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  • Do You Have Any Regrets?
    Do you ever think back over your past with regret about things you did that you wish you hadn’t done, or things you didn’t do that you wish you had done? Do you ever stop to think that today will be tomorrow’s past? What are you doing today to prevent regrets tomorrow?
  • If It Doesn't Make You Happy Then Why Are You Doing It?
    I'm sure that you have often heard people complaining about their life and about all the things they have to do that they don't like doing. Perhaps you have even been guilty of this yourself on occasions. Let's have a look at how you can change those unwanted patterns for good.
  • How Much Money Is Enough
    It always helps to know what you are aiming at and wealth creation is no different. I will assume that you want to build wealth in order to be able to retire and still live well. How much money will you really need?
  • What to Do If You're 55 and Not Rich Yet
    Most people in affluent countries aim to retire somewhere between 55 and 65, but what if you've reached 55 and your investment portfolio isn't up to scratch, or perhaps is non-existent. It can all start to appear overwhelming. What is the best way to start getting into financial shape
  • A Positive Mind Is a Quietly Confident Mind
    I'm sure that virtually everyone in the western world has heard of the concept of positive thinking. I am equally sure that almost as many people have no idea as to what a positive mind really is and how it can help you achieve happiness in life.
  • The Crazy Motto that Doubled My Sales
    Do you run a sales team? Have you ever noticed that sales people are brilliant at coming up with excuses for why their promised sales didn't eventuate. I use a simple strategy on my sales team that stopped the excuses and doubled the sales.
  • What Makes a Successful Consultant?
    There are many consultants, these days, working in a huge range of different fields, yet some consultants earn much more money, and are in much higher demand, than the average for their particular field of expertise. What is their secret and how can you be one of them?
  • Are You An Entrepreneur Or An Administrator?
    Many entrepreneurs are excellent at starting a new business and bringing it to the point of functional profit. However when it comes to keeping the business in profit they are a walking disaster. If that sounds like you then you need to adopt a strategy to fix this problem.
  • Succeeding in Your Home Based Business
    Home based business has many advantages but it also has some pitfalls. In order to succeed in your home based business you need to adopt some strategies to manage these pitfalls and ensure that you have a profitable business as well as a balance in your life.
  • Money is a Multiplier of Personality
    I've known people who never give to charity. They tell me that when they get rich they will give. The truth is that money tends to multiple your personality. If you a stingy person when you are broke you will be much stingier when you are rich.
  • Five Steps for Achieving Affluence..
    Affluence includes money but it is also broader than just money. Affluence is a flow of good things into your life. Here are five steps to help you achieve affluence in your life.
  • How Do You Act Under Pressure?
    How a person acts under pressure tells a lot about what that person is like. A valuable strategy is to observe yourself when the pressure is off and when the pressure is on, notice the differences and see if you can learn something that may help you become successful.
  • The Difference Between Busy Work and Profit Work
    Everyone complains these days about how busy they are, but how productively are they using their time. Anyone who has ever worked in commission sales soon discovers that there are two kinds of work; busy-work and profit-work.
  • Is Your Business A Wealth Creation Vehicle or Is It Just Marking Time?
    Are you really on track to get rich from your business or is your business at best simply providing you with a living. In this article we are going to take a look at the basic criteria for using your business as a wealth building vehicle
  • A Property is Only Sold When the Buyer and the Seller Disagree on its Value!
    Whether you are buying a property or selling a property, if you understand how to capitalize on the "value disagreement" principle then you will be able to increase your profit dramatically.
  • The Secret to Building Self Esteem
    Many people suffer with low self esteem. The interesting thing is that your self esteem is not dependent on the facts, it is dependent on your interpretation of the facts. Here is a simple strategy to improve your self esteem in such a way that it improves your life as well.
  • How to Invest 25% of Your Income Without Losing Your Quality Of Life
    John McCormack, in his excellent book "Self-Made in America" suggests that if you are investing less than 25% of your income then you aren't serious about becoming wealthy. But how do you afford to do this without suffering? The answer is here.
  • The Easiest Way To Write and Deliver a Great Talk
    People who aren't used to public speaking may never the less be called on at some time to give a talk, perhaps as part of their job. This can be a daunting task but there is a very easy, step by step formula for writing and delivering a great talk.
  • The Money Making Power of Keeping Good Business Records
    Many people in business and in sales positions are missing out on huge profits simply become they don't know how to profit from keeping good records. In this article I will show you are few tricks that made me a lot of money.
  • Seven Reasons Why You Are Not Rich
    If you have never become rich then it is because of one or more of the following seven reasons. You can break free of them and become rich if you really want to. It starts by being brutally honest with yourself when deciding whether that reason applies to you.
  • Why You Should Pray For Problems
    There is only one group of people that I know of who don't have problems and that is the group of people who permanently reside in the cemetery. If you're alive then you will have problems. So if problems are a natural part of life then what is their purpose?
  • Why Money Is The Greatest Invention Of All Time
    I am not only claiming that money is the greatest invention of all time, I am going so far as to say that if money had not been invented then it would be impossible for you to be enjoying the standard of living that you enjoy today.
  • Talent Is Over-Rated! You Don't Need Natural Talent In Order To Become Great.
    Some years ago I had an opportunity to chat with one of the greats of the jazz guitar. I asked him if he always had a talent for music. He laughed and told me that in fact the exact opposite was true.
  • Two Great Tips For Public Speaking Success
    The experts on our fears and stresses tell us that the fear of public speaking is the greatest fear that most people have. When I first started public speaking I was petrified, but now I love it and I earn a large amount of money whenever I speak. Here are a couple of tips that may help you too.
  • Why Residential Property Increases In Price And How To Capitalize On It
    There is a lot of nonsense spoken and written about property investing. If you want to understand what really drives property prices, and how you can capitalize on that knowledge, then there are two basic concepts that you need to understand and accept.
  • How To Beat Procrastination For Good
    Procrastination is the art of putting off until tomorrow what you should be doing today. Procrastination is probably the most expensive habit that a person can develop because it costs you all the success that you could be enjoying if you were an action taker.
  • Keeping Yourself On Track For Success
    Most of us start our success journey on a part time basis. We already have a full time job and other commitments but we want more out of life. How can you balance all your commitments and still make sure that you stay on track for your success goals?
  • The Person Who Says It Can't Be Done Should Never Interrupt The Person Who Is Doing It
    Dale Carnegie once said that any fool can complain and criticize, and most fools do. Whenever you announce that you have set an ambitious goal all the nay-sayers will come out of the woodwork. This can be very discouraging to many people but there are ways to overcome it.
  • Why Doing The Work Is Not Enough To Guarantee The Rewards
    I've heard people say that if you do the work then success will come. Unfortunately that is not true. The world is full of hard working broke people. The good news is that there is a way to ensure that your work will give you the results you want.
  • How to Coach Yourself to Success
    Coaching yourself can be difficult because it is much harder to stand outside yourself and look on impartially, than it is to coach another person.

