Motivation Articles, Success Tips and Advice to Live Big

Six Essentials for Networking

Networking is about creating an extended family. It’s about developing connections, caring about people, increasing the size of your “tribe.” Most of all, networking is not the awkward social ritual many of us think it is… networking is actually FUN!

Here are my top six networking essentials to rock your career and your life.

1. Practice “Palm Up” Networking. When you network, are you giving, or grasping? Palm up networking embodies the spirit of service, of giving and wanting nothing in return. When you network “palm down” you’re grasping for personal gain. Palm up = heart-oriented interaction.

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Your Dream Begins Today By Les Brown

Motivation

What will your life be like when you’ve achieved your most deeply held dreams? Let’s take a look at how you can start living your dreams this very day.

Do you have a dream, a vision of the life you wish to live?
How specific is that dream?
How clear is that vision?
How do you intend to reach it?
What obstacles stand in your way?
Are your fears holding you back or are you using them to move you forward?

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Becoming a Motivational Leader By Brian Tracy

Motivation

Create a Big Vision …

To become a motivational leader, you start with motivating yourself. You motivate yourself with a big vision, and as you move progressively toward its realization, you motivate and enthuse others to work with you to fulfill that vision.

Set High Standards …

You exhibit absolute honesty and integrity with everyone in everything you do. You are the kind of person others admire and respect and want to be like. You set a standard that others aspire to. You live in truth with yourself and others so that they feel confident giving you their support and their commitment.

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Jim Rohn Articles Library Updated

Motivation

Just a quick note to mention that we’ve updated our collection of Jim Rohn articles and essays. If you’re unfamiliar with the work of Mr. Rohn, you are in for a treat — he is definitely one of the premier business thinkers of our time.

You can also learn more about him in our Motivational Speakers Hall Of Fame.

That’s all for now… and remember…

–It’s your life, LIVE BIG! Josh Hinds

How to Have Constant Motivation By Marty Parker

Motivation

How many times have you attended a motivational seminar or read an inspiring book and for about two or three weeks you were pumped up on life? For a lot of people, a month after gaining their new insight and wisdom, the day-to-day routines demand their focus and thought power and their motivation tank slowly starts to lose gas. Waking up everyday and being full of motivation and drive requires the right mindset.

If we are able to feel pumped up on life for two weeks after coming out of a seminar, then there is no reason why we should not be able to feel that way the majority of the time. At motivational seminars and in the pages of great books, we are exposed to mantras and quotes that resonate within us and move our souls. We hear new ways of thinking that we agree with and concepts that open our eyes to unlimited possibilities. The reason our motivation tanks run low is because we are not continuously reminded of our new found concepts, mantras and belief systems.

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Thinking With Charlie “Tremendous” Jones

Motivation

– People who know the most, know they know so little, while people who know nothing want to take all day to tell you.

– Self-improvement can be harmful if you are doing it to look better. If you live your life in helping others look better, you’ll be better without trying.

– If you give to get something, you’re not really giving you are trading. Giving is never to get, because you have it and are not aware of how much you have until you give.

– Big people are always giving someone credit and taking blame; little people are always seeking credit and giving blame.

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Enthusiasm by Tony Alessandra

Motivation

You generally wear your positivity on the “inside.” But your enthusiasm is how you show it to the world by your face, your voice, and your gestures.

Sometimes we feel enthusiastic about our ideas but we’re afraid to show it. But I think the people who influence us the most are those who are able to express on the outside what they’re feeling on the inside.

A friend of mine remembers touring a client’s office and seeing “cute” signs with negative messages plastered everywhere: “It’s hard to soar like an eagle when you’re surrounded by turkeys,” “Even a bad day on vacation is better than a good day at work,” and the like.

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Balancing the Scales by Jim Stovall

Motivation

Complaints have become an epidemic in our world today. Complaining is the latest and most popular full-contact sport in our society. Unfortunately, when you constantly and aggressively complain about poor performance and bad service, your verbal assaults and admonishments often fall on deaf ears.

This is a result of the scales being out of balance. Your complaints are piled on top of everyone else’s complaints, creating a constant stream of complaint-filled conversation.

The people with hotels, restaurants, airlines, and all manner of businesses that hear these complaints are not able to distinguish them from all the other noise around them, because this is all they ever hear. Too often, we feel pre-programmed to catch people doing something wrong and tell them all about it.

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Resolving Conflict by Les Brown

Motivation

I’ve done a lot of research on the topic of conflict resolution in recent months, and here are a few tips I’ve come up with for resolving conflict in your workplace and professional life:

Don’t be afraid of conflict. Too many of us become agitated when we encounter conflict or disagreement out of concern and fear. It’s odd when you think about it, because conflict is a part of nature, a part of life.

Unless you are a hermit, odds are that conflict is inescapable. And so, you need to approach conflict calmly, as an expected part of dealing with others. Consider conflict a way of learning to see things more clearly.

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Being A Difference Maker By Zig Ziglar

Motivation

Dr. John Maxwell of San Diego, California, says that the average person influences 10,000 people – either for good or bad – in the course of a lifetime. That means all of us are difference-makers.

Miss Amy Whittington would certainly qualify as one who directly and indirectly influenced thousands of people. At age 83 she was still teaching a Sunday school class in Sault St. Marie, Michigan. She learned that the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago was offering a seminar to teach people how to be more effective teachers. She literally saved her pennies until she had the necessary money to buy a bus ticket. She rode the bus all night to attend the seminar to learn new methods and procedures so she could do a better job.

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