The calendar.
In 2 days time, the calendar will make 6 billion people make a new years resolution, make half of them celebrate publicly, a third of them to hit them gyms for a few months, and the rest of us to acknowledge that we can start fresh - anew - time to start with a […]
Archive for December, 2006
Aren’t our lives just like the game of Snake and Ladders?
The other day, my colleague, in her early 30’s, was wondering how a Visa Gold card would look like in her purse. Her younger colleague, early 20’s, casually said, “I dont have a Gold card but you could try with my Visa Platinum!” The older […]
By: Brian Tracy
Three key considerations to assure that your business grows rapidly.
What to Look For
There are three reasons for business growth. Look at where you work right now and see if these three reasons apply there. Number one, the product or service is well-suited to the needs of the current market. That means that people […]
By: Brian Tracy
Your ability to communicate is the most important skill you can develop to get on to the fast track in your career. Perhaps the most important thing you do in business is to solve problems and make decisions, both by yourself and with other people.
Use A Systematic Process
A major type of communication in […]
By: Brian Tracy
Clarity accounts for probably 80% of success and happiness. Lack of clarity is probably more responsible for frustration and underachievement than any other single factor. That’s why we say that “Success is goals, and all else is commentary.” People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than […]
By: Brian Tracy
Your mission statement is always written in the present tense, as though you have already become the person that you have described. It is always positive rather than negative. And it is always personal.
Program Yourself Correctly
Your subconscious mind can only accept your mission statement as a set of commands when you phrase it […]
By: Brian Tracy
How to be sure that you have a great business idea before you put time and money into it.
There are four great ways for you to test any product or service idea before you start a business built upon it.
The Best Source of Advice
Number one, seek out people who are already in the […]
By: Brian Tracy
Here’s an exercise for you; imagine that it’s possible for you to earn ten times your current annual wage. If you’re earning $25,000, imagine for a moment that it’s possible for you to earn $250,000, a 1000% increase.
Don’t Sell Yourself Short
The first reaction of most people to that exercise is to smile briefly […]
By: Brian Tracy
Appreciate People for Everything They Do
There are three keys to getting the best out of others, and the first of these is appreciation. Every time you thank another person, you cause that person to like themselves better. You raise their self-esteem and improve their self-image. You cause them to feel more important. You […]
By: Brian Tracy
When I began searching for the secrets of success many years ago, I discovered an interesting principle: success leaves tracks. A wise man who had studied success for more than 50 years concluded that the greatest success principle of all was, “learn from the experts.”
Learn From the Experts
If you want to be a […]
By Robert Ringer
I recently ran across some handwritten signs that I had pinned on my wall in my early days as a writer. The signs were positioned so that whenever I looked up from my Selectric typewriter, they were staring me in the face. Had it not been for my internalizing the words on those […]
By Michael Masterson
If you wanted to build an economic model for the world, which would you choose - a system based on survival of the fittest … or one based on survival of the least fit?
That seems to me to be the philosophical backdrop to the argument that has been taking hold about Wal-Mart.
Wal-Mart, as […]
By James Sheridan
People often ask me, “What is the best opportunity to profit online?” My reaction’s always the same: I pull them into a dark corner, make sure nobody else can hear me, then whisper in their ear, “Telling other people how to profit online!”
Which is exactly what I’m going to show you how to […]
A beautiful night take off for the space shuttle Discovery.
