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  • Your Number One Priority Today
    I am sure that you have many things to do today. Some of those things are very important and some are not important at all. But of all the things you have to do, which thing should be your number one priority?
  • Your Friends Want You To Fail
    Have you ever told your friends about your success goals? What was their reaction? If you are like most people you soon discover that your friends will give you 101 reasons why you should abandon those goals. Here's why!
  • You Might Be Wasting Your Time Setting Goals
    Why do some people get their goals and others don't? The answer to this question is one of the most important concepts to understand if you are serious about becoming successful.
  • You Know It But Are You Doing It.
    If you are interested in becoming successful then you have probably read or heard about many of the techniques for achieving success. You know some techniques and you believe that you understand those techniques. But are you actually using them each and every day?
  • You Cannot Accumulate a Fortune by Taking the Road That Leads To Poverty
    If you are truly traveling the road to wealth then there should be some evidence that you are moving in the right direction. What is different today than it was last week? Let's look at a way that you can examine the evidence to see whether or not you are on the right road.
  • Why You Should Take a Rich Person to Lunch and Pay for the Lunch
    You should take a self-made rich person to lunch whenever you can and you should always pay. Why? Read on and all will be revealed.
  • Why You Should Pray For Problems
    There is only one group of people that I know of who don't have problems and that is the group of people who permanently reside in the cemetery. If you're alive then you will have problems. So if problems are a natural part of life then what is their purpose?
  • Why You Should Aim to Make Your Business Financially Independent Of Itself
    Most people in our society today realize the importance of becoming financially independent. They have a goal to set up some form of investment program that will produce a passive to cover their needs. It is interesting that very few businesses realize the advantages of having a similar goal.
  • Why You Need To Stretch Your Comfort Zone
    My favourite definition of "crazy" is "doing what you've always done but expecting your results to be different." Most people are afraid to change what they have always done, but the truth is that if you don't learn to stretch your comfort zone regularly then life will not improve for you.
  • Why Residential Property Increases In Price And How To Capitalize On It
    There is a lot of nonsense spoken and written about property investing. If you want to understand what really drives property prices, and how you can capitalize on that knowledge, then there are two basic concepts that you need to understand and accept.
  • Why Money Is The Greatest Invention Of All Time
    I am not only claiming that money is the greatest invention of all time, I am going so far as to say that if money had not been invented then it would be impossible for you to be enjoying the standard of living that you enjoy today.
  • Why Invest In Residential Property?
    There are many different forms of investment competing for your investment dollars. My favorite form of investment is residential property. Read on and find out why.
  • Why Haven’t You Already Attained Your Current Goal?
    My personal experience has taught me that the first thing you should do when you set a goal is to ask; why don’t I already have that goal?

    If you answer this question honestly then you will help yourself increase both the likelihood and the speed of getting that goal.
  • Why Doing The Work Is Not Enough To Guarantee The Rewards
    I've heard people say that if you do the work then success will come. Unfortunately that is not true. The world is full of hard working broke people. The good news is that there is a way to ensure that your work will give you the results you want.
  • Why did you start your business and is it really providing that for you?
    Most small business owners are working far longer hours, for lower hourly returns, than they would be doing if they were working in a job.

    The aim of this article is to have you reassess your goals and get your business to give you what you really want in life.
  • Who are you listening to and what is it really costing you?
    George Burns once said "it's a pity that all the people who really know how to run this country are too busy driving taxis or cutting hair."

    Are you taking your success advice from taxi drivers, hairdressers or other people who aren't really experienced in the area that they are advising you?
  • What to Do When Someone is Driving You Crazy
    Have you ever had the experience where someone really gets under your skin? Perhaps it is a work colleague, a person in your social set, or maybe a family member. What is the best way to deal with this unpleasant situation?
  • What to Do If You're 55 and Not Rich Yet
    Most people in affluent countries aim to retire somewhere between 55 and 65, but what if you've reached 55 and your investment portfolio isn't up to scratch, or perhaps is non-existent. It can all start to appear overwhelming. What is the best way to start getting into financial shape
  • What Should You Do When Everything Seems To Be Going Wrong?
    Have you ever experienced a time in your life when everything seems to be going wrong for you? You probably have. In fact you may even be going through such a time now. Don't worry. All is not lost. There are steps you can take to push through the gloom into sunshine.
  • What Seeds are You Sowing in Your Life?
    All of the great religions and philosophies of the world have as one of their basic principles that you reap according to what you sow. In other words it is universally accepted that you have a considerable amount of control over the quality of life that you enjoy.
  • What Questions Are You Asking Yourself?
    Most people aren't getting the right answers in life because they haven't yet learned how to ask the right questions. Here are some tips to help you ensure that you are asking the questions that will lead to success, rather than the questions that lead to failure.
  • What Makes a Successful Consultant?
    There are many consultants, these days, working in a huge range of different fields, yet some consultants earn much more money, and are in much higher demand, than the average for their particular field of expertise. What is their secret and how can you be one of them?
  • What Buddha Can Teach You About How To Become A Multimillionaire
    Buddha was born into wealth as a prince, but as a young adult he chose to turn his back on material wealth in order to focus on a spiritual life. Yet many of Buddha's teachings give us the exact wisdom we need in order to create great material wealth.
  • What Are You Like At Asking For And Accepting Advice?
    Whether or not you ask for advice and how you accept advice when it is given is a great predictor of your future. Those who are reluctant to ask for advice or are resistant when it is given are likely to have a poor future.
  • What Are You Doing With The Incredible Gift Of Life?
    Of all the wonders of nature perhaps the most incredible is that we are alive with the free will to choose what we do with our lives. This is an amazing gift and we only have a few short years to enjoy it. What are you doing with your gift of life?
  • What Are You Doing That's Different to Last Year?
    What did you do yesterday or last week or last month that you had never done before? What new experiences are you having this year that you have never had in any other year of your life? What are you doing to make sure that your life is an exciting adventure rather than a boring routine?
  • Wealth Building at 55 plus - Getting a Good Money Education
    This is the last in a series of articles on creating wealth, specifically aimed at helping those who have left their wealth building activities to later in life than they probably should have. It will help you understand what you need to do to turn your finances around.
  • Wealth Building at 55 plus - Establishing Good Money Habits
    If you’ve reached 55 and you’re not rich yet then you will have to develop some new good money habits in order to become wealthy (if you already had them you’d be wealthy now). Ideally these are habits that will help you earn more, spend less, and invest more.
  • Wealth Building at 55 plus - Changing Your Time Priorities
    One of the facts of life is that building wealth requires a daily allocation of your time. By this stage of life you probably have some well established time habits that will need reviewing in order to free up the time required to provide financially for the future
  • Wealth Building at 55 plus - Changing Your Belief System About Money
    If you are 55 and not rich yet then you have beliefs around money that you need to change. People tend to get what they expect and believe in, so it is time that you asked yourself which of your beliefs on money and wealth are no longer serving you and then do something to change them.
  • Two Ways to Get Wealthy
    Here are two different ways that you can get rich. At first glance they look very similar, but understanding the difference between them can make an enormous difference in both the quality of life that you enjoy and the amount of wealth you accumulate.
  • Two Great Tips For Public Speaking Success
    The experts on our fears and stresses tell us that the fear of public speaking is the greatest fear that most people have. When I first started public speaking I was petrified, but now I love it and I earn a large amount of money whenever I speak. Here are a couