Are you really going to accomplish the next thing you decide to do?
Now, I don’t know what your “next thing” — your next goal — might be. It could be a business goal, or a family objective. It may be connected with inner growth, or with your physical health.
But whatever it is, whatever you promise [...]

It happens fairly often. About one customer in 100 steals from me.
But I’m not alone. Virtually every person I know who sells information products says they have the same experience.
No matter how good your product, no matter how much value you pile on, about one-to-two percent of your customers will order your product, download it, [...]

Here’s a story I think you’re going to like.
What do you do when someone you love is sliding rapidly toward death? You want the doctors to take the measures that’ll save their life, but nearly everyone else is convinced it’s hopeless, so they won’t agree to the procedure.
What DO you do?
Just shrug your [...]

Building up your own self confidence isn’t any great mystery. It isn’t even particularly difficult.
Yes, I know that when your life turns dark, and despair grabs you by the gut, it can seem like you’ll never see sunshine again. But that’s an illusion. And like most illusions in life, despair is mostly self-induced.
If you’ve been [...]

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 [...]

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.

Marcia Yudkin, in her widely read ezine “The Marketing Minute,” tells how only a few people taking screenwriter training ever do anything with their new skills.
When L.A. filmmaker Jeff Bollow moved to Sydney, Australia a couple of years ago, he planned to launch an independent feature film studio but couldn’t find enough commercially suitable screenplays. [...]

Ability is FAR more relative than we may suspect.
When I was a kid, I was considered non-athletic. Back in my school days, when our teachers would take us out for gym class, they’d make us do sports stuff, and as a fat, clumsy kid, I hated that.
One day in late spring, our teacher announced, [...]

“I’m just a slow starter,” Artie told me. “While I’m still getting ready, everybody else is in motion and racking up points.”
I asked him why he thought that was.
“Well, as you know, I’m planning to start a website, but there’s just SO much to learn. And I just can’t start before I know what I’m [...]

Michael liked earning $280,000 a year.
But everything else about his job stunk: the 90-hour weeks; the pressure; his boss.
Yes, the pay was good. But as Michael said, “It takes a big chunk of cheese to keep a rat running this maze day after day.”
Occasionally he thought about quitting - just walking away. Then he would [...]

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 [...]

It doesn’t take much to put a winner out in front of the pack. In business and in sports, again and again, most victory margins are fractional.
And the difference in attitude required to spring out in front the crowd and be that leader - well that may take only a sliver more of determination, of [...]

by Peter Murphy
Will power alone will never work over the long term. It is the hardest way possible to get yourself to do anything.
The answer is to discover the secrets of self motivation.
Why?
Because it is like trying to open a tin can with your teeth when there is a can opener in your pocket.

Are there parts of your life you sometimes hate?
Wish you could cancel those failures? Dump the defeats and sidestep the lousy breaks? Maybe very little in your life is going right – hasn’t been right for a very long time. There’s a lot of that going around.
But are you ready to change it? … change [...]

Tom “Bald Dog” Varjan calls himself an Organisational Provocateur.
You or I would call him a consultant - he’s the guy who walks into companies, at their invitation, and stirs things massively till they get better.
Tom is exceptionally good at stirring. He’s called in when others are finding results hard to come by. He’s a hard-ass [...]

Some things in life repeat. One of them is the weather.
Today, here in Japan, we’re looking down the 100-mile-wide barrel of a typhoon, and it’s aimed straight at the Japanese islands. It has already ripped across the southern island of Kyushu, dropping half a meter of rain in some places and causing the evacuation of [...]

We were standing around, heads hanging, listening to the boss berate us for letting quality slide.
In my early twenties, I worked for a few years in a custom color photo lab where we developed film and made prints for professional photographers.
When they shot product setups, weddings or formal portraits, they brought us the film for [...]

On July 2nd, at 12:00 noon, half the year will be behind us, half still ahead.
I’m writing this on Friday. On Monday, just three days from now, we will have reached the middle day of the year.
So let’s talk about the things you intended to get done this year. How’re you doing with them? Just [...]

If you’ve ever struggled to stop smoking, maybe it’d help to hear how I managed it at age eleven, and as a result never had to concern myself with the habit again.
It was a beautiful Saturday afternoon in June 1954. The school year had just ended, and all was right with the world.
At that time [...]

You remember the 3 North Korean orphans I mentioned a couple of weeks ago. They were being held by Laos, who were demanding a fee of $1,000 each to let them go.
Well, here’s some good news… they’re safe now. Below is a recent statement about their release from the jail in Laos.