When you are facing a list of tasks that you need to complete in order to help you move closer to your goals, are you being choosy on your tasks or you are doing what is essential for you to move faster towards your goals?

Most people make the mistake of being choosy on their tasks instead of focusing on what needs to be done. When you are being choosy about your tasks and only pick easy tasks to complete instead of doing essential tasks (which may seem harder to complete), you slow down your growth.

Different Questions, Different Results

When you set a new goal, you will need to generate an action plan. This action plan consists of the tasks that you need to do in order to reach your goals. The difficulty of the tasks in your action plan can varies and there will be some tasks that are harder to do than others. Let us look at an example:

If you are trying to lose weight and stay healthy, some of the tasks that you can think of may include;

• Lifting weights for 3 times a week
• Performing Cardio exercises for 3 times a week
• Avoid foods that are high in sugar
• Avoid high glycemic index foods such as pasta, white bread, rice etc
• Reduce intake of fried foods
• Give up some of your favorite but unhealthy food
• Have your cheat meal once a week
• Start brisk walking 3 times a week
• Eat an apple a day

Some tasks may seem easier and most likely, you will try to do those first. Human has a tendency to avoid pain and change. You will tend to avoid tasks that seems too hard to do, overwhelming and tedious. However, these tasks bring you the most rewards (go read about the 80/20 principle).

If you scan through the list, there will be a little voice in your head telling you which are the tasks you dread and try to avoid it. Usually these tasks seem harder than others do and they cause you to question your ability to accomplish it.

There are times that I took my eyes off my goals and start being choosy. The result is that I avoid my essential tasks that lead to mediocre results. To attract more readers to my blog, I should write more guest articles, conduct more interviews and write more new ebooks (If you have not get your copy, download your copy of Unleash Your Maximum Potential for free now).

The reason why I am not doing as much as I should is because these tasks seem like hard work and I am being choosy on picking tasks to complete. I am picking easier tasks to complete and avoiding the harder tasks that will bring in more results.

I find that when you question your ability to complete tasks that seem harder, you create doubt. Doubt creates inner friction in your mind and you will find that you are trying to move forward but something in your mind is dragging you back from achieving. The only way to get rid of the inner friction that is slowing you down is to focus on what needs to be done instead of being choosy and questioning whether can you do it or not.

Inner Friction

I am curious about human behavior and I am trying to find an answer on how to help one to achieve his or her goals without many obstacles from the mind. I noticed that there are people who can achieve their goals at a rapid rate while there are others who are crawling painfully trying to catch up. So what are the differences between them?

One big difference between the fast achievers and the slower achievers is their ability to keep their eyes glued to their goals. The fast achievers will complete essential tasks that need to be done instead of choosing to complete tasks based on their difficulty.

Conclusion

The reason why you are not doing what needs to be done is that you took your eyes off your goals. If you are not focusing on what needs to be done and you are being picky on your tasks (choosing to do only easy tasks), you will face frustrations because of your slow progress. Stop being choosy about your tasks. To move faster towards your goal, think about what needs to be done instead of choosing tasks that you think that you can easily complete.

Vincent
Keeping my eyes glued to my goals

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We are living in the information age now. The internet makes it easy for us to share and obtain information. This is a great benefit because we can get what we want in just a matter of milliseconds. The information age also helps people to get richer and smarter faster.

Billionaires are getting younger. Mark Zuckerberg, owner of Facebook, became a billionaire in his 20s. Alex who is 21 created history by creating a website that contains 1,000,000 pixels and selling them for $1 each. He managed to sell out each pixel and became a millionaire in the process. This is the power of the information age and the people who have the right information can succeed in just a short amount of time. You can read more about Alex over here.

You Need Better Information To Achieve Better Results

Everything you want to do it better, you need better information. If you want better information, you can simply visit the library to search for books. Even better, search for the information online. Everything takes place online right now and you can have valuable information at your fingertips by searching for it on Google.

