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The Everlasting Key To Success – Work Hard

November 22nd, 2011

Do you think that success requires hard work? Maybe you are not going to like this, but for me, I definitely think that success does require you to work hard.

Work Hard SuccessSometimes it is true that you can work smart instead of working hard to get what you want. If you can work smart and spend only 1 hour to get what you want, guess what kind of results you are going to get if you can spend 2 hours into doing it? Highly likely, you are going to get more out of it.

It is great when you think about spending little effort to produce outstanding results, but if this is true, then most of us here would be rich and successful. The reason most people are not achieving what they want in their lives is because they are not working hard enough.

By working hard, I mean that spending quality time that will produce you the results that you are looking for. Some people work 10 hours a day, however, they are not very productive simply because they spend most of their time doing something that is not going to take them where they want to go.

Life Is Short, So Work Harder

Yes, life is short, so you have to work harder. Everyone has 24 hours a day no matter who you are. Therefore, stop wasting time and start to pursue for what you really want. Close your eyes now and think about what you have accomplished this year. It is November now and the year 2011 is ending soon. If you are not accomplishing much of your targets for this year, you’d better doing something right now.

Do you want to be the same by the end of 2012? Do you want to achieve your goals, live a prosper life, be more successful, be richer by the end of 2012? If you do, you have to work hard from now on.

If you look at all the successful people out there, they all are very hard working. They work on their goals and put in effort to build their dreams a lot more than ordinary people. Look at Donald Trump when he is at his peak. He works on his deals and put in so many hours into his business. Sometimes he will think about his deals even late in the night and can’t wait to go to the office to get his work done.

The same goes for Ray Kroc, the guy who built McDonald’s into a billion-dollar business. If you read his autobiography, you will also understand that he works like crazy to build his business. The time when he is setting up his first McDonald’s, he is still holding a full time job. Thus, he has to wake up a lot earlier than normal people to go to his restaurant, and he has to come to work on it again after office hour. This is how and why extraordinary people are able to produce amazing results in their lives.

Decide To Work Harder From Now On

I know some of you may have the thought saying that you do not have the time or I may not understand your schedule. Let me tell you this, no matter how busy you are right now, you can always find time to take action and work on your dreams.

You can tell me that you are working during weekdays and you may want to accompany your family at night. Let me share with you another real story of a successful guy named Ewen Chia. He is a very successful internet marketer and now he is enjoying all the passive incomes from the internet.

When he first started his internet business, he is holding a full-time job. And guess what, he also need to spend time being with his family after work. So how did he find the time to build his internet business? Ewen spend his time to build his online empire from 11pm to 3am everyday. Don’t be surprised because this is the kind of desire and commitment that most successful people have when they focus on their dreams.

Yes, you need to sacrifice your time to pursue your dreams. If you are not reading this article right now, most likely you are surfing internet for other stuff of maybe you are playing games, or chatting or playing Facebook. You see, you are spending your time every second, it is just a matter of whether you are spending your time into something un-resourceful or you are investing time into building your dreams.

So use your time wisely and decide to work harder from now on. You do not have to wait until something happen only to start, you can always choose to start right now.

There are tons and tons of success stories out there and there are many great examples. All of the great people spend most of their time working on their dreams. They work hard to achieve their goals and make their dreams a reality. So this is also what you need to do.

Work Smart VS Work Hard

Why do you want to choose between work hard and work smart? Just do both! Work hard and in the same time, work smart!

This is exactly what you need to do to prosper in your business. Spend time working on your dreams. And then try to spend a little extra to find out how you can work lesser to produce the same amount of time. After that, just continue to be creative and work harder to create the results that you want with lesser time.

A lot of people are trying to make money from the stock market, forex or through the power of internet. Yes, it is true that you can make money from these medium, but you will also need to work on the strategies and take the right action to earn the money from there. Take internet marketing for example, you need to first learn the strategies of how to do it, and then take action to create the income that you want. The same if you are trying to invest in the stock market. You will need to study the market and do the necessary analysis.

There is no one-click and you will become the next millionaire kind of thing. If this kind of software or program does exist, why do the people who created it need to sell it to you in the first place? If they would like to help you to become the next millionaire, ask them to give the program or tool to you free of charge instead since they are helping people.

So What Should You Do Right Now?

The answer is pretty simple. I believe that when you read until this point, you will already know what you need to do. You just need to make the decision right now to do it and take action right away.

Start taking action and make your dreams come true now. Put in more time and effort into your goals and do it right now. With Godspeed!

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Create The Intention Of What You Want

October 31st, 2011

The first step to achieving what you want in your life is by creating the intention in your mind. Just a simple thought of thinking about what you want is enough to create an effect big enough for you to live a big life.

Think about it, everything that you see in this world starts as a thought in somebody’s head. The computer you are using right now was once an idea in someone’s mind and it is that person’s hard work and persistence that bring his thought into reality. The mobile phone you are using was also an idea in someone’s head before it becomes something tangible that can connect 2 or more parties together.

create intention to successThus, if you think about it, everything starts from your thought. Therefore, what you need to do in order to accomplish great success in life is by creating an intention of what you want to achieve in your mind. Simply think about what you want and believe that you can achieve it.

