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Tristan Loo - EzineArticles.com Expert Author
TRISTAN LOO is a leading authority on human potential and personal effectiveness. As an author, speaker and trainer, Tristan has inspired thousands of people with his passionate message of overcoming adversity and creating the ultimate life that they desire.
With a background in law enforcement, Tristan developed practical techniques, strategies and tools for maximizing human potential by comparing and contrasting both the winners and the losers in the game of life. Through his courses and ... [More]
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- What Is Personal Development?
[Self-Improvement:Personal-Growth] Tristan defines the meaning of personal development and breaks it down into it's key areas.
- How to Overcome Procrastination
[Self-Improvement:Success] Procrastination affects over 90% of people to varying degrees and surprisingly, it is not a time management issue because typically, the person knows exactly what to do and when they should be doing it. It's a matter of doing the things that you don't want to do. The ability to overcome procrastination and tackle the "Big Rocks" in your life - the major tasks that have the biggest positive or negative consequences for completing them, is a hallmark of the most successful people out there.
- 15 Components of Trust
[Self-Improvement:Leadership] Trust is a crucial component of leadership as well as any given relationship. The more you understand how trust is developed and maintained, the better you will be at being a true leader.
- The Ingredients for Success
[Self-Improvement:Success] What's the difference between those people who build successful lives and those who often fail? What do those successful people have that's different from everyone else? Is it luck? …Or is it something else? I have spent the last eight years of my life engaged in heavy research on the lives of those who excel at what they do and also those who fail miserably at life. This unique perspective was gained...
- How to Live Your Purpose
[Self-Improvement:Success] It's a fundamental belief of mine that each one of us is brought upon this world with a major definite purpose in life. Everyone has a unique destiny for contributing to this world using their unique blend of talents and passions. Discover how to find your purpose by reading this article by internationally acclaimed author and speaker Tristan Loo.
- The Power of Action
[Self-Improvement:Success] The universe rewards you for what you do, not for what you know. Winners are differentiated by Losers by their ability to act and do what needs to be done. Study this secret of success in this article by Peak Performance Expert Tristan Loo, Founder of the Synergy Insititute.
- How to Create Your Own Luck
[Self-Improvement:Success] Luck is not the same as chance. According to Personal Development Coach Tristan Loo, luck is simply the end result of consistent, persistent effort towards a meaningful goal. The author describes useful and practical tips on how to attract more good fortune in your life.
- The Power of Giving Unconditional Love
[Relationships:Love] Success in life involves your ability to give unconditional love to others. By giving unconditional love to others, you attract wealth in all forms into you life via the law of attraction.
- Achieve Success by Knowing your Legacy
[Self-Improvement:Success] Writing your own eulogy may not sound very empowering, but this exercise, designed by Peak Performace Coach and founder of the Synergy Institute Tristan Loo, will help focus and identify your definite purpose in life so that you can move through life with maximum efficiency and success.
- Success and the Subconscious Mind
[Self-Improvement:Success] Your mind has the infinite power to manifest whatever it so desires. Success can be linked to the ability of manifesting that which you intend. That power comes from knowing the relationship between your conscious and subconscious mind. Learn about this concept from Personal Development Expert Tristan Loo.
- How to Create Success Using Goal Cards
[Self-Improvement:Success] Use this powerful, practical method to reinforce goals into your subconscious mind to aid you on your path towards success in your life. This article is written by Peak Performance Coach and Author, Tristan Loo, the Founder of the Synergy Institute of Personal Development.
- How to Live an Ageless Life
[Self-Improvement:Success] Instead of keeping track of your age by any numerical means, why not selectively forget your age and instead live your life based on how you feel inside.
- Why Book Smarts Does Not Equal Success - An Explanation of Multiple Intelligences
[Self-Improvement:Success] Most people only know logical-mathematical intelligence because that is what is used to gauge our intelligence in the classroom. There are however nine distinct forms of intelligence. Learn about them from this article by Personal Development Coach Tristan Loo.
- What's the Difference Between a Negotiation, Arbitration, and Mediation?
