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If it is a common occurrence for you to have one person or another who is disappointed in you, decision-making is a key component of handling that issue. Others who we deal with will not usually say this directly, but will hope that you make a decision, either right or wrong, and not stay indecisive. Decisions show a healthy sign of life, as they represent you taking a stand for something. One might say that you can either make decisions or let them be made for you.

Indecision Makes Others Think You Have A Problem

One of the first things that come to some one’s mind when you are indecisive in some way is that there is a problem in your mind, or in your activities, which you are not handling. This makes sense, because if you didn’t have any problems, you would certainly pick one end of a decision or the other. Next time you are indecisive, watch how another person responds, and you will see that they start to see you as a little more weak than they did before the occurrence.

If you don’t want others thinking you have issues you haven’t yet gotten control over, you have to hit them back with decisions right when the time is set for you to respond. Decisions can include saying “no” to propositions, or adjusting what the other person proposes to better suit your interests, but they can’t include hesitation or postponement, unless the postponement is realistic, and meant to give you ample time to research or assess in some way. Any form of trying to add extra fluff time to a decision is what we call ‘indecision’, and use of that will lead to your personal score decreasing in the eyes of those you deal with.

Watching A Movie Example

If a friend asks you if you want to see a certain new comedy movie at the theaters, you have a few options. This is a seemingly simple decision to make to some, but some can get hesitant here, and those same folks are likely to be hesitant in other opportunities to pick one option over another. In this case, you could either say “yes” or “no”, or suggest another movie, which would all be good for you, and your friend would understand your interests. On the other hand, if you said “maybe”, and then didn’t provide any more information, your friend would wonder if you had some issues.

There are only so many times you can say “maybe” before the other person thinks you either have a problem you haven’t conquered, or are treating them as less important than you should. Since no one wants to think you are viewing them as not that important, they will default to the thought that you have some internal issues, and that doesn’t help you when you next want to work or play with that person.

Think The Way Others Are Thinking

For the next time you have a decision to make in relation to someone else, remember that the first priority is to make the decision, and that they won’t be offended in any way if you turn them down, or adjust their proposition in some way, as long as you do it respectfully. Others are people just like you.

Author’s bio:
Armen Shirvanian writes words of wisdom about mindset, communication, relationships, and related topics at Timeless Information. You can follow him on Twitter at @Armen.

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World Champions

I always find world champions interesting and I love to observe and learn from because they had done what most people could not have achieve and it will be great to know what model their mindsets so that we can achieve excellent results too.

So here are some of the winning habits that I found in world champions.

15 Winning Habits

1. Preparation is key

World champions understand that preparation is the key for them to win the competition. They knew that without thousands of hours put into practice, winning the competition is not possible. That is why they spent most of their time honing their skills and doing it everyday without fail.

2. Extra Effort

One millisecond can make a difference between winning and losing. Athletes in Olympics know this best as they know the difference of a millisecond can make them world champion or just runner up. In order to become the best in the world, they always make the extra effort in their training and push themselves to do more even when they are tired.

3. Have A Goal In Mind

If you can’t see it, you can’t get it. It is not possible for you to get to where you want if you do not know where you want to be in the first place. World champions do not end up as one by chance, they become world champions by having a goal in mind and they will create a plan and follow through it.

4. Get Things Done

Once the plan is laid out for them, they always complete their tasks without fail. With the commitment to always complete their task at hand regardless of how hard it is, there is no doubt that they will achieve incredible results.

5. Momentum

Consistent performers know the secrets of momentum. Once they have a winning run, they know how to ride on it and knock down their opponents. They increase their rate of success by identifying the momentum and tap on it.

6. Play To Win

High achievers have the mindset of playing to win. They do not play to protect their lead, they go all out for a win. In order to become the best, they know that they need to compete with the mindset of becoming number one in the world instead of avoiding to be the last.

7. Persistence

Without persistence, it is hard for anyone to reach the top because the journey towards the top is laid out with obstacles. World champions have the persistence to keep on going forward regardless of how much obstacles they faced. They know it can be hard at times, but they kept on going because they knew that if they don’t give up, they will eventually reach the top.

8. Understanding Your Weakness

Everyone has their fair share of weaknesses and champions have them too. Instead of whining and turn a blind eye about it, they make their best effort to eliminate or minimize their weakness.

9. Play Your Strength

Each and everyone of us have our own unique strength and champions play their game to their strength. They train their strength to expand it to it’s fullest potential so that it will give them an edge over their opponents.

10. Resilience

There are going to be testing times when they missed a last second shot or going through a bad patch but champions have the resilience to bounce back from failure. Instead of letting failure drag them down, they learn from their mistakes and work harder.

11. Play with courage

In order to win the game, champions learn how to conquer their fear. They do not fear mistakes and doubt themselves. They know that once they allow the fear of mistakes and indecisiveness to take over them, they lose their game.

12. Mentor

All champions have their own mentors and they can say that they can’t be where they are today if they do not have any mentor by their side to guide them. A mentor will help them to point out their weaknesses, strengths and also help to give them that extra push whenever it is needed.

