats. They are classified as big cats because they can roar. They can also frighten the life out of you! The big cats are the leopard, snow leopard, jaguar, lion and tiger. They are five out of the 38 sub species of cats. Nigel tracked down the leopards and tigers and even walked unarmed towards a pride of hungry lions to prove the power of a self-confident human.
- Success and Survival Tips From An Alligator Wrestler
[Self-Improvement:Success] In the film 'The Waterboy', a teacher asked: "Why are alligators so aggressive?"
The waterboy replied: "Momma tells me alligators are ornery because they have all those teeth but no toothbrush!"
- Success And Survival Tips From The Head Hunters of Swagap
[Self-Improvement:Success] How would you like to hunt huge crocodiles with the descendants of cannibals and head hunters? Donald MacIntyre, the journalist, had the nerve to do just that.
He has traveled to some of the world's toughest environments to research how people manage to survive with few resources. He presented his findings in a recent TV series called 'Edge of Existence'.
- How To Succeed In Your Work And Survive A Chat Show With Jonathan Ross
[Self-Improvement:Success] Recently Bear Grylls, the survival expert, survived a grilling by Jonathan Ross, the controversial but amusing chat show host who sees the funny side of everything whether it is funny or not.
Jonathan could not understand how Bear could enjoy what he does - showing people how to survive in some of the toughest parts of the planet. Bear tried to explain.
- Success Tips From Rugby Union and Sevens Rugby - Avoid 'Gesture' Tackles
[Self-Improvement:Success] In the game of rugby union, fifteen players take the field to score tries for their team i.e. place the ball over the line at the far end of the field in 'enemy' territory. In American football, just crossing the line with the ball is enough. Scoring tries is the glamorous part of rugby union and it usually involves one of the seven backs who run fast and free out on the open field in full view of any audience.
- Success Lessons From The Golden Bear
[Self-Improvement:Success] Jack Nicklaus, who was nicknamed the 'Golden Bear' was born in 1940. He is thought by many to be the greatest golfer of all time. He won 2 national amateur titles, 105 professional tournaments and 18 major championships.
He not only succeeded in golf; he succeeded in business. He is widely respected as a leading 'golf businessman.' Even his marriage has been a successful one. Surely, he can teach us a thing or two about success.
- Success And Survival Tips From The Moab Desert - Gain Knowledge And Skills And Take Action
[Self-Improvement:Success] Bear Grylls is the star in a series of TV survival programs which contain survival and success tips. In one episode, he visited the Moab desert. He explained his purpose:
"Thousands of tourists come here to experience the most dangerous desert in America but it is a place from which some never return. My mission - to show you the skills you need to survive here."
- Start Achieving Your Goals And Dreams By Overcoming Two Big Obstacles
[Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] Many people give up on their sporting, business or other dreams and goals before they have even started. They run into two obstacles which put them off before they have taken the first step on the road to their dreams.
One big obstacle to starting is other people who think they know best. Critics abound who will tell you that you are too young or too old or too clever or too stupid or too big or too small etc.
- Business And Success Lessons From The Apprentice UK 2007 - To Hard Sell Or To Soft Sell
[Business:Sales-Management] 'The Apprentice' TV reality show is described by boss, Sir Alan Sugar, as "a job interview from hell". By the fifth episode, five out of sixteen candidates had been fired.
Sir Alan described his ideal apprentice as "someone who is drop dead shrewd." The word 'shrewd' suggests practical, hard headed wisdom and common sense. In some ways, it is the opposite of 'artistic'.
- Survival And Success Tips From Mexico's Copper Canyon - How To Tell The Time With Your Hand
[Self-Improvement:Success] Bear Grylls has recently starred in a riveting series of TV survival programs. He introduced his Mexican adventure as follows:
"I'm Bear Grylls. My challenge is to survive one of the world's largest canyon systems - Copper Canyon, Mexico. It is a Mecca for hikers and climbers but hundreds get lost every year. I am going to show you the skills needed to survive there."
- Achieve The Goal Of Making A Profit - Ten Tips From The 2007 UK Apprentice
[Business:Sales-Management] "The Apprentice" is a reality TV show which is like an extended job interview. Candidates for the job of apprentice are interviewed and given a chance to show that they are effective and teachable business people. The least effective are sacked each week.
In the USA, Donald Trump is the potential employer of the winning apprentice. In the UK, Sir Alan Sugar is the potential employer. Both shows give fascinating insights into what makes a successful business man or woman.
- Three Motivational Quotes To Live By - Get Up When You Can't!
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] Quotes can move people to heroic efforts. They can empower them to achieve their dreams. They are loaded with golden words that can enlighten and inspire. One quote is world famous.
Minutes before the Battle of Trafalgar started, Nelson's famous signal "England Expects That Every Man Will Do His Duty" was made from the poop deck of H.M.S. Victory at about 11.15 a.m. on 21st October 1805.
- Success And Survival Tips From Alaska - Do Not Surprise The Teddy Bears
[Self-Improvement:Success] The survival expert Bear Grylls has recently starred in an amazing series of TV survival programs which are full of both survival and success tips. He introduced this episode as follows:
"I am Bear Grylls. I have survived some of the world's toughest environments. Now, I'm in Alaska, one of the world's last great wildernesses and one mistake here can be fatal. My mission - to show you the skills you need to survive here."
- Succeed By Going Berserk - Success Tips From Saxon
[Self-Improvement:Success] Harvey Goldsmith, the impresario, has recently done a TV series of six programs in which he has tried to revive the failing careers of six formerly successful acts. In one episode, Harvey, at considerable risk to himself, decided to help the heavy metal band, Saxon, to recover their former glory. He set himself a dead line of six months.
- Succeed By Learning From Native Americans - Success Tips From Surviving The Sierra Nevada
[Self-Improvement:Success] In 1542, Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, saw the Santa Cruz Mountains while off the peninsula of San Francisco. He gave them the name 'Sierra Nevada' meaning "snowy range" in Spanish.
The name was later applied to the mountain range in the eastern part of California which is made up of 400 miles of tall peaks, deep forests and scorchingly hot lowlands.
- Achieve Your Goals By Escaping From La La Land
[Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] Too many of our dreams are imprisoned in 'la la land' or fantasy land. We fail to achieve these dreams because we like the fantasy of having achieved them more than we like the reality of actually achieving them.
We talk the talk but fail to walk the walk. We sit butt rather than kick butt. We are frozen by our lack of belief in our own ability instead of moving forwards step by step towards our goals.
- Succeed By Getting Out Of The Water Fast - Success Tips From The Marooned
[Self-Improvement:Success] Currently, a TV series is being shown which features Bear Grylls, the survival expert. He faces eight challenges in which he teaches skills that can help people survive and get home. These skills can also help people succeed in almost any situation.
- Success Tips From Surviving In The Costa Rican Rain Forest
[Self-Improvement:Success] Recently, Bear Grylls, a survival expert, parachuted into the rain forest of Costa Rica. This is one of the most dangerous jungles in existence. It consists of over 300 square miles described as the most biologically intense place on earth.
Ninety four people had to be rescued there last year by the Red Cross. Bear described the purpose of his visit: "My mission is to show you the skills you need to survive the rain forest and find your way out."