[Business:Negotiation] This article by Personal Development Coach Tristan Loo clarifies and defines the three most common forms of alternative dispute resolution.
- How to Define Your Life Purpose
[Self-Improvement:Success] No matter what your goal is, it doesn't help you do anything in life unless it falls in line with your definite purpose in life. Your purpose is what guides and directs your life and it's what enables you to live a life of passion and significance.
- From Deficiency to Competency - The Four Phases of Learning
[Self-Improvement:Success] Personal growth and development is about transforming deficiencies into competencies. The road towards building a competency is met with four distinct phases of learning. It is important that you understand these four stages of learning so that you can apply them towards your personal development training.
- Understanding Motivation through Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] To understand motivation and drive towards personal success, it is necessary to revisit a fundamental psychological principle discovered by American Psychologist Abraham Maslow and known as the Hiearchy of Human Needs.
- Nine Behaviors that Will Prevent Success
[Self-Improvement:Success] This contrarian article, written by Personal Development Coach, Tristan Loo, focuses on the behaviors that prevent people from acheiving success and how to eliminate them from your life.
- How to Use Failures to Achieve Success
[Self-Improvement:Success] Failures in life are not only inevitable--they are a necessary component for building your success in life. Learn how to use failures to fuel your success by reading this article by Personal Development Expert and Founder of the Synergy Institute, Tristan Loo.
- Redefining the Meaning of Success
[Self-Improvement:Success] Success doesn't mean having tons of money. Nor does it mean feeling happy. The truth is that success is a combination of lots of values and your ability to bring those values up to your personal optimal level.
- Simply Asking for Success
[Self-Improvement:Success] Success can be as simple as a three letter word--ASK. Many of us have a distaste for asking for the things that we want, but this creates a barrier for our own success. Learn how to ask from this article by Personal Development Coach and Trainer, Tristan Loo, of the Synergy Institute.
- Every Dream Sprouts from a Single Seed
[Self-Improvement:Success] Every dream starts as a single seed and if nutured and fed, it will grow into a strong tree that will not only withstand the harsh environment, but also provide a bounty of fruit for years to come. Learn how to grow your dreams from Personal Development Coach and Trainer, Tristan Loo of the Synergy Institute.
- The Formula For Success
[Self-Improvement:Success] Success coach and author of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, Jack Canfield, taught me that any outcome in life was a simple formula of event + response = outcome. Learn more about this formula for success in this article.
- The Law of Diminishing Returns
[Self-Improvement:Time-Management] Not all time spent on a given activity is made equal. There is an important law that many people forget when planning projects and that is the Law of Diminishing Returns. Learn more about this law by reading this article by Personal Development Expert and Founder of the Synergy Institute for Personal Development, Tristan Loo.
- Invest 10 Minutes Planning for the Next Day
[Self-Improvement:Time-Management] The surest rate of return is investing your time to plan out your day. One minute of planning can save you over 10 minutes of executed action. Learn how from this article by Personal Development Expert and Coach, Tristan Loo.
- Achieve Success by "Chunking it Down"
[Self-Improvement:Success] Large goals can be overwhelming when viewed in its entirety. This sense of enormity is the primary reason why people do not accomplish their goals in life. One technique to tackle large goals is to eat it one piece at a time. Learn how to do this by reading this article by Personal Development Expert and Trainer, Tristan Loo.
- Resolve Any Conflict in Six Steps
[Self-Improvement:Anger-Management] Conflicts are a normal part of life because we all have our own perspectives about the same situation. How we transcend those conflicts makes all the difference however. This article outlines the cutting-edge techniques outlined in the book Street Negotiation - How to Resolve Any Conflict Anytime by Personal Development Expert and Former Police Officer, Tristan Loo.
- How To Crystallize Your Thoughts on Paper
[Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] Wonderful ideas and goals come to us daily, but they have a shelf live of only a small amount of time when kept in the mind. Learn how to crystallize those thoughts by writing them onto paper. This article is written by Personal Development Coach and Founder of the Synergy Institute for Personal Development...