When you think about something that you want to achieve, you will almost certain that you can achieve it. Most people think about getting back from work to home to watch their favorite drama and series. Guess what, most people achieve that. And if you think about eating burger as dinner, you will also almost certain that you will achieve it.

Your mind will direct you towards what you want. It does not really matter how you are going to do it. As long as you create the intention in your mind, you will eventually come up with an answer.

Put The Right Thoughts Into Your Mind

In other words, if you think about something that is unattainable, your mind will come up with so-called proof to show you why it is unattainable and shut you from doing it. Just think about how unlucky it is for you today and your mind will come up with all sorts of answers to prove to you.

Try out this exercise right now. Think about any negative thought that is coming into your mind now. Think about how bad it is today. Think about how badly your boss treats you. Think about how you lose the deal and think about why your ex dump you.

What comes into your mind? You will notice that whenever you think about those negative thoughts, your mind will support your thoughts by giving you ‘proof’ and show you how bad your day can be.

On the other hand, if you think about great and positive thoughts such as how you are able to close those big deals, why you are so lovely, and so on and so forth, you will come up with answers to support those great thoughts in your mind.

This means that what you think about is very important. This is why you have to put in the right thoughts in your mind all the time. Thinking about what you want will actually help you to come up with ideas how you are going to accomplish them.

Why Vision Boards, Goal Setting And Affirmation Work

Vision boards, goal setting and affirmation work because when you use these tools and techniques, you are actually creating an intentional and focus your thoughts on the results that you want in your life. Whenever you think about what you want, you are enforcing your mind to think the related thoughts that will direct you toward what you want.

It is just like how you arrive to this blog. There must be something that makes you come into this blog. Maybe you are searching for some motivational or self-improvement articles on the internet and you come across this blog. How you come across this blog is not that important, the most important point is why you end up here and what makes your arrival here.

It must be that you are interested with something that my blog is providing and hence, you clicked and come into this blog. So can you see it now? It all starts from a simple thought in your mind.

So just use a vision board and imagine about what you want to accomplish in your life. Set goals to help you stay focused and keep you in the right direction. And use affirmation to consistently deposit great and positive thoughts in your mind.

The more you think about the things that you want in your life, the greater the intention that you are going to create in your mind. And eventually you will do something that is related to your thoughts and as a result, you will take action and produces the results that you think about in your mind.

This is how great achievement can be created. What you have to do right now is to create a vision board and use affirmation to help you to move toward the destination that you wish to go.

Anyone can use these tools and techniques to help them achieve whatever they want in life. Just believe in the power of thought, and you will see how amazing things can happen in your life.

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What Is Stopping Most People From Achieving Great Success

October 20th, 2011

So what is stopping you from becoming successful and wealthy? If you look at great people and compare them with you, what are the differences?

There are differences between extraordinary people who achieve outstanding results in life and ordinary people who are living just to get by. Of course, I’m not saying about the physical differences. Some people were born handicap, but despite that, they are still manage to produce amazing results and become very successful.

what is stopping youMost people are perfect physically. We all are built with the same physical body. We have legs and hands, we have mouth, we have heart and brain and almost every of our physical part is the same. Thus, what makes great people great?

Is it education and luck? Do you really think that education and luck plays an important role in the journey to your ultimate success? Education is definitely not the main factor. We have seen people who do not finish school and do not have a Diploma and Degree ended up becoming wealthy and successful. As for luck, do you think you can eliminate luck by increasing the numbers from your hard work?

Honda Soichiro’s factory got flatten by war and earthquake, twice, and you can say that he is unlucky, but in the end, he still managed to bring Honda to be one of the top manufacturers in the automobile industry.

Of course, there are some factors that cannot be changed, such as the place that you were born in and the family that you were in. However, you have to understand that despite all these factors, there are still many others who manage to create amazing success out of their lives. Some people are born in the poor family, but they still able to overcome all obstacles and make their way to success in life.

So what is stopping most people from achieving the success that they want? For me, there are a few…

1. They Dare Not To Change

Yes, one of the most common reasons people fail to produce outstanding results in their lives because they do not dare to make a change. Do you know that success requires courage? Do you dare to make the cold calls? Do you dare to take loan from the banks to start your own business? Do you dare to move out of your comfort zone and do something that you never try before?

Success requires courage and you must dare to make a change. If you are like most people, they will stay in their comfort zone and do whatever is comfortable to them. This is why success is only a dream to them. They do not dare to make the first step and get it possible. When you ask those people to get out of their comfort zone to start a business, to buy an investment property, or to make a simple cold call, they will give you all sorts of reasons why it is not going to work or why they cannot do it.

Always remember this, if you want to be successful, you must dare to make the changes. If you do not change, you will never be able to get to the place that you want because you are staying in the same place forever.

Success starts from making the decision and changing your action. Let me share with you something. Just think about your life now, think about your age and think about where you are right now. If you continue to do whatever you are doing right now, highly likely, you are not going to achieve what you want in your life.

Thus, start to do something about your dreams and your goals. Stop wasting anymore time; life is short and you must do something that will move you toward the direction that you desire.