- Succeed By Eating Frogs - Success Tips From The Swamps Of Florida
[Self-Improvement:Success] Recently, Bear Grylls, the survival expert, was lowered into the Florida Everglades from a helicopter along with a knife, watch, water bottle, flint and the clothes on his back. His mission - to survive and get out!
He landed up to his thighs in water and checked around him for signs of alligators. Some of the swamp alligators are huge. Many of us would have climbed right back into the helicopter and flown off at speed in the direction of civilization.
- Success Tips From Surviving In The French Alps
[Self-Improvement:Success] Bear Grylls is a survival expert who has just presented a TV series about how to survive in hostile conditions. He has also been on Oprah.
We can learn key survival and success lessons from his experiences. Many of these apply not only in extreme situations but in ordinary life.
- Achieve The Goal Of Excellence By Being Your Own Coach
[Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] Recently, I watched a You Tube extract from the Christian Film called 'Facing The Giants'. The film is about a high school American Football team that achieves their goals after the coach, Grant Taylor, starts praying to God and begins to demand the best from his players whether they win or lose.
Dan Reeves, a great player and head coach in professional American Football, gave the film his seal of approval. He also commented:
"If you're not a Christian, it will still appeal to you. It's all about life."
- Motivate Yourself By At Least Making A Start
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] The mind can think up all kinds of phoney reasons for not doing something one should or for doing something one shouldn't!
You have an hour free to watch a favorite TV program or you could spend an hour learning a skill that will help you achieve your goals. Which should you give your time to?
- Success Tips From Five Different Sports
[Self-Improvement:Success] Self improvement gurus often compare sport to life. Sportsmen and coaches do the same. In sport, life is compressed into one location and one short space of time. Golf takes longer! It is much easier in sport than in normal life to see the impact of attitude, belief, energy and skill on who succeeds and who fails. We can see the same success lessons being taught again and again in one sport after another.
- Achieve Your Goals Through Positive Thoughts and Habits
[Self-Improvement:Positive-Attitude] Stick your right arm out to the side. Start thinking cheerful, positive thoughts. Ask someone to use one finger to push your arm down while you resist. You will find it easy to resist. Your arm will stay out to the side.
Now stick your arm out again and think miserable thoughts. Ask the same person to push your arm down. He or she will be able to do so easily. Your resistance will be much weaker. Your arm will move downwards.
- How To Achieve Goals - Tips From Superbowl 41
[Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] On Feb 4th 2007, the Chicago Bears and the Indianapolis Colts played in Superbowl 41 to try to win the Vince Lombardi Trophy. Both the Bears and the Colts can teach us lessons about how to achieve our own goals.
Vince Lombardi, the great Green Bay Packers' coach, believed that sport teaches us about life in general. He saw the similarities between football and life clearly and frequently described the qualities that can help us all to achieve worthwhile goals in life as well as football.
- Success Tips From A Tennis Final - Who Succeeds When Two People Believe They Will Win?
[Self-Improvement:Success] On 27th January 2007, Serena Williams defeated Maria Sharapova in the final of the Australian Open Tennis Tournament in Melbourne. She not only defeated her; she wiped the floor with her. Serena's victory was described as the demolition of the world's number one female tennis player.
Both Maria and Serena had parents who had taught them from childhood: "You can do it!"
- Can Goals Be Achieved Through Belief Alone? Lessons From American Idol
[Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] Performers in any kind of competition speak of the importance of belief and confidence. The stars who win gold medals often describe how they believed, and even knew, that they would win the event before it started.
Does belief, then, always work? Not in American Idol.
- Achieve Your Big Goals Through Habit Goals
[Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] Habit goals are those smaller goals which lead to bigger goals. These smaller goals are performed daily or weekly so that they become automatic habits.
- Success Lessons From The Ashes Cricket Series of 2006/7
[Self-Improvement:Success] Whether people know anything about cricket or not, they can learn some lessons about success in general from the Ashes series of cricket matches.
- The Success Power of Fast Action
[Self-Improvement:Success] One key lesson we can learn from the martial arts is the importance of fast movement. Moving at speed is a key factor in achieving success in almost any field of life.
- Achieve Your Goals By New Day Resolutions
[Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] New Year's resolutions are often a waste of time because everyone accepts that few people can actually keep them. We all, therefore, have a ready made excuse for not keeping them - we are just doing the same as everyone else!
No one criticizes you if you make no effort to keep your resolutions and without effort nothing much can happen. Just state a vague intention to improve and everyone accepts the fact that you will probably forget about your resolution within a few days and be back to your ordinary self. How, then, can we keep our resolutions and become an extraordinary person?
- Final Success Tips From 'Strictly Come Dancing' 2006
[Self-Improvement:Success] 'Strictly Come Dancing' is a dancing competition where a professional is partnered by an amateur. The couple with the lowest marks are expelled each week.
The program contains success tips which can be applied to many activities. The amateurs learned their own success lessons from the competition.
- More Success Tips From Strictly Come Dancing 2006
[Self-Improvement:Success] 'Strictly Come Dancing' is a dancing competition where a professional champion dancer is paired with an amateur. The couple with the lowest marks are expelled each week. Points are awarded by four judges and by the viewing audience.
The program contains success tips which can be applied to other activities as well as dancing. You can, for example, guarantee that there will be at least one critic ready to snipe at you as soon as you attempt anything outside the ordinary. The winning dancers can show us how to deal with such criticism.
- Avoid Anger And War By Having A Laugh
[News-and-Society:Pure-Opinion] Anger and even war can be avoided or, at least, made less likely by having a laugh both at ourselves and others.
At the moment, Iran is the black sheep of the international world. The United Nations has condemned Iran's attempt to become a nuclear power and sanctions have been imposed. Every nation in the world, led by the USA and the UK, has voted against Iran.
- Final Success Tips From I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here 2006
[Self-Improvement:Success] The reality show 'I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here' ended on 1st December 2006.
Twelve celebrities spent weeks in the Australian jungle and had to face difficult and sometimes revolting trials to win food and the support of the viewers. Can we learn any success tips from their experience? Yes!
- Success Tips From I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here 2006
[Self-Improvement:Success] 'I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here' is a famous UK reality show which takes twelve celebrity volunteers out of their comfort zone and sticks them in the Australian jungle where they are surrounded by poisonous snakes, deadly spiders, rats and other delights for three weeks.
After the first week, celebrities are voted out of the camp. The last celebrity left in the camp after three weeks is crowned king or queen of the jungle. The 2006 show started on November 13th. Several key success tips emerged from the show almost immediately.
- Motivate Yourself By Focus, Hard Graft And A New Self-Image
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] Have you ever started out, with great enthusiasm, on the road to achieve an important goal and, after several months or even years, found that you are not much closer to your goal?
Perhaps you decided to make money by joining the internet gold rush but after several years you now find yourself in credit card debt and wondering what happened.
- Motivational Tips From Strictly Come Dancing 2006
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] 'Strictly Come Dancing' is a reality TV show which makes grown men tremble if only at the thought of dancing with beautiful women in skimpy clothes.
A professional dance champion coaches an amateur partner and they perform a weekly dance together. The judges give points and the general public phone in on behalf of their favourites. One couple are eliminated every week.
Motivation is a key factor in deciding who will do their best and who will win. The program is full of key motivational lessons.
