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Set an Incompatible Goal
One way to shift your character – and your life – in a new direction is to set a goal that’s incompatible with the limitations of your current character. In other words, set a goal that you would never set. Then work diligently to pursue and achieve that goal. Thinking you can’t do something because it’s out of character for you is still just a thought. You can change your thoughts, but sometimes it’s easier to change your actions and behaviors and let your thoughts play catch-up. Sometimes thoughts of who you are just get in your way and slow you down. When you try to change yourself at the level of…
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Positive Ways to Deal with Failure
It may be hard to accept, but failure is part of life. In fact, if you don’t sometimes experience failure, it’s probably because you’re not truly living life to the fullest. You need to leave your comfort zone to experience either success or failure. But it doesn’t change the fact that we fear failure, avoid it, and dread it. Having said that, if you want to experience success it’s important that you get used to being uncomfortable. When you end up having to deal with failure, there are ways to look at it that are positive. Let’s look at some tips for dealing with failure in a positive way that…
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The Magic of a Fresh Start
One of the biggest obstacles to sticking with a habit change, a new system, a goal or long-term project … is that we get disrupted. Something interrupts our progress — we skip a workout day or two — and then some programming in our brains turns that into a message of how we’re not good enough, we can’t do it, we should just give up. This stops so many people from making long-term progress. It stops us from simply starting again. This is because most of us don’t realize the power and magic of a Fresh Start. A Fresh Start is when we get to start anew, with a blank slate.…
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Honoring Your Hidden Goals
When you look back on the past calendar quarter, consider what you actually got done, even if your actions and behaviors didn’t align well with your stated goals. Your time went somewhere, so where did it actually go? Use the lens of seeing everything you did as an accomplishment, even if your main achievement was watching Game of Thrones. Instead of beating yourself up for what you didn’t do, take a deeper look at what you did do. So then your achievements might actually look like: Watch Game of Thrones. Spend two hours per day on Facebook. Exercise sporadically, averaging about 30 minutes per week, mostly Yoga with Adriene videos. Gain 10 pounds of…
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How to Build Success Momentum
Follow these tips to help you achieve your goals and build success momentum. 1. Take action steps. No goal is achieved without taking action. It is vital you get out of your head and into your heart and then into action. Without consistent, measurable actions, your success remains nothing but a dream. 2. Take small steps and bite size tasks. It is important not to get over zealous with your goals or to take on too many at the same time. Start with one or two goals and a set of actionable and measurable milestones. 3. Have an accountability partner. There’s nothing like a best friend, collaborator or partner. He…
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How High Performers Manage Their Time
High performers always looking to take themselves to the next level. And they’re always wanting to make the most of their time. The key to how to make the most of your time, if you’re a high performer, is finding high-impact ways to leverage your limited time. Let’s take a look at some key ideas here. Our Time is Limited I find it important to reflect on death, on a regular basis. Just the simple fact that we will die someday … and we don’t know when. This helps us to remember that life is short and precious, and to resolve to make the most of this gift. As a…
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Why You Should Craft a Personal Development Plan
The thing that is most exciting about the possibilities with crafting a personal development plan for yourself is the role that personal development plays in the level of success you can achieve in all areas of your life, physical, cognitive, and social-emotional. The fact is, anyone who can objectively observe where they are compared to where they want to be while identifying steps and assembling a plan that is truly doable to reach (and even exceed) the goals you’ve set for life literally cannot lose. Even if you slightly miss the mark or change your mind as you go – you still succeeded. You’ll Become More Self Aware Being self-aware…
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8 Time Management Tips
At the end of the day, it’s all about time management. When it comes to time management, we don’t want to admit we don’t have it all together. It’s one of the hardest issues to face and can be a challenge. However, the good news is it’s very doable. What’s the hardest task? Do that one first. For some people, filing is the worst administrative task there is and for others, it’s filling out paperwork and making phone calls. Whatever you identify, as being your hardest task, is the one you should do first. You will find this practice to be difficult at first; however, as time goes by…
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Find the Meaning in Your Work
For anyone trying to do meaningful work, feeling connected to that meaning can be a big challenge. It turns out, even if you can stay focused on your meaningful work for most of the day … it’s easy to lose connection to why it’s meaningful. To why you care about doing this in the first place. We get stuck in the drudgery of doing endless meaningless tasks, stuck in task mode, rather than feeling that the tasks are meaningful ways to spend our day. So how do we deal with this challenge? Not surprisingly, the answer is practice. Let’s take a look. Have a Deeper Why If you haven’t done this step yet, don’t…
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How to Battle Negative Thoughts
Dealing with negative thoughts is something everyone has to do. Some people choose to allow negative thoughts to freeze them in their tracks. Other people have a negative thought and then transform that into a positive one instead. If you want to be a person who has good self-esteem and lets go of self-doubt, purposefully turning negative thoughts to positive ones will help you like almost nothing else. Tips to Help Battle Negative Thoughts Don’t Say Them Out Loud. Whenever you have a negative thought, let it stay in your head for a moment but do not voice it out loud to anyone – even yourself. Go for a Walk/Run/Swim.…
