Posted 6/30/2006 by Josh Hinds

Create Your Own Mission Statement for Your Personal and Professional Life
By Denis Waitley

Two of life’s greatest tragedies are: Never to have had a great mission in life, and to have fully reached it so there is no challenge remaining.

Are you going where you want to go, doing what you want to do, and becoming who you want to become? These are the questions we must ask ourselves. Set some quiet time aside after you have finished this program and see the two you’s in the mirror of your mind:

1. There is the reflection of the person you are today.

2. There is the image of who you will be in the future.

Looking at my own life, I am incredibly different in many respects from the person I was ten years ago.

As you reflect on your past and anticipate the future, understand that virtually nothing you have experienced has been wasted. It all blends together into wisdom and knowledge, and creates your own unique brand of cultural diversity.

Action Idea: In your professional life, what is most important for you to achieve in the remainder of career?

In your personal life, what is most important for you to achieve in the remainder of your life? Find a close friend or associate you trust and network with often, and challenge each other to continuously strive to reach these objectives.

As you consider your mission in life, you may want to use this final action step, Number Twenty-one, as your guidepost for the 21st Century: Chase Your Passion, Not Your Pension. Passion in your purpose will help you take control of your life, and also give you one other advantage that is not widely recognized:

About ten more years of life, on average. Pursuit of a goal wears out very few people. But they rust out by the hundreds of thousands when their pursuit of happiness turns into a geriatric park. A job is something you do for money.

A career is something you do because you have an inner calling to do it. You want to do it. You love doing it. You’re excited when you do it. And you’d do it even if you were paid nothing beyond food and the basics. You’d do it because it’s your life.

Be inspired to learn as much as you can, gain skills as much as you can, to find a cause that benefits humankind and you’ll be sought after for your quality of service and dedication to excellence.

My nephew and niece, David and Heidi, at the ages of 30, had three little girls 7, 5 and 2. On an anniversary some years ago, they went out dancing and the margarita she had must have been one powerful fertility drug. She became pregnant that night, and with no incidence of multiple births in our family, eight months later, she delivered quadruplet girls, prematurely.

I hurried down to the Children’s Hospital in San Diego to get a photo opportunity and possible media coverage as “Uncle Denis of the Waitley Quads.” They told me to stand in the corner, saying I hadn’t contributed anything.

The TV anchorwoman asked my niece Heidi how she felt. She said, “I feel a little tired. We’re going to need a new car.” They turned to my nephew David, whose eyes looked like burnt corks. “David, as the father, how does it feel to have seven little girls under the age of seven?” David replied, “We’re not going to need a new car, we’re never going anywhere again.” But that’s not the point of the story.

In addition to seeing them as wonderful parents devoted to their seven little girls, my attention was focused on the neo-natal nurses caring for the newborn quadruplets, weighing between a pound and a half to two and a half pounds. Caring passionately for them like little birds in nests. Oblivious of quitting time. Not hearing the lunch bell at noon. Doing what they loved. Involved in helping improve the quality of life.

We all can’t be Tiger Woods, or Barbra Streisand, or Jonas Salk. But we can chase our passion, not our pension. You’ll always do well, what you love most. That’s the essence of all that you’ve experienced in this program.

Action Idea: If you had the time and circumstances allowed, what is one of your most passionate desires in life you would like to pursue? It could be a new business idea, music, action, sports, or community service. Starting tomorrow, chase that passion a little bit at a time.
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Posted 6/29/2006 by Josh Hinds

From Motivation To Motive-Action
By Denis Waitley

With the passing of every new year, each of us needs to understand the magnitude of social and economic change in the world. In the past, change in business and social life was incremental and a set of personal strategies for achieving excellence was not required.

Today, in the knowledge-based world, where change is the rule, a set of personal strategies is essential for success, even survival. Never again will you be able to go to your place of business on autopilot, comfortable and secure that the organization, state or government will provide for and look after you. You must look in the mirror when you ask who is responsible for your success or failure. You must become a lifelong learner and leader, for to be a follower is to fall hopelessly behind the pace of progress.

The power brokers in the new global arena will be the knowledge facilitators. Ignorance will be even more the tyrant and enslaver than in the past. As you look in the mirror to see the 21st Century you, there will also be another image standing beside you. It is your competition.