2. They Procrastinate All The Time

I’m guilty of this myself when we talk about procrastination. Come on, nobody is perfect in this world right? Everyone will procrastinate some time, it is just that highly successful people procrastinate lesser compare to people who are living an ordinary life.

It is fine if you want to live your life ordinarily if that is what you are seeking. However, we all know that we are able to accomplish big success and we know that we have the potential, so we do not want to waste it.

Are you doing what you suppose to do that will lead you toward your goals and dreams? A lot of people are not doing what they need to even if they are super clear with what they want to achieve in their lives. They know that they need to make the calls, they know that they need to arrange for the appointment, they know that they need to exercise, but they just do not do it.

This is why most people are not successful. If you want to be a millionaire, you can buy a book that teaches you how you can become a millionaire, but the majority of those people who read the book are not going to take any action about it. There are so many investment resources out there and so many personal development gurus are ready and willing to teach you how to be more successful, but are you willing to take the action and do your part?

You have to understand that you need to do the push up and exercise on your own. People can only guide you, teach you and advise you, but in the end, you are the one who is going to do the exercise and the push up to build your body. That is how success works in life.

3. All Sorts Of Negative Thinking And Emotions

Do you believe that you can and able to achieve great success in life? Do you always feel lethargic and have no energy to take the action and do the work you suppose to do? These are examples of negative thinking and emotions that everyone will face in their lives.

It is very normal if you think negatively before you start doing it. This is why most people out there are just plain ordinary. It all depends on how handle it. That is why a lot of people say that success starts from yourself. It depends on how you handle your negative thinking and emotion.

Try to make it a habit to think constructively instead of negatively. As long as you try to do something, even if you fail, it is fine because you will at least learn something and get the experience. So when you do it for the second time, you will know what to avoid and greatly increase your chances of success.

The same goes for your emotions. We’re human beings and we will have feelings and emotions. You can feel sad and down if you want to, but just do not make it a habit and feel the negative emotion all day long. Somehow, we all need to continue this journey called life and look forward for a better future. There is a quote that I like very much, “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is mystery and today is a gift”. Its called a gift because it is a present to you that you can change now. You cannot change the past and you cannot guarantee your future, unless you take charge of your present moment and build your future.

These are the 3 most common factors that are stopping most people from achieving the success that they desire. Of course, there are still many other obstacles that you are going to face in your journey. Just make sure you know what you want and always focus on your future.

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The Absolute Way To Achieve What You Want In Life

September 20th, 2011

Well, there are many things that you may want to achieve in your life, but this does not mean that it is easy. In fact, many people fail to achieve what they want in their lives. However, I strongly believe that every one of us has the potential to accomplish great things in our lives if we wanted to.

achieving goalIt is just that you have not awakened the giant within you. When you tap into your maximum potential, nothing can ever stop you. So how can you bring out your best and achieve whatever you have set to achieve?

The answer is that you must follow through the success principles that have been practiced and used by all the extraordinary people out there.

Be clear with what you want

The first one is that you must be absolutely clear with what you want to accomplish. So ask yourself right now, do you know what you want to accomplish in 3 years? If you do not know what you want to achieve in the future, you can never tell whether you are doing the right things that will get you the results that you want.

So stop becoming like a lost sheep. If you are serious about getting what you want, make your mind clear and focused single-minded toward that target. If you do not know what you want to achieve in the future, you can never know whether what you are doing right now is contributing to your dreams.

Do you know that the strategies to make $100,000 a year and the strategies to make $1,000,000 a year are totally different? You cannot work as an admin in a small company and earn a million dollars a year. It is just impossible. What I want to show you here is that it all depends on what you want to accomplish. The goals that you set are going to determine what you should be doing now.

A lot of people did not realize that what they are doing right now does not actually contribute to their goals and their dreams. Therefore, make sure you are moving in the right direction that you want to end up by determining your destination first.

What really drive you

Next, you have to make sure you have the passion and the ‘stamina’ to complete the journey. Achieving your goals and your dreams are not something easy. This is especially true if you set extraordinary goals that will propel you forward by a giant leap. I want to stress it again, it is not something easy, it is something very challenging.

If you set your goals as something that are easy to accomplish, you will be just ordinary. Extraordinary people set outstanding goals because they know they are difficult to achieve, not because they are easy to achieve.

So do you have the courage to set big goals? If you do, great! Make sure you have the passion and the stamina to take the necessary actions that will produce the outcomes that you want.

Most people fail to accomplish what they have set because they do not have the drive to take the necessary action that will give them the results that they want. Do not let this happen to you.

Ask yourself, what do you really want from your goals? A lot of people set their goals to become rich and to become a millionaire, do you really think that it is the money that is motivating you?

Most of the time, it is not the money that is motivating us. For many people out there, it is other thing that is driving them to achieve more, it is not money.

Some people just want to prove themselves that they can do it. Some people do it because they want to help their company to move forward. Some people do it because they feel satisfy and doing their work makes them feel great. Some people do it because they just want to make enough money to buy a house and to save enough for their marriage. So what really drives you?

