Top Traits of Successful People Successful people are defined by what they say, what they do, and by who they are. Become Successful and Achieve Your Life Goals So here are three outstanding qualities demonstrated by the lives of those I perceive as being successful people. It doesn’t take long to determine whether someone’s successful…
How To Be Strong Without Being The “Bad Guy” Being strong without coming off as a rude or hurtful can be a difficult tightrope to walk for anyone in a position of authority. It can be equally tough when one is not in a position of authority, but must establish a strong stance to make…
Practicing to be Nobody-But-Yourself ‘To be nobody-but-yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human can fight; and never stop fighting.’ e.e.cummings I resolved many years ago that I would be the me that I had been…
Importance of Defining Success in Your Life We live in a media-driven world where many stereotypes of success are relentlessly thrust at us. At times these stories and these images can confuse us, and we can find ourselves at times pursuing a pattern of success that is not correctly aligned to what we have been…
Things To Remember When Life’s Really Kicking You In The Ass I hear so many people whingeing about the economy – that they are unable to get a job, that there is no opportunity or that they don’t seem to be able to earn enough money. The overriding word evident in their vocabulary is ‘CAN’T’!…
how to be more confident in yourself In some situations you’re feeling totally certain about yourself, while in other situations you doubt every move you make. Some days your confidence is high, while other days it’s low. Does it have to be like this? Does confidence have to vary or is there something better? The…
How To Avoid The Premature Birth Of Your Dreams and how To Birthing Your BIG Dream Successfully One of the challenges that those of us who have dreams often face, is to clearly understand timing. But as an avid vegetable gardener (and I even have a stainless steel shovel to prove it) I have come…
How To Avoid The Leaders Who May Mislead Follow the leader? Sorry can’t always. I must follow my heart. I must trust my conscience. First we must reach into the very depths of our being and ask ourselves the question. For what reason have I been born? For what purpose greater than myself have I…
How To Avoid Being Hemmed In By The ‘How’ Of Life By Embracing Your ‘Why’ identify my strengths and weaknesses Most people live their lives in the realm of the ‘How’, and only a small percentage ever take time to discover the ‘Why’. This leads them on the road to only one of two places…
How To Set Yourself Up To Win Do you like losing? No, I don’t either. There’s nothing pleasing about a loss. That’s why I prefer winning. But in order to win you need to position yourself for a win. So how do you always set yourself up for a win? Allow me to share just…
How To Be Happy Always ‘I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply, not into the market, not into opinion, not into patronage.’ Ralph Waldo Emerson Mankind seems to be always on the seemingly unending search for the illusive entity we call…
How setting deadlines in time management Ever since December of last year I have been working towards today. Yes today is the day that I launch my new online course SELF DEVELOPMENT MASTERMIND. Some time ago I set a date for the launch to be on the 15th June. But when reviewing our progress, a…
How To Be More Persistent To Achieve Your Goals In a recent interview my interviewer, who had done his research by reading many of my past blog articles, said that the outstanding quality represented in my life, as recorded in all my writings, was my ability to persist. That statement caused me to pause for…
How Jenny Overcame Low self esteem therapy I love the story of the ugly duckling. For some reason a cygnet, or baby swan, found herself amongst a flock of ducklings. The reason she was called ugly was because she was a swan, not a duck. She was different. She was unique. What a terrible thing…
What makes me unique: ways to discover your uniqueness I recently came across the first professional musical recording(Stand Firm) that I ever made while still in my early twenties, and discovered to my surprise that on the cassette I was featured as Peter G. James Sinclair. In my twenties I was flexing my unique muscles…