- Achieve Your Talent Goals Even If You Lack Talent
[Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] There is no need to be envious of those who seem more talented or skilful than you. Some experts say that if you work hard and practice for many hours, you can equal the abilities of the talented. You may even out perform them. You may see your own talent emerge out of nothing.
- Motivate Yourself By Planning to Shock The Bullies And Critics
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] Hopefully you have not been bullied or intimidated or criticised by any one.
As a self-defence instructor, I find that some of my students have been humiliated by a bully and start taking classes to make sure that the situation is not repeated
- Success Tips From Strictly Come Dancing 2006
[Self-Improvement:Success] Have you ever been faced with a challenge which makes you feel like a guillotine is about to drop on your neck? That is how one of the competitors, Jan Ravens, in 'Strictly Come Dancing' feels before a performance.
How do you cope with that level of stress and how do you get past the stress and do your best? It is worth taking a look at what can be learned from a competition which frightens the life out of its competitors.
- Achieve Your Learning Goals Through Focus, Belief And An Empty Mind
[Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] All humans learn right up to the end of their lives whether they want to or not. This article describes how you can achieve any learning goal so long as you avoid distractions and believe you have the ability to learn practically anything.
It is also important to have the humility to have an open mind - to accept that you still have huge amounts to learn in any field even if you are an expert in that field.
- Success Tips From Shankly
[Self-Improvement:Success] Bill Shankly, the successful and even legendary Scottish manager of Liverpool United Football Club, died in 1981 but he left behind memories of his dynamic energy, his wisdom and his passionate determination to win.
He also left a legacy of powerful sayings which can point the way to the kind of spectacular success he enjoyed with his club.
- Success Through Simple Plans
[Self-Improvement:Success] In my view, you are a success if you follow your plans whatever the results.
If you actually follow your own plans, whether you win or lose, you are several steps ahead of most of the human race who don't even have a plan in the first place.
What can we do to make it more likely that we shall carry out our plans? Keep them simple!
- Motivation By Daily Momentum
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] Do you ever find that you do not carry out your plans? If not, perhaps your plans are too complicated. If you follow a simple plan every single day great things can be achieved.
- Motivation By Feeling Smug
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] Most people feel ashamed about being smug but I think smugness has its uses as one type of motivation.
Christmas provides a great opportunity for feeling smug. If you can get your Christmas cards sent out early in December you can deservedly feel smug. I have never yet managed this but I will give it a try this year!
- Motivation By Humiliation
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] Recently, I watched a western called 'Firecreek'. It shows how humiliation can motivate men and women to perform heroic actions.
- Succeed By Overcoming Boredom
[Self-Improvement:Success] The first step in overcoming boredom is to accept that you will have to do some boring work in almost any activity you can think of. You have to accept boredom as an inescapable fact of life.
So many gurus keep saying how easy it is to make money or achieve success that it is a relief to be told by at least one expert that success demands that you do the boring stuff.
- How To Achieve Goals By Using Scraps Of Time And Motion
[Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] Don't despise the scraps of time or anything else in your life. Instead, use them to help achieve your goals and transform the way you live.
- Achieve Your Goals One Step At A Time Even When You Are In Pain
[Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] Recently, I watched an old 1962 film starring Jeff Chandler, called "Merrill's Marauders." This war movie shows the astonishing courage and determination of Frank D. Merrill and his men. It also demonstrates the courage of Jeff Chandler, the man who acted the part of Frank Merrill. Both men achieved their goals one step at a time even though they were in severe pain.
- Succeed In Life And On The Internet By Avoiding Too Many Shortcuts
[Self-Improvement:Success] Some shortcuts are an excellent idea. They save you time if not money. Yesterday I paid my window cleaner 100 to clear up my back garden and mow the back lawn which I had failed to mow for about 4 months. He did a great job in a few hours and even mowed the front lawns as a bonus!
- 5 Success Lessons From Formula One
[Self-Improvement:Success] The era of Michael Schumacher, the seven times world champion of Formula One racing finally came to an end in Brazil on Sunday 22nd Oct 2006. He is regarded as one of the most successful drivers of all time. What are the secrets of his success?
- Success Through Time Management
[Self-Improvement:Time-Management] Time management sounds like a horribly boring topic. Images of men and women in white suits with clipboards checking on every move you make spring to mind.
- Internet Marketing And Time Management
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] The internet is a fascinating but distracting medium. It is very easy to fritter away hours of your precious time if you are not fully aware of how you are spending every minute.
- How To Succeed As An Affiliate or Reseller
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Affiliate-Revenue] Huge amounts of advice are available about how to succeed as an affiliate or reseller of other people's products. Occasionally it helps to focus on just a few ideas or steps that can be speedily implemented. I find the following ideas useful.
- Can You Succeed On The Internet And Keep Your Integrity?
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] People who lack integrity may well try to scam and cheat their victims online and offline. The skills developed by the cheats will work both on the internet and off the net.
- Achieve Your Internet Marketing Goals By Buying Cheaper Products
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] Can you succeed on the internet without buying the expensive courses and other products that are put on offer every few months or so? Yes; for several reasons.
- Is Affiliate Marketing An Easy Way To Make Money?
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Affiliate-Revenue] Many internet experts claim that you can make easy money as an affiliate who promotes other people's products for a commission. Is this true?
- How Do Internet Marketers Acquire Trust?
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] What makes a customer trust a seller? You don't need to be a marketing guru to understand what creates trust. Just look at your own circle of friends and acquaintances. Who do you trust and why? Who do you not trust and why not?
- Do Internet Marketers Need A Mentor?
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] Do you need a mentor to help you succeed online? As is often the case when considering tough questions, the answer is both yes and no. Some people badly need a mentor to help them achieve success in internet marketing. Others don't. They may have the drive and determination to succeed on their own.
- Succeed In Internet Marketing With A Confident And Enthusiastic Mindset
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] Making money on the internet is not just about marketing and technical expertise. It is also about the way your mind works.
- How To Succeed Without Buying Expensive Internet Marketing Products
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] For several years I have bought expensive internet marketing products and courses and have probably spent over £20,000 or $45,000 on them. Was this money wasted or was it worth it?
Can you succeed without buying expensive courses and products?
- Achieving Your Goals Through Cosmic Ordering - Make A List Of What You Want
[Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] Noel Edmonds, a UK radio and television presenter, has known both success and disaster. Several of his shows have been smash hits but one of them 'The Late, Late Breakfast Show' ended its run abruptly when a bungee jump stunt ended in the death of a member of the public.
- Anger Management By Being Slow To Take Offence
[Self-Improvement:Anger-Management] Religion has been a major target for comedians in the 2006 Edinburgh festival and in the world in general for some time. Should religious people be offended and even angered by jokes about their most sacred beliefs and those they worship? Maybe not as much as they often are.
- How To Achieve Goals By Overcoming Low Self-Esteem
[Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] This article is about one of the most important mind sets there is - self esteem. This is yet another of those aspects of life we should have been taught more about at school. Poor self-esteem or low self-confidence is one of the biggest obstacles there is to achieving all your goals.
- Achieving Health Goals Through Positive Thinking - The Healing Code
[Self-Improvement:Positive-Attitude] Positive thinking has been unfairly criticised at times for claiming to achieve more than it can deliver. It can't accomplish everything but then what else can?
An Irish banker, Dermot O'Connor, has recently demonstrated clearly the power of positive thinking. I listened to him talking to Gloria Hunniford, the host of the 'Heaven and Earth' Show, on BBC1 on July 30th, 2006.
- Program Success By Remembering The Fleas
[Self-Improvement:Positive-Attitude] I hope you are fit and thinking positive. If you are not the following might help. This article contains a brief but very powerful message about how we program or fail to program success into our minds. It is well worth reading even if you have heard something similar before.
- 12 Success Tips From Wimbledon 2006 - Yelling Is Not Enough
[Self-Improvement:Success] Tennis is the kind of one against one sport that mirrors life in general where, at times, you have to face problems on your own. No one else can hit the ball over the net for you unless you are playing doubles! There are some useful and timeless success tips available in any tennis competition.
- Achieve Your Goals Through Knowledge, Belief and Passion
[Self-Improvement:Positive-Attitude] This article takes a look at how one badly injured man survived a day and night in a wild life park where he was surrounded by lions, elephants and hyenas. I, for one,learned a lot from his experience. I hope you will too.
- 10 More Success Tips from Wimbledon 2006 - Keep Challenging Your Fear Of Failure
[Self-Improvement:Success] Any sport is a mirror of life and tennis is no exception. This article looks at ten success tips which can be found in the games and commentaries of Wimbledon 2006. Many of them are worth remembering and applying.
- 10 Success Tips from Wimbledon 2006 - Stick The Racquet Out And Some Good Things Can Happen
[Self-Improvement:Success] The importance of a confident mindset, determination, focus, skill, practice, effort and a refusal to be intimidated emerged once again at Wimbledon as deciding factors in nearly every match. It is worth taking a close look at the power of these factors in some of these matches.
- Five Success Lessons From The 2006 World Football Cup
[Self-Improvement:Success] Football, like any sport, teaches lessons about how to succeed and how to fail. The world football cup competition in 2006 which was won by Italy is full of such lessons.
- Three Lessons About Goal Achievement From The Football World Cup Of 2006
[Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] The football world cup of 2006 is drawing to an end amid tears from some countries and celebrations from others. Some key lessons about achieving life goals as well as football goals can be learned from this competition.
- Achieving Goals Through Patience - Is Patience Out Of Date In The Modern World?
[Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] Patience, whether about achieving goals or anything else, is not a popular virtue in the modern world. How valuable is patience today?
- Success Through Persistence In The Face Of Criticism
[Self-Improvement:Success] Criticism can destroy or stimulate. It is especially powerful when we are our own critics. Most individuals or groups will have to face up to and deal with their own or someone else's criticism if they wish for success.
- Success Through Persistence In Hopeless Situations
[Self-Improvement:Success] Persistence creates the power to do with ease what we once found difficult and even 'impossible'. It can give us the greatest hope we have of achieving success. Persistence can produce amazing results in many fields of human activity even when the situation seems hopeless.
- Succeed By Counting Your Chickens - Three Success Lessons From The UK Apprentice
[Self-Improvement:Success] Three key success lessons emerged from 'The Apprentice'. 'The Apprentice'is a popular reality TV show in both the UK and the USA. This article is based on the UK version of the show which features Sir Alan Sugar who, like Donald Trump, is a highly successful businessman.
- Achieve Your Goals By Applying And Not Buying
[Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] Recently, I read a comment by Ken Reno that people lose large amounts of money when they keep "buying but never applying" internet products and services. What are the solutions to this problem?
- Achieve Your Goals Through The Magic Of Consistency
[Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] Consistency seems to be a boring idea at first sight. It lacks glamour and excitement. But, when you look more closely, consistency is anything but boring. It contains the secret of achievement and success. It is the key to an almost magical power than can transform lives.
- Success Lessons From Soccer - How To Win or Lose In The Game Of Life
[Self-Improvement:Success] Soccer matches are all about scoring goals and being winners. As a result, soccer can hold up a mirror to life since many humans also want to achieve goals and to be winners in the game of life. There is much to be learned about life in general from soccer players, managers and commentators.
- To Ask Or Not To Ask - That Is The Success Question
[Self-Improvement:Success] Dreamers often fail to achieve their dreams because they keep second guessing what they are doing. They ask questions like: "Is this a waste of time?" "Will it work?" "Why are the results so poor?" etc.
As a result, they act half-heartedly and fail to finish what they have planned. They fail to discover whether their planned action would have worked or not. This article takes a look at whether questions are a help or a hindrance.
- Success Lessons From Wellington The Iron Duke
[Self-Improvement:Success] Arthur Wellesley (1769-1852), who later became the Duke of Wellington and the hero who beat Napoleon at Waterloo, had to overcome his own mother's lack of faith in him in order to make a success of his military career.
She once commented: "I vow to God I don't know what I shall do with my awkward son, Arthur". She even believed he had little aptitude for soldiering! Perhaps this motivated him to become one of the greatest generals in British military history. Several key success lessons can be learned from his life.
- Success Lessons From Houdini
[Self-Improvement:Success] Harry Houdini (1874-1926), born Erich Weiss, was not an immediate success as a magician and entertainer. Eventually, however, he became world famous and was acknowledged by many to be the world's greatest magician and escapologist. He is still world famous many years after his death.
Several key success lessons can be learned from his life and these lessons can be applied by anyone to improve their lives.
- Success Through Being Average
[Self-Improvement:Success] Success seldom arrives suddenly. It usually comes after months, if not years, of study and practice as a beginner moves from being useless, to poor, to mediocre, to average, to above average, to competent, to good and finally to expert status.
- Success By Doing It - Don't Wait Till Your Advertisement Is Perfect
[Business:Advertising] The importance of immediate, massive, daily action has been written about many times already but it is so important that it is worth writing about again and again. The examples in this article come from the world of business but they could apply to any other walk of life as well.
- Success By Ignoring Imaginary Obstacles
[Self-Improvement:Success] Far too many people give up on their plans and dreams when faced by one or two obstacles. Some of these obstacles are purely imaginary. A classic example of this can be found in the life of the legendary rebel, Bonnie Prince Charlie.
- Success Lessons From Falling Down
[Self-Improvement:Success] The first lesson beginners in Judo learn is how to fall over without hurting themselves too much. They also learn how to fall in a way which allows them to get up again very quickly and continue fighting or 'playing' Judo. Only later in their training do they learn how to throw other people to the ground and choke them to submission.
It is assumed from the start that Judo players will inevitably experience some failure or falling over. Their opponent, like life in general, will throw them down heavily from time to time. They need to land with as little damage as possible and get going again at once.
- Four Success Lessons From Knife Defence
[Self-Improvement:Success] Knife attacks are increasingly common these days. Nearly every week in the UK there is news of at least one knife murder. At least, it seems like that.
It amazes me that so few people try to learn how to defend themselves from a knife attack.
This article gives some helpful suggestions on how to defend yourself from a knife attack but it also looks at some key life lessons that can be learned from the art of knife defence.
- Fulfilling The Goals Of Others
[Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] The experts often, quite rightly, state that our goals and dreams should be our own and not those of any one else. I had an email today suggesting this very thing. It said roughly:
"If you don't clarify your dreams and set goals someone else will do it for you! You will either follow your own road this year or the road of others around you who will draw you into their dream."