It is just like an athlete, what drives you that you want to become the champion in the game? Often, it is the drive that will keep you moving forward no matter how tough the training will be. So you see, if you do not have the fuel, the drive, the motivation, the stamina or whatever you want to call it, you will burn out very fast and give up once you face obstacles.

Successful people will never give up. If they give up, they will never be successful anymore. The same goes for you. Why do you want to achieve your goals and accomplish extraordinary results in your life? Your answer will show how motivated and how committed you are with what you want in life.

Having the right tool

Do you have the right tools and equipment to succeed in life? If you are in business, your tools can be your office, your mobile phones, your computers, your attire, your employees and anything that can relate to your business success. If you are a tennis player, what will be your tools? For instance, they can be your shoes, your racket, your sports wear and many more.

It is quite easy to have the right tools. You can look at other successful people in your field, and learn from them. For example, you can look at how superstar athletes play, how they dress, how they train and more. For sales personnel, you can look at how your top salesmen in your company dress, what mobile phone they use, how they talk, and to some extend, what car they drive and so on.

Of course, you do not have to copy everything, what you want to accomplish here is to learn from other extraordinary people and see what kind of tools they are using that can help you improve your own results.

Having the right tool can help you achieve the results that you desire faster. And this is one of the keys that you can use to replicate success in your own life, easier and faster.

These are some of the most important factors that can help you in your journey to success in life. Remember, you need to be absolutely clear with what you want so that you can take the right action to produce the results that you are looking for.

After that, make sure the drive is there to fuel you toward your destination. This is where a lot of people lose in the game. They simply cannot take it because they do not have the motivation to put in 100% commitment for their dreams. So find out what motivates you and nothing can ever stop you again.

Finally, you need to have the right tools in order to produce outstanding results. Just like going to your destination, you can choose to walk, to drive a car, to travel by air, or cycle there or to take bus. There are many ways to achieve what you want, however, having the right tools can get you toward your destination faster and easier.

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My 7 Favorite Principles To Achieving Great Results In Life

August 21st, 2011

There are so many keys and principles of success out there. And what you are going to discover in today’s post are my 7 favorite principles to achieving great results in life.

success principlesSo are you ready? Here they are…

1. Your Desire

For me, you will never achieve what you want without desire. Desire is the fundamental principle that will move you toward what you want in your life. Put it in a simple way, desire is what makes you want to achieve your dreams and goals.

Think about it, it is your desire that makes you want to earn more, to do more, to accomplish more, and to be extraordinary. If you do not have the desire for what you want, you will never even think about it. And if you are not thinking about it, you will never do anything about it. As a result, if you are not doing anything about it, you will never get it. As simple as that.

Your desire actually fires off the thought of ‘want’ in your head. When your desire is strong, you will have a very strong thought of wanting to achieve it, and this is what makes you successful in life.

So develop the desire for what you want and you will definitely produce the results you want.

2. Passion

Passion is what makes you great in what you do. Look at all the athletes out there, they are passionate with the sports they play and this is why they are the best. Without passion, you will never do it with your heart.

Bill Gates becomes software billionaire because he has an intense passion for it. He can sit in front of the computer for hours just to play with software. The same goes for Warren Buffett. Buffett spends tons of time analyzing the market down to earth because he is passionate in doing it.

Therefore, if you want to be extraordinary in your field, make sure you have the passion for it. If you do not have the passion, you will never bother whether you will do it right, you will just simply get it done and never think twice about it again.

So find your passion and immerse yourself in it. You can become great in your industry by doing what you love.

3. Self-improvement

Success is all about improving yourself to produce great results in your life. Thus, you need to consistently improving yourself in order to accomplish great things in life. You may be a nobody today, but are given a chance to prove yourself and achieve outstanding results in the future.

As long as you are willing to improve, you will eventually reach your ultimate destination. Japan rise to become one of the most productive countries in the world because they practice the principle of “kaizen”. In other words, they practice the principle of constant and never ending improvement.

So you see, as long as you are willing to improve yourself, you will be able to reach the next level and create amazing results in your life. One very simple way to constantly improving yourself is by adopting the habit of reading. You do not have to spend tons of time into reading. Just read one or two books a month will do.

4. Your Most Precious Resource

Do you know what is the most precious resource you have with you today? It is your time. Everyone has been given 24 hours per day. And you cannot manage time because you are given 24 hours a day no matter who you are. What you can manage is yourself.

So from today onwards, spend more time into pursuing your goals. Invest time to improve yourself and commit to your dreams. If you set a goal to become a millionaire by age 30 and you are at 25 right now, you will have 5 years to accomplish it. And regardless of what you do each day, you will eventually become 30. So it is just a matter of you turning 30 with accomplished goal or without.

Many people fail to achieve what they want because they do not have the urgency. They think that they have a lot of time, but in fact, most people do not have enough time to do what they want in life. Think about it, time fly like an arrow and if you are still not doing anything about your goals, your dreams will never come true. Do not waste your time and regret afterward.

Hence, if you are still young now, which is great because you can make full use of your time now to work on your future. If you are not young anymore and you are running out of time, that is even greater because there is no time for you to waste. Just go all out and play it with 100% commitment.