13. Passion

Ask anyone who succeed in their field whether they love what they are doing. It is almost guaranteed that they enjoyed it and have great passion in it. Without a passion for the things you do, it is hard to succeed because most probably you are going to give up when the going get tough. Doing things that we are passionate about also help to increase the probability of us following through because we are enjoying every second of it.

14. Optimal Zone

Champions know where is their optimal zone and they focus in staying within it. They create a routine and stick to it so that they will keep their mind and body in optimal condition.

15. Teachability

You can’t be a world champion if you are not teachable. That means being open to new ideas, able to listen with humility and also have the mindset that there are things you can learn in your field regardless of how good you are. Champions know that in order to excel, they need to keep an open mind and absorb knowledge like sponge.

Parting Words

If we want to reach for a place that we have never reach before, the best way to do that is to observe, ask and learn from people who had reach the place before. The mindset of world champions are conditioned to achieve success and if what you want is to achieve success, they will definitely be the best role model for you.

Vincent
Personal Development Blogger

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Achieve Success In Everything You Want

What if I tell you that you can achieve success in everything you want? Do you think that it is possible? There is a very powerful strategy that anyone can use and apply it into his/her life to see fantastic results in their life and i am going to share it with you.

It is a 4 steps procedure and it is called the Ultimate Success Formula.

Step 1: Have a Goal

The first step to getting what you want is to know what is it that you want. This is a simple theory but there are still people who did not set goals to get what they want.

Most people do not know what they want specifically and they have nothing tangible that they can direct their energy into and this result in failure to achieve their goals. In order for us to achieve, we must set goals that are specific and we can visualize it with clarity. Once we have this clarity, we can then create the strategies that we need to get what we want.

Step 2: Have A Strategy

Once we have a specific goal in mind, we will need to brain storm for strategies to make our goals happen. For example, there was a time when I felt that I was gaining some pounds and I wanted to lose some weight. In order to make it happen, I created a 16 weeks exercise challenge which I must exercise for 6 days a week and also a 30 days challenge for myself which consist of me removing process starch from my diet and morning juice feasting.

As a result, I lost 13.2 lbs and gained a healthier body. This is only possible due to my goal setting and finding the right strategy to achieve it.

Step3: Action

Once you completed your brain storming for strategies, you must be able to take action. Only by taking action then you can move closer to your goal, but there are lots of people who are stuck at this stage. They can’t take action!

We can always brain storm and have the greatest ideas in the world but without taking action, nothing will happen. There may be procrastination, fear,need of perfection or analysis paralysis that stop us from taking action, but always remember that for one to be successful, you need to take the action to see results.

Forgo the need of perfection and accept the fact that we will be fearful of anything that is new for us or out of our comfort zone. Once you accept fear and imperfection, you will more likely to take action.

Step 4: Feedback

There are 2 possible scenarios that can happen after you took action. Either it will be success or failure. If success happen to you, give yourself a pat on the back and you had did a great job. If you had met failure instead, fret not and always remember that all of us had our fair share of failure and the important thing is how we deal with it.

There are 3 ways which people normally respond to failure. The first way is they give up immediately when they had failed. These are the people who will believe that they had tried and it does not work. The 2nd way is even though they had failed, they kept trying the same thing over and over again. Always remember that by repeating what had not work again will only give you the same result – failure.

The 3rd way is they gather feedback, change their strategy and take action again. This is the ideal way that we should follow whenever we had our share of failure. By changing our strategy and implementing it, we can always be assure of a different result. If the result is not what you desire, just keep tweaking your strategy and try again until you achieve your desired result. Always remember to take the failure as a feedback and do not let it discourage you from taking any more action.

As long as you don’t give up, you will ultimately reach your goals by using the Ultimate Success Formula.

Cheers
Vincent
Personal Development Blogger

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Among the 6.7 billions of people in the world, there are people who easily quit and there are people who will keep moving on and walking or running towards their goals.

Why is it some people can be successful in life and while others can only live in mediocrity.

I believe it all boils down to a word. Attitude.

Attitude is an important key to success.

Different attitudes can be found in different people. Most of the people have high expectations but they just can’t bring themselves to achieve it. Those are the people with the “just get by” attitude which put themselves into a passenger position. They want to be rich, they want the manager position and they want everything that is good yet there are no form of actions that justify their “wants.”

Attitude of successful people

Successful people are the people who are not satisfied with being mediocre. They have the “wants” and they will have an action plan and attitude to bring themselves towards it. They will climb over every obstacles that appears in their way and let nothing stop them.

Let us take a look at some key attitudes of successful people.

1. Ambitious

2. Never give up easily when met with obstacles.

3. High expectations and acceptance level for themselves.

4. Love taking actions.

So how to have an attitude that bring you success?

