Stay a While!

I have recently made it a habit that after I visualise my goals that I am pursuing I go through all the things I am grateful for in my life; from my computer, to my health, my car, my home, my wife and kids, the food, and so on. Everything. I spend about ten minutes [...]

Your professional and personal life, your success, happiness in your job, satisfaction with your level of performance, and so much more, are not achieved by accident. It takes commitment, motivation and consistent action and persistence.
More importantly, the journey to success, happiness and fulfilment always begins the moment you make the decision to be successful and [...]

I want to start this article by quoting Mark Victor Hansen:
“Don’t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and [...]

I ran into a long lost friend at a local library a few days ago. We went through the usual pleasantries until we hit a particular sore spot. My friend said something that surprised me. I remember thinking that that wasn’t like him at all.
Mario, my friend, looked kind of sheepishly at his shoes and [...]

Were rich and successful people born with self-confidence, or did they have to work at it?
In other words, were they born with self-assurance, poise and courage, or did they obtain it through repeated practice and determination? Although we can’t generalise, I tend to find that they became confident by being students of self-confidence; be being [...]

“Where do you see yourself in five years?”
This is a common interview question that I am sure many have been asked when job hunting. The curious thing is that many of us do not give it a second or more serious thought in our daily lives.
Isn’t that amazing? We haven’t caught onto the importance of [...]

I’d like to share with you a method that I have come to call ‘consideration-check time’. It has grown to be a vital part of my life. Perhaps it can be part of yours.
It is so powerful and effective that I find myself really looking forward to the end of the evening. I still perform [...]

‘I wish I could be like Janice. For months now she’s been religiously working out at the gym. She gets on that treadmill and does her thing for ages. I’m so jealous!’ sighed Sue as she sipped on her large mug of strong, black coffee.
‘Yeah, doesn’t she just look great,’ Barb laughed as she took [...]

“Mark, you’re not going to believe this! I’ve been lumbered with doing the next Health and Safety presentation next month. I’ve never done such a thing before, and I can’t get out of it,” Helen shrieked as she stormed into Mark’s office.
She sank deep into his plush, swinging leather chair and brushed hair shaky long [...]

Wouldn’t it be great if you could take productive and valuable action every day