- Movement Does Not Equal Achievement
[Self-Improvement:Time-Management] Staying busy is not the same as being productive. Busy work will not put you any closer to your goals in life. Find out how to focus your work from this article by Personal Development Expert Tristan Loo.
- How to Plan Your Day
[Self-Improvement:Time-Management] One of the keys to success in life is extracting as much value from each day as possible. Even though a day is relatively small, each day adds up and just like compound interest, a small investment can result in a huge profit down the road. Learn the path to success by reading this article by Personal Development Expert Tristan Loo.
- Breaking the Parkinson’s Law to Become More Productive
[Self-Improvement:Time-Management] The Parkinson's Law states that our work will expand to fill the amount of time we have to complete it. Learn how to overcome this barrier to productivity by reading this article by Personal Development Coach and Founder of the Synergy Institute for Personal Development Tristan Loo.
- How to Build Your Personal Development Library
[Self-Improvement:Personal-Growth] One of the key secrets to success is keeping a personal development library well-maintained. Your personal development library should grow and evolve just like your own personal growth. Learn how to develop your personal development library from this article by personal development expert Tristan Loo.
- Mindmapping Your Way Towards Success
[Self-Improvement:Success] Mindmapping is one of your most powerful tools in your success mastery toolbox. Learn about the benefits of this powerful visual brainstorming technique from this article by Personal Development Expert Tristan Loo.
- Create Success the "SMART" Way
[Self-Improvement:Success] Goals need to follow the SMART criteria for being well thought out. That means that goals are: specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and time-sensitive. Learn these principles from this article by a Personal Development Expert...
- How to Think Like a Self-Made Millionaire
[Self-Improvement:Success] Are you an employee or self-employed? Are you self-employed or a business-owner? Do you trade your time for money or do you use the power of leverage? If you don't know the answer to these questions then read this article by Personal Development Expert Tristan J. Loo
- Doing Less and Gaining More Using the 80/20 Principle
[Self-Improvement:Time-Management] Most of us work hard, but never gain much success. Why is that? The answer can be found by looking at the principle known as the Pareto Principle, better known as the 80/20 principle. Learn about this important productivity principle from Personal Development Consultant Tristan Loo.
- What Is Emotional Intelligence?
[Self-Improvement] Having high intelligence does not always breed success. There is another form of intelligence known as emotional intelligence that is arguably of equal or greater importance on your path to success. Learn about emotional intelligence from this article by Personal Development Consultant Tristan Loo.
- How to Read a Person from Their Personal Hygiene
[Self-Improvement] An individual's level of personal hygiene can provide you with some very useful information about their personality and what is going on in their current lives. This article will help you make personality assessments based on hygiene.
- How to Avoid a Verbal Argument
[Self-Improvement] Arguments happen when two people are talking and no one is listening. Learn how to avoid and defuse a verbal argument before it starts from this article by Personal Development Consultant, Tristan Loo.
- How to Turn Adversity Into Personal Empowerment
[Self-Improvement:Empowerment] Adversity strikes us all at some point. Those who inevitably fail at life focus on the past. Highly successful people use adversity to empower their future. Learn how to empower yourself from internationally recognized Personal Development Consultant, Tristan Loo.
- Audiobooks—Your Best Tool for the Daily Commute
[Self-Improvement:Time-Management] We spend a lot of time on the road to and from work. Much of this time is wasted doing nothing that enhances our lives. Why not convert this idle time into value-producing time that will increase our personal and professional development?
- Use the F.A.T. System for Handling Paper Clutter
[Self-Improvement:Time-Management] Paper clutter costs us many hours of wasted time cleaning, sorting, and finding lost documents. Learn how tom manage unruly paper clutter in this article by Personal Development Consultant Tristan Loo.
- Secret of Highly Successful People--Hire a Personal Coach
[Self-Improvement:Success] One of the key secrets of highly successful people is to hire a good personal or business coach to help them plan for their success and to hold them accountable for their actions. This article by international peak performance coach and trainer Tristan Loo, outlines the numerous benefits of having a life coach to motivate you towards success.
