Motivation and Success Strategies

7 Things People Do to Sell Out (and How to Avoid Them)

It is possible to pay too much for success. To paraphrase a well-known verse from scripture, what does it profit us to gain the whole world if we lose our souls?

How can anyone keep moving up in life without selling out? If you achieve significant results while at the same time being true to your values, principles and beliefs, you will enjoy great success in life.

There are many ways that we can “sell out.” Be careful of these:

We sell out when:

1. Our behaviors are inconsistent with our values.

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Impossible is Possible By Pegine

Motivation

If you believed impossible is possible what actions would you take? I believe impossible is possible. You are the only person capable of determining what you will believe about what you can achieve.

High School basketball player Khalil Edney did the impossible; he grabbed a loose ball for the miracle 55-footer sinker. Impossible is Possible. Now that he has done it, someone else will practice, practice and prepare and make it their standard. Their standard will be making a basket from 55 feet. Once one person does it others will follow.

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What’s Your Why?

Motivation

You’re sick and tired of the way things are and, this time things are going to be different.

You feel incredibly motivated. You can’t wait to get going and see results.

You write out your SMART goals and follow all the goal setting rules. You visualize and get an accountability partner.

The first few days or even a whole week goes by and you’re fired up, following your plan and maybe starting to see your first few results.

Then reality sets in. You get busy. That fire that got you going starts to fizzle. Everything required by your goals starts to seem harder and harder to fit into your life.

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The Self-Empowerment Pledge By Joe Tye

Motivation

Seven Simple Promises that Will Change Your Life and Transform Your Organization

“No empowerment is so effective as self-empowerment… In this world, the optimists have it, not because they are always right, but because they are always positive. Even when wrong, they are positive, and that is the way of achievement, correction, improvement, and success. Educated, eyes-open optimism pays; pessimism can only offer the empty consolation of being right [because it creates a self-fulfilling prophecy of failure].”

– David Landes: “Culture Makes All the Difference” in Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress (edited by Samuel P. Huntington and Lawrence E. Harrison)

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Enjoy the Moment – Dads with Daughters… Don’t Miss It! By Brian Biro

Motivation

Last weekend I experienced a ‘moment’ with my daughter Kelsey that I will never forget. I’m writing to all of you dads with daughters out there because I don’t want you to miss YOUR moment. I want you to have a treasure that will stay with you as long as you live.

My wife Carole and I drove from our home in Asheville last Friday to meet Kelsey in Washington DC. Her best friend Maggie and our younger daughter Jenna were flying in to meet us as well. This trip was for an once-in-a-lifetime event…we were coming together to buy Kelsey her wedding dress!

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Success Lesson: Failure isn’t Final By Jim Stovall

Motivation

Often, we try to divide the world into two groups of people: Those who succeed and those who fail. While there are countless definitions of success and failure, this seems to make a logical dividing or measuring point.

Conventional wisdom might tell us that people who succeed never fail, and failures never succeed. Nothing could be further from the truth. If a picture is worth a thousand words, an example may be worth a million.

Albert Einstein wasn’t able to speak until he was almost four-years-old, and his teachers said he would “never amount to much.”

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Happiness is a Choice

Motivation

Allow me to let you in on a little secret. (No, it’s not Victoria’s Secret. Victoria really doesn’t have a secret. Have you ever seen the merchandise in that store? It’s obvious the secret is pretty much revealed.) Are you ready? Here it is: Happiness is a choice, that’s it. It’s a little secret, right? But, a great one. Happiness is a choice. That’s all you need to know. You are now enlightened. You can stop reading and go about your business. Congratulations on your new found self-awareness. Hey, I’m kidding, alright? But it is true. Happiness is a choice. As I always say, making “happiness a choice” is what life is all about. And it’s the best way to stay motivated throughout the day.

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Success Lesson: Abundance and Scarcity By Jim Stovall

Motivation

Your world view is the lens through which you view your life and everything around you. Few things are more important to our success than our world view, and most people don’t even recognize that they have a world view, much less understand it.

Since the beginning of time, there have always been two basic kinds of people in the world relating to abundance and scarcity. There are people who believe that the way to succeed is to grow, build, and create; and then there are people who believe, in order to be successful, you must get what someone else has. These are two opposing world views.

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Create Positive Emotions to Feel Satisfied in Life

Motivation

Positive emotions not only feel good, but they also increase our overall life satisfaction.

How?

By building resilience.

University of North Carolina professor Barbara Fredrickson has spent the past two decades looking into why we have positive emotions and what we do with them. She even has her own term for her work: positivity.

To quote an old commercial, “Why ask ‘why’?” when it comes to positive emotions? Shouldn’t we just enjoy them while they’re around? Sure, but maybe we can find even more about how these emotions benefit us.

Why do we have emotions anyway?

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Start Acting Now Like The Person You Want To Be In The Future

Motivation

There you are thinking to yourself that you’d like to be more social with others. You have admired all of those outgoing people who seem to get all of the attention they want.

Nope, you are not like those people. You don’t like social encounters that much and in fact, you have sometimes avoided getting into one on purpose.

You clearly aren’t satisfied about your current state of affairs, that’s for sure. That’s why you want to change and be different from what you are now.

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