Remember, how you spend your time will determine how successful you will be. If you spend time doing things that are not related with your dreams and your goals, you will never produce the results you want. Thus, spend your time doing something that will move you toward your goals.

5. Be Optimistic

Are you a positive thinker? Sometimes it is quite difficult to find out by your own. So ask your friends or your family members about this and see what they are going to tell you. Many times, someone who thinks positively always come out with creative ideas and is always producing great results in life.

This is because when you think positively, you are actually expecting something good to happen. It may not always end up with the positive results that you expect, but it is a good start to put you in a positive state to achieve amazing things.

Just imagine that you are a salesman approaching someone to ask for a sale, what will happen if you expect your customer is not going to buy from you? Highly likely, your thought will trigger a negative state and makes you lose confident in making the sale. And you will end up losing the sale. However, if you expect your customer to buy, you will speak with confident, you present with energy and you are passionate with it because you think that you are going to close the sale. And this actually helps you to close the deal.

Success is not something easy, that is why you want to do it and this is why you need to always look at the bright side. The more positive you are, the ‘luckier’ you become.

6. Gratitude

No matter how successful you are, you will never feel enough if you are not thankful to what you have. Do you think you are wealthy? If you are grateful, you might answer yes. When you are reading this, it simply means that you are richer than a lot of people in the world. Some people do not even have enough food to survive. When you think about how to become rich, they are thinking about how they can survive because of hunger.

Therefore, be thankful with what you have now. Do not get me wrong, I am not saying that you should live as you are right now and never to pursue higher incomes and goals. In my opinion, it is always a good thing to pursue for more wealth. This is because in the journey of achieving greater wealth, you are actually making others wealthy as well.

When you create value for others through your work or business, you are contributing to the society. This is how you can become rich. Of course, this is in terms of moral and ethical means.

So always be grateful for what you have and help others when you are up there. Share with others how you did it and contribute back to the society that shapes you. This is how true wealth is created.

7. Dare To Dream Big And Believe That You Can Do It

If you want to be extraordinary, you need to adopt the habit of thinking big. Set goals that excites you, dream about the things that will motivate you and makes you excited. Stop asking whether you are worthy for your goals, instead, ask the other way round, are your goals worthy for you?

You are unique and you are extraordinary. God makes no junk. So decide now that you are the one that is destined for big success. And believe in yourself that you can do it. You know you are capable of achieving outstanding success in your life. It is not whether you can do it or you cannot. You know you have the potential for it, it is just a matter of whether you want to do it.

So make this day the brand new beginning of your life toward achieving something great. Trust that you can do it and truly believe that it is possible for you.

Make it a habit to think about how great you are and how much you want to accomplish everyday when you wake up in the morning. This is what will make you extraordinary and successful in life.

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How Spending 60 Minutes A Day Can Make You Successful In Life

August 1st, 2011

When I am reading the book, “The Art Of Closing The Sales” from Brian Tracy, there is a part of the book that seriously moved me. And this is why I would like to share with you here today.

reading and successRegardless of whether you are in sales, I believe that what you are going to discover below can change your life, period. You are about to find out how you can spend 60 minutes a day to transform your life, to become extraordinary and to achieve all your dreams and your goals.

So how do you actually do it? The answer is by making the decision to spend at least 60 minutes into reading personal development or any related books that will improve your knowledge and skills in your career and business. This is how you can achieve anything in your life by just spending a mere 60 minutes a day.

So commit to wake up 1 hour early from tomorrow onwards and make the decision to read books that will help you in your life. When you feed your mind with something positive, educational, and uplifting in the first hour, you will perform better all day long. You will be more cheerful, relaxed, and self-assured. You will also be more resilient and will bounce back faster from rejection and disappointment.

If you have to get to work at 8am in the morning, wake up at 6am, spend the first hour reading and then get ready for your day. Do you know that top people in the industry who produce extraordinary results arise early and get going immediately? On the other hand, average people rise at the last possible minute, they then runaround in circles, dash off for the office with no time to think or preparation.

Now, I would like to quote a story from the book “The Art of Closing The Sales” that has touched me and I believe it will do the same for you…

Not long ago, a young man, twenty years old, came to one of my public seminars. His name was Bob. He had long, unkempt hair, was poorly dressed, and had a negative attitude. During the seminar, I explained the importance of reading thirty to sixty minutes each morning. He sat in the back all day, taking notes, and left at the end of the day without saying anything to me.

About two months later, I got a call from his uncle. It turned out that Bob came from a broken family, was a high school dropout, and had experienced some minor problems with the law. Finally, his uncle and aunt had taken him in. He was unemployed, had no ambition, and sat around watching television most of the day. Ultimately, the uncle laid down the law and insisted that Bob get a job, any job, rather than continue to sit around the house.

Reluctantly, Bob went out and god a job in straight commission selling, from house to house and business to business. As you can imagine, he did poorly. He made very few sales and very little money. But he had to keep this job in order to continue living with his uncle and aunt.

One day, the uncle saw the advertisement for my seminar in the paper and in desperation decided to send his nephew. Bob did not want to go. He only went because his uncle paid for it, drove him to the seminar, and picked him up afterward.