Your competition, from now on, will be a hungry immigrant with a wireless, hand-held, digital assistant. Hungry for food, hungry for a home, for a new car, for security, for a college education. Hungry for knowledge. Smart, quick thinking, skilled and willing to do anything necessary to be competitive in the world marketplace. Working long hours and Saturdays, staying open later, serving customers better and more cheerfully. To be a player in the 21st Century you have to be willing to give more in service than you receive in payment.

These are the new rules in the game of life. These are the actions you must take to be a leader and a winner in your personal and professional life. By mastering these profoundly simple action steps, you will be positioned to be a change master in the new century.

Action Step Number One - Consider Yourself Self-Employed, But Be a Team Player. What this means is that you are your own Chief Executive Officer of your future. Start thinking of yourself as a service company with a single employee. You’re a small company that puts your services to work for a larger company.

Tomorrow you may sell those services to a different organization, but that doesn’t mean you’re any less loyal to your current employer. Taking responsibility for yourself in this way does mean that you never equate your personal long-term interests with your employer’s.

The first idea is resolving not to suffer the fate of those who lost their jobs and found their skills were obsolete. The second is to begin immediately the process of protecting yourself against that possibility – by becoming proactive instead of reactive.

Ask yourself these questions:

How vulnerable am I? What trends must I watch? What information must I gain? What knowledge do I lack?

Again, think of yourself as a company. Set up a training department in your mind and make certain your top employee is updating his or her skills. Make sure you have your own private pension plan, knowing that you are responsible for your own financial security.

Entrusting the government or an employer, other than yourself, with your retirement income is like hiring a compulsive gambler as your accountant.

You’re the CEO of your daily life who must have the vision to set your goals and allocate your resources. The mindset of being responsible for your own future used to be crucial only to the self-employed, but it has become essential for us all. Today’s typical employees are no longer one-career people. Most will have five separate careers in their lifetimes. Remember, your competition is a hungry immigrant with a laptop. Action Step Number One is to consider yourself to be self-employed, but be a team player.

Action Step Number Two - Be Flexible in the Face of Daily Surprises. We live in a time-starved, overstressed, violent society. Much of our over-reaction to what happens to us every day is a result of our self-indulgent value system, where we blame others for our problems, look to organizations or the government for our solutions, thirst for immediate sensual gratification and believe we should have privileges without responsibilities. This condition is manifested in the high crime rate and in the increase in violence in the work place where employees blame their managers for threatening their security.

I have learned how to be flexible in the face of daily surprises, which is one of the most important action traits for a leader. I really haven’t been angry for about 17 years. During that time, no one has tried to physically harm me or someone close to me. I’ve learned to adapt to stress in life and reserve my fear or anger for imminently physically dangerous situations. I rarely, if ever, get upset with what people say, do or don’t do, even if it inconveniences me. I do react emotionally when I see someone physically or emotionally abusing or victimizing another. But I’ve learned not to sweat the small stuff.

The Serenity Prayer, “Grant me the Serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the Courage to change the things I can, and the Wisdom to know the difference.”, is a valuable measuring tool we can apply to our lives. Simple yet profound words to live by.
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Posted 6/29/2006 by Josh Hinds

Start Living in Prime Time
By Denis Waitley

Prime time is that period between 6 and 10 p.m. during which most of the general public watches television. Commercials in prime time are the most expensive, approaching a million dollars per minute. Your real success in life will take a quantum leap when you stop watching other people making money in their professions performing in prime time, and start living your own dreams and goals in prime time. Time is the ultimate equal opportunity employer.

Time never stops to rest, never hesitates, never looks forward or backward. Life’s raw material spends itself in the now, this moment, which is why how you spend your time is far more important than all the material possessions you may own or positions you may obtain. Positions change, possessions come and go, you can earn more money. You can renew your supply of many things, but like good health, that other most precious resource, time spent is gone forever.

Each yesterday, and all of them together, are beyond your control. Literally all the money in the world can’t undo or redo a single act you performed. You cannot erase a single word you said. You can’t add an “I love you,” “I’m sorry”, or “I forgive you”, not even a “thank you” you forgot to say. Each human being in every hemisphere and time zone has precisely 168 hours a week to spend. And some of the most precious hours occur in prime time.

Consider this: most of your daytime hours are spent helping other people solve their problems. The little time you have in the evenings and on weekends is all you have to spend on yourself, on your own dreams and goals, and personal development. Some thoughts to ponder:

• Have supper with your loved ones at least two to three times per week. It’s the best time for casual conversation to listen to what those close to you feel is important in their lives. Mealtime is a time to dialogue.

• A television set is an appliance. It should be used, at most, for two hours at a time. It should be off, unless specific programs of interest are selected. It should not be used as a one-eyed baby sitter. For the most part, TV exposes us to negative role models.

• Instead of watching television why not read a good fiction or non-fiction book, write a letter, engage in a hobby or craft, call a friend or someone in need of encouragement on the phone, network on your computer, go out to an ethnic restaurant, a home show, an entrepreneurial show, a musical recital, a play, a fitness class, or cultural event. Take an art or photography class. Use prime time to live the kind of life others put on layaway.

Action Idea: If you and your family/friends watch TV, try not turning it on for one week. When you do watch TV, reduce by 50% the amount of time you spend watching it. Concentrate your evenings and free time engaged in hands on, real life experiences, you can touch, feel, smell and engage all your senses in. Instead of virtual reality, insist on the real thing.

* Brought to you by the faculty of TSTN - The Success Training Network.
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Posted 6/28/2006 by Josh Hinds

It's Easy to Earn Money
By Bob Proctor

There is a very real possibility that everything you and I have been taught about how to earn money is so far from the truth that it's almost comical. Earning money has nothing to do with age, formal education, gender or geography. It has nothing to do with past experience or your formal years of education or your level of intellect.

Check it out… there are individuals who are functionally illiterate who have become multi-millionaires, while there are others who are absolutely brilliant and they are broke. Virtually anyone can be taught how to earn millions of dollars and yet the sad truth is that 97 out of every 100 people are born, live their entire lives, and die without ever learning how to earn money. To perpetuate this ridiculous problem, their ignorance is passed along from one generation to the next.

Our school system has been designed as an environment to enlighten young minds, to replace ignorance with understanding and thereby improve the quality of life. Our educational system has obviously been successful in many areas. However, it has woefully neglected one important subject, "How to Earn Money." You can earn a doctorate degree in economics and have little or no knowledge of how to earn money. A lack of understanding in this area is the cause of numerous unwanted and unnecessary problems, since money is the medium of exchange that is used worldwide for other people's products and services.

There has always been a small, select group, approximately 3% of our population, who clearly understand that prosperity consciousness is the primary cause of wealth and their prosperity consciousness, like ignorance, is also passed down from one generation to the next.

Let's look at "money." What is it? Money is a reward you receive for the service you render. The more valuable the service, the greater the reward. Thinking of ways we can be of greater service will not only help us earn more money, it will also enable us to grow intellectually and spiritually.

Money Is An Idea
The paper you fold and place in your purse or pocket is not money. It is paper with ink on it. It represents money, but it is not money. Money is an idea. The earning of money has nothing to do with the paper stuff. It has to do with consciousness.

I am aware there are books that instruct you on how to manipulate the market, stocks and people… they might even help you get money. But, let me caution you… when there is no spiritual growth… there is no spiritual strength… there is no lasting happiness… and, there is no real or lasting wealth.

To accumulate wealth, a person must become very comfortable with the idea of money. That may sound strange, however most people are not comfortable with the idea of money, which is why they do not have any. The cause of poverty is poverty consciousness. A poverty consciousness will cause a person to see, hear, smell, think and feel ... lack and limitation.

The late Mike Todd said, "Being broke is a temporary situation. Being poor is a mental state."

He was correct. There are wealthy people who lose every cent they have through a series of mistakes in judgement… but that does not make them poor. They will have it all back in a short time because of their prosperity consciousness.

If you have any question in your mind regarding your level of consciousness with respect to money, be very honest with yourself and look at your results. Study the patterns in your life.

If you want to improve your financial position in life, focus your attention on creating a higher level of prosperity consciousness. Begin by preparing a powerful, positive affirmation and fuel it with emotion. When you do this, you are depositing this creative energy in the treasury of your sub-conscious mind. And, by repeating this process over and over and over again every day, it will begin to alter your conditioning and mentally move you in the direction you want to go. Write it out, read it, feel it, and let it take hold of your mind.

How much money do you want? Saying you want more is not good enough. Five dollars is more. How much more? Decide on a figure. Be specific. You will not seriously want more money than you are capable of earning... however, you would be wise to remember, you must earn it.

