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...

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...

Annette was bright, smart, and enthusiastic. Even so, whenever she approached customers in the furniture store where we both worked, she seemed unable to strike up a conversation with them. They would invariably mumble something like, “We’re just looking” and head off to get lost among the labyrinth of bedrooms. Annette would make a few more half-hearted attempts to connect with them, usually getting a last glimpse of her customer as they walked out the door. In many cases, she never really even got to speak with them at all. She was frustrated, hurt, and a little worried about her sales performance. She should have been. Her inability to connect with her customers was killing her Read More...

No matter what your profession, building self-esteem and confidence in yourself is the key to success business interactions. All things being equal, the higher your conviction in yourself, the higher your results will be.

So, how do you build your own positive mental attitude, self-esteem and confidence? More importantly, how can you build it immediately and start using it to your advantage today?

I am going to borrow this material from Stephen Covey in his great book Read More...