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Break the Failure Habit: 3 Major Reasons why you should Stop Complaining

December 20, 2016 by Ray Leave a Comment

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As we grew up, we learned that certain bad habits can bring disaster and that we should avoid them at all costs. We learned that smoking can cause cancer, that leading a sedentary lifestyle and eating unhealthy food brings all sorts of diseases, and that bad financial habits lead to money problems. Aside from those, there is one psychological habit that’s just as horrible. If you have a habit of complaining about problems and inconveniences every change you get, you could be setting yourself up for failure. Here are three BIG reasons why you should stop complaining as soon as possible!

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How you get what you Expect: Why Life is a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

December 13, 2016 by Ray Leave a Comment

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There’s a famous 1960’s study where a Harvard professor named Robert Rosenthal researched on the effects of teachers’ expectations on students. He gave a standard IQ test to elementary children, selected some ordinary kids at random, and told teachers that those few students will soon become very intelligent. Sure enough, after two years, the selected students DID indeed show an increase in IQ.

As Rosenthal’s research continued, he found that the teachers’ expectations affected their interactions with those randomly selected students. Those kids that the teachers expect to succeed were given “more time to answer questions, more specific feedback, and more approval: They consistently touch, nod and smile at those kids more.” In short, expectations affected their behavior, and their behavior affected their results. They expected the kids to do well, so they behaved in ways that made the kids do better.

So what does this story have to do with you? It’s simple. Your expectations about YOURSELF affects your behavior. Whether you know it or not, you act in ways that will make your expectations reality. Your entire life is a reflection of your thoughts.

Why is this important? If you want to avoid a life of failure and you want to improve the quality of your life, you need to learn how to control your thoughts and improve your expectations.

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How to set Goals in Life: The First Ingredient of Success

December 6, 2016 by Ray Leave a Comment

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“The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire, not things we fear.” – Brian Tracy

Did you know that setting “goals” like “I want to be happy” or “I want to be rich” are a recipe for disaster? No, I’m not saying that because they’re impossible to achieve, it’s that they’re so vague that they won’t give you any information that you can actually act upon. Aside from that, they have no end point to let you know when you’ve finally accomplished the goal. If you want to achieve the things you want and become successful at something, then you must learn how to set goals in life properly. Study this article well, and create your goals based on the principles here!

“Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.” – Zig Ziglar

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It’s your right to be Rich and Successful

October 25, 2016 by Ray Leave a Comment

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Stress from work, bills to pay, and all sorts of problems popping up every day. All of them can make life seem hopeless sometimes and you probably think that what you have now, a life living paycheck to paycheck, is all that you’re ever going to get. You could even think that mediocrity, failure, and even poverty are all normal.

Well, they’re not.

What you SHOULD have and what you’re DESTINED to have is wealth and success. It’s your right to be rich, and no matter how much you think otherwise, you are deserving of it as you work to earn it. Remember these quotes if you ever start to doubt that.

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10 Ways to NOT Help People (William J. H. Boetcker’s “The Ten Cannots”)

October 18, 2016 by Ray 2 Comments

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Reduce unemployment, help the needy, eliminate poverty and world hunger. Those are all noble goals worth pursuing. We have to be careful though as some solutions do more harm than good. Take these warnings from William J. H. Boetcker’s “The Ten Cannots.”

“The Ten Cannots” by William J. H. Boetcker

You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot help little men by tearing down big men.
You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money.
You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.
You cannot build character and courage by destroying men’s initiative and independence.
And you cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.

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