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Four Tips To Brainwash Yourself for Success

Four Tips To Brainwash Yourself for Success

Let’s Face it, it is Easy to Wander Off on Your Journey for Success

You finally start that business that will get you out of the proverbial “rat race” and take control of your life. Then your progress stops. You realize that you’re not making the progress that you think you should be making. It is harder to keep the momentum going to move towards your goals.

Everyone makes it look so easy on social media. Why can’t I be successful like everyone else? Success eluded me too. I’m still working on becoming more successful everyday, just like you are. Here are a few tips I picked up on the way to help me get closer to achieving my goals and making my dreams come true. They seem simple. But they are hard to do. In changing your habits that are preventing you from becoming more successful, you change who you are. And changing habits is challenging.

1. Stop Complaining

When you complain,  [Read more…]

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The Most Important Business Skill

The Most Important Business Skill

The Life Skill You Need the Most Is Often Overlooked

I think everyone will agree that there are certain life skills that are necessary for a great life. School and universities are supposed to prepare their students for life…but they don’t. Balancing a checkbook was once a vital life skill, but no one in school ever taught me how to do this. Now in the age of online banking, it can be considered an outdated concept. However, you still need to make sure you are putting more money into your bank account than you are taking out. I keep hearing how schools are teaching kids younger and younger how to write computer code. As a front-end developer myself, I would say that the day may come when writing code is a vital life skill, but we’re not there yet. Sales training is how you get this most important skill that can put millions in your bank account. [Read more…]

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How Many Times Do You Write Your Goals Each Day?

How Many Times Do You Write Your Goals Each Day?

Every personal leadership book I have ever read tells me to write my goals daily. But let’s get real. How many of us actually write our goals daily? I never wrote down my goals daily in the past. I also never achieved much either. One day, I began writing my goals. It seemed like some magical power I had over myself. I suddenly started accomplishing the minor goals I set for myself. It was like magic!

Years ago, I was writing my goals down on a legal pad. I got up, left my legal pad unattended as I went to the restroom. When I got back a few minutes later, a co-worker was reading my goals out loud to other co-workers and ridiculing me and my goals. It was like a scene from a fourth-grade classroom, but with adults…or at least people of adult age.

I learned that day that ridicule hurts.

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