What Is Success Anyway
Success is creating what you want the way you want it to be. It is, in fact, a journey. And, like all journeys, your ship will sail through calm waters and buck in storms. If you stay on course, continually upgrading your navigational instruments and adjusting to feedback, you will reach your port of dreams. Everyone has had the experience of shipwreck. Their most cherished dreams collapsed despite their best efforts. The difference between those who succeed in life and those who fail are neither the number of shipwrecks nor the severity of the storms. ...


What Is Mastery And Why It Makes All The Difference In The World
Mastery is the art of being at cause over a discipline. The absence of mastery is the presence of mediocrity, and an even lower stage is failure. These two experiences, mediocrity and failure, create low moods, unpleasant life experiences, and consequences of lack, limitation, negativity, and scarcity. In other words, varying degrees of anguish. Mastery, then, is a decision to excel at something, putting in the time and effort to achieve that excellence, and creating a positive influence on the world. ...


Top 10 Challenges to Working At Home
It sounds ideal, doesn't it? Conference calls in your pajamas, doing laundry in between talking to clients, saving money on all those work lunches! But is working from home always a perfect situation? Here are some things to watch out for if you're already working from home, or things to think about if you're considering making the move. This is work, this is home. Keep your office and house as separate as possible. Create an office that you really enjoy walking into and that has everything you want in one area. ...


The Largest And Purest Diamond Ever Found
Rafael Solano, his back bent, his shoulders crushed by an invisible weight, sat on a boulder in the dry river bed. He lifted his head up slowly. It weighed a ton. He spoke in a low voice, his words almost incomprehensible. He mumbled again to his two friends. "I quit." They stopped gathering pebbles and looked at him. "I can't go on. I don't believe in it anymore." The sweat glistened on his brow. The brilliant sun had parched his face to a network of fine blood vessels. Dark shadows outlined his eyes. ...


How To Get Real
"What we need most, is not so much to realize the ideal as to idealize the real," said H.F. Hedge. Ideals arise from our use of imagination. Our imaginations can create unbelievable worlds to live in. They empower us to make sense of descriptions remote to our times or foreign to our experience. When reading Plato, we may visit an Ancient Greece we never actually knew; and when hearing a lecture on Quantum Physics, we may see the interaction between subatomic particles even though they are invisible to the naked eye. ...


How To Become Rich and Famous
If you want to be rich and famous, you have to focus on your strong points. Don't dwell on your weaknesses. Choose your strongest asset and build it into a formidable asset. After finding your heart's desire, your bliss, dare to dream big; dream the biggest, boldest dreams that you can think of. Decide now that you want to be phenomenal in your particular talent; be the best of the best; be unforgettable. Fame doesn't just happen. You have to want it! Now translate your dream into two manageable plans. ...


Financial Freedom In Rough Economic Waters
Many businesses, and families, are struggling within the framework of the present economy; however, some people are still finding new ways to "think outside the box." The economy is like the speed limit on the highway; some people stay the course, while others pull into the high-speed lane and give it all they've got. Now - I am not encouraging you to break the speed limit, but I am letting you know that you can surpass perceived economic barriers, even in a tough economy. How is this possible? It takes innovators to get out of an economic downturn. ...


Dream the Impossible Dream
To think of riches, when one is in the condition of poverty or lack, requires sustained and concentrated thought; but he who practices this disciplined thinking inevitably becomes rich, and he can have whatever he wants.~Joseph Murphy How do you seize courage when your whole world is collapsing around you? You do it by picturing the opposite. You ignore what is before you and you focus on what is within you. When you create a dream, you must nourish it. This nourishing has to happen in good times and in bad times. ...


Do You Need A Change Of Mind
Napoleon Hill, the famous inspirational writer, once met a reader who became a millionaire after reading one of his books. The book, Think and Grow Rich, transformed Bill McCall of Australia from rags to riches. When Bill was 19 years old, he sold hides and skins. He failed miserably. Two years later, he ran for Federal Congress. Again, he failed. In desperation, Bill went to the library to read about success principles. There, he found Hill's book. Although he read the book three times, he failed to see how to use the success principles. ...


Alex Tew Dashes to The Million Dollar Homepage Finish Line
Have you ever seen a great idea and said to yourself: "I wished I'd thought of that?" Well, just when you thought there weren't any more new ideas in online advertising and marketing, along comes Alex Tew, a 21-year old college student from the UK who came up with the brilliant idea of turning website pixels into prime online internet advertising space. Ok. Maybe you're saying to yourself "So What?" Perhaps you don't even know what pixels are. Well, maybe you'll grow a little bit more interested when you discover that Alex Tew is selling each little pixel square on his The Million Dollar Homepage site for $1 each. ...