Archive for July, 2014

July 31 – Be the Leading Character in Your Life

Thursday, July 31st, 2014

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July 31 – Developing a habit of achieving your goals brings you freedom, liberation, and independence. It allows you to be the leading character in your life.

July 30 – Can Do, Did Do, Thank You

Wednesday, July 30th, 2014

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July 30 – Adopt a “Can Do, Did Do, Thank You” practice for every goal you want to achieve. This means: develop a positive mental framework to go for it. Take aligned action to make it happen. Celebrate and acknowledge the people who helped you along the way.

July 29 – Focus on What You Can Do

Tuesday, July 29th, 2014

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July 29 – Focus your energy more on what you can do than on what you can’t do. Think about this: what you can do is finite. What you can’t do literally is infinite – it’s an energy-sucking black hole. Stay away from that black hole.

July 28 – Positive Emotional Investment

Monday, July 28th, 2014

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July 28 – Positive emotions give you a positive return while negative emotions give you a negative return. Think about your emotional energy as if it was a dollar invested. For every dollar you invest in a positive, uplifting emotion, you can get tens – even hundreds – of dollars in return. For every dollar you invest in a negative emotion, you lose money – tens or even thousands of dollars.

July 27 – Learn to Say “No”

Sunday, July 27th, 2014

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July 27 – To achieve your goals, you must develop the ability to say the polite “no” to opportunities that are not right for you. This statement works fairly well: “I appreciate you reaching out to me. This isn’t the right thing for me to be doing at this time.”

July 26 – Accept Help Appropriately

Saturday, July 26th, 2014

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July 26 – People have an innate desire to be helpful, and most people are willing to help you out once or twice. But if you need people to help you on an ongoing basis to achieve your goals (even family members), you need to engage their work on your behalf in a more formal capacity.

July 25 – Let Go of Your Reaction

Friday, July 25th, 2014

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July 25 – Recognize when you react in fear to a current day situation – it may be more about your past than the present. Take some time to reflect on what about your past could be coloring your reaction in the present. Identify what you can gain when you let go of your reaction.

July 24 – Ask Before Giving Advice

Thursday, July 24th, 2014

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July 24 – When you ask people first if they want your help or your perspective, you increase the chances they are open to hearing what you have to say.