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Enjoy the Moment – Dads with Daughters… Don’t Miss It! By Brian Biro

Last weekend I experienced a ‘moment’ with my daughter Kelsey that I will never forget. I’m writing to all of you dads with daughters out there because I don’t want you to miss YOUR moment. I want you to have a treasure that will stay with you as long as you live.

My wife Carole and I drove from our home in Asheville last Friday to meet Kelsey in Washington DC. Her best friend Maggie and our younger daughter Jenna were flying in to meet us as well. This trip was for an once-in-a-lifetime event…we were coming together to buy Kelsey her wedding dress!

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Success Lesson: Failure isn’t Final By Jim Stovall

Motivation

Often, we try to divide the world into two groups of people: Those who succeed and those who fail. While there are countless definitions of success and failure, this seems to make a logical dividing or measuring point.

Conventional wisdom might tell us that people who succeed never fail, and failures never succeed. Nothing could be further from the truth. If a picture is worth a thousand words, an example may be worth a million.

Albert Einstein wasn’t able to speak until he was almost four-years-old, and his teachers said he would “never amount to much.”

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Happiness is a Choice

Motivation

Allow me to let you in on a little secret. (No, it’s not Victoria’s Secret. Victoria really doesn’t have a secret. Have you ever seen the merchandise in that store? It’s obvious the secret is pretty much revealed.) Are you ready? Here it is: Happiness is a choice, that’s it. It’s a little secret, right? But, a great one. Happiness is a choice. That’s all you need to know. You are now enlightened. You can stop reading and go about your business. Congratulations on your new found self-awareness. Hey, I’m kidding, alright? But it is true. Happiness is a choice. As I always say, making “happiness a choice” is what life is all about. And it’s the best way to stay motivated throughout the day.

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Success Lesson: Abundance and Scarcity By Jim Stovall

Motivation

Your world view is the lens through which you view your life and everything around you. Few things are more important to our success than our world view, and most people don’t even recognize that they have a world view, much less understand it.

Since the beginning of time, there have always been two basic kinds of people in the world relating to abundance and scarcity. There are people who believe that the way to succeed is to grow, build, and create; and then there are people who believe, in order to be successful, you must get what someone else has. These are two opposing world views.

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Create Positive Emotions to Feel Satisfied in Life

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Positive emotions not only feel good, but they also increase our overall life satisfaction.

How?

By building resilience.

University of North Carolina professor Barbara Fredrickson has spent the past two decades looking into why we have positive emotions and what we do with them. She even has her own term for her work: positivity.

To quote an old commercial, “Why ask ‘why’?” when it comes to positive emotions? Shouldn’t we just enjoy them while they’re around? Sure, but maybe we can find even more about how these emotions benefit us.

Why do we have emotions anyway?

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Start Acting Now Like The Person You Want To Be In The Future

Motivation

There you are thinking to yourself that you’d like to be more social with others. You have admired all of those outgoing people who seem to get all of the attention they want.

Nope, you are not like those people. You don’t like social encounters that much and in fact, you have sometimes avoided getting into one on purpose.

You clearly aren’t satisfied about your current state of affairs, that’s for sure. That’s why you want to change and be different from what you are now.

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How to Conquer Rejection Forever By Robert D. Smith

Motivation

Rejection is a part of life that we have been trained to find unpleasant. But what if every rejection only meant you were one step closer to a yes? What if you considered rejection to be a crucial part of your search instead of an obstacle? What if it were merely a chapter in the much larger story of your purpose?

That’s the mind-set I had when I sold books door-to-door for Southwestern back in college. If there’s one profession where you’ll learn a lot about rejection, it’s door-to-door sales.

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3 Questions for Getting Unstuck and Motivated to Succeed

Motivation

Are you struggling with procrastination? Is there something on your to-do list that you keep putting off? Having trained as a life coach, I often meet with clients who are struggling with motivation: there’s something they need to do, but they just can’t manage to get motivated enough to do it.

My first question is always: Is it something you really want to do, or is it something that you feel you should do? Most of us live in a world where it can be challenging to separate what we really want to do from the things we think that we should do. We fill our to-do list with things that we ought to do, or need to do, often without asking ourselves whether we really want to do them or not.

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How to Inspire an Audience: A Room Full of Women Any Day

Motivation

The other day we were watching our two daughters play. A light bulb went on regarding women.

They’re different than men.

“No sugar Sherlock.”

Stick with me.

Girls laugh a lot. Boys on the other hand laugh too, but it is regularly associated with something physical. Like most boys, our son is kinesthetic. He will laugh the second you throw him in the pool. Wrestle on the carpet or knock him on his keester during a pillow fight.

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Quit doubting yourself

Motivation

There will be times in life where you may lose hope in something. That time for you could be right now. You’re going to want to give up, but I have one word for you: Don’t.

You need to keep going through whatever you have on your mind, because it is nothing more than your gut giving you the doubt.

This doubt is there to keep you from reaching your own success. Essentially, doubt is your enemy.

Everyone gets these feelings, including myself. It’s only a matter of knowing how to react to it.

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