In the two months following the seminar, however, a miracle had taken place. The first thing Bob did when he got home was by a book on selling. He then began getting up each morning and reading for thirty minutes before he went to his sales job. Within a week, he was reading an hour per day. Soon he was getting up at 5am and reading for two hours before he went off to work. In no time at all, his sales took off. Then they exploded. He started breaking sales records. And the more he sold, the more confident and enthusiastic he became.

All by himself, he began to make changes in his physical appearance. He hand his hair cut and groomed neatly. He bought new clothes so he looked like a professional. The other salespeople in his company began looking up to him and asking him for advice.

Six weeks after my course, they made him a sales manager and put him in charge of a small territory. Two months after my course, he went with his uncle and bought his first car. He had tripled and quadrupled his income and completely changed his personality.

His uncle told me that Bob attributed all of his success to having been forced to go to my seminar. He said the most important thing he learned was the value of reading in sales for at least an hour every morning before starting out. It transformed his life.

This clearly shows you the importance of reading at least for 60 minutes before you start your day. It is the same in every industry. If you are in business, you can read books related with your business industry. Or you can always read self improvement books if you wanted to.

If you can commit to read 60 minutes every morning before you go to work, you are actually feeding your mind with great mental food. And this will surely change the way you think because you are consistently feeding your mind with something positive and something constructive. As a result, your life will change because you started to respond differently, you make decisions differently and you take action differently. You will become the top person in your field because you are thinking like one.

This why reading is important and if you can make the commitment to follow through, success will be yours and you are able to produce extraordinary results in your life.

Finally, understand this, “If you are not consistently learning and upgrading your skills, somewhere, someone else is, and when you meet that person, you will lose.”

Therefore, commit to lifelong learning from now on. Remember, wake up 1 hour earlier from tomorrow onward, and spend those 60 minutes to read. This is how you can transform your life from average to extraordinary.

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How To Transform Your Life In An Instant

July 28th, 2011

Do you know that you can transform your life in an instant? No matter what happened to you in your life, you have the power to choose what meaning you would like to give it. And it is this power that gives you the ability to transform your life, regardless of where you are, who you are or whatever has happened to you.

how we thinkThink about it, if you are just getting fired from your boss, what does that mean? Well, some people will take it as something bad. They will blame their boss; blame their company for getting rid of them even though they have performed great value for their company.

On the other hand, some people will say to themselves, “Well, thing just happen. This is very common; I guess I will look for another better company that appreciates my worth.”

Same situation, but with a different meaning that you give to it, the results will be totally different. So this is what you are going to find out in this post today. You are going to discover about the power of reframing, so that it can help you move forward and transform your life.

The Law of Polarity: Anything that seems to be extremely negative, when framed with a different perspective, will become extremely positive.

Do you know that life has no meaning at all, except the meaning that you give to life? If you think that life is boring, then you will live a boring life. Conversely, if you think that life is excited, then you will live an excited life.

It is what you choose to frame it that will make it your reality. If you read the biographies of successful people, you will discover that they all have gone through a lot of so-called failures in their lives; however, they did not take it as failures. Somehow, they treat failure differently and they are able to turn the situation from bad to great.

Look at Donald Trump, he frames thing as tests of his resilience and as lessons that make him smarts. This guy made a fortune in real estate in the 1980s and early 1990s. However, the grass is not always green. In the late 1990s, a worldwide depression set in and property prices plummeted. Donald Trump was not spared. His personal fortune was gone and he was US$900 million in debt. The banks moved in to make him bankrupt.

A lot of other real estate guys suffered the same tragedy and convinced that themselves that they were financially ruined and went bankrupt. Donald Trump did not regard this as being the end, it only meant that he had the opportunity to get back to work and turn things around. And eventually he did turn things around. He negotiated for the biggest deals in business history and within 3 years, he made over US$3 billion. He even wrote a book called “The Art Of The Comeback” that talks about how the tragedy made him wiser, stronger and more focused than ever.

Therefore, if you want to be successful, you must learn the art of reframing. Always remember this in your head, it is how you represent your experiences that will determine how you respond, and thus, determine the results that you are going to get in life.

Let me give you some clear examples here. Do you think that poor is something that will limit you from becoming successful or it is something that will actually help you to achieving your dreams? The answer is it depends on what meaning you want to associate to the word ‘poor’.

For most people, they represent poor as a limiting factor that will stop them from becoming more successful. However, there is a smaller group of people who represent poor as an experience that will drive them to be successful. For this group of people, they have the thinking that because they are poor, that is why they need to work harder to earn more money and be successful.

How about if you are in debt? Or if you are not well educated? Or the person who you loved has just left you? Or you are fired by your boss? Or if the economy is not doing well?

I hope that you can see it clearly right now. It is not a matter of which direction that the wind is blowing, it is a matter of how you can control your sail to reach your destination. You cannot control the wind, the economy or whatever bad things that may happen to you, but you can always control how you choose to respond to it.

If you say that your son does not stop talking, you can reframe this negative comment by saying “Good! It means that he has great potential as a speaker!” Or you can reframe it by saying that he is full of creative ideas or he will be the next debate king in school.

