5 Motivational Mistakes That Sound Like Good Ideas

To achieve great things – to achieve anything – you need to understand how motivation works. The thing is, our minds don’t work ...

7 Steps to Reach Your Goals

  There is something about "new" that keeps our thoughts occupied with new resolutions, new dreams, new hopes, new plans and ne...

How to Change Thought Patterns

You've probably heard that old saying -"If you put your mind to something you can  achieve  it." The only problem is that ...

How to Stop Failing in Life

So you want to be successful in life? Is that what you want? Then you better stop failing and become aware of these 10 ways to fail in ...

5 Things That Are Better Than a Plan

I spent a lot of my life with no sense of progress. Now, I didn’t say that I wasn’t making progress. In fact, of all the many jobs I...

How To Follow Your Goals Seriously

It’s much easier to set a goal than follow through, correct? So what processes do you need to have in place to make sure those goals yo...

Achieve Goals by Beginning With the End in Mind

There are some interesting comments in the post The Importance of Being Smart and here I’d like to discuss one of them. It’s a commen...

Why I Love the Word “Grow”

The tag line of this blog is “Personal Growth and Effectiveness.” I use the phrase “personal growth” there rather than an alternative ...

How To Achieve Excellence in Anything

When I was a kid, people would constantly speak in admiration of those who were excellent in whatever they were doing. These could be ...