    Here is a simple technique that can help you get around that difficulty.
  • How to Stay Ahead of the Rest
    Today's world is highly competitive. Regardless of whether you are in business or in the workforce you have to ward off competition each and every day. But there is something that you can do to keep ahead of the field so that your competition does not threaten you.
  • Five Strategies For Working Smarter Not Harder
    Most business owners and executives these days are working long hours in order to achieve their goals. If you have to work more hours than the normal business day in order to complete your work then you are doing it wrong! Here are five strategies to help you work smarter not harder.
  • The Six Elements of Power in Negotiations...
    One of the key elements in any negotiation is power, real or perceived. The more power you have the easier it is to achieve your objective. In this article I will discuss six elements that contribute to negotiation power.
  • The Right Balance Between Being Process Focused and Being Results Focused
    A result is the outcome of any action or set of actions.

    A process is the set of steps you take in order to produce the result.

    Part of the skill of becoming successful is to strike the right balance between results focusing and process focusing.
  • The Six Key Vulnerabilities in Negotiation
    Negotiation is a mental and emotional game. Much of the result is dependent on the emotional strengths and vulnerabilities of the parties and, of course, their skills at capitalizing on these strengths and vulnerabilities.

    I will discuss six key vulnerabilities to be aware of in negotiation.
  • Seven Habits of a Loser
    Clearly not everyone becomes successful in life. Know what the "losers" have in common can help you see if you have these problems and thereby give you the opportunity to remove them so that they no longer hold you back.