No matter how negative the situation may be, there is always a positive side of it. For every head, there will be a tail. Just like Yin and Yang, male and female, black and white, good and bad, etc. If you cannot find the good in it, it simply means that you are still stuck in the negative side and that is why you cannot see the positive.

So, always remember that the meaning you choose to give is the meaning that you create. Thus, you can create any meaning you want in your life. You are the one that will determine how you can respond. Choose reframe all the negatives into the positives, and you will have no problem transforming your life and making your dreams come true.

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3 Golden Tips Of Success From Vince Lombardi

July 25th, 2011

Vince Lombardi, one of the best coaches in the football world, is no doubt one of the greatest extraordinary people that you can learn from.

vince lombardiAnd this is exactly what I am going to write about today. I will show you 3 golden tips of success from Vince Lombardi that can change your life and move you toward your ultimate success in life. Of course, there is a ton of great tips and advice from this extraordinary guy, but I am going to share with you 3 that I think are most powerful in shaping your destiny…

“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.”

How true it is. It is not knowledge that will determine your success. It not strength that will determine your success too. Both knowledge and strength are just forms of potential power that can help you in achieving whatever you want in your life.

If knowledge will determine your success, I am sure thousands of university graduates would be successful. Ironically, a lot of university graduates are working for very successful entrepreneurs who do not have much education in their lives.

Do not get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with education. I just want to point out that education itself is not the main factor that will determine how successful you are.

It is your will that will determine how much you can accomplish in your life. In other words, it is your desire for what you want that will decide how far and how much you can achieve. Most people are living in mediocrity not because they do not have the knowledge or the strength, it is mainly because they do not have the will and the desire to do it.

Every one of us is capable to produce outstanding results in our lives if we wanted to. You know it very well that you are capable, that you are unique and that you can achieve extraordinary results in your life. Unfortunately, most people do not have the will to do it.

When you have the burning desire and the will, you are going to do whatever it takes and you definitely will accomplish what you set out to. Remember, God do not make junk, you have your own strength and you can live an awesome and abundance life if you want to.

“If it doesn’t matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?”

This is one of the most common mistakes that people often make. If you want to achieve your goals, make sure you keep score, keep track of your results, know how much you have accomplished and know how far you are from your goals.

If you do not know where you are heading and where you are, how can you tell when you have reached there? It is just like driving, you need to first decide on your destination, and then only you can decide which route is suitable and start to move toward your destination. It is exactly the same in life.

First you decide your goals and your targets. Make sure they are clear, specific, measurable and with deadlines. After that, you make sure you take action and progress toward them. In the process, track your results and make sure you are creating the results that you want. If you are not producing the outcomes that you want, change your strategy and take action again.

Success is not something complicated, it is something simple, but it takes a lot of hard work and you will have to put in effort to achieve it.

So ask yourself now, do you know where you are heading and do you know how far away you are from your destination? Measure your results everyday and make yourself accountable.

“The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.”

You will never succeed without failing. It is your failure that will make you successful. If you never failed before, you have to be careful because you might not know how to overcome it when it comes.

The key is to make sure that you treat failure as a feedback and learn from it as an experience. If you did not give up, you will never fail. Just like what Vince Lombardi has to say, “We didn’t lose the game; we just ran out of time.”

You will never fail as long as you did not treat it as a failure. Instead, treat failure as a signal that is telling you that your strategy is incorrect. If you never give up, you will never lose and fail.

Look at all the great people out there; they failed more than ordinary people, which are what makes them extraordinary. Therefore, if you want to be successful, fail more. You must learn to dare to try and to take action and never be afraid of falling. If you fall, wake up and move on again. You will become wiser from the fall. Just like the saying, “what does not kill you makes you stronger.”

So have the guts to take action and just do it. Stop thinking about whether you can accomplish it, you just need to take action and put in the effort, things will move and you will eventually find your way to your ultimate success.

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How To Gain Absolute Power In Your Life

July 21st, 2011

Giving excuses is one of the most common ways to give up the power to control your life. Do you sometimes feel like you have no control over your life? Things just happen out of your control and you just feel down?

power to successThere are many instances and moments that you wish they did not happen in your life, but, this is life, thus, anything can happen.

In this article, I would like to share with you a very powerful principle that you can apply into your life to gain absolute power and take charge of your life again. You might know about this principle in your life, it will be great if you can read this post to the end and refresh your mind about this powerful principle again.

If you want to be in the position of power, it means that you want to change whatever that is not working in your life. If you are living miserably now, it means that you are not in control of your life, you do not have the power to take charge.

For most people, having the power to control their lives is something that is only possible for the minority who were born in the position of power such as business acumen, exceptional talent or lady luck. This is not true at all. In fact, anyone can have the absolute power to control their lives if they want to.

So what is this secret to having absolute power?

The Secret Is Absolute Responsibility

Yes, whenever you take responsibility for whatever happens, it means that you acknowledge that you are the one who is creating the results and the outcomes. And if you are the one who created it, you can then have the power to change it.

Let me give you some clear examples here so that you can have a better understanding. If you take responsibility for your low pay, it means that you actually acknowledge that it is your action and decision that led to your low pay. It may be that you are not creating enough value for your company so that your boss will pay you more, or maybe you are not demonstrating your value to your boss, or it is because you are choosing to work in a company that does not value your worth.