There Are Three Income Earning Strategies

1. Trading time for money - By far the worst of the three income earning strategies, it is employed by approximately 96% of our population - doctors, lawyers, accountants, laborers, etc. There is an inherent problem with this strategy - saturation. You run out of time. If a person accumulates any degree of wealth employing this strategy, it will be at the expense of a life. They compromise on the car they drive, the house they live in, the clothes they choose and the vacations they take. They rarely, if ever, get what they want.

2. Investing money to earn money - This strategy is used by approximately 3% of the population. The number is small for the obvious reason - very few people have any money to invest. Many people who effectively employ this strategy follow the advice of a trusted, knowledgeable advisor.

3. Leveraging yourself to earn money - This is where you multiply your time through the efforts of others by setting up Multiple Sources of Income (MSI). This is, without question, the very best way to increase your income. Make a decision to have many sources of income; it's the strategy that wealthy people have used dating clear back to the ancient Babylonians. Unfortunately, this strategy is only used by approximately 1% of our population, yet that 1% earns approximately 96% of all the money that is earned! You are only a decision away from membership.

Once you determine how much money you want to earn, write it down on a sheet of paper in large figures. Look at the number with the dollar sign beside it and tell yourself over and over again:

That Amount of Money is an Effect.
It Represents a Reward that I Want to Receive. What Service Can I Render that Would be Deserving of that Reward?

You can take the total figure and divide it into multiple parts. Each part would represent a source of income. Each source of income represents a separate reward that you would receive for a service you would render.

Work on one source of income at a time; each one can become an exciting part of your life. What you are actually doing is thinking of different ways you can be of service to others.

Think of how you can do whatever you do - more effectively.
Think of how you can improve the quality and quantity of service you render.
Think of how you can help people in a greater way.

Money is the ultimate servant. The more you earn, the more you can help others.

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Posted 6/28/2006 by Josh Hinds

Life’s Hidden Beauty
By Kent Nerburn

Last week I was sitting on a park bench, reading a book, taking in the rich, warmth of an early springtime day. A child kept moving around me, making noises, puttering, going back and forth. I tried to pay no attention, but the intrusion was getting irritating. There was no one else around, and this child seemed intent upon either annoying me or getting my attention.

Finally, a bit exasperated, I looked up. A young boy of maybe ten or twelve was straddling the bar of his dirt bike, staring at me. He was small for his age, and had a kind of indeterminate retardation that made me feel ashamed for my annoyance. His hair was black and stringy, his eyes wide apart, and his teeth crooked and ill-cared for. When he saw me looking, he grinned and waved. His movements were stiff and jerky, as if his muscles were a beat behind his intentions. But his look had the innocence of angels.

He said something to me, but it was unintelligible.

“Excuse me?” I said, hoping now to engage him in conversation since he so clearly wanted my attention. His eyes darted quickly. My inability to understand him had reinforced his sense of isolation. “Nothing,” he said clumsily, and looked down.

My mind raced back over the unintelligible syllables, trying to reconstruct them. There had been three, mumbled in a kind of singsong way that faded out at the end.

I took a chance. “Did you say, “What’s my name?’” I asked. His grin opened like the sun. He waved his hand in ecstatic affirmation and nodded his head vigorously.

“It’s ‘Kent’,” I said.

He laughed, and nodded wildly.

“Kent,” he repeated. “Kent.”

Then he said it again, more quietly, as if savoring it; as if it were some sort of magical incantation.

“My bike,” he said proudly, pointing at the dented, rusty dirt bike he was riding. It was his pride, his self worth, his closest and perhaps only friend.

I was about to ask him his name when he pushed on one of the pedals and went wobbling off down the sidewalk.

He circled once to make sure I was watching.

“Kent,” he said, waving and watching. “Kent.”

In his lonely world, he had made what passed for a friend.

I watched as he rode happily down the street. His track was straight and true. Somehow the bike gave him a steadiness his own hands and feet could not provide.

He rode to the middle of the next block, turned his bike abruptly, jumped the curb, and slid to a perfect stop in the middle of a yard.

A woman was standing on the steps, waiting for him. She gathered him to her, pulling him close, as if he had been gone too far, or too long.

