Fear of failure is the greatest obstacle to success. Failure doesn’t hold you back; it is the anticipation of failure that can sabotage your efforts to achieve your goals. Are you letting the fear of failure scare you into being overly cautious?
If you are….stop! Take the time to identify, define and analyze what you are afraid of.
Once you have identified your greatest fear, write out the answers to these questions:
1. How does this fear hold me back?
2. How does this fear help me?
3. What Read More...
We received some great feedback on our article last week – Reduce Email In-Box Clutter. Therefore today, we wanted to share some tips on how to get a grip on the information overload and time wasters email can present.
Do you genuinely like doing email? If you do, then you don’t need to read this.
But if you really dislike (okay, despise) doing email, then read on. Over the past few years, I have seen a ground- swell of busy professionals who are increasingly challenged and frustrated by the sheer amount of email that comes in and the poor quality of the incoming messages. Learning to manage it can be a lonely battle.
Our newest workshop, Reading Smart, has been receiving rave reviews from around the country. Professional, parents and students alike are increasing their reading speeds AND maintaining, or increasing, their comprehension. Here are some recent testimonials and actual before and after reading speeds. Numbers don’t lie!
From High School Senior, Rebecca Lenz:
“I hated to read because of how slow of a reader I was. After taking this workshop, I now am not dreading reading. My WPM [words per minute] has improved tremendously and I’m still comprehending Read More...
Yesterday, Tom Weber wrote a great post on how to cure fear – and that was by taking action. Today, we will focus on how to cure fears in regards to a specific task – selling.
You might enjoy making a sale, but you find yourself getting that butterfly feeling before an important presentation or at the moment of decision. Even if selling is not your career, you do engage in sales – whether if be selling your point of view to others or your selling your skill set, as in a job interview.
I had a phone call today that I was not looking forward to and I had thought of putting it off until “tomorrow”. I had plenty of reasons why I could rationalize putting it off for another day, but I knew that the more I put it off the worse it was going to get. So, I made the time, and made the call.
Going into the call I was expecting a battle. The email that I had received beforehand was negative, accusatory, and disrespectful so I wasn’t excited to talk with this person. Amazingly enough, 10 seconds into the call the person on the other end was not acting ANYTHING like I had imagined they would.
I realized that what they thought they were communicating in email was not what Read More...
Getting over failure and finding success means taking 100% responsibility for your life. You have to drop your excuses and victim stories. You must take 100% responsibility for everything you experience in your life….good and bad.
Setbacks can sidetrack us with blame and excuses and we give away the power of personal responsibility. How can you Read More...
I have had some great conversations with people about their goals recently, specifically about the effect that goals were having on them mentally. I talked to a few whose goals were creating a healthy focus, motivation and energy. But I also talked with quite a few whose goals were causing more stress and anxiety than fun and positivity. What I noticed is that those whose goals were working for them had two things that the others did not. The two things were:
1. “Influenceability”
2. A short time frame
Here’s what I mean. On three separate occasions, I had conversations with people who were struggling. When I asked them about Read More...
For those of you that aren’t familiar with the disease CRS, it is a condition that plagues many people and stands for “Can’t Remember Stuff”. They hear or learn something and the next minute that can’t remember it. Can you relate?
If so, Freedom Personal Development’s Memory Training Workshop has the cure! Read what 2 recent, self-proclaimed “CRS” sufferers experienced after taking this workshop. They are now cured!
If you are having trouble with visualizations don’t worry you’re not the only one!
Visualization is the process of making mental pictures and is a powerful technique used to help you focus your attention what you desire. People often come to me expressing concern that they are doing something wrong because they are having trouble seeing what they want.
Not everyone has a wide screen movie theater on the inside of his or her eyelids. Some people close their eyes and see absolutely nothing! Just blackness or spots, but not a picture.
Whether you know it or not you can visualize. To practice, try visualizing something you already have. It Read More...
Sounds dramatic, doesn’t it? But so are the results experienced by myself and others who have put this simple, five-minute practice into action. The practice is called positive visualization. That is right, positive visualization. Some of you may think this sounds too simple, some of you may think this sounds weird, and some of you may be ready to start a simple exercise that has more power to impact your life immediately than almost any other exercise I have come across.
Before we talk about HOW to do this exercise most effectively, let’s talk about what the purpose is and why it works. The purpose behind visualization is to allow your life to be as good and fulfilling Read More...
We received some great feedback on our article last week – 
