Man, there were some great entries for this contest - I especially enjoyed the ones where people are quoting me ! This was tough to pick just three out of all the really great ways people start their day, but here goes:

1st Place and winner of an Expect Success Book (filled with positive quotes) is Marty P (#42), for its sheer thoroughness:

First thing I do is my 7 morning questions (got these Read More...

I just finished teaching the Memory Training Workshop in Bellevue, WA and just had to share with you the comments graduates of the workshop gave!

If you have not attended this workshop, the next class in Washington State will be November 2 and 3 and would love to see you in class. We also offer workshops around the country – check out our national workshop schedule and get enrolled today!

“This class was great. The day I took this class I had to take my Read More...

Everyone has the ability to live an extraordinary life. So why don’t more people live up to their potential? In this 8-minute video, Anthony Robbins argues it is because of our standards.

What ever you focus on in life tends to happen. Anthony shares a story with a thought-provoking message – life will pay any price you ask from it.

So when you ask, Read More...

In preparing for this article, I had a powerful realization. It struck me that many times when we are in need of motivation or ideas to improve ourselves, we tend to look for new concepts in new books, new CD’s and new teachers. If we could revisit what we had learned in the past, perhaps we would find a deeper level of understanding and answers our own questions.

I would like to suggest that you go back to your own bookshelf, or wherever you keep your learning tools, and pull something off of the shelf that you have not paged through or listened to in the last year.

These tools could be anything – training manuals, sales books, notes from a seminar, notes from a meeting or seminar etc. I would bet that Read More...

Focus is one of the most important day-to-day tasks that top performers, or those that want to be top performers, have to understand to reach their goals.

What is Focus?

I have personally heard many stories and application of focus and will share of few examples with you.

Gary Ryan Blair, The Goals Guy, is one of the foremost experts on the concepts of goal setting. He says that the word FOCUS stands for:

Follow
One
Course
Until
Successful

One of my colleagues, Jeffrey Read More...

If you are a manager or supervisor, how are your communication skills? Poor communication with your employees is one of the key reasons people choose to leave their job. By following these communication tips from Glenn Ebersole, you can increase employee satisfaction and improve productivity.

Be Free!
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Recently I read about a study conducted in 2001, which included approximately 20,000 exit interviews. A major finding in the study was that poor communications skills of supervisors were a leading factor in poor supervisory behavior, which caused people to leave Read More...

Have you ever received an email message that you thought could have been communicated in a better way? I bet if you were one of the 400 Radio Shack employees who were laid off last fall via an email message, you have this thought. (In defense of the situation, executives at Radio Shack said “they (the employees) were warned that firings would be made via email. . . ). Does that justify it? I don’t think so.

This situation got me thinking about all the times that sending email is appropriate and more importantly, when it is NOT appropriate. Here are just a few situations at work I thought about:

• If your boss has been away and you need to Read More...

Steve Jobs dropped out of college to follow his passions. In this Stanford University commence speech, he shares some of the most pivotal points in his life. He urges graduates to pursue their dreams and see the opportunities in life’s setbacks — including death itself.

Recent comment from YouTube:

• What I have Read More...

What do you do to confront fear? I have a suggestion – practice gratitude. Tony Robbins says, “When you are grateful, fear disappears and abundance appears.” It is so true, gratefulness removes fear.

You have probably heard Oprah talking about keeping a gratitude journal. Coaching programs that I have taken part in talk about the gratitude principal and I recently heard a sermon on the topic of changing pleading into thankfulness.

We at Freedom Personal Development talk about thankfulness and gratefulness all the time, and yet as much as it is common knowledge that gratefulness has so much power, we often do not do it. Why is that?

I believe one of the reasons are the habits we have created in Read More...

As part of my company incentive trip to the Maya Riviera, I was given the opportunity to participate in a scuba diving excursion in the cenotes (under water caves) and jumped at the chance.

I was told that it was a different experience when you dive in caves, but since I had already dove in some really great spots like the Red Sea in Egypt, in Thailand & Cozumel, Mexico I figured I would make it no problem. I mean, how hard could it be, right?

Well, the time came as we, my co-workers, were preparing to enter the water and begin our dive adventure. As I got closer to the entrance point a cold dread hit me. My whole body froze and I began to breath irregularly. I could feel all the blood rushing to my Read More...