Most people are not making full use of the internet. They are searching for entertainment instead of valuable information.(Think Youtube and Facebook) You are misusing the power of the internet if you indulge in online entertainment. There are people who make money online or get valuable information to improve some aspect of their life. Isn’t it a waste if you are only using it purely for entertainment and miss out on those improvements that you can make? (I believe you are not since you are reading this personal development blog now.)

To improve any aspect of our life, we need to find better information so that we can use it to do things in a better way. I am always looking for information to help me to be more productive, earn more money, build up a successful business and improve my relationship etc. This is a great habit to have because if you are constantly searching for improvements, you will make improvements.

If you want to lose weight, make a conscious decision to find better information to lose weight. If you are not satisfied with your financial circumstances, find new and better information to improve it. Information is within your grasp and all you need to do is to search for it. Once you are committed to search for better information to improve any aspect of your life, that aspect of your life will definitely improves.

Better Information = Better Quality Of Life

Be aware of where you are getting your information. You tend to suffer if you get the wrong information and apply it. Investors who get the wrong information about a company will make huge losses if they invest in them. Others can give you the wrong information.

Someone can give you a health tip that says eating chocolates everyday is good for the heart. If you believe it, you are seriously in trouble. I would rather believe in the old proverb, an apple a day keeps the doctor away instead of a chocolate a day keeps the heart healthy. It just make more sense to me.

Make good judgment when you are picking your information.

The rich get richer because they have the right information. They are financially educated, they know what to invest in and what to avoid. They have the right information that can help them to keep growing their net worth and this is why they are rich.

The poor continues to stay poor because they lack the information to be rich. I do not mean insider-trading tips when I say information. It is simply better information to save money, invest, being frugal and be financially educated.

Parting Words

There is definitely some aspects of our life that we want to make improvements. With better information, it is definitely possible. Make it a habit to obtain better information everyday on what you are planning to improve on. Correct information is wealth. Being able to obtain them easily in the information age is the edge that we have right now.

Vincent
Collector Of Better Information

P.S: How frequent do you search for better information online or offline to improve any aspect of your life?

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Lately I have started to feel bored. I remembered what Tony Robbins had said, “your emotions are action indicators.” I don’t remember clearly what he had said but it is around these lines.

Things have started to get repetitive and dull for me. I have been writing to this blog twice weekly regularly and the tasks that I need to complete to reach my goals are getting repetitive. My blog is growing steadily, my affiliate site is not doing as well as I have expected and my training for my marathon is going smoothly. Overall, things are going well but the feeling of boredom lingers.

I tried to dig deeper for reasons that cause this feeling and I finally stumbled upon something.

Boredom = Action Indicator

I noticed that doing the same things repeatedly can lead to boredom. Boredom is also a sign that you need to be doing something new and get out of your comfort zone.

I thought about it and noticed that I am not doing anything new at the moment and it seems like I am running in maintenance mode. Running in maintenance mode means that I am not growing and all I am doing is to maintain the standards. So to shake things up, I have decided to introduce things that I am not regularly doing into my routine. The only way you can kill off boredom is to start stepping out of your comfort zone and seek new challenges.

Upcoming Projects

1. Interviews

Long time readers know that I have conducted podcast interviews with successful people in the past and it has been drying up lately. I enjoy doing these interviews and I think it is a great way to learn from successful people. However, I have avoided doing it as I still have the fear of rejection and the feeling of nervousness when interviewing others.

I need to work on these negative emotions that are holding me back and start getting those interviews done. Practice makes perfect and I believe doing it repeatedly will definitely make me feel more comfortable with conducting interviews.

Note: If you have any person in mind that you want me to interview, do tell me in the comment section below.

2. New eBook

I have decided to write a new ebook. Writing an ebook is easy, writing a high quality ebook is a lot of work. I got to admit it that the first time I have completed “Unleash Your Maximum Potential”(If you have not downloaded your free copy, you can download it here), I thought to myself that I do not want to write an ebook again.