Whatever the issues may be, you must take full responsibility in order to make a change. And when you understand that it is your own decision and action that produces the result that you do not want, you will have the power to change the result by making different decision and acted upon it.

What happen to most people are that they did not take responsibility for their lives and the majority of them will give excuses or blame others. It is fine if you give excuses or blame others once in a while. Everyone makes excuses and gives blame sometimes. However, if you do this consistently, you will never get the successful life that you always desire.

Giving excuses and blaming others will never put you in charge. When the economy is bad and your business is not moving, if you blame the economy, guess what, you will never make any change and the situation will stay the same. On the other hand, if you take the responsibility by making different decision and strategies to grow your business, do you think things will change? The answer is highly likely. There is no guarantee, but if you change your action, you will definitely get different results.

It is just like one plus one. If you keep on adding one with one, you will always get two. If you change the number, such as adding one with three, you will get four, which is a different outcome. This is a common sense, but most people are trapped in it and they never make any changes in their lives. That is why most people are living the same way for so many years. They get trapped in the rat race and are getting nowhere.

Taking full responsibility does not mean that you have to blame yourself. It simply means that you understand that you are the one who is in control and you are the one who created the results. And if you are in charge, then you can change the direction and produce different results.

Well, if your children are rebellious and are not listening to what you say, take the responsibility that you are not communicating well with them. If your students did not do well in the exams, take the responsibility for the way of your teachings that are not efficient. If your staffs are not producing enough value, take the responsibility that you have not tapped into their passion.

Now, you understand how to take absolute power, make sure you understand this as well…

For Things To Change, You Must First Change

Things will never change because of you, you must change in order for things to change. Think about it, if you want to grow your business, but you are not changing any of your strategy, you will keep on getting the same old results. This is why innovation is so important.

If you continue to do the things the same way, guess what will happen? You will be getting the same old outcomes all the time. If you want to change your life, start by changing yourself.

If you want to attract the best staff, you need to first be the best boss. After all, if you are not the best boss, why did the best employee wants to work for you? Therefore, as you can see it now, for things to change, we must first change.

If you want to have a perfect wife, then be the perfect husband. If you want to have high income, add the greatest value to your company and your clients. If you want to attract the best customers, be the best company in your field.

This is how all the extraordinary people did it and it is the one of the most powerful principles of success that you can never miss. Without this powerful principle, you will never produce the results that you are looking for.

So make sure you apply and use this principle in your life throughout the day. Things will change, simply because you have changed.

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How To Attain Success With Simple Steps

July 18th, 2011

When you think about success, what comes into your mind? For most people, they will think about making a lot of money, staying in a big luxury bungalow, having and driving big cars, dining in the finest restaurant and more.

small steps to successIf you look at the picture closely, you will notice that all the thoughts about success are so big and huge and they cannot be accomplished in just a day. In other words, it shows to you that success is not something that you can achieve instantly. You cannot achieve all the things and results that you want in an instant. You cannot become a millionaire overnight, it is possible, but it is a very rare case.

Therefore, for most people, success is about the end results that they are getting and not the journey that they are going through. The journey is where most people fail.

A lot of people fail to accomplish their goals and achieve their dreams not because they cannot see the end results that they want, but because they do not have whatever it takes to go through the journey. So this is where this article comes in.

What I would like to share with you today is that you can be successful at any moment in your life. Since it is the journey (what you do) that matters, so you must celebrate all your actions and treat them as a success.

When you are reading this article, you are actually making a small progress toward your success. You are motivating yourself and learning how you can achieve what you want in your life. You may not see the effect and the result right away. The truth is that these small actions did really contribute toward your success.

If your goal is to lose weight, you are successful when you push away the plate full of fries in front of you. The same if your goal is to become a millionaire. You are successful when you read an article about how to invest wisely in the market. As long as you do something, you are actually making the progress and are contributing your own success.

Many people did not realize this fact and this is why they are not doing anything about their dreams and their goals. When you treat all the small actions as a success, you will do them and you will do a lot of them.

This is what every successful person did and this is how the ultimate success can be achieved. You know it very well that if you want to achieve something, you must put in the effort by taking small actions each day. When you take action, the results will accumulate and eventually they will overflow and make the big success possible.

It is just like adding water into a bottle. If you keep on adding water into the bottle, it will eventually full and overflow. This is a common sense that most people know, but they did not realize that the same principle applies in their lives.

So now you understand how simple and small action steps can help you to accomplish your big dreams. What you need to do right now is to look at those small steps as a success. Celebrate after you have taken the necessary actions.

You do not need to have big celebration such as taking a vacation to Hawaii or something like that. You can celebrate by watching a movie, playing games, take a nap, buy yourself an ice-cream, listen to songs, relax, take a walk in the garden, do something that you love and so on and so forth.

There are many ways you can reward yourself. You want to develop taking action as a habit that is why you reward yourself whenever you do so. Once you have made it a habit, you will eventually reach your destination that you have always desire.

This is how success is done and how you can do it as well.

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