Motivation and Success Strategies

The Ripple Effect – What You Do Matters

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” — Margaret Mead

Have you ever heard of the Butterfly Effect?

It was an idea invented in 1963 by a man named Edward Lorenz, that stated that “if a butterfly flapped it’s wings on one side of the world that it would cause a hurricane on the other side of the world.” Which is now called “sensitive dependency on initial conditions.”

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Overcoming Negativity – Beware of the Negativism Virus

Motivation

Though you yourself may possess a positive outlook on life, it’s still a good idea to avoid negative people, particularly those who are critical of your aspirations or goals. Even if you try to ignore negativism in your midst, spoken words (not to mention facial expressions) are recorded by your subconscious mind.

Just as positive images stimulate your body mechanisms to do whatever is necessary to convert those images into physical realities, so it is with negative images, which explains the phenomenon of “self-fulfilling prophecies.” If you allow too much negativism to enter your subconscious mind — let alone your conscious mind — when difficulties arise, it’s quite natural to begin wondering if your critics weren’t right after all.

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Don’t Seek Advice, but do Listen to the Opinions of Others

Motivation

Have you ever observed your state of mind immediately before you seek advice?

Often, you seek advice because you don’t want to “own” the outcomes which are apparent if you take actions within your logical means. So we, most human beings, tend to seek someone’s advice. May it be your elderly family member, spouse, teacher, boss, religious leader or alike. We often feel it is good to seek advice from others for the problem we are facing; it is not.

Agreed, it is human to seek advice. Though not effective all the times.

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3 Easy Ways to Gain Confidence and Create Lasting Impressions

Motivation

Do you hope to walk into a crowded room and create a lasting impression on all the people present, before the main speaker even takes the stage? Well you can, all it takes is one little word and a whole lot of practice. Confidence. It takes repetition, knowledge and self esteem to master. All of which, create a lifetime of benefits.

Repetition

Unfortunately that “21 day habit creation” doesn’t work on raising your confidence. Not to discourage you, but it will take far more than a month to master a noticeable look of certainty. The first step comes in realizing the actions people considered confidence. A few of them include:

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5 Tips for Being More Proactive at Work

Business Success

There’s a reason why being proactive is linked to success. People who take an active role in the workplace are the ones who inevitably perform better and get noticed by superiors.

A take-charge mindset is empowering, because it gives you a sense of control over your role, allowing you to balance multiple responsibilities without compromising the quality of your work.

By learning how to tackle tasks more readily and skillfully, you can be more productive, avoid pitfalls and experience faster professional growth. To learn how to be more proactive, follow these helpful tips.

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8 Reasons You Can and Should Live the Life You Want

Motivation

There are two types of people in this world: those who believe that they can live the life they want by doing what they are most passionate about and those who don’t.

You are going to spend more than 90,000 hours at your job over the course of your lifetime, so choosing a career is extremely important. Chasing a paycheck, working a prestigious job just to impress people, or accepting an unfulfilling job for fear of not finding something better are all common choices.

But that doesn’t have to be you.

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Do It Yourself… With a LITTLE Bit of Help

Business Success

“It’s just Me, Myself, and I”…

…and so goes the chorus of the popular 1989 single “Me, Myself, and I” from rap legends De La Soul. Whether or not you’re familiar with the song, you certainly are familiar with that feeling of being the only dependable person in your group, your team, or your office. As most sports teams will tell you, “there is no I in team”. That adage sounds acceptable when it comes to a recreational game of baseball or football. However, how necessary is a team when it comes to launching your dream? Do you really need others to make your idea or business a reality?

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One Key To Staying Motivated Everyday

Motivation

I couldn’t believe it, a three-year dream was finally a reality!

I had worked so hard for those three years to transition from a job I absolutely hated to writing, speaking and coaching full-time. Motivation? I had an unlimited supply of motivation while I was chasing my dream, I was determined.

So there I was on day one and since I had no problem with motivation before, I thought I would get ten times as much accomplished. I went through my normal morning routine and was anxious to sit down and write.

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3 Simple Ways to Use Positive Thinking to Stay Motivated Even In Negative Situations

Motivation

Sometimes, trying to practice positive thinking and stay happy, even when things don’t go our way can prove impossible.

We’ve been advised countless times to set goals, follow our dreams, and attain success. But no one told us how hard it was going to be. Funny thing is that we were told to expect failures on the way, but we didn’t know what it truly meant until we failed the first time and felt like giving up.

It’s at this point that we then try to look for faster roads to success that would be less challenging and that would make us happy. So, we look for secret nuggets that would propel us into that desired future we really crave.

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Advice For Leading a World Class Life by Jim Rohn

Motivation

Every four years the world is given the gift of the Olympics. For a few weeks nations lay down their arms and come together to let their world class athletes compete on a level playing field to see who the best is in the many events. It boggles the mind what these young men and women can accomplish with their bodies—great feats of skill and determination bring them to the pinnacle of athletic achievement. Incredible.

As I think about what it takes to become a world class athlete capable of competing at the Olympic level, I realize that there are some foundational lessons for all of us to learn as it relates to becoming world class in whatever we set our hands to.

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Author name: Josh Hinds