It is tedious to write an ebook as there are tons of work to do. Things like getting ideas, editing, formatting, hiring ebook designers and etc. However, I have decided to just go ahead and write my second ebook. Laziness has a limit.

If you have anything that you want to see me write about, do tell me.

3. Videos/Podcasts

I will make my own videos and post it over here. Instead of words, words and just words, I will present my ideas in videos to add more personal touch to it. I hope that this time round, my videos will turn out better. My first video for HealthMoneySuccess is a total failure. I talk like a vampire and you can laugh at it over here.

4. Consulting/Coaching

I have decided to venture into consulting/coaching. I do not have a definite plan in mind but I will definitely keep you people updated when I have some ideas about it.

What Can Your Boredom Do For You?

Boredom is an indicator that you need to do something new or challenging to push yourself out of your comfort zone. The next time when you feel bored, dig deeper into the causes of your boredom and brainstorm for new ideas and challenges. It may lead you to something exciting and help you to experience exponential growth.

Vincent
Stepping Out Of Comfort Zone

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What is the habit that you want most to help you create more excellent results and success in life? I have thought long about it and I came out with the habit that I want most. It is the habit of constantly striving for improvement.

There are so many people who are masters in what they do and I believe that they all have the common habit of constantly striving for improvement. They practice constantly on what they are doing so that they can make small improvements each day.

Even though the improvements may be minor, years after years of making gradual improvements can end up in a snowball effect.

The Power Of Constantly Striving For Improvement

Everyone wants to make improvement in some aspect of their life. It may be financially, emotionally, physically or spiritually. However not everyone can attain their desired level of improvement and results. It is simply because they do not have the habit of constantly striving for improvement.

For one to attain their desired level of success, they need to do something every day to help them to reach their goals. Nevertheless, most people simply give up half way or they complete their most important tasks that can bring them nearer to their goal one day and skip them the next day.

The nemeses of the habit of constantly striving for improvement are giving up and the lack of consistency. No matter how good you have started your marathon, it does not make any difference if you are going to give up half way along the road. Lacking of consistency also means that you will lose the valuable momentum that can help you to push yourself towards your goals.

Just take personal development as an example. You can try to pursue personal growth by reading books and blogs but giving up means you are stopping your own growth altogether. You will also not be able to grow as fast as you like if you are trying to grow yourself one day and stop for a few weeks before continuing again.

Think about the difference it can make to your life if you are able to take small steps everyday towards your goal. No matter what you do, you will definitely see small improvements every day until you become a master at what you are doing. In the book “Outliers” by Malcolm Gladwell, he mentioned the 10,000 hours rule. This rule simply states that for you to become a master at anything, you will need to commit at least 10,000 hours of practice to what you are doing.

Simple Calculation For Your 10,000 hours Mark

If you want to hit your 10,000 hours mark in whatever you are doing, just do this simple calculation.

Example:

I want to be excellent in writing and I decided that I would commit 2 hours every day to hone my craft.

Legend: A is the amount of days needed to hit your 10,000 hours mark.

A x (the amount of hours you want to commit each day) = 10,000 hours mark

A = 10,000/(the amount of hours you want to commit each day)

A = 10,000/2 = 5000 days

5000 days/ 365 days = 13.7 years

If I am only spending 2 hours daily on honing my writing skills, it will take me 13.7 years to become a master at it.

I bet most people after doing this calculation will simply think twice about whether they want to become a master in what they are doing. Most likely it is due to the overwhelming effect as the “it-will-take-too-much-time-and-effort” thought will pop out in your mind. This thinking will lead you to give up on what you are doing or being inconsistent with your action.

But the people who decided that they will follow through no matter what, they will be the one who achieve great success in what they are doing.

The Link Between Constant Change And Constant Improvement

Those who do not grow and improve die.

This metaphor is popular in the business world. Change is happening faster and faster right now. You can see that the industrial age is already gone and right now, we are in the information age where kids can become a millionaire just by creating an application for iPhone.