Normally I would agree with this kind of statement but sometimes we love another person so much that their dreams successfully become our own.
- How To Manage Stress After And Before An Accident or Tragedy
[Self-Improvement:Stress-Management] Accidents and tragedies often happen to us when we are not expecting them. They are the unpleasant and even horrendous experiences of life. How can we deal with them when they happen and how can we prepare for them before they happen?
- How To Achieve Goals - Life Lessons From Football - David Kills Goliath In The English FA Cup
[Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] I hope you like sports of some kind. If you don't, the following account is still worth reading as it applies as much to life as to football.
Literal 'goals' are scored regularly in the game of football or soccer. A team of eleven people have one goal - to score a goal - to put a round ball in the back of the opposing team's net.
The game is thus a realistic metaphor for the game of life. It can teach many lessons about how to achieve our own 'goals'.
- Goal Setting Can Pay Off Your Mortgage In Two Years
[Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] On BBC1 on Thursday, 05 January 2006, a young couple were interviewed on how they had managed to pay off their mortgage in 2 years. There are lessons we can all learn from their efforts whether we have a mortgage or not.
- Success Through Trying
[Self-Improvement:Success] Many people argue that trying is not good enough. You must succeed. But reality dictates that you may not succeed. You may not be as talented as someone else. A more talented tennis player or card player may well try just as hard as you and they will usually win. You are still a success because you did your best.
- Winning With Goals
[Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] The effectiveness of goal setting has been criticized recently but many still believe that goals create achievers. They give direction and focus to the frenetic who might otherwise waste their time in pointless activity. They help the over busy to focus on their priorities rather than the next urgent problem that arises.
- The Success Secret of Daily Practice
[Self-Improvement:Success] Practice may seem to be a very obvious 'secret' of success in most walks of life but it is often anything but obvious because the practitioner seems to do his or her thing so easily and spontaneously. They appear to be so talented that they can improvise brilliantly without the help of rehearsal.
- Success Through Systematic Dreaming And Taking Action
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] Some people love to dream and plan. They may also take the occasional half-hearted action. They will probably fail to achieve their dreams. However, they are much further along the road than those who no longer dream or plan and who have settled for a boring but comfortable existence. The difference between dreaming and taking action is not as clear cut as we might think. Perhaps some kinds of action are just less obvious than others. Perhaps regular dreaming is a kind of action which is more powerful than we realize.
- Success By Staying Enthusiastic
[Self-Improvement:Success] Failure can knock the confidence and enthusiasm out of people as quickly and as easily as a punch on the nose can make your eyes water. How can we recover and maintain the enthusiasm we have lost? How can we learn to see clearly once more?
- Become A Successful And Dangerous Person!
[Self-Improvement:Success] Action is a powerful but dangerous and frightening weapon. The moment you start taking action towards your dreams, you become a person who changes the status quo and this can terrify people including yourself. A person who takes action is a danger to our usual way of life because they destroy the comfort zones and ruts we like to bury ourselves in.
- Five Lessons On Motivation From A Visit To The Dentist
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] Nothing gets done without motivation. Goals would not be achieved. Great achievements would be out of the question. We need motivation like we need air to breathe. We need regular motivation to keep us going when our inspiration and enthusiasm dwindle.
- Succeed By Changing Yourself First
[Self-Improvement:Success] When Christmas or any other festival which encourages family gatherings arrives, many people get irritated by their relatives and try to change their more annoying habits. This is usually a waste of time and tends to make matters worse. The articles suggests more successful alternatives.
- Success Through Getting On With It Now!
[Self-Improvement:Success] Are you usually on time with your Christmas shopping and Christmas cards or are you the type who dithers around when faced with an overwhelming task?
Perhaps you need to learn the importance of taking swift action. Perhaps you need to learn and apply one or two techniques which will help you take that action.
The following might help!
- Success Through Extra Efforts
[Self-Improvement:Success] If you do your best through extra effort, you probably will be the best and will become a success. You will stand out from the crowd since so few people actually get around to doing their best. The article looks at what can be achieved through extra efforts.
- Three Key Success Words Beginning With A
[Self-Improvement:Success] Recently, I read some articles by two of my favourite self-help gurus, Chris Widener and Mike Brescia, which inspired me to write about three words beginning with the letter 'A'. These words have nothing to do with alcohol or cars.
The three words 'Act, Again and Anyway' can remind us of three powerful ideas which usually accompany success.
- Legionnaire Success Lessons
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Humanities] The French Foreign Legion was founded in 1831. Their spiritual home and old training centres are in the former colonial French North Africa although they now train mainly in Southern France. What made them the legendary force they were and still are? What success lessons can we learn from them?
- More About Motivation In The Legion
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] Since 1831, when it was founded, the French Foreign Legion has intrigued people all around the world. The heroism and endurance of the legionnaires has become a byword. Surely all of us can learn some powerful motivational lessons from these men. This article is based mainly on a recent conversation with one of them
- Motivation In The Legion
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] What can motivate humans to achieve the extraordinary? This article tries to find out by examining the experience of 12 volunteers who decided to spend a month training like the legionnaires.
- Success Lessons From Acorns And Sheep
[Self-Improvement:Success] If we can learn to take action instead of just hoping for the best, we may find that we start getting miraculous results. We may also find that the obstacles we imagined in our way, do not even exist.
If we throw away our excuses as well, we may make even more astonishing progress.
- Success Secrets of The Rich - Are Rich People Lucky?
[Self-Improvement:Success] I've just sent an email to my mailing list based on Stuart Goldsmith's 'Seven Secrets of The Millionaires.' I don't know how they felt after reading the message it contained but it impressed me so much that I felt I must immediately write an article about it.
- Success Lessons From Tennis That Can Change Your Life
[Recreation-and-Sports:Tennis] Most sports are full of lessons for the discerning. Tennis is no exception. Wimbledon 2005 is over now but hopefully some of the lessons described below will live on for ever.
- Success Lessons From Cricket That Can Improve Your Life
[Recreation-and-Sports:Cricket] This summer (2005) huge crowds in England and Australia have been following the 5 test match series between England and Australia. The sides are evenly matched and have played some of the most exciting cricket seen for many years. Whether you play cricket or not, you will find some great success lessons in this series of matches.
- Motivating Yourself To Take Action Daily
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] Daily action towards a goal is the fastest way to achieve your goal. As you take daily action you see the results of that action fairly quickly if not immediately. Visible results which are clear and undeniable are huge motivators. However, taking daily action is not always easy. How can we make it easier? That is what this article is about...
- Success Through The Power Of Daily Action
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] Daily actions to achieve your goals means daily progress and daily excitement as you start to feel your dreams are actually coming true. As you take action daily, you cannot fail to realize that you are moving steadily towards your goal and this can only fill you with growing enthusiasm and the belief that, at long last, you will achieve your goal whatever it is. This article is about the power of daily action.
- Success Through The Way You Think About Yourself
[Self-Improvement:Positive-Attitude] If you think you are a loser, you train or work like a loser i.e. sloppily and half-heartedly. If you think you are a winner you train like one i.e. with maximum focus, great expectations, excitement and consistent effort. This article takes a look at why people think like winners or losers and what they can do about it...
