The advice is well-known and trusted: “To achieve success, feel like you would feel if you already had it.”
I’ll share with you in a moment why that advice may be holding you back, but first, let’s take a look at some of the things you’re already succeeding at.

Curt Rosengren at The M.A.P. Maker blog has developed an interesting take on self improvement. (The M, A and P in the blog name, by the way, refer to Meaning, Abundance and Passion in your life.
In an article titled “Create a Better Life with 30-Day Experiments” Rosengren observes that it’s hard getting himself to do [...]

So you think you’re focusing? Okay… how are your results? Maybe you’re achieving everything you set out to do. Perhaps you’re reaching the targets you’ve set within the time limits you expected.
If so, then your focus is powerful. But if not… maybe it’s time to adjust your ideas about focus and what’s really involved.
This week’s [...]

For another very common-sense take on setting and achieving goals, take a look at Gala Darling’s irreverent fashion blog iCiNG. This blog “presents fresh opinions & views on fashion, style, aesthetics & how to live a better life,” which seems quite a useful and practical combination.
What first caught my eye was Gala’s article titled “How [...]

It’s the year end, and most of us are starting to look at the coming year and all of its potential for making changes. We’re thinking about goals, resolutions and objectives.
Did you have goals or resolutions in 2007? If so, you may have missed some of them. And if you did, here’s a suggestion for [...]

Making decisions seems to be a sticking point for most people. The higher the stakes involved, the harder it becomes to choose an action. Simply put, most of us treat decisions as stopping points rather than turning points.
And the bigger the decision, the bigger the stop. But why?
Again, it’s simple. We fear making mistakes. Sooner [...]

There are a lot of ways to motivate yourself, and Anthony Robbins is well known for his mastery of the subject. Posted today at his blog, Easy Motivational Strategies, he provides a list of things you can do to keep yourself focused on forward momentum.

Remember Terry Dean? Back in the nineties, before many of us had even heard of the Internet, he was already creating a sizeable fortune online. Starting out as a pizza delivery driver, he went online and, by setting some interesting goals, built a million dollar Internet business.
If anybody knows about achievement, Terry does. In a [...]

My friend Walter once told me that every summer evening he’d go out in the front yard and sit and wait for a UFO to come pick him up.
As far as I know, he never got the ride he was waiting for.
I also know a LOT of people who’re waiting around, just like Walter, for [...]

The whole business of setting goals has attracted a lot of experts ready to teach you how to get more done more quickly and more effectively.
And they all seem so deadly serious about it. But there’s one expert on goals whose sense of humor and fun are actually still in working condition.
In this guest article, [...]