Businesses that refuse to change their strategies and improve can go bankrupt in a short amount of time. People who refuse to change and make improvements become obsolete in their industry and retrenchment may be just around the corner.

I’m not trying to inflict negative emotions here, I just want to bring the point to you that the only way you can deal with this rapid change is to have the habit of constantly striving for improvement. Changes are happening fast because everything around the world is growing and only by making constant improvement to yourself, you can keep up with it.

Parting Words

To help yourself to get the results that you want, you will have to have the habit of constantly striving for improvement. It may take time and effort, but time is going to past anyway even if you are not committing the time to improve yourself (Got to thanks Glen for this quote.)

If you have decided to commit yourself to get into this habit of constantly striving for improvement, you will be able to reap the rewards later and get the bigger share of the pie. Have you decided to have the bigger piece of the pie or are you satisfied with your share now?

Vincent
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I have seen many people who frequently complain that they lack ideas. It may be ideas for starting a business, a blog post or an idea for creating a better life. Ideas may pop out of nowhere and they are important as these ideas may possibly be one that you need to improve some aspect of your life.

The Art Of Generating Ideas

Ideas are everywhere and there is an abundance of ideas out there waiting for us to capture it. People do not really suffer from a lack of ideas, they suffer from the perception that they lack the ideas. Ideas are freely available all around us and all we need is to be able to open our eyes to see them. Here are some of the ways that you can use to help you get more ideas to help you to make improvement to whatever aspect of your life.

1. Be Open

The first step to receive more ideas from our surroundings is to be open to them. Many of us suffer from the belief that ideas are hard to get. This is the wrong mindset to have. You cannot expect to receive ideas easily when you are thinking that getting ideas is hard.

Put yourself in the right mindset by thinking that there are ideas are overflowing from you and all you need is to catch the ideas that you think are suitable for you. Also, do not be quick to kill off ideas that come to you. There are people who I call ideas killer. They have the habit of trashing any ideas that came up to them by thinking how these ideas can’t work instead of thinking how can they make it work.

2. Be Aware And Explore Of Your Surroundings

Most of us are living in a rather hectic environment. We move so fast and we tend to do things unconsciously. Whenever we put ourselves in an unconscious mode, we tend to ignore things that are around us which may help us to generate valuable ideas.

I used to spend pretty much of my time in the unconscious mode and this cause me to fail to notice things that are around me. I questioned myself why others can get ideas from things around me that I had failed to notice.

After years of missing out from valuable ideas, I decided that I would shift myself into a more conscious mode by being aware of the things happening around me. One way to get into a more conscious mode is to ask yourself more questions of why things happen that way instead of ignoring it.

3. Steal Ideas

Ok, I may get some flak on this. However, I do not really mean steal others ideas and let me explain. Sometimes ideas from others may be used as a stepping-stone towards your next idea. Finding the strengths and weaknesses of other ideas and make changes to them by drastically improve the strengths and reduce the weaknesses will get you a brand new improvised idea.

Google is not the first to come out with idea of creating a search engine. They copied the idea of search engine from others and make drastic changes to it to become the number 1 search engine in the world. Or if you find that you are having trouble in thinking about what to write, you can borrow others ideas by finding out what others are writing in their niche and find out what points are they missing in their articles and write on that.

There are also many people who want to start a business but they think that they do not have any ideas to start one. Instead of thinking too hard about it, you can simply copy a business idea and try to improvise it to make it better.

4. Break Out Of Your Routine

If you are spending too much time in your usual routine, you will miss tons of ideas outside your routine. We tend to get fresh ideas when we are doing something fresh. It does not really make sense when you are trying to get new ideas by following your old routine.

Occasionally, you should try to learn a new skill, mix with new people, take a different route home or read a book that you normally would not read. Doing these can allow you to see things in different view and it will make you aware of things that you will normally miss out.