- Succeed By Trying Harder - Lessons From Boxing
[Self-Improvement:Success] Recently, I have been riveted by the amazing reality show "The Contender". The show started with 16 boxers who have fought each other every week until last week only 4 boxers were left. These were Alfonso Gomez, Jesse Brinkley, Sergio Mora and Peter Manfredo Jr. The story of the first semi-final fight between Gomez and Manfredo contains several powerful success lessons for everyone.
- Success Through Discipline - The Rewards Of Discipline
[Self-Improvement:Success] Many of the problems we have with discipline are caused by failing to realize the rewards that discipline can bring. We focus on the fact that discipline often means doing boring things that we don't want to do and fail to notice that eventually discipline empowers us to do what we do want to do. This article takes a look at some of the rewards of discipline.
- Motivation By A Challenge
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] Many humans are motivated by the thought of doing something they or others think they cannot do. They don't want to do what they already know they can do.
- No Shortcut To Success
[Self-Improvement:Success] Sometimes short cuts are not worth taking. They may bring you quick money but they do not make you become a better, stronger or more skilful person.
- Motivation From A Great Western - We All Have It Coming
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] Most self-help gurus warn us against watching too much TV. Spending time with your much maligned TV set does have advantages, however. You are, for example, able to watch a great film like 'Unforgiven'. It has lessons which can motivate us and enlighten us.
- Stress Management Through Altering Beliefs And Increasing Knowledge
[Self-Improvement:Stress-Management] Most humans experience unexpected setbacks which can cause huge stress and can halt their forward progress in life. Our attitudes, beliefs and knowledge can make a big difference to how we deal with these setbacks.
What means just major stress to one person can even mean death to another. Our beliefs and knowledge affect how much stress we experience in the face of problems, traumas, ageing and the threat of death.
- Success Lessons From Josey Wales
[Self-Improvement:Success] The Outlaw Josey Wales is an interesting Western that I have watched many times. It is full of success lessons for the discerning!
- Motivation By Daily Applause
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] One of our most powerful psychological needs is the craving to be appreciated by our fellow humans. Often the quickest way to receive the applause we desire is to keep working hard without it. Those who work hard on their own in private usually end up receiving applause in public. Just the thought of this future applause can provide powerful motivation.
- Success Without Whining About Doing Your Best
[Self-Improvement:Success] In the film 'The Rock', Sean Connery takes a dim view of those who claim to be 'doing their best'. He comments grimly: 'Losers always whine about doing their best.' Is he right? This article tries to give an answer.
- Motivation By Spring Cleaning
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] Spring cleaning is a great motivator. Why confine it to Spring?
- Success Through Work And Training
[Self-Improvement:Success] Most self-help truths are obvious but obvious truths are often forgotten. We need reminding of them again and again.
- The Gift Of Success
[Self-Improvement:Success] Often just one self-help principle can increase your power to achieve your goals and can help your life take off. This article is about one such principle - success breeds success.
- Achieve Your Goals By Doing Something About Them
[Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] The title of this article sounds simplistic but it is amazing how often people (including me) sit staring at a problem like mounting paperwork and become so depressed by the thought of all the work to be done that they do nothing and continue in a paralytic state for days and even months!
The article aims to cheer such people up by the fact that they are not the only ones to be paralyzed by their mounting tasks. It also offers one or two solutions to the problem.
- Motivation By Your Family And Cornermen
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] The motivation for good or bad which we get from our families is huge. They can either destroy our dreams or help us create them. Most of the boxers in the Contender series are strongly supported by their families. The organisers recognise this fact by allowing families to live close to the Contender gymnasium.
"The Contender" is a reality TV show organised by Sylvester Stallone and Sugar Ray Leonard. 16 top middleweight boxers compete for a chance at boxing glory and a million dollars. Each week a losing boxer leaves the show.
- Success After Failure - Even Genghis Khan Lost Some Early Battles
[Self-Improvement:Success] Both the worst and the best of the great achievers had the belief in themselves and the resilience to overcome early failures. One of these was none other than Genghis Khan. There are powerful lessons we can learn from him.
- Goals On The Wall - What Do Minnie Driver And Genghis Khan Have In Common?
[Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] Surprisingly few people regularly make lists of their goals and even fewer put their lists where they can see them. This article suggests that it is worth doing both. It also takes a look at the life goals of Minnie Driver and Genghis Khan.
- Success By Performing Without An Audience - Is Anyone Listening?
[Self-Improvement:Success] To achieve success it can be important to keep going even if no one seems to be appreciating or even noticing what you are doing. Some people are not appreciated until after they have passed on into the next life. Hopefully, it won't take that long for the rest of us.
- Action Achieves Goals - Talk Is Cheap
[Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] It is very easy and a lot of fun to talk about dreams and goals and a great future. Achieving these dreams is not so easy as all wise people know. We need to build our dreams on the solid ground of action rather than the shifting sands of talk. The Red Indians of America know how to summarize great truths in a few choice words.
- Achieving Your Goal By Relieving Yourself In Public
[Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] Most marathons provide more than their fair share of heroes and heroines who provide great examples. The London Marathon in April 2005 provided one or two especially heroic examples. The competitors have much to teach about achieving goals.
- Achieving Impossible Goals By Ignoring The Experts
[Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] Any one who has a goal or plan which is slightly out of the ordinary is likely to be given advice by a panel of 'experts'. They may well tell you that what you are planning is impossible, dangerous and even ridiculous. In some cases they could be right but quite often they are not. The article tries to assess how much respect we should give to the experts.
- Success Through Clear Dreams - I Do Not Want To Lie On My Death Bed Saying I Wish I Had Done That
[Self-Improvement:Success] Many UK citizens want to settle or retire in Spain the land of sun, healthy food, villas and blue swimming pools. Only a few of these actually achieve their dream. What makes the difference?
- Success Through Enthusiasm Rather Than Surgery
[Self-Improvement:Success] Can you be President or Prime Minister if you are bald? Many political advisers suggest that a Presidential or Prime Ministerial candidate should have plenty of hair and an attractive, youthful image. They see image as a key part of success.
Bill Clinton has plenty of hair. So do George Bush and Tony Blair.
- Focus On Your Goals Without Envying Others
[Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] Many of us waste too much time envying others instead of getting on with our own goals and dreams. This is stupid to put it mildly.
For a start, we would probably not envy others if we knew what their lives were really like. This article looks at the importance of focus.
- Success Lessons From TV - What Key Life Skill Did Sugar Ray Teach?
[Self-Improvement:Success] Sugar Ray Leonard and Sylvester Stallone have recently hosted a fascinating reality show called "Contenders" in which 16 top middleweight boxers gradually eliminate each other from contention until the final two get a great opportunity to show their skills in Las Vegas and the winner gets 1 million dollars.
Every week two boxers fight it out. The loser goes home. The boxers learn and teach great lessons which apply not only to boxing but to life in general.
The fourth week which this article is about is no exception and Sugar Ray, himself, teaches one of the greatest lessons of all.
- Motivation By Facing Facts
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] Some of the greatest truths are the most obvious. But they are also the most overlooked. This article takes a look at the importance of facing the facts and accepting that more usually needs to be done to complete whatever we are doing.
It is very easy to kid ourselves that we have done something or finished something when we haven't. We need to be motivated by taking a thorough look at whatever we are doing to check that it really is finished and finished well.
