Practical Ways To Motivate Yourself To Learn A Skill

One way to motivate yourself to work hard at anything is to risk wasting your money if you fail to put in the necessary effort.When Charles Simeon, the great preacher and theologian, was at Cambridge, he promised himself that if he failed to get up at 6 a.m. he would... Read More

Get Started! Do Something!

This is about getting started. Taking that first step. It is so easy to moan about our lives and complain that things aren't how we want them to be. We all do it. We all have done it! So how can we break out of that moaning habit and turn... Read More

Quick Steps To Help You Take Action Now

Need to move ahead and yet find yourself holding back?Edward W. Smith, motivational speaker, author and TV show host, who specializes in quick tips on how to move your life ahead even faster, offers the following advice.One of the main reasons we hold back taking action is the desire for... Read More

Do You Know Which Door To Open?

Do you remember that old television program that gave the contestant the opportunity to choose one of three doors and receive whatever was behind the door?I was reminded of this television program the other day when I was pondering a decision I was struggling to make. My usual process for... Read More

A Perfect World ... Imbalance Creates Motivation

I am a big proponent of balance. Everything has to be just so. I believe that we should all strive to obtain balance in our lives. Balance between career and family. Balance between public and private. Balance between spiritualism, finances, and materialism.One of the things I also pass on to... Read More

Success Through The Power Of Daily Action

Daily actions to achieve your goals means daily progress and daily excitement as you start to feel your dreams are actually coming true.As you take action daily, you cannot fail to realize that you are moving steadily towards your goal and this can only fill you with growing enthusiasm and... Read More

Our Life ? Our Choice

OK, maybe that's a bit of an overgeneralization but it applies most of the time. Basically, what I am saying is that we are what we are because that's what we've decided to be. We live where we live, do what we do and think what we think because that's... Read More

People Who Get What They Want: What Are They Thinking?

Imagine being able to choose any outcome and automatically feel motivated to make it happen.No matter what's standing in your way, you'd be so driven that you would blow right past it. You would get what you wanted every time.Sound too good to be true?I thought so too, until I... Read More

No Excuses

Don't you just hate it when people make excuses for their failures? So do I. But do you know what I hate even more? Finding myself making excuses for my failures! I have a policy that I try to live by: No excuses.Here are some thoughts on a "No Excuses"... Read More

Discover The Upside of Anger

Most of us are prone to anger! As we grow older, a certain degree of control keeps us in check, but the pot is on simmer and the lid is loosely fixed. An unexpected jolt, or a sudden increase in heat will nearly always result in a boiling cauldron.Recently we... Read More

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Stained Glass Windows

Elizabeth Kubler Ross once said, "People are like stained glass... Read More

Even Though

As often happens following one of the Best Year Yet... Read More

Self-Limiting Beliefs: The Inner Enemies of Progress

What are they?Self-limiting beliefs are those things you believe about... Read More

What Once Was - Ain?t No More

Rather than beat around the bush and try to lead... Read More

The True Cost Of A Lack of Motivation

And what a lack of motivation means..As you read this... Read More

Sow the Seed - See the Harvest

The story is told of two boys who were walking... Read More

A Reality Practice

Suggested practice to gain freedom from self-limitation.It is suggested that... Read More

These Are The Good Ole Days

I am sitting here at a public access wireless location... Read More

Live On Fire

Words seem inadequate to describe the beauty and abundance that... Read More

How to Use Discouragement to Motivate Yourself

Ever feel like giving up? Do you ever feel so... Read More

Change 101: How to Handle the Changes that Come Your Way

One of the few things that are constant in this... Read More

How To Beat Procrastination At Work

Listen. If you don´t beat procrastination at work the long... Read More

Planting Seeds of Action

Recently, I was driving past a local nursery and saw... Read More

We Are Trying To

How many times have you heard this in your life?... Read More

If You Can Dream It, You Can Do It!

"I have heard it said that the first ingredient of... Read More

Cure Your Burnout!

Do you ever get those Sunday night blues? Dreading the... Read More

If I Had 24 Hours To Live

A few years back, the ex-recording artist, turned Pastor, turned... Read More

5 Forgotten Secrets to Beating Procrastination at Home

It's not easy to stay motivated and beat procrastination while... Read More

Resistance Is Natural - but Not Helpful - in Times of Change

Here are five feelings we all experience in changing times.... Read More

How to Get Motivated and Have Industrial Strength Self-Motivation

It is not your fault if popular self-help courses have... Read More

Motivation; 5 Steps to Get the Changes You Want

Q: I just read your column in today's' Greensboro News... Read More

Anxiety & Panic ? Make Your Information Work for You

Whether you suffer from anxiety and panic attacks or not,... Read More

Mr. Smith, Please Enter the Dream Room - Dream Big Dreams to Do Big Things!

Enjoy a great quote to start off this fantastic week!"All... Read More

My Grandmother Never Had a Degree

There were four generations sitting at the kitchen table, smacking... Read More

Lights are Off and No One is Home

The other day I was on my way home, and... Read More

Daily Motivation--Be Kind to Yourself for a Change

"How far you go in life depends on your being... Read More

Playing With Mindfulness: Sneaking In The Back Door

I often meet people who say things like, "I've been... Read More

Increase Your Energy!

It was only about 18 months ago that I could... Read More

Curing the Blues - 14 Feel-Good Ways to Get Out of the Dumps

Everyone goes through that "in the blues" feeling once in... Read More

Life Doesnt Have A Sell By Date

Or does it?Best on or before?.. Nearly everything we touch... Read More

Trust the ?System? ? It Works!

The "System" ? the overall structure and organization of this... Read More

Questions for the Game of Life

"If you could eliminate one day from your past so... Read More

Spring! Time for Love and New Beginnings

Prepare, prepare, prepare! The horizon screams of spring and the... Read More