They stood there in the afternoon sun. She stroked his hair like one strokes the hair of a toddler, or an infant. He leaned against her, making no effort to pull away, resting in his mother’s embrace like a peaceful and weary child.

I thought of my own son, only a few years older than this boy and increasingly uncomfortable with parental touch as he seeks to separate and define himself in an autonomous adult world. How much his mother and I would love to receive a hug of this purity and innocence. But those days are gone now. He is a child breaking away into his own private manhood, and his love is expressed with more caution and circumspection.

I glanced back at the woman and her child. It was a tableau to melt the hardest heart. There, in the gentle grace of the afternoon sun, a mother and child stood, comfortable in each other’s embrace, framed by the glowing springtime light.

How lucky you are, I thought, to know such guileless love. What a gift you have been given, to know a child who will never grow beyond childhood innocence.

How blind we often are to life’s hidden gifts. This boy, who looks for all the world like a burden to be born, is, truly, a blessing to be cherished. In his childish joy, his simple life in the present tense, he offers the gift of a pure and unmediated heart to those who are lucky enough to look up and meet his gaze.

I sat back on the bench and returned to my book. The day seemed gentler, the sun, warmer. A young boy and his mother had given me a glimpse into life’s hidden beauty, and I, on that day, had been blessed enough to see it.

I hope that I will keep this understanding, and not turn my eyes back only to the sadness and difficulty that is everywhere around us. For there are blessings in the shadows, beauty in life’s most ordinary moments.

The greatest gift we can give to ourselves and others is to learn to see these blessings, then to pass that gift along.

* Based on the book The Hidden Beauty of Everyday Life by Kent Nerburn. Printed with permission of New World Library.

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Kent Nerburn holds a Ph.D. in Religion and Art and writes books that reveal the spiritual dimension of the ordinary moments of our everyday lives. His most recent work, THE HIDDEN BEAUTY OF EVERYDAY LIFE, joins SIMPLE TRUTHS and SMALL GRACES as the conclusion of a trilogy filled with inspirational stories. He lives with his wife and son in northern Minnesota.

Posted 6/21/2006 by Josh Hinds

Bob Proctor and Barbara Sher Inducted to the Motivational Speakers Hall Of Fame...

I'm pleased to announce that Bob Proctor and Barbara Sher have just been added to our Motivational Speakers Hall Of Fame. Be sure to take a moment to learn about them both.

-- Wishing you great success, Josh Hinds :-)

Posted 6/15/2006 by Josh Hinds

3 Keys to Making Your Dreams Happen
By Barb Elyett

Are you a dreamer? Do you have a desire to do something great with your life? Do you have unique talents and gifts that you long to share with others? If so, then take your hand right now, tap yourself on the shoulder, and shout "Tag! I’M IT!"

That's right! You're it! You are responsible for making those dreams happen. No one else is going to do it for you. Not your boss, your co-worker, wife, husband, father, pastor or friend. You and you alone are responsible for making your God-given dreams a reality.

Too many of us surrender our dreams to others, chance, or the direction of a passing wind. For some reason, we are trained to think that dreams just somehow happen or that they can only happen if someone takes us under their wing and guides us on to our ultimate destiny.

Yet, the bible itself is power-packed with verses that tell us that we indeed have the power and the ability to do our dreams. It holds us completely accountable for what we have been given and it reassures us that God himself is enough. He will accomplish his dream in us if we just believe.

Self-help and success books are constantly prodding us to believe this truth. Titles like "Take Control of Your Life!”,” If It's Going to Be, It's Up to Me!" and "The Power of Believing" are just a few of the wonderful books on the market that support us in making our dreams a reality.

Nothing is going to happen if we do not take the initiative to make it happen. Here are 3 keys you can apply today to make your own personal dreams a reality.

1) Stop whining and start working! If you find yourself whining about the fact that your dreams are just not happening or that no one is taking you under their wing and guiding you to success - stop it! Remember, the cure for "E"motion is in the word itself. Drop the "E" and you find the answer - "motion" Motion, is always the key to dealing with emotion.

2) Believe and receive! Start believing that you are capable of making your dreams a reality. If you feel small and weak, don't worry. Your belief should not lie in your own strength but in God's power working in you. As you believe, you will receive direction, guidance, peace and ultimately the realization of your dreams.