- Time Management Basics
[Self-Improvement:Time-Management] Time management begins with the realization that without some thought and planning, we are likely to waste a great deal of time in the future and have already wasted a huge amount of our life span in the past. Wasting time is folly since time really does have wings and our lives pass very quickly. By using proven methods we can make the most of whatever time we have.
- Motivation By Gratitude
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] Whenever you feel lethargic and depressed by your situation in life reflect on how much worse things could be. This solution to depression sounds obvious and simplistic but it works. Gratitude for what we have in life lifts the spirit especially when we realize how much more we have to be grateful for than many others.
- Succeed By Looking Forward
[Self-Improvement:Success] We all want something to look forward to. The best way to attract it into our lives is to look forward to it. By looking into the future with expectation and hope we are more likely to work with energy and even excitement to make that great future come true.
- Step Up To Success
[Self-Improvement:Success] Failing to plan is planning to fail. Agreed. But sometimes, planning can take the place of action. By the time we have finished planning we may have missed the best time for action or we might even have been put off from acting. This article does not say: 'Don't plan' but it does say 'Put the emphasis on action.' Step up the ladder to success; don't just look at it.
- Success Without Excuses
[Self-Improvement:Success] It would be difficult to live one whole day without listening to excuses from ourselves or from some one else. If we hear too many of them we are unlikely to succeed at anything. This article takes a look at some potential excuses and how they were dealt with effectively by the Beatles and by the author.
- Motivation By Kicking Butt
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] Being naturally lazy, I do need kick butt motivation at times. Perhaps, many of us do. This article takes a look at this type of motivation. Does it work? Is it healthy? Can it last? A great kick butt book is recommended at the end of the article.
- Motivation By Desire
[Self-Improvement:Success] Many of us have lost sight of what we really desire in life. We are carried along by a daily routine of making enough money to support ourselves and/or our families and have forgotten what our real desires and dreams are. We need to remind ourselves of the importance of rediscovering our desires and regaining the spark which makes life worthwhile. If we fail to do this we will just settle for less and never make the most of our potential. Of course, illness or death can spoil our dreams but if we have tried our heart out up till then we will have nothing to feel ashamed about.
- Private Effort Means Success In Public
[Self-Improvement:Success] Many people forget the obvious truth that what we do or don't do in private usually shows up in public. If we become more fully aware of this truth, it can be a powerful source of motivation. There is no need to ever feel lonely when we make an effort to achieve. Eventually others will notice and applaud the results of all that effort.
- Motivation By Consequences
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] The way we live always has consequences. Our bad habits eventually catch up with us and so do our good habits. If we smoke, we eventually have problems breathing. Some realize this too late and end up dying early and struggling to breathe. If we give up smoking, our lives are much easier and less expensive. The article takes a look at how some UK youngsters learn the hard way in a brat camp in Utah that our habits have consequences and that we will not always be shielded from these by caring and sometimes over indulgent parents.
- Two Key Success Skills - Take Action Now And Be Bold Enough To Talk
[Self-Improvement:Success] This article is about two of the most important success skills in existence. It is worth reading over and over again though I say it myself! Take enough action to read it and see what you think. I hope it helps you as much as it has helped me.
- Success Tip From Yachting - Try To Fix The Problem Yourself
[Self-Improvement:Innovation] Civilisation has made it so easy to get help for our problems that we seldom give our own brains and ingenuity a chance to deal with them ourselves. We feel slightly ill and rush off to the doctor without trying to find out for ourselves what is wrong with us and how we can fix things ourselves. In the article we can see how Ellen MacArthur was forced to rely on herself whilst sailing solo around the world.
- Help Yourself To Success
[Self-Improvement:Success] This article takes a look at three ways in which you can help yourself to succeed. Some of these ways have been known for thousands of years and are still working today. You probably already know about these routes to success but may need reminding of their power.
- Belief Helps You Succeed But Can It Win A Boat Race?
[Self-Improvement:Success] Everyone acknowledges the importance of belief in achieving success. However, belief must be accompanied by other factors like hard work, good technique and talent. In competition, an explosive start also helps. The article takes a look at a boat race and soccer match to analyze how powerful belief really is.
- Manage Stress By Focusing On Solutions And By Having A Laugh
[Self-Improvement:Stress-Management] Problems and stress can either make or break us. We can either use focus and persistence to find solutions or we can ease the stress by having a laugh or both. One of the biggest problems in life is the problem of growing old that faces us all. The article takes a look at how some people manage their problems successfully.
- Practical Ways To Motivate Yourself To Learn A Skill
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] It is possible to learn a valuable skill by working for one hour a day over a period of 6 months. But it is not easy to bring yourself to focus on that skill on a daily basis. This article suggests several practical steps you can take to help you master any skill.
- Success Tips From Boxing
[Recreation-and-Sports:Boxing] Success tips can be found everywhere you look. The competitive world of sport is full of life lessons which can help any of us in ordinary life. Boxing is especially competitive. It tests both body and mind. If you fail to learn its lessons you don't survive long. This article shows how an actor used what he had learned from boxing to help his film career.
- Goals Can Take Years To Achieve
[Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] Some internet gurus and other teachers promise quick results. However, in reality these results may not appear for months or even years. Whose fault is this? Is the guru wrong or is the follower not following properly? Should goals take time? This brief article gives some answers to this question.
- Motivation By An Audience
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] Other people are a powerful source of motivation. One of the basic human needs is for appreciation by others whether human or animal. How many people take their dog for a walk because it shows enormous appreciation? Multitudes! Even if you have no audience yet, realizing that you are likely to have an audience one day can motivate you and me to work much harder and in a much more focused way.
- Success Involves Ignoring Critics
[Self-Improvement:Success] Success usually involves forging ahead with your plans and goals even if someone else tells you that you lack the ability to achieve them. History is full of examples of people who proved the critics wrong. Often just listening carefully to the critics is enough to prove them wrong because they disagree with each other so frequently and blatantly. The article does not say ignore the critics all the time. Just ignore them most of the time!
- Belief And Action Succeed
[Self-Improvement:Success] Some of the most powerful life skills or secrets of success are not really secrets at all. They are glaringly obvious and yet people overlook them again and again and then wonder why they are not achieving their dreams. This article stresses the crucial importance of daily action to achieve your goals.
- Success Lessons From Boxing
[Recreation-and-Sports:Boxing] If you want to learn how to succeed in difficult situations, study the world of boxing. Boxers have to learn their success lessons quickly and thoroughly or they will suffer for it both physically and psychologically. The article takes a look at some of the powerful success and failure stories of 16 contenders at The Contender Gymnasium founded in LA by Sylvester Stallone and Sugar Ray Leonard to give an opportunity to some fine middleweight boxers.
- Inspiration From Jack Dempsey - Get Up When You Can't
[Self-Improvement:Inspirational] Boxer's face the harsh reality of public defeat every time they get in the ring. Their attitude of amazing courage and determination to keep going under the most difficult conditions is an inspiration to us all. Few boxers have provided as much inspiration as Jack Dempsey, 'The Manassa Mauler'.
- Happiness Is In Our Own Hands
[Self-Improvement:Happiness] Let's face it. No one else can make us happy except ourselves. Others can help, of course, but even if we have all we need for happiness we can still make ourselves unhappy by worrying about losing it. Othello springs to mind. In the end happiness is our own responsibility and no one else's. In many ways, this is a big relief!