5. Read, Watch, Listen And Learn

Most of the time I get my ideas of writing my articles by reading new books frequently, watching videos, listen to audiobooks or just by observing things. I have been writing about personal development for a year and 4 months and HealthMoneySuccess right now have 142 articles published. If I lock myself up for this year and 4 months, I will definitely suffer from a lack of ideas to write.

To allow myself to keep on writing helpful content, I make it a point to keep learning by reading books, watching videos and listening to audiobooks and podcast. By constantly learning through these mediums, I always pick up new ideas that I can share with my readers. Therefore, it is almost impossible to suffer from a lack of ideas if you are constantly learning.

The Art Of Capturing Ideas

How many times do you have a great idea only to find yourself forgotten all about it? If you have all the ideas in the world but you fail to remember any of them, it is the same as having no ideas at all. Ideas come and go and that is why you must make it a point to capture them down so that you can reflect upon them later. Here are some of my preferred ways of capturing my ideas.

1. Physical Note Book

I have a small notebook that is 2 inch by 2 inch. It is a rather small notebook so that I can bring them out easily and whenever an idea spring into my mind, I capture them down immediately. I use it to capture article ideas and right now, I have too many article ideas to write about instead of suffering from a lack of ideas.

2. Digital Gadgets

Since I got my iPhone, I have used it more often to capture my ideas. I use either the default note application or Evernote to write down my ideas, which I had included in the article “My Top 11 iPhone Applications“. Evernote allow you to capture your ideas in your phone but you will also be able to access it online by logging into your account. However, I still prefer the method of using the pen and notebook as I find it to be much faster than using the iPhone.

Parting Words

Ideas are everywhere around us and every new idea can help us to improve some aspect of our life. All it takes is to put in some effort to find them and utilize them. If you are able to generate more ideas, capture them and take action, how positively do you think it can affect your life?

As usual, I welcome your comments in the comment section.

Cheers,
Vincent

P.S: If you are a blogger and you are suffering from a lack of ideas for your next post, did you notice that I did not cover on the part on taking action on your idea. You can write an article about it and send a trackback to this post to share with everyone.

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Watching TV is one of the world’s favorite leisure activities. Studies have shown that on average, people spend 3 hours daily watching TV shows. This is about 90 hours per month or 1080 hours per year. This is a lot of time that we can spend on other tasks that can help us to move closer to our goals.

I also find that the news on TV is not really helping us to grow and in fact, it can plant negative thoughts in our mind. These negative thoughts can grow and affect the way we think and act. I will elaborate on these points below.

Why I Quit Watching TV Shows

1. Wasting Too Much Time

Spending lots of time watching TV shows can be really counter productive. Imagine spending 3 hours daily doing nothing but watching TV shows that includes re-runs, commercials and negative news. How productive can you be? These 3 hours can be spent on things that truly matters instead. Such as doing tasks that will bring you closer to your goals.

I believe moderation is the key here. If you truly want to accelerate your personal growth, limit your time on the TV and spend those times on tasks that truly matters. Just a reminder, how is your New Year Resolution going?

2. Negative News

Negative news is all around us. Go pick up your daily newspaper and look at the headline or watch the TV news. Most of the time they are announcing negative news about recession, natural disaster, robberies or murders.

Negative news sells and I don’t think they will ever go away. If you walk past a newspaper stand and the headline is “Weather is good and the economy is stable”, most likely you will take a look at it, smile and continue to walk off.

But if the news headline is “Recession is coming and there may be a typhoon around your area”, immediately you pay attention to it and rush off to buy the newspaper to read more about it.

If you are constantly putting fearful and negative thoughts into your mind, it will start to turn negative and fearful. You may than find that you become more of a pessimist and it affect the way you think and act.

I had read articles and books on successful people and the one thing they have in common is that they protect their mind. They refuse to allow negative news that they have no control over to enter their mind.

There isn’t any use for reading negative information but there isn’t anything that you can do about it. You definitely do not want these negative news to affect the way that you look at the world (example: reading about robberies and think that the world is hostile). A strong and positive mindset is one of the best weapons that you can use in the pursuit of success.

