Today’s Top 10 Tips Tuesday comes from life coach Russell Small (russellsmall.com).

Our challenge to you this week is to consciously listen to what you say to yourself. Jot your dominant thoughts down on a piece of paper. Then look at the list below and identify the limiting self-talk patterns you hold (listed on the left). Take these negative phrases and replace them with the affirming phrases on the right.

Remember, what is within, so without. Our inner world creates the outer circumstance and shapes the events that we experience. Our inner world consists of our thoughts, and beliefs. A belief is a thought with a feeling associated with it. We can consciously choose to change our thoughts and beliefs at any time and by doing so we can improve Read More...

When you get what you want in your struggles for self
And the world makes you king for a day,
Just go to a mirror and look at yourself
And see what that man has to say.

For it isn’t your father or mother or wife
Whose judgment upon you must pass,
The fellow whose verdict counts most in your life
Is the one staring back from the glass.

Some people might think you’re a straight-shooting chum
And call you a wonderful guy.
But the man in the glass says you’re only a bum
If you can’t look him straight in the eye.

He’s the fellow to please, never mind all the rest
For he’s with you clear to the end
And you’ve passed your most Read More...

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I have the pleasure of spending most of my working hours in conversation with people about how they are improving some part of their life. Many people are discussing how they can improve their personal finances and get prepared for retirement. A lot of these conversations are focused on improving people’s health whether that is improving their diet or getting in shape for their next triathlon or marathon. A lot of people are trying to improve how effective they Read More...

We’re going to go a step further in discussing the need to take personal responsibility for achieving success. The focus of this blog post is about believing in yourself because loving yourself and believing in your abilities is vitally important to making the most of out life.

I’ll start by asking you this simple question……..Do you believe in yourself?

Now some of you may have automatically answered yes! Of course I do. But some of you may have a little trouble with this one. You know you want to, but sometimes you struggle with actually doing it. And you’re not alone.

As we grow up, we get messages from our teachers, our parents, our Read More...