How you spend the first hour of the day matters a lot. Successful people including Craig Newmark of Craigslist, motivational speaker Tony Robbins, and career writer Brian Tracy believe that it does make a big difference in your life on how you spend the morning time before your breakfast. It is the time of the [...]

Heather Hans, a successful psychotherapist, intuitive coach, spiritual guide, and business woman, believes in the power of total well-being to lead a successful and harmonious life. She has been assisting people who have the passion to succeed. According to her, if a person is creative, motivated, astute, brave, and has the innate desire to do [...]

In an insightful article on Inc.com recently, Jeff Haden highlighted the key beliefs and perspectives of highly successful people in business. These beliefs resonate well with me; if you were to look around at the people whom you deem successful, I am certain that you will find them displaying most of these characteristics. Let’s look [...]

There’s an art and science to handling frustration! Frustration (noun) – “the condition of being frustrated”. A state of mind that makes one feel helpless and hmmm… frustrated! And when a person is frustrated it takes a while to get out of it, because it makes us feel powerless, sometimes making us wonder if anything [...]

Every time we see a person who has achieved significantly in a chosen sphere of activity, there is a natural tendency to admire the person’s talent. We attribute so much of success to ‘talent’, which is defined as something we are naturally endowed with.

Ask any winner about his or her secret to success and it is almost certain that a deep inner belief about their ability to win or succeed will be one constant factor. Belief is the foundation on which success is built; the stronger this foundation, the higher you can go. Even winners lose sometimes; great [...]

“I’m having a bad day!” is a fairly common refrain that we are all accustomed to hearing. Or, it may be something like “Oh, what a bad morning!”. If we reflect a bit on those two statements, we’ll realise that what we are expressing is our perception and judgement about the day. It is a [...]

Extensive research has been carried out on the subjects of stress and fatigue and the best ways to combat them. One such research on mental toughness and its correspondence to psychological profile had some interesting findings that we excerpt below.

John Robert Wooden, popularly known as Coach John Wooden, was one of the most revered American basketball coaches. Formerly a national basketball player and a six-time winner of national coach of the year title, John Wooden was the first player to be named a three-time All-American (consensus choice).

So this is about fear. Give me a break. Who is afraid, of what and why should I be bothered? Really? If you think you are not afraid of anything, think about it again. Do you do everything that you want to do? Are there things that you want to do but are not sure, [...]