- Understanding the Law of Scarcity
[Self-Improvement:Attraction] This article explains one of the fundamental laws of persuasion--the law of scarcity.
- Solve Any Relationship Conflict by Dealing with Feelings First
[Relationships:Conflict] Conflict is inevitable in life. We shouldn't avoid it, but rather learn how to make it an opportunity for relationship growth. Learn how from this article.
- Pain + Blame = Anger
[Self-Improvement:Anger-Management] Anger really amounts to two key ingredients--Pain and Blame. This article will describe how to keep these anger ingredients separate.
- How to Motivate Yourself by Contacting a Long Lost Friend
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] Sometime during our life, we might forget what our motivation is that pushes us forward. When this happens, it's necessary to travel into our past to rediscover that motivating fire.
- 5 Signs for Detecting a Liar
[Relationships] You don't need a machine to tell if someone is lying to you. All you need is to know some general rules of behavior that are common to liars. Here are five simple ones to remember.
- How to Persuade Others by Persuading Yourself First
[Self-Improvement:Attraction] The focus of persuasion needs to begin with you. You must convince yourself that it can be done before you try to convince others of the same.
- Time + Risk + Flexibility = Success
[Self-Improvement:Success] Do you know the difference between highly successful people and those who are not so successful? This article explains some of those differences.
- Sensory Awareness for Your Relationship — Pay Attention
[Relationships] Having the ability to fully observe your loved one, without making any assumptions or evaluation about them is an important skill to have in building a solid connectedness with them.
- The Compassionate Leader — Issuing Orders Without Making Commands
[Self-Improvement:Leadership] Part of being a manager is having not only the ability to take charge, but also to do so in an emotionally intelligent way. This article describes a process to give orders with compassion so that anyone will follow.
- Turn Your Knowledge Into a Passive Income Product
[Writing-and-Speaking:Book-Marketing] Everyone has at least one book in their heads. Why not put that knowledge down on paper so that it can work for you as an investment?
- Lessons of Success from Kid Rock
[Self-Improvement:Success] I'm not a big fan of his music, but Kid Rock said something that we call all use in our lives to secure success.
- How to Identify a Manipulator
[Self-Improvement] Learn how to identify a manipulator before you become their puppet. This article can apply for both your professional or personal life.
- How to Make More Friends Instantly
[Self-Improvement:Attraction] This article will tell you the simple secret of how to make more friends.
- Using the Fleeting Touch to Increase Attraction
[Self-Improvement:Attraction] Use the power of touch to persuade others to like you.
- 5 Tips on How to Deal With Chronic Stress
[Self-Improvement:Stress-Management] 5 useful tips on how to reduce chronic stress in your life.
- Using Body Position to Defuse Angry People
[Relationships:Conflict] The secrets of using non-verbal gestures to defuse hostile people.
- Negotiation Counter Tactic-Get You To Sign On The Spot
[Business:Negotiation] Sales people are trained to get you to sign right then and there. They know that the chances of you committing to a purchase dwindle as time elapses. Don't fall for this dirty tactic, instead counter it and bring the issue of fairness back into perspective.
- How To Use Reverse Gossip To Get Someone To Like You More
[Self-Improvement:Attraction] Get someone you like to like you even more by using their network of friends as your ally. Reverse gossip is a powerful way to change the way a person you like will perceive you.
- Secrets Of Resolving Conflict-Why Words Alone Won't Work
[Self-Improvement:Leadership] When resolving conflict, words alone don’t make peace. The secret to resolving conflict with words is SINCERITY. How sincerity is accomplished is by matching your words with your actions, or more specifically, your nonverbal communication.
- Why Miscommunication Creates Personal Conflict
[Relationships:Conflict] Miscommunication is the root of many conflicts. But what exactly causes the conflict when miscommunication is responsible? This article demystifies the miscommunication triangle.
- The Three Needs That People Have In A Conflict
[Relationships:Conflict] There are many human needs that people have, but in the context of an interpersonal conflict setting, three obvious ones come to mind. As simple as they are, these three needs are often the cause of unnecessary conflict or the escalation of a small dispute because one of the two parties does not realize that they are not meeting the others needs.
- Preventative Stress Maintenance
[Self-Improvement:Stress-Management] Stress can take its toll on the body. Take care of yourself by doing some preventative stress maintenance.
- Seven Benefits Of Mediation
[Legal] Lawsuits are costly and often unnecessary when dealing with conflict. Often it is just a matter of separating the people from the problem. There is no need to make the process any more difficult. Mediation offers a collaborative solution to the otherwise adversarial model.
- Settling Conflict Without Drawing Blood--Use Mediation
[Relationships:Conflict] People sue people for just about everything. Litigation draws blood and ends relationships. Before you litigate, try mediation as an alternative to the coldness of the courtroom.
- Four Tips On How To Avoid A Verbal Fight
[Relationships:Conflict] Four basic and important tips on how to avoid a verbal fight with an angry person.
- Negotiation Tactic -- Take It Or Leave It
[Business:Negotiation] Know the drawbacks of this overly used negotiation tactic. Learn how to counter it effectively.
- Negotiation Tactic-Getting It In Your Hands
[Business:Negotiation] Sales driven professionals know the power of getting their product in your hands. Learn about this tactic and know how to counter it.
- How To Make An Inflexible Bureaucrat See You As A Person
[Business:Negotiation] Bureaucrats include customer service representatives, insurance claims filers, civil servants, social workers, airport employees etc. The bureaucrat typically views his clients as numbers rather than faces and is usually overworked and underpaid and underappreciated. Because of the large volume of contacts that the bureaucrat handles on any given day, they often forget who they are dealing with and you become just another number.
- How To Deal With A Complainer
[Self-Improvement:Anger-Management] Complainers have a gripe about everything in their life. This usually comes from the underlying fact that they are unsatisfied or disgruntled about their own personal lives. The complainer has a need for their concerns to be acknowledged. Whether it is in their professional or personal life, the complainer can’t have peace of mind until someone listens to and acknowledges their concerns.
- Convey More Than You Say
[Self-Improvement] The study of vocalics or paralanguage deals with the non-verbal qualities of speech. These qualities include pitch, amplitude, rate, and voice quality. Linguists argue that the way in which a person says something often means more than the actual words being spoken. Paralanguage instantaneously conveys information such as gender, education, origin, mood, and our relationship with the person being spoken to.
- How To Give Criticism Without Bruising Egos
[Self-Improvement:Coaching] As responsible employers, parents, and friends, we have an obligation to correct the mistakes of other people in order to enhance their personal success. The task before us is how to correct a deficiency without damaging the delicate ego that can sometimes get in the way.
- Negotiate Your Way Out Of Debt
[Finance:Debt-Consolidation] Eliminating your debt is a daunting task. What can you do to get out of debt fast? Believe it or not, negotiation along with proper financial responsibility is your foothold out of the rat race. Learning how to eliminate your debt might be one of the most important life skills that you learn because it can bring you happiness and fulfillment. In order to successfully eliminate your debt, you must use a combination of self-control, proper negotiating skills, and some future planning.
- What Causes Anger?
[Self-Improvement:Anger-Management] This article discusses why we need to control anger, where anger comes from, and the danger signs of anger.
- Resolve Conflict In 6 Easy Steps - The Bedrol Method
[Relationships:Conflict] Learn how to defuse an angry person in six easy steps using the BEDROL method. Turn a hostile person into a partner with these simple steps.
- How To Communicate Using Space
[Business:Negotiation] Proxemics is the study of the communicative aspects of personal space and understanding its concepts will help you establish nonverbal rapport in a negotiation.
- What Are The Four Types Of Negotiating Outcomes?
[Business:Negotiation] In any negotiation, there are four different types of outcomes: win-lose, lose-lose, stalemate, and win-win. Your objective in a negotiation is to always have a win-win outcome.
- How To Deal With A Difficult Boss
[Business:Careers-Employment] Dealing with a difficult boss can be frustrating and challenging. This article has some useful strategies to effectively handle the difficult supervisor.
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