    Here are the seven most common "losing" habits.
  • Seven Habits of a Winner
    You've probably heard the saying that success leaves clues. One place that success clues can be found is in the habits that successful people have in common with each other. Here are seven such habits to give you clues to winning the success game in your own life.
  • Why You Need To Stretch Your Comfort Zone
    My favourite definition of "crazy" is "doing what you've always done but expecting your results to be different." Most people are afraid to change what they have always done, but the truth is that if you don't learn to stretch your comfort zone regularly then life will not improve for you.
  • You Know It But Are You Doing It.
    If you are interested in becoming successful then you have probably read or heard about many of the techniques for achieving success. You know some techniques and you believe that you understand those techniques. But are you actually using them each and every day?
  • What Questions Are You Asking Yourself?
    Most people aren't getting the right answers in life because they haven't yet learned how to ask the right questions. Here are some tips to help you ensure that you are asking the questions that will lead to success, rather than the questions that lead to failure.
  • The 5 Pieces to the Happiness Puzzle
    I believe that there are five pieces that fit together to make happiness an automatic result for you.

    You can be successful in any one or two of these areas and still not be happy but if you are simultaneously successful in all five then your happiness is assured.
  • Seven Tips for Building Your Wealth
    Here are seven tips for you to help you achieve a success financial life. These seven strategies have been used throughout the ages by the self made rich and are being used just as effectively today by those who build their own fortunes.
  • The First Step To Riches: Shifting Your Focus Off Money
    Money, if used properly, is the greatest of all human inventions because it has provided us with a level of freedom and control that has made most other inventions possible, but you'll find it a hard slog to try to become rich by focusing on money.
  • The Twelve Basic Principles Of Negotiation - Numbers 7 to 12
    This is the second article in a two part series on the principles of negotiation. The first article dealt with principles 1 to 6 and this article covers principles 7 to 12.
  • Three Ways To Profitably Use The Most Powerful Two Words In The English Language
    Most experts believe that it is language that has allowed the human being to far exceed all other animals on the planet. Language can also be used to enhance relationships, both personal and business. Here are some techniques to do just that for you.
  • Seven Strategies for Inspiring People To Follow You
    You can appoint a manager but leadership must be earned.

    There are, however, some strategies that can help you earn that mantle. In this article I will outline seven such strategies for you to use if you choose to.
  • The 10 Step Investment Process
    This is the system that I use in my investing and it is also the system that I have taught to many other professional investors.
  • The Twelve Basic Principles Of Negotiation - Numbers 1 to 6
    Negotiation is an art that requires both study and practice. However there are some basic guidelines that can help you when negotiating. Here are the first six of twelve basic principles that, if followed, will help you negotiate well.
  • Your Number One Priority Today
    I am sure that you have many things to do today. Some of those things are very important and some are not important at all. But of all the things you have to do, which thing should be your number one priority?
  • Motivation Is Just Frustration On Steroids!
    Most people try to avoid frustration as much as they possibility can, but many successful people have learned how to create frustration and then channel it into an irresistible force that drives them to the achievement of their goal. This article tells you how to do it.
  • Five Ingredients of Happiness
    Happiness is different things to different people but there are common threads that run through the achievement of happiness for most people. These threads can be broken down into five ingredients. If you have all five of these you will be happy.
  • The Profit Power Of Spreading Happiness
    Spreading joy and happiness in the world can be one of the most financially profitable activities you can engage in, once you understand how to turn this positive habit into cash.
  • Why did you start your business and is it really providing that for you?
    Most small business owners are working far longer hours, for lower hourly returns, than they would be doing if they were working in a job.

    The aim of this article is to have you reassess your goals and get your business to give you what you really want in life.
  • What Buddha Can Teach You About How To Become A Multimillionaire
    Buddha was born into wealth as a prince, but as a young adult he chose to turn his back on material wealth in order to focus on a spiritual life. Yet many of Buddha's teachings give us the exact wisdom we need in order to create great material wealth.
  • The Five P's of Success
    The achievement of success can be broken down into five essential components. In this article I will outline what those components are and how they fit together to make success a reality in your life.
  • Light A Fire Under Yourself Today
    Andrew Carnegie, in his day the richest man in the world, said that people who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.
  • Your Friends Want You To Fail
    Have you ever told your friends about your success goals? What was their reaction? If you are like most people you soon discover that your friends will give you 101 reasons why you should abandon those goals. Here's why!
  • How To Impress The Pants Off Anyone, Figuratively Speaking Of Course
    When I've asked people in my courses why they really want to achieve their goals, a very common answer is they really want to impress certain other people with their success. Well here's a way to impress people today and it's not that hard to do if you're serious about it.
  • A Guaranteed Success Formula
    Success is not an accident. Success is not a matter of luck. There is a five step formula that can be followed and, if you have the commitment to follow it you will reap the rewards.
  • The Key to Personal Achievement
    All that you have achieved and all that you have failed to achieve is the direct results of your thoughts.