- Iron Man Inspiration - Raise The Ceiling On What You Can Achieve
[Self-Improvement:Inspirational] Most people don't realize what humans can achieve until they come across one of the ordinary few who has become extraordinary. Jane Tomlinson, a cancer patient, is one such person. Her story is an inspiration to millions.
- Success Through Expertise - Bring In The Experts Or Become An Expert Yourself
[Self-Improvement:Success] An expert can usually help you achieve success much more quickly than you can on your own. They have been through the slog of learning their skills and can usually improve whatever you are doing in a very short time - sometimes within seconds. Don't be too arrogant to ask for help from an expert and don't be too modest to make the effort to be an expert yourself.
- Two Great Success Tips - Read And Apply What You Learn And Do It Now!
[Self-Improvement:Success] Many people, including myself, buy ebooks and never actually read them or if they do, fail to apply what they learn. Why is this and what can we do about it? This article gives some answers.
- Daily Action Spells Success - What Have You Done Today To Make Yourself Feel Proud?
[Self-Improvement:Success] Daily action produces results and eventual success. Progress is made rapidly when relevant action is taken daily and this encourages further efforts. At the end of each day we should aim to have something to be proud about.
- Success Through Short Memory
[Self-Improvement:Success] A weak or short memory can be a huge advantage if it helps you forget past failures. Abraham Lincoln must have had a short memory for his past failures. So have most successful people. If you dwell on past blunders you will be doomed to repeat them.
- Success Lessons from Baseball - Enthusiasm And Excitement Can Make The Difference
[Self-Improvement:Success] The same qualities that lead to success in baseball can lead to success in business or any other activity. The example of Frank Bettger, the baseball player is an inspiring one. His books deserve to be read and reread again and again. This article describes the success lessons which he learned in baseball and then transferred to the world of business.
- Inspiration From Other People - Is It Worth Listening To A Film Star?
[Self-Improvement:Inspirational] Other human beings have great and inspiring ideas to teach us but too often we don't bother to listen to them especially if we decide in advance that there is nothing they can teach us. Let's keep an open mind and be ready to be inspired by the words and writing of other people.
- Success Lessons From Marathons - Start Slow And Get Slower But Make Sure You Finish
[Self-Improvement:Success] Challenging tasks can be so difficult that they can destroy your sense of humor but if you can keep seeing the funny side you are more likely to complete them and achieve your goals. The article looks at the importance of finishing a task even if it takes a long time. Running a marathon can teach us success lessons that are well worth thinking about and applying in daily life.
- Achieve Your Goals And Dreams By Using Excel Spreadsheets
[Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] Many of us fail to achieve our goals or dreams because our time is hijacked without us realising it. We need to keep track of how we are spending our time. We need numbers and details rather than emotional excuses. Then we can get a grip on our lives and take charge. This article looks at the ideas of Caroline Righton on this topic as expressed in a recent TV interview.
- Liberating Success Lessons from Singing - If It Is Rubbish, It Is Rubbish; If It Is Not, It is Not
[Self-Improvement:Success] This article takes a close look at the qualities which can allow you to be successful even in the weaker areas of your life. It also takes a look at the power of confidence and the power of detachment from the results of your efforts. It does this by analysing a singing performance in a recent charity singing competition.
- Success Lessons From Three UK Soccer Managers - People Are Always Quick To Put You In A Coffin
[Self-Improvement:Success] This article is about several key success lessons people can learn from the attitudes of three top premier league managers in the world renowned English Soccer League. All three are very different from each other but all three have important lessons to teach.
- Work, Action, Movement -You Cannot Get Anywhere Without It
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] This article focuses on the key idea of not waiting too long before taking action. Just talking about doing something is very boring. Doing it, however, is exciting. Things can always be improved later on. Several examples are included.
- Can You Can Can? What You Can Do If You Really Go For It
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] Have you ever spent three weeks working intensely on a challenging goal? If you have, you were probably amazed at what you achieved. This article is about how non dancers learned the Can Can in three weeks flat and found this a life changing experience. It is also about what you and I could achieve if we really went for it.
- Achieve Your Goals By Eating The Frog And The Elephant
[Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] Life is all about achieving your goals or dreams whatever they are. This is not easy and many give up and settle for mediocrity. This article will remind readers of two great tips for achieving your goals now.
- 15 Success Secrets Of The Strongest Men In The World
[Self-Improvement:Success] Why does a strong man do well in a strong man competition? For the same reasons that any one does well in anything. Learn 15 secrets of success from three of the strongest men in the world today.
- The Power Of Rules - Petty, Petty, Petty Rules
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] The article looks at the importance and power of rules in turning people's lives round. Rules should be kept even if, at the time, they seem petty and pointless. People who can keep seemingly petty rules develop powerful and constructive characters
- Set Positive Goals And Strive To Achieve Them
[Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] This article describes a typical martial arts grading or test.
The test shows how candidates use many of the skills needed to achieve any goal. Whether you are a martial artist or not you can learn useful skills and attitudes from their experience.
- Is Success About Money?
[Self-Improvement:Success] This article is about both positive and negative success i.e. achieving what you plan to do and not doing what you plan not to do. It sheds light on success and on goal setting and points the way to a life of achievement.
- Achieving Your Goals by Using One Word
[Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] This article concentrates on one well known key word which can totally change your attitude towards finishing what you have started. It will help you complete your plans and find out whether these plans will help you make progress or not. Unfinished plans and goals are no use to anyone.
Completing your plans, at the very least, builds up your confidence and will power to the point where you can undertake ambitious projects which will amaze both you and your friends.
This article could help you or someone else achieve things which you had not believed possible.
- Let It Fly Over Your Head - Dealing With Criticism
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] Resentment at unfair treatment or criticism can destroy our concentration so much that we fail to achieve the goals we have set for ourselves. This article has real life examples which teach the wisdom of letting unfair gossip or shabby treatment 'fly over our heads'. This allows us to focus on achieving our goals.
- Obstacles to Success. Why Don't I Believe In Myself and What Can I Do About It?
[Self-Improvement:Success] Many of us lack belief in ourselves for various reasons. Maybe we were told we lacked certain abilities when we were younger. This article looks at three ways in which we can overcome our lack of self belief.
- Motivation By Comparison
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] Occasionally we are amazed at how much people with disability achieve but we need to think about this every single day. One person worth thinking about daily is Christopher Reeve.
- Succeed by Whistling While You Work
[Self-Improvement:Inspirational] The article makes the point that most people work much more efficiently and effectively if there is an element of fun in their work. Fun at work attracts and keeps more students, workers and customers. Enjoyable work is more likely to lead to success.
- What is Success and How Do We Achieve It?
[Self-Improvement:Success] We can't achieve success until we are clear about what success is. The article looks closely at what success is and then suggests several ways to achieve it.
- Computer Problems. How Do You Avoid Them?
[Computers-and-Technology] If you use a computer and run an internet business, avoiding computer problems is crucial. Danny Burke of PC Magic tells you how to avoid these problems.
- Is Work Still Necessary?
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] Many internet gurus say it is easy to make money on the internet. The article questions this viewpoint and is based on bitter experience. It also contains tips on how to become an expert in a shorter period of time than most think is necessary. It also compares modern and traditional values.
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