Find a Need and Fill It
By Zig Ziglar
When I was in the seventh grade I was on the boxing team and later I boxed while in the Navy. I don’t want to sound boastful, but it’s a matter of record that the worst I ever finished was second. I finally quit boxing because of my [...]
Those “Instant” Successes
By Zig Ziglar
Many times an unknown person does something spectacular and suddenly becomes a “hero,” a public figure, an “overnight success,” the object of much envy. Let’s explore this “overnight success” syndrome.
Several years ago Gary Spiess from White Lake, Minnesota, did an incredible thing. He sailed his ten-foot boat across the Atlantic Ocean [...]
4 “No Fail” Motivation Strategies
By Chip Lutz
Money is great! It makes the world go around. It motivates some to perform better for a while (in its pursuit), but that “superior” performance is usually short lived. In the same respect, threats, barking orders and intimidation have never moved any team that I was on to surpassing [...]
Seven Qualities of Master Achievers by Brian Tracy (excerpted from The Success Mastery Academy)
If you think the way successful people think and adopt their success habits, you too can be successful. Here are seven qualities of the top 1% of successful people.
1) They are Ambitious.
They see themselves capable of being the best. They [...]
7 Moments that Define Excellent Leadership
By Lee Colan, PhD.
A Moment to Plan is the second defining moment in a leader’s development.
Several centuries ago, a Japanese emperor commissioned an artist to paint a bird. A number of months passed, then several years, and still no painting was brought to the palace. Finally, the emperor became so [...]
Ten Tips to Master Time Management
By Kirsty Dunphey
“Until you value yourself… you will not value your time; until you value your time… you will not do anything with it.” - M. Scott Peck, Author
Time management, as anyone who works with me would know, is one of my big complaints, issues, concerns. It’s also one [...]
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An anthropologist was doing research on a small island in the South Pacific. He’d become quite friendly with the medicine man from one of the indigenous tribes who’d been assisting him.
“I would like to meet the most important man in your village,” the anthropologist [...]
The Champion Within Article
Getting Your Imagination to Work for You by Denis Waitley
Highly motivated achievers find the strength of their motivation in the power of their imagination.
One of the wonderful aspects about human imagination is that it can see things not as they are now, but as they can be; it can foretell the future, [...]
Lose the Weight in ‘08
By Dave Ramsey
Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, you can achieve. - Mary Kay Ash
Last year I set an intimidating and seemingly unreachable goal for myself - to complete a [...]
Hang in There by Ron White
I remember Navy boot camp like it was yesterday. An event that occurred on my 2nd day still causes me to pause when I reflect on it. You can tell a new person to boot camp from someone who is about to graduate based upon their clothes and ribbons. It [...]