    Furthermore, all that you will achieve and all that you will fail to achieve will be the direct result of your thoughts.
  • What Should You Do When Everything Seems To Be Going Wrong?
    Have you ever experienced a time in your life when everything seems to be going wrong for you? You probably have. In fact you may even be going through such a time now. Don't worry. All is not lost. There are steps you can take to push through the gloom into sunshine.
  • Do You Have The Personality To Become Rich?
    People can be divided into several different groups according to how they react to the circumstances of life. I call these groups the Acceptors, the Complainers, the Analyzers, and the Achievers.
  • How to Change Your Circumstances Now.
    I have a good friend who has an interesting saying. He says that the difference between a gardener and a dog is that the gardener can transform chaos into a beautiful garden where as the dog will turn the beautiful garden back into chaos.
  • Seven Questions Every Ambitious Person Needs To Answer
    Here's a quick quiz for you to help you determine if you are on track for success.
  • The Five Elements Of Business Success - Element 5: Function
    Function in a business can be analyzed and implemented around four key components. These components are; systems and internal structure, rewards, discipline and teamwork, cash flow and resource flow.
  • The Five Elements Of Business Success - Element 4: Leadership
    Leadership in business can be viewed as consisting of 5 components. These components are; application of knowledge and experience, business consistency, relationships, courage, and decision making.
  • Why You Should Aim to Make Your Business Financially Independent Of Itself
    Most people in our society today realize the importance of becoming financially independent. They have a goal to set up some form of investment program that will produce a passive to cover their needs. It is interesting that very few businesses realize the advantages of having a similar goal.
  • Seven Tips For Giving Effective Criticism
    Here are seven tips for giving effective criticism that will generally achieve the outcome you want without harming your relationship with the person you are criticizing.
  • The Five Elements Of Business Success - Element 3: The Business Environment
    The achievement of business success requires many skills. Amongst these are the skill sets to assess the business environment and to capitalize on, and risk manage, that environment.
  • Seven Keys To Personal Development
    I believe that the secret to personal development won't be found by sitting under a tree for 20 years contemplating the universe. The secret to personal development is to pursue a worthwhile goal that takes you outside your comfort zone and forces you to grow in the process.
  • Five Steps To Attaining Any Goal
    Here is a simple five step formula that will help you get any goal that you set.
  • How To Create Serendipity in Your Life
    Serendipity is a lucky break. It's being in the right place at the right time. But is it really a matter of luck or can you produce serendipity in your own life. You can, and I'm going to show you how.
  • What Are You Doing With The Incredible Gift Of Life?
    Of all the wonders of nature perhaps the most incredible is that we are alive with the free will to choose what we do with our lives. This is an amazing gift and we only have a few short years to enjoy it. What are you doing with your gift of life?
  • Why Haven’t You Already Attained Your Current Goal?
    My personal experience has taught me that the first thing you should do when you set a goal is to ask; why don’t I already have that goal?