Luckily, attitude can be changed. You just need to put in a little more energy into attaining what you want. If you want to be traveling around the world, become rich, live in a big house or a fancy car, just go get it! You will be asking, “so how do I get what I want?” First of all…

Get into the driver seat

Do people always tell what to do and you are always listening to others for your directions in life. If you continue to stay in the passenger sit, where you are going to be is where the driver is going to. Do you think you can get to where you want if the driver isn’t you? Take charge of your life now and get into the driver seat now.

Raising your level of acceptance to your level of expectation.

You can expect a luxurious life but if your level of acceptance isn’t matching your level of expectation, you can’t get what you want. Let me state an example. If you want to earn $10,000 bucks per month, but you are comfortable with $2000 per month. Do you think you can achieve it? I don’t really think so.

If you want to earn $10,000 per month (expectation level), but you are comfortable with $2000 per month(acceptance level), you tend to linger around your acceptance level because you are comfortable with it. It is only when you bring your level of acceptance up to the level of expectation, then you will achieve your goal.

Your Goal is a MUST

Many times people set goals and do not achieve it because their goals are not a must. Many people choose to diet and they are motivated for only  the first week but in the end they just gave up. What if someone is pointing a gun at you and tell you to lose 10 kg in 16 weeks or they will shoot you on the spot. I believe that anyone can lose that 10kg (or maybe alot more just to be safe) at that time because it is a MUST for you to lost weight. We have all the necessary resources to be successful, what we need is to have a compelling reason to achieve it.

Let me share a story about the Chinese general with you

The Chinese general brought his army with him to defend against the invading enemy. His army was outnumbered by the enemy by a ratio of 4 is to 1. Upon reaching the shore, the general ordered his man to burn down all the ships. When he was questioned why he did that, he replied, “This is to ensure that our only way of leaving this island is only in victory.” By doing this, he put his men and himself on the line and cutting all possibilities of retreating. They were put in a situation that they can only win to survive and retreating is definitely not an option. The men fought as their life depends on it and ultimately won!

Put yourself on the line to achieve something. You must think of a reason to let yourself know that you can’t fail and success is the only way out.

“Human beings, by changing the attitudes of their minds, can change their outer aspects of their lives.”

William James

“Achieving Your Best” Project

I am thinking of organizing a campaign where people from all over the world share their goals publicly on this blog. By sharing our goals publicly, we have a compelling reason for us to achieve it as everyone are watching it. Please leave me a comment or contact me regarding about this campaign. If there are enough response, I will put it up on the blog.

Cheers
Vincent
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Procrastination is a bad habit of people. It is in us since young and it is up to us to acknowledge that it is an unwanted habit and keep it at bay. How many times we cursed that we never fulfilled our dreams due to procrastination. We can be happier, smarter, healthier and even more wealthy if we could fulfill our daily goals and push away the need to read every email which includes spam, sales letters or humorous emails that you temporarily think that it is more important at that moment instead of doing things of more important value. Everyone is guilty of procrastination and there are ways to tackle the problem and be more productive. Here are 10 ways of blasting procrastination.

1. Affirmation: Do it everyday and consistently. Keep telling yourself, “I like to do things NOW.” Whenever you are thinking of pushing tasks away, tell yourself you like to do things now.

2.Daily Goals: Set a to do list and have a check box beside every item that you would like to do today. Avoid adding unnecessary things into the list to avoid the list to turn out as a 5000 words essay. Check off the items after you completed it.

3.Visualization: The world greatest athlete uses visualization to optimize their performance. We should use this tool to motivate ourselves and help to increase our productivity too. Visualize how you would feel and see after completing the task. See the image in your mind and make it as vibrant as possible. Examples like having a healthy and well toned body after you completed the exercise or having your book published and selling in the bookstores after you completed writing a book.

4.Set a Deadline: How many times have we procrastinate due to not having a deadline. We could drag and drag till nothing was accomplished. Setting a deadline will incorporate a sense of urgency for getting things done.

5.Countdown: After setting a dead line, counting down would helps to create a sense of urgency too.

6:Baby Steps: Break huge task into bite size nuggets. For example when you are writing an essay of 5000 words, you could instead write a paragraph or 2 instead of trying to complete the whole thing.

7.Peak Period: What is your peak period? When is the time you are the most productive? Take note of the time and allocate tasks that add the most value for you into that slot will help you to be more productive. You tend to do things when you are in your more productive time of the day.

8.Conducive environment: MSN messaging, facebook and countless of other applications and stuff that would distract you from doing your work. Either switch off the application (assuming you got the determination not to turn it back on), off the internet or get to a place where there is no Wi-Fi access to do your work.

9.Do Not Disturb!: Set a time where you are not suppose to be interrupted and do heavy task that you need to concentrate on it. Vice versa, set a time where interruptibility are allowed and do a lighter task in that period.

10.Committing time: Commit time to do a certain task. Do a task for a set amount of time before moving off your seat.

The most important thing is to just start doing something. Energy gathers when you start to do something and momentum will help you to follow through.

Leave a comment whether the above points help you in combating procrastination.

“Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried”

Anonymous

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Vincent

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