Improving Your Life: Incremental Changes One Step At A Time

improve steps Improving Your Life: Incremental Changes One Step At A TimeDo you have a plan for improving your life? Positive change takes a concerted effort and a definite plan. However, we can often overwhelm ourselves by trying to tackle too much change all at once.

The key to successful self-improvement is to focus on incremental changes one step at a time.

The trap we fall into when planning life changes

You have probably heard it asked, “Where do you want …

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Improve Your Life: Things I Love From The Disney Movie BOLT

disney bolt Improve Your Life: Things I Love From The Disney Movie BOLT It isn’t often that you can learn things to improve your life from an animated Disney movie.  However, I think BOLT has a lot to teach us about success, excellence and relationships. 

BOLT is about a dog that is raised on the set of an action-packed television show.  He believes he really has the superpowers to do the things he does on the show.  He’s never known any other life.  …

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Stephen Covey: Did The Seven Habits Make A Difference?

reflection Stephen Covey: Did The Seven Habits Make A Difference? I read Stephen Covey’s The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Stephen Covey: Did The Seven Habits Make A Difference? back in the early ’90s.  It was one of the first self-improvement books that I ever read.  As I look back, I realize I was just beginning a quest that would go on for years. 

I read Covey’s book because I was hungry to live life to the fullest, but at the time I was running into some roadblocks.  …

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Seth Godin Tells Us To Quit!

climbing Seth Godin Tells Us To Quit! Sometimes quitting is the best thing you can do.  Knowing when to quit and when to stick is what separates the winners from the losers.  Seth Godin, in his book The Dip Seth Godin Tells Us To Quit!, tells us that we should quit more often than we do.  In fact, Godin states that strategic quitting is a secret of success.  Hanging on too long to something that is going to fail simply drains you …

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How To Move Past The Obstacles That Hold Us Back

obstacle wall How To Move Past The Obstacles That Hold Us Back Good outcomes in life are the result of having the right thoughts.  If our actions are not producing the results we want, it is because we are not looking at the situation correctly.  Trying harder will only lead us to fail faster, because we are not following the right map.

Changing our attitude and beliefs toward an area of life that is an obstacle to our success will change our …

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Living Life To The Fullest On A Fine Fall Evening

blue campfire Living Life To The Fullest On A Fine Fall Evening “Happiness consists more in the small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.” ~Benjamin Franklin

Living life to the fullest is often found in the simplest pleasures of life.  Things do not have to be big, exotic, expensive, or complicated to be enjoyable.  I find that the deepest, richest …

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Long-term Thinking Is Your Greatest Tool For Success

thinker thumb Long term Thinking Is Your Greatest Tool For Success There is a single key attitude of mind that will largely determine the success you achieve in life.  It is the timeframe that you take into consideration when planning your day-to-day activities, and when making important decisions in your life.  In other words, if you are a long-term thinker, then you are significantly more likely to achieve greater success in your life compared to those that aren’t.…

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