Posts tagged: self growth

10 Things To Do If You Lose Your Job

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Times Of Uncertainty

In this time of uncertainty, news of recession and mass jobs layoff are appearing a bit too frequently in the papers. The question today is how do you look at this recession? Is it a catastrophe or is it a blessing in disguise? How about jobs? Is losing your a job a bad thing or a good thing?

In my previous post I wrote about how to change disasters into meaningful events, so one of the worst disaster many may find is that they are losing their job or the job they are currently holding are not giving them enough security and it may be gone any time. >>Read the rest of “10 Things To Do If You Lose Your Job”>>

7 Tips To Remove the Clutters On Your Desk

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It is 6.00am now in Singapore and this post was prepared yesterday so it can be posted by today. I am rushing off for a seminar now. Happy reading!

Do you have a work desk like this?

Whether it is our wardrobe or work desk, we tend to accumulate clutters in our lives. Clutters weigh us down and it will tend to clutter your mind too.

It gives a feeling that you are disorganized, like to procrastinate and have low productivity. First impression counts, so make sure your boss don’t ever see you in a cluttered desk. =) >>Read the rest of the 7 tips to remove the clutters on your desk>>

How Changing Your Beliefs Can Bring You Success Part 2

optimizedbelief How Changing Your Beliefs Can Bring You Success Part 2

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This is the second part of “How Changing Your Beliefs Can Bring Your Success”. If you have not read the previous post, you can read it here.

Part 2

4. Past Results - There are things in life that you will see it as difficult or easy. If you are an experienced writer, you will say writing a book is easy and it can be done with effort or if you are an experienced plumber you will say that fixing a tap is child play. >>Read the rest of the entry here>>

How Changing Your Beliefs Can Bring You Success Part 1

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The Power Of Beliefs

What are beliefs? Belief is a set of thinking that will provide you with meaning and guidance in your life. They are our perceptions of the world.

Beliefs are the commander of your brain and when you think that something is true, your beliefs will command the brain to look for facts that support your beliefs.

That is to say that if you believe that you can be successful in life, be it being happy, wealthy or healthy, you have already won half the battle. Your brain will search for the facts that will support your beliefs.

This shows that your beliefs is one of the most powerful forces that you can use to give birth to your excellence.

You have seen people who have been empowered by beliefs and overcome great obstacles because they have deep beliefs that they can succeed. Your beliefs can help you tap to your deep inner resources and use them to reach your desired goals. >>Read the rest of the entry here>>

Are You Reading Enough?

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According to statistics, 42% of the people who left college never pick up another book again. This is an alarming statistic. Where do we learn from when we are young? We learn from listening to what are around us, learning from the role models and we learn from reading books too.

Why read a book?

“No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu”

We have only a finite amount of time in our life. Much about learning is through trial and error and if we are trying to learn everything by ourselves, it is going to take much more than a life time to learn it. In short, reading is a short cut to success.

What do I mean? Books are written by people who want to share their expertise or experience and there are millions or billions of books out there written by people who have went through the scenarios that we are facing and they have provided the resources to help us. So why not use them?

Those are the people who have already been there and done that. With them teaching you and acting as mentor, you will only accelerate your growth much more faster than walking the path on your own.

Lets take an example. >>Read the rest of the entry>>

Is Your Attitude Bringing You Towards Success?

optimizedobstacles1 Is Your Attitude Bringing You Towards Success?What is your attitude?

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. >>Read the rest of the entry here>>