3. Wrong Influence

The media have the habit to portray the wrong images to the audience. One great example; they like to portray the rich as bad people and the poor as good people. How many times have you seen a rich person and you think that he must be a jerk? Or you saw a beautiful lady and you think that she must have a flirty personality?

Most probably it is due to watching too many TV shows that show you this type of content and it have conditioned your mind to think this way. If you truly want to be rich and successful, you definitely can’t have the thought “the rich are bad people” in your mind. If you think the rich are bad, how can you possibly want to be rich? You are creating an inner friction in yourself that will slow you down when you try to achieve financial success.

Parting Words

I have not watch any dramas or TV shows for about 2 years. As such, I am able to use this free time to train for my marathon, work on my blog, create websites and study for my school work.

I wonder how much difference will it make to your life if you start to spend lesser time in front of the TV? How much more productive you will be? How much stronger will your mindset become?

As always, discussion in the comments section is welcomed.

Cheers,

Vincent

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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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I had read Rich Dad Poor Dad a few years ago and the book has a profound effect on me. Rich Dad Poor Dad is a personal finance book and it was written by Robert Kiyosaki. In the book, he talks about how we should manage our cash flow and what should we do to get out of the rat race. One particular idea caught my attention and it was the part where he mentioned that he will never fail to invest in educating and upgrading himself. He is a millionaire and a great property investor, but he still consistently invests the money in his own education to upgrade his knowledge.

This idea of consistent growth and upgrading make sense to me. If you are looking to achieve anything in life, YOU will need to be in action. This means that how well you do will affect what type of results you receive. The better you are in what you are doing the better the results you will receive. In another word, you are your biggest leverage.

Investing In Yourself

Let us have a show of hand; have anyone set the intention to invest in their own education and skills this year? If you had, give yourself a pat on your back. If you have not, now is the time to give this idea some serious thoughts.

Most of us after we had graduated from the school system, we will start to slow down with our learning rate. Think about when is the last time you had picked up a book, attended seminars or classes after you had graduated? If it is rarely, then you will have to get yourself off the couch and start learning again. Don’t ever have the thinking that your learning stops after school. In fact, true learning starts after school.

“It is the studying that you do after your school days that really counts. Otherwise, you know only that which everyone else knows.”
~Henry Doherty

If you take a look at people around you who are doing well and successful, you will find that they are constantly upgrading themselves by going for seminars, classes or reading books related to the field that they are working in. There is a strong correlation between the amount of time you spent upgrading yourselves and the success you have in life.

Ways To Grow Yourself

There are a few ways that you can use to grow yourself. Here are some of them.

1. Visit your local library

The library is a great place to learn. There are a wide range of books and audio books out there that are available for loan. Another great thing about it is that everything is free. You can also kick start your education by downloading my free ebook, “Unleash Your Maximum Potential“. In the book there will be specific steps that teach you on how to awaken your sleeping genius and start achieving again.
2. Audio books

If you spend a lot of time commuting, don’t waste those time away. Imagine wasting 2 hours on commuting to and fro from your work place every day. You will be wasting 730 hours every year doing nothing which is approximately a month time.

Go out there and grab a book from a library, local bookstore or Amazon. Make full use of the time by reading a book. If you are driving or you prefer to listen instead of reading, I highly recommend you to visit Nightingale Conant. The website consists of audio books by established personal development authors such as Anthony Robbins, Brian Tracy and Dr Wayne Dyer. You can download them and listen to the audio books as you commute.

3. Attend seminars

Seminars are always packed with useful information. Make it a point to attend at least a seminar per year. I had attended a few seminars back in 2009 (Anthony Robbins UPW Singapore 2009) and I had picked up lots of useful knowledge. It is also a place where you can find like minded people and start to network with them. Networking through seminars can get you some great contacts and you never know that you may meet someone who will become your future joint venture partner.

Parting Words

Tony Robbins had mentioned, “If you are not growing, you are dying.” There are only 2 ways on a ladder. You either go up or down. Choose to climb up and reach for the success you want by starting to invest in yourself. You are the greatest tool that is bestowed to you in life.

If you choose not to upgrade this tool and let it stay the same as it is, you will only be able to tackle small challenges that only gives you mediocre results. However if you upgrade yourself constantly, only then you will be able to tackle larger challenges that give you excellent rewards.

Vincent
Constant and never ending improvement

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If you learn to trust your gut, you will go far. Everyone is born with base instinct. It’s what allows man to survive initially. As you go about life, you might be tempted to over think things, which may drive you into the wrong direction. When you learn to follow your intuition, you may well  find that you’re heading straight for success.

Think About Your Gut Feelings

In order to understand intuition, it may help to recall a situation where you had a gut feeling. Maybe you’ve met someone at work who seemed nice enough but they turned out to be a troublemaker. Later you told yourself that as soon as you met them, you just felt like something was up.

For me there were plenty of times growing up where I’d be tested in different classes at school. My gut feeling would tell me to answer one way, but then I would over think and then answer a different way. Often times when the tests were returned, I would realize that my gut feeling was right! I should have gone with the initial answer.

There’s an important lesson to be learned here about intuition. It’s that as you get older, you become more likely to over analyze your feelings. Sometimes an in depth analysis is needed, but sometimes it can be standing in the way of you and success. From now on make an effort to trust your first instinct, and see where life leads you.

Taking Action

When you trust your intuition, it’s a good thing. It’s not just because you’re most likely making the correct decision either. It’s also because you’re going with that first feeling and you’re taking action. Finding success is very much about taking action. Think about all the time you spend thinking about the things you’ve done, or what you plan on doing.

Many people spend their lives talking about or only dreaming of their true goals. It’s those individuals that do something about it that actually reach them. So when your instinct tells you to turn in a certain direction, perhaps you should see where the road leads.

Even if you feel like you’ve made a mistake by taking that road, chances are that you’ve learned a good lesson in the process. This failed attempt shouldn’t be treated as failure either. This is because it may be a necessary step for you to take in order to find your way to success. In that sense, your intuition was likely right all along.

How Your Intuition Helps Others

When you go with your gut feeling, you can also be helping others in the process. It’s also a skill that you can work on in order to develop your intuition. When you become good at this skill, you’ll make a more effective leader, which can be another stepping stone on your way to success.

When you approach any social situation in life, think about your initial grasp of that situation. If you can understand how someone is feeling just by the way that they’re looking at you, you can more than likely help them quickly and efficiently.

When you trust your gut in social situations, you’ll become a more likeable and effective communicator. This is because people will know that you understand them and you’ll be able to roll with the punches when plans change and you discover that you need to be a little more flexible.

Remember that your gut feeling will not always be right, but more often than not it will be right. You need to know and trust yourself and you’ll find success.

Author’s Bio:

Ever wondered how great successful people achieved great success? You can find the answer in The 77 Traits of Highly Successful People. Mark Foo has brought together 48 personal development bloggers and writers to co-author the success eBook that spells out all of the success secrets of the very successful people. This eBook is available to you FREE and you can grab your free copy now at http://www.77SuccessTraits.com.

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Differences Of Winners and Losers

Successful people are winners in our society. But what are the factors that make them so different from others? I have pondered about this question for a while and I found that there are some striking differences between winners and losers. Winners operate in a totally different frame of mind compared to losers and that is why they always got the results that losers dream of. So read on for the list of 33 differences between winners and losers.

Striking Differences Between Winners and Losers

Parting Words

Winners and losers are largely differentiated by their way of thinking. It means that if your thinking tend to be nearer to the Losers approach, it is possible for you to shift yourself back to the Winners way of thinking. All you need is to be 100% honest with yourself, admit that some part of your life needs to be change and work on it.

So which side are you on?

Vincent

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