Motivation Articles, Success Tips and Advice to Live Big

The Goal Is Connection, Not Perfection By Ty Bennett

When it comes to communication, whether you are speaking to a large audience, selling to an individual, teaching a class or having a conversation with your spouse, I believe that most of us aim at the wrong target.

When you read any book on communication, or if you ask anyone what their goal is for their presentation – they will talk about making it perfect.

They want you to have the right opening, structure the presentation correctly, back up every point, make it engaging, and close in a memorable way. I agree with all of those concepts (in fact I teach them) but I believe we miss the mark if we focus on perfection.

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Success Tip: Stay Muddy By Bob Burg and John David Mann

Motivation

One of the greatest success secrets is something we often miss when studying the greatly successful: Whatever field they are in, whatever business empire they run, the chances are excellent they have done it at some point with their own hands, learning it nuts and bolts, from the ground up.

Abraham Lincoln knew law. He’d practiced it in freezing-cold, bare-floored small-town courtrooms. So did Gandhi. They both emancipated millions, but only because they knew the feel of the craft in their hands.

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Overcoming the “Shiny Object” Syndrome By Jack Canfield

Motivation

Variety is the spice of life. But if you — like me — view the world as an exciting buffet of opportunities to learn, try and create new things, you know that variety can be dangerous.

The problem is that it’s easy to get distracted from the goals and commitments you’ve already made. Rather than seeing things through to completion, you abandon the goals and projects you’ve already started to chase after whatever new thing has just caught your eye.

I call this “shiny object” syndrome, and it has derailed the success of many people who could be very successful — if they only could maintain their focus long enough to complete a goal.

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Making the Ball Bounce Your Way By Zig Ziglar

Motivation

Many times I use the phrase, “It’s not what happens to you, but how you handle what happens to you, that’s going to make the difference.”

Initially, the ball appeared not to have bounced Celeste Baker’s way, but that was just initially. She has a disease in her left leg called Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy which causes her a considerable amount of pain.

The way Celeste handled her challenge was such an encouragement to her classmates at Baldwin Jr./Sr. High School in Baldwin, Florida, that she was given the “I CAN” Award one school year. The next example helps explain why.

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When Was the Last Time You Took a Risk? By Bob Proctor

Motivation

Yesterday I was talking with one of my good friends about risk…

My dictionary tells me that to risk is “to expose oneself to the chance of loss.” I suppose that is true. Another piece of literature I was once given (author unknown) suggests that:

To laugh is to risk appearing the fool.
To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.
To reach out for another is to risk involvement.
To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self.
To place your ideas, your dreams, before a crowd is to risk their loss.
To love is to risk not being loved in return.
To live is to risk dying.
To hope is to risk despair.
To try is to risk failure.

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Your Life is Exactly The Way You Want it to be By Larry Winget

Motivation

Chances are that you go to work, come home, eat a little unhealthy food, watch four or five hours of television, go to bed, don’t sleep well and then get up tomorrow to do it all over again. You spend more than you make, exercise less than you should and complain that there just isn’t enough time to get it all done. And you wonder why your life is the way it is.

Your life is the way it is because that’s exactly how you want it to be!

“How can you say that? I want to be happy, healthy and rich.”

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The Power of Deciding By Jim Stovall

Motivation

I believe and have often said that we are all one quality decision away from anything we want. A quality decision is a certain state of mind. It is not the process of deciding to try, attempt, or pursue something until it becomes difficult.

A quality decision means that you have firmly set your course. You are no longer flexible on your mission; however, you may be flexible on your method.

Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “Once you make a decision, the world conspires to make it happen.”

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The Central Skill By Brian Tracy

Motivation

Time management is the central skill of success. Your ability to manage your time, to focus and channel your energies on your highest value tasks, will determine your rewards and your level of accomplishment in life more than any other factor.

Success Leaves Tracks…
When I began searching for the secrets of success many years ago, I discovered an interesting principle: success leaves tracks. A wise man who had studied success for more than 50 years concluded that the greatest success principle of all was, “learn from the experts.”

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What to Do When Success is Slow by Jack Canfield

Motivation

Pop Quiz: Can success be sped up? Is there an antidote to slow outcomes despite arduous planning and actions taken? What’s the secret for seeing huge results right now?!

I get versions of these questions frequently from people who feel frustrated at sluggish progress in their success journey – despite all the know-how and principles they rigorously employ.

Let’s get one thing straight…

When we admire someone’s success, or even our own, we often focus on the end result and not so much on the effort (and time) that it took to get there. This can cultivate unrealistic expectations, especially the idea that overnight success can happen through careful strategy and an execution of sound advice.

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Influence Comes Down To The Three C’s By Ty Bennett

Motivation

Have you ever wondered what makes someone influential?

Why did people follow Gandhi? Or Martin Luther King Jr.?

What makes leaders, entrepreneurs, politicians or salespeople influential?

These are the questions I have asked myself for years. In my career I have had a chance to work with and share the stage with some of the greatest influencers in the world and I’ve studied them. I’ve watched their way of being, their interactions, the way they treat people and I’ve tried to understand this elusive quality we call influence.

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