Achieving Success

Dynamic Principles to Make
Your Wildest Dreams Come True
Know and accept your weaknesses and faults (we all have them), but even more so your strengths, abilities and gifts. Build on your strengths and try to minimize or improve on your weaknesses; however work more on your strengths.
An honest, objective analysis of yourself is the first step in preparing you for success and realizing your dreams. Celebrate you for just being you, a unique creation. "Each one of us has been uniquely created by God and within each of us, we have certain special "instincts" or "natural tendencies/strengths/inclinations" towards certain things.
Dynamic Principles to Make
Your Wildest Dreams Come True
Go to: Self-Improvement for Aries,
Strategies for Success,
Setting Goals,
Taking Action,
Getting What You Want,
Self-Improvement for Gemini,
Collecting Facts -- Handling Knowledge,
Self-Improvement for Capricorn,
How to Succeed in LIfe,
Achieving Success,
Self-Improvement for Aquarius,
Gaining Your Hopes and Dreams,
Living Life Your Way,
Creating and Living Your Ideal Life,
Building a Better Future,
Words of Wisdom,
Advice for Living

10 Things Successful People Know
That You Don't
What do extraordinarily successful people know about life that you don't? Are they just a lot luckier, smarter, or harder working than you? Or is there something inherently different in the way that they approach life that propels them to unimaginable heights?
The following list attempts to answer these questions. It contains the distilled wisdom from many years of trial and error by some of the most successful people modern society has seen. Some of what you'll read might surprise you. Some of it -- I hope! -- will inspire you. Either way, it just might light that fire under you. ENJOY.
10 Things Successful People Know
That You Don't
Go to: Self-Improvement for Aries,
Strategies for Success,
Qualities of Successful People,
Self-Improvement for Taurus,
Personal Values,
Self-Improvement for Gemini,
Using Your Mind Effectively,
Self-Improvement for Scorpio,
Achieving Enlightenment,
Self-Improvement for Sagittarius,
Learning from Experience,
Self-Improvement for Capricorn,
How to Succeed in LIfe,
Achieving Success,
Self-Improvement for Aquarius,
Using Your Ingenuity,
Custom-Designing Your Life,
Creating and Living Your Ideal Life,
Self-Improvement for Pisces,
Understanding Yourself,
New Age Blogs,
The Self Improvement Blog,
Mysticism,
Conscious Living,
Creating Your Own Reality,
Words of Wisdom,
Managing Life Effectively

Traits of Highly Successful People
That You Can Learn!
We have all read about people who are successful briefly. They win a gold medal, make a fortune, or star in one great movie... and then disappear. Or, there are those like Marilyn Monroe and Howard Hughes who achieve extraordinary success, at the cost of their own lives. These examples do not inspire me!
My focus and fascination is with people who seem to do well in many areas of life, and do it over and over through a lifetime. In entertainment, I think of Paul Newman and Bill Cosby. In business, I think of Ben and Jerry (the ice cream moguls), and a local hardware store owner who is famous for the money he's give to children's charities.
Traits of Highly Successful People That You Can Learn
Go to: Self-Improvement for Aries,
Strategies for Success,
Showing Initiative,
Qualities of Successful People,
Self-Improvement for Taurus,
Personal Values,
Developing Character Virtues,
Self-Improvement for Capricorn,
Career Development,
How to Succeed in LIfe,
Achieving Success,
Self-Improvement for Aquarius,
Custom-Designing Your Life,
New Age Blogs,
The Self Improvement Blog,
Words of Wisdom,
Advice for Living

SMART Resolutions
It's that time of year again. Many of us will reflect on our lives and resolve that things will be different in the year ahead. Thousands of us impulsively make life-changing promises to eat less, exercise more, stop smoking, spend more time with our families, and get our finances into shape.
Goals we set at New Year's are similar to goals we might set at any other time of the year. If these goals are vague, unrealistic, or extreme, the odds of reaching them are low, no matter when we decide to work on them. There is a strategy for streamlining the goal-setting process to stack the odds in your favor.
SMART Resolutions
Go to: Self-Improvement for Aries,
Setting Goals,
Strategies for Success,
Self-Improvement for Capricorn,
Achieving Success,
Getting Organized,
Showing Determination,
Words of Wisdom,
Keeping Your New Years Resolutions

7 Steps to Make It Happen
Identify it. The southern expression for that is "Name it and Claim it". What do you really want? Be specific. Not, "I want a job that will pay my bills". Instead -- "I want to work as a Store Manager making $XXX per month."
Also try to look past the obvious goal, and connect to the feeling you are really looking for. "I want to be able to feel safe with my money, not just each month but for the future." Sometimes you can let go of a specific goal and find another way to get the same feeling.
7 Steps to Make It Happen
Go to: Self-Improvement for Aries,
Setting Goals,
Showing Initiative,
Taking Action,
Getting What You Want,
Getting Unstuck,
Self-Improvement for Scorpio,
Making Changes,
Self-Improvement for Capricorn,
Achieving Success,
Words of Wisdom,
Managing Life Effectively