3) Be dynamic and different! Realize that making a decision to do your dreams automatically puts you in a minority. Like it or not, you are different! Most people live a "settle for" life but you have chosen excellence. Therefore, you can expect to receive some flak. Being dynamic in your attitude and vision helps you rise above the norm. It is the key to keeping you "up" in a "down" world.

So take control of your life and dreams today and you will be well on your way to making all of your most passionate dreams real!

© 2006 Barb Elyett.
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Barb is a Life and Christian Life Coach and founder of Making Dreams Happen a coaching service that exists to put people back in alignment with their deepest, most passionate dreams and make them happen. Barb is also a Singer/Songwriter and Inspirational Speaker. Sign up for Barb’s free So Alive Inside! Newsletter!

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Posted 6/11/2006 by Josh Hinds

How to Successfully Improve Yourself For a Lifetime
By Michelle L. Casto

Occasionally making improvements is easily achievable for most people. While continuous improvement is mostly unachievable; however, striving for it separates the winners from the losers. There are many areas in your life that may need improvement: career, relationships, learning, finances, emotional/mental, and spiritual. There are also hundreds of ways to improve your lot in life----you can be better, do something better, increase your awareness, learn something new, or create radical change.

In order to create a lifetime of improvement you must determine if you are a dreamer or a doer. There are basically two basic kinds of people: Dreamers and Doers. Dreamers dream about what they want. They can be all talk and no action. Doers go after what they want. They take action and rarely spend time just talking about it. Who do you think is more successful in life? The doers, of course. They come from a place of empowerment. Success to them is a mindset.

To become a doer, you have to first believe in yourself, even when no one else will. Successful people stand up to the question “Who do you think you are?” And they answer, “This is Who I Am.” They don’t let others try to take away their power or their dreams with negativity.

In order to be a success, you must think like, act like, and look a success as all times. Successful people program themselves for success. Like Denis Waitley said, “Since the mind is a specific biocomputer, it needs specific instructions and directions. The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don’t define them, learn about them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.”

“Winners” make their success a priority and do “whatever it takes.” Because there are too many other things to distract you and pull you off track from pursuing your dreams, use defense-strategy tools—specific actions that will keep you on track, such as:

• writing your life vision and purpose statements (posting them where you can reflect on them)
• organizing your living/working space
• making to do lists
• setting smart goals
• taking action daily
• evaluating your progress and adjusting your course as needed
• using visualizations/affirmations
• celebrating your successes
• developing a support system
• hiring a life coach***

The good news is you don’t have to do it all alone! For most of us, extra support can make all the difference in the world. Having a coach gives you the vehicle for accelerated accomplishment towards your goals. In this challenging world it is easy to get off track with what is most important to you. A coach keeps you focused, on purpose, and works with you to redefine goals and dreams.

In the 21st century, coaching is no longer a luxury, but a necessity! People dedicated to self-improvement work with different coaches throughout their lifetime and experience a higher level of living as a result. Coaching also creates a bridge that takes you from where you are now to where you want to be. Just as top athletes have coaches to bring out their best performance, coaching helps clients build on their own inner strengths. Your coach is invested in your success and provides insight, structure, and encouragement for increased effectiveness and fast improvements.

There are obvious benefits for becoming someone who is committed to lifelong improvement: you feel better about yourself, you are more willing to take risks and accept challenges, and you live at a higher wattage---you shine more brightly! It is in the reaching, that you find out who you really are and all that you are capable of. It is exciting because there is always something new you can be, do, have, and learn.

We are all works in progress, living examples of art. Continuous self- improvement keeps you turned on and tuned into life. And as a result, you evolve as a human being. You make a difference in the world by being the best You that you can be. Your best inspires others to be their best, and the very nature of humanity becomes improved.
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Michelle L. Casto, M.E.d, is a Ph. D. Candidate, Soul Coach, Speaker, and Author of the Get Smart! LearningBook Series, which includes books on romantic relationships, career development, and stress management. Her coaching practice is Brightlight Coaching, she empowers people to freely shine their brightlight to the world. Visit virtually at www.getsmartseries.com and www.brightlightcoach.com.

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Posted 6/02/2006 by Josh Hinds

Maxwell Maltz Motivational Quote...

"Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act." -- Maxwell Maltz

In case you're curious Dr. Maxwell Maltz was the author of the self-improvement classic, Psycho-Cybernetics. You can learn more about him at our Motivational Speakers Hall Of Fame.

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