“Several years ago I was brought face to face with the very disturbing realization that I was trying to supervise and direct the efforts of a large number of people who were trying to achieve success, without knowing myself what the secret of success really was. And that, naturally, brought me face to face with the further realization that regardless of what other knowledge I might have brought to my job, I was definitely lacking in the most important knowledge Long removing like: smell tampa … [Read more...]
Personal Development: The Common Denominator Of Success By Albert E.N. Gray
Robin Sharma: The 3 Habits of Happiness
Robin Sharma shares three habits of happiness. These three habits, if you do them every day, will make you a much happier person. 1) Number one, gratitude. What I do, I have right here, I’m just going to show you. I have my journal and almost everywhere I go I have my journal with me, and I write in my journal. A lot of what I write in my journal is daily gratitude. Here I am in South Africa. I’m at the Singita Game Reserve. I’m at a beautiful lodge. There’s a fireplace behind me … [Read more...]
Personal Development: Clay Christensen – How Will You Measure Your Life?
"It's actually really important that you succeed at what you're succeeding at, but that isn't going to be the measure of your life." Too often, we measure success in life against the progress we make in our careers. But how can we ensure we're not straying from our values as humans along the way? Watch Clayton Christensen, Harvard Business School professor and world-renowned innovation guru, examines the daily decisions that define our lives and encourages all of us to think about what is … [Read more...]
Personal Development: 7 Must Read Success Lessons from Stephen Covey
Stephen R. Covey was the author of the best-selling book “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.” His book has sold more than 15 million copies around the world since it was first published in 1989. Covey believed that success occurs when you align your values with the universal and timeless principles that exist in our world. Covey taught that values govern people’s behaviour, but principles ultimately determine the consequences. Covey also wrote several other books … [Read more...]
Stephen Covey: Nothing Fails Like Success
Are you struggling to make changes or respond to changing conditions? I know many people right now are being forced to change the way they work or live because of our turbulent environment. What we might all consider in these times is what the great historian Arnold Toynbee once said: Nothing fails like success. What does that mean exactly? Well, if you consider the challenges you’re facing, you might just be using an old approach that isn’t equal to the challenge. In other words, when we … [Read more...]
Personal Development: Responsibility By Bob Proctor
RESPONSIBILITY Responsibility is a choice. I often refer to it as being the key to freedom. Your future can be everything you have ever dreamed about and then some. You have the talent and tools to experience one beautiful day after another. That is, in fact, what I believe the architect of the universe had in mind for you when you were created. If that was not so, you would have never been endowed with such awesome powers. My good friend and mentor, Val Van De Wall wrote, “When a person … [Read more...]
Money Masters – The Mind-Money Connection
If you are interested in making a quantum leap in your income, you are in the right place, at the right time. All it takes is a DECISION, and NOW is always the right time. However, you must make a Mind-Money Connection before money will flow in your direction. The people who work long, hard hours to scratch out a living have never learned the laws of the mind or the laws governing money. When you do not understand how your mind functions you will realize how it will, without effort, play tricks … [Read more...]
Seminars: The Big Money
'THE BIG MONEY' When money comes in quantities known as “the big money,” it flows to the one who accumulates it, as easily as water flows down hill. There exists a great unseen stream of POWER, which may be compared to a river; except that one side flows in one direction, carrying all who get into that side of the stream, onward and upward to WEALTH—and the other side flows in the opposite direction, carrying all who are unfortunate enough to get into it (and not able to extricate … [Read more...]
Personal Development: Secrets of the Most Productive People
The path to productivity is not a new assistant or project management software. It's these four shared characteristics. Like most everyone else, I worry about productivity. Since there aren't more hours in the day, how can I get more done? That's made me reflect on the truly productive people I've known or worked with throughout my career. They all share certain characteristics: 1. They have a life. Far from being the maniacally focused, late night or early morning types, truly creative … [Read more...]