“It’s better to light a candle than curse the darkness.” Great quote, but what does it have to do with thanking your money? A while back I published an article titled “Set Them Free”. In it I wrote, “How can you expect your relationship with her to be anything other than what it’s been as [...]

What makes you happier than anything else you do? Where does real contentment come from? If you understand and apply the following definition of happiness, you also open the door to unlimited success for yourself, your family and your group. “Happiness could be defined as the emotion of progress toward desirable goals. There is an [...]

‘Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn’t matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle, [...]

We are often told that success requires motivation, desire and ambition, but there is another important ingredient, and this is inner detachment. I hear you now saying, “What has inner detachment to do with success? Isn’t detachment a state of indifference? How can one attain success with such a state of mind?”

Are you having fun? Do you get a thrill from your work? Do you enjoy waking up each morning? Myths about work can hurt your progress. “Work is not supposed to be fun.” “You must buckle down and get serious.” Perhaps the biggest myth of all: “People will think I’m important if I act seriously.” [...]

Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. It may get tough, but it’s a small price to pay for living a dream.’ —Peter McWilliams Will power is your inner strength to make decisions and act on them regardless of internal resistances. The Power of Will exists to help you cope with life’s challenges. [...]

You succeed when you are unreasonable. You neither give nor accept excuses. You insist on success. L. Ron Hubbard defines reasonableness as “faulty explanations.” When you agree with faulty explanations, you are too reasonable. Examples of faulty explanations: “I can’t repair your furnace today as it might rain.” The truth is, the repairman is going [...]

Goals provide us the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us: focus our energy’ — Denis Waitley What are Goals? The difference between a dream and a goal is [...]

Discouragement and frustration from not making your goals quickly enough are resolved through orderly progress. Do you ever get frustrated because your life is not the way you want it? Perhaps you are trying to skip steps necessary to reaching your goals. Instead of demanding PERFECTION TODAY!, focus on orderly progress and your odds of [...]

Almost every writer about creative visualization advises to visualize for only a few minutes, preferably several times a day, and then to let go, and forget your mental image until the next time. They say that of you don’t do so, what you visualize will not materialize.