A Zen Approach to Healthy Eating
Recommended Book from Amazon

The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth About What You Should Eat and Why
By
Jonny Bowden
Especially around the first of every year, people talk about "eating healthier." It often comes tied to talk about losing weight, working out, getting fit ... the kinds of things that go on New Year's Resolution lists every year -- and last a few weeks before being dumped again in favor of one's old habits -- which presumably were unhealthy and needed to change.
But old habits die hard ... and usually the desire to change isn't nearly as strong and stubborn as the routines and preferences it's up against.
The fact is, if you want something badly enough, you'll do it. And if you're reading this essay, somewhere, somehow, something in side you wants a healthier diet. You'd just like it to be easy -- so you stand a fighting chance at making it happen without the pain, misery, sense of deprivation and inconvenience which teams up with the power of your old habits and forms an unbeatable alliance.
A Zen Approach to Healthy Eating
Go to: Self-Improvement for Aries,
Setting Goals,
Taking Action,
Self-Acceptance,
Self-Improvement for Taurus,
Personal Values,
Deciding What's Important,
Self-Improvement for Virgo,
New Age Lifestyle Choices,
Healthy Mind, Healthy Body,
Self-Improvement for Scorpio,
Making Changes,
Self-Improvement for Sagittarius,
Doing Something New and Different,
Changing Your Mind and Perspectives,
Self-Improvement for Capricorn,
Self-Control,
Achieving Success,
Setting Priorities,
New Age Blogs,
The Health Blog,
Alternative Health,
Diet and Weight Control,
Words of Wisdom,
Keeping Your New Years Resolutions

Sell Your Love
It's well documented that if we love our work, then we usually become experts at it and eventually the money shows up. Makes sense, but this is a slight shift on that concept. I want you to literally look at the concept of selling love for money. This has nothing to do with prostitution. Prostitution lacks love which is the core of what's wrong with that industry. No, I'm talking about infusing your product with love before selling it. Love is a magical indescribable element that uplifts, nurtures, blesses, and lightens the recipient. Add it to your product and watch the profits soar.
Sell Your Love
Go to: Self-Improvement for Taurus,
Deciding What's Important,
Making More Money -- Increasing Your Income,
Self-Improvement for Virgo,
Doing Work You Love,
Self-Improvement for Sagittarius,
Living Your Life Purpose,
Self-Improvement for Capricorn,
Achieving Success,
Self-Improvement for Aquarius,
Living Life Your Way,
Creating and Living Your Ideal Life,
Self-Improvement for Pisces,
Listening to Your Inner Voices,
Mysticism,
Conscious Living,
New Age Blogs,
The Self Improvement Blog

The Path To Personal Success
Everyone defines personal success in their own way, but for most people it's the ability to gain happiness or material wealth. It's certainly of great interest to our society. Infomercials designed to deliver success in a box to people fill the broadcast television airwaves and cable channels.
We've become a society of people waiting for some intellectual guru or spur of the moment motivational author to lead us down the road to success. It's become almost scandalous to try and find or navigate that road alone. But before you plunk down your hard-earned cash for somebody else's idea of who or what you should be, try being yourself -- improved!
The Path To Personal Success
Go to: Self-Improvement for Aries,
Strategies for Success,
Self-Improvement for Capricorn,
Achieving Success

What's On Your Personal Priority List?
What are the three top priorities in your life? The absolute three most important things that you consider the essential business of your life? Ok ... what are the TEN top priorities in your life? Which question do you have the most trouble with? Coming up with ten ... or narrowing things down to only three? Both lists are important, because of course the top three -- will certainly be included on your top ten. But from time to time the top three will change. In fact, from time to time BOTH lists will change. Items get dropped. Items get added. Opportunities -- or crises -- arise ... and things in your world shift to accommodate these.
Dreams change their focus. Goals are achieved -- or abandoned, and become "former goals." Relationships strengthen ... and dissolve. Births and deaths occur. Life is a kaleidoscope -- always intricate and multi-faceted, always in motion, some moments breathtakingly lovely ... others not so much. Yet through it all a set of underlying values guides us ... and helps us make choices. Small choices ... huge decisions. Routine maintenance ... and life-altering alternatives.
What's On Your Personal Priority List?
Go to: Self-Improvement for Aries,
Setting Goals,
Self-Assertion,
Showing Initiative,
Taking Action,
Making Decisions,
Getting What You Want,
Getting Unstuck,
Self-Improvement for Taurus,
Deciding What's Important,
Self-Improvement for Virgo,
Handling Life's Practical Chores,
Self-Improvement for Sagittarius,
Changing Your Mind and Perspectives,
Self-Improvement for Capricorn,
Achieving Success,
Setting Priorities,
New Age Blogs,
The Self Improvement Blog,
Mysticism,
Conscious Living,
Real Life Stories,
Considering Life's Bigger Questions

Ten Ways to Climb Your Mountain
Daily we are giving mountains of tasks to accomplish, bills to pay, problems to fix and customers to call. Standing at the base looking up this mountain of to-dos seems enormous - or worse yet standing on top looking down the sheer drop we would encounter should we falter. It is sheer madness. How on earth are we going to accomplish this feat? Mountains are big; let us climb this one ....
Ten Ways to Climb Your Mountain
Go to: Self-Improvement for Aries,
Showing Initiative,
Taking Action,
Getting Unstuck,
Self-Improvement for Scorpio,
Dealing with Adversity,
Self-Improvement for Capricorn,
Achieving Success