Believe In Yourself By Pegine Echevarria

Pegine Echevarria motivational speakerYou begin to believe in yourself when you take the time to applaud yourself. Look back on your life and work and applaud your achievements.

Too often, we look at the lists we have created, the mound of work on one side of the desk that somehow is supposed to get to the other side of the desk and think, “will we ever get it all done?”

When we see our kids, we think “Are they ever going to grow up?” We wonder if we will ever go on that trip, ever learn that skill or do whatever it is that we seem to question ourselves about.

Discipline is Easy: The Pain Paradox By Rory Vaden

Rory VadenWhen you hear the word discipline what comes to mind? Most of us associate it with pain and suffering or some other negative connotation. But if discipline is hard, ugly, or brutal then why do so many successful people cite it as the path to Success? Does that mean that Success must always be difficult, painful, or brutal?

Not necessarily. There are plenty of people who have found success with relative ease due to timing, skill, or circumstance but no one has found Success (or maintained it) without discipline. That’s because Discipline is misinterpreted by our culture as the hard way… but discipline doesn’t always mean harder. Actually, Discipline is usually the easy way.

Change Is Good By Jane Schulte

Somehow the thought of any real change causes a tightening in your chest, a lump in your throat and a burn in your stomach. Why? Change evokes fear automatically as a human response.

Since the beginning of time, mankind has grappled with change. We all know stories or have loved ones or friends who are so rigid in their thinking that even the most minor deviation from their daily routine sends them into a tailspin.

But change is good! Not for the sake of change, but because it shakes things up, allows you to broaden your scope and opens your mind to possibilities that were never apparent.

Release the Shackles of Mediocrity! By Lisa Jimenez

Lisa Jimenez - motivation and success expertImagine a BIG production company came to you with a huge budget and a line-up of the biggest names in Hollywood to make a movie of your life.

Tell me. Would anyone want to go see it?

And, if they did, would it be pegged as a great adventure; filled with outrageous risk and incredible quests? Would it be a famous suspense movie; peppered with dramatic failures where you turned victim to victory? Would it be an empowering love story — a heart-warming example of a person who knows how to really love?

In other words…

Perfect or Excellent? What’s the difference? By Jane Schulte

Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing – Harriet Braiker

When I was young, I was branded with the word perfectionist. I thought it was a compliment. Little did I know that it was not. In fact, being a perfectionist is stressful and maddening and can lead to anger and self-destructive type behaviors.

No one can be perfect. And no one should want to be. The silly things we do, the mistakes we make and the fact that we don’t know it all is what life is about. Learning, growing and having fun in the process.

A Powerful Lesson in Problem-Solving By Alison Hummel

“A problem cannot be solved with the same consciousness that created it.” – Albert Einstein

Most of the problems that we have today, we probably had — in a different degree–last week, last year or ten years ago. Einstein said it best: stop trying to figure out how to solve your own problems… it ain’t working!

Any successful person has a team of people around him or her: consultants, employees, coaches, friends, family, psychologists, doctors, lawyers, accountants, etc. It is a rarity to find a wildly successful (and generally happy) person alone. Any time that we find ourselves in a [small or large] heap of a mess: in work, in our homes, with our friends… it is an opportunity to find a solution.

Your Mind: The Rider and the Elephant By James Mapes

“It is a psychological law that whatever we wish to accomplish we must impress on the subjective or subconscious mind.” – Dr.Orison Swett Marden, physician, writer

I was first introduced to “subconscious mind” in the early 1970’s while attending a massive convention, featuring motivational speakers and platform notables like the great W. Clement Stone, Zig Ziglar, Dr. Norman Vincent Peale and a host of other preachers of positive thinking.

I was totally entranced because, on a very deep level, the whole idea of positive thinking, affirmations and programming the subconscious made sense to me. Having become a student of clinical hypnosis, psychology and neurology, these speakers fueled my curiosity.

Reinvent Yourself with Purpose By James Mapes

“If you’re going to stick around in this business, you have to have the ability to reinvent yourself, whether consciously or unconsciously.” – Dennis Quaid, Academy Award winning actor

Reinvention is a tricky word. What does it really mean? Do you throw everything away and start from the beginning? Do you remold what is already there? Do you create something totally different than before? Depending on the circumstances, the answer is “yes.”

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