    If you answer this question honestly then you will help yourself increase both the likelihood and the speed of getting that goal.
  • Six Tips For Building and Maintaining Rapport
    Rapport building is the art of helping another person minimize their perceived difference between themself and yourself. Rapport happens at the subconscious level but here are a few ways that you can consciously help the process along.
  • The Five Elements Of Business Success - Element 1: An Inspiring Purpose.
    If your business has a way of binding its people together in a motivating way, then it can greatly increase its level of success. I refer to this binding aspect of a business as its inspiring purpose.
  • You Might Be Wasting Your Time Setting Goals
    Why do some people get their goals and others don't? The answer to this question is one of the most important concepts to understand if you are serious about becoming successful.
  • Escape from the Prison of Preconception
    We all have our set ideas that are hard to put aside, but what is this costing us? Every time we fall victim to preconception we are losing the opportunity to expand our knowledge and experience. Ultimately this may keep us well below our true potential for a rewarding and exciting life.
  • Getting Rich Is Easy
    It is human nature to believe that people who are achieving much more than ourselves have discovered some magical, secret formula that gives them powers we don't have. The truth is that success in any area of endeavor generally comes from diligently and consistently following the basic principles.
  • Seven Principles For Building A Better Life
    I wonder how magnificent your life could be if you were to become all you could be. What if you were to tap into your full potential for success and happiness? Here are seven principles to help you do just that.
  • The Seven Step Wealthation Plan
    Here is a seven step system for acquiring financial wealth and a rewarding lifestyle. I have run many one day courses around this plan and my students have achieved excellent results from applying it. Here is a brief summary for you to use.
  • How Making A Decision To Get Rich Provides You With All The Opportunities You Need To Achieve It
    Opportunities abound! They are everywhere. A famous person once said that the opportunity of a lifetime comes by about once a fortnight on the average. It is not opportunity that is in short demand; it is the ability to recognize it.
  • If You Don't Do This You Are Doomed To Mediocrity
    There are many things that successful people do differently from those who don't become successful. Some of these make a great difference to your outcomes while others are not so important. One of the most important is how you handle your strengths and weaknesses.
  • The Often Overlooked Secret to Getting Anything You Want
    Much advice has been given by many experts on how to get what you want in life. Most of these strategies require a considerable amount of time and effort on your part. However there is a very powerful yet simple strategy that people overlook and you can start using it today.
  • Make the Decision to Get Started Today
    We often hear success coaches talk about "making the decision" to become successful or "making the decision" to become rich, but what do we really mean by "making the decision"?
  • The Mindset of a Multimillionaire
    The single biggest difference between the self made rich and the rest of society is not their starting point, or the number of opportunities that came their way, or their education, or good looks. The major difference between the self made rich and the rest is simply the way they think.
  • Seven Secrets to Wealth Creation
    Wealth creation is not a matter of luck it is the result of applying an appropriate strategy. Here are seven wealth building secrets that can help you put together your own winning strategy to increase YOUR personal wealth.
  • The Magic Question For Qualifying Prospects and Generating More Sales
    One area that is dealt with extensively in sales training is "qualifying" your prospect. However, I discovered that all you need is one question to qualify any prospect, and even better, this one question leads to more sales, faster and easier than anything else I have learned.
  • How To Overcome Any Obstacle In Your Journey To Success
    Have your ever struck an obstacle in your journey toward success? I certainly know that I have run into quite a few during my lifetime. Fortunately I discovered a simple strategy that makes it much easier to overcome any obstacle you might encounter.
  • The One Word Secret That Makes The Rich So Rich
    The rich don't get rich by accident. But no matter how motivated or educated a person is, he or she still only has 24 hours in a day, so how do they use those hours to get so much richer than the average person? They apply a one word secret that will work just as well for you if you use it.
  • You Always Get What You Ask For
    The universe we live in and everything in it is subject to certain laws. One of those laws is that you always get what you ask for. "Ask and you shall receive", "knock on the door and it will be opened to you", and numerous other words of wisdom throughout the ages have expressed this law.
  • The Secret That Too Few People Know About The Super Successful
    Many of the things that you need to do in order to become successful can be quite a stretch on your comfort zone. They may make you nervous. You may have self doubts. You may be down right scared by them. So what about the people who do become successful? Don't they have these negative feelings?
  • The Hidden Danger of Goal Setting
    One of the first thing success oriented people usually learn is that they have to set goals. We are told that for a goal to be successful it must be specific, have a deadline and be in writing. What we are not told is that the typically taught strategies for goal setting could be ......
  • Are You Subconsciously Afraid to Become Wealthy?
    Have you ever had the experience of really trying to be financially successful, appearing to do everything right, yet wealth eludes you? Perhaps you even manage to earn an excellent income but it just seems to disappear as fast as it comes in? Your solution is here!
  • The Secret Weapon of Great Communicators
    Have you ever seen a great communicator in action? They seem to be able to talk to anyone on any topic and everyone they speak with enjoys the conversation. These great communicators use their verbal charisma to open doors to all manner of opportunity; business, career, or social.
  • The First Step to Having Everything You Want in Life
    Each and every person on this planet is different. You are unique.

    What I am really talking about is the essence of you. The you that is above the flesh and blood. The you that the philosophers refer to when they ask the age old question "who am I". The inner you.
  • The Golden Key To Success
    There is a simple success strategy that puts you head and shoulders above the majority of people, a strategy that creates opportunity, helps you overcome obstacles and, if you have the courage to apply it, will produce marvelous, positive changes in your life.
  • The Secret to Making Failure Impossible
    I think it would be fair to say that most people have failed at one time or other in their life. Failure can be disheartening and many people quit their attempts to become successful because of the difficulty of handling failure. What if there was a way to make failure an impossibility for you?
  • The Little Secret That Can Double Your Income
    How would you like to double your income in the next 12 months? What if I told you that you can do this whether you are an employee or in your own business? What if I also told you that you don't have to work any more hours than you currently work? Does that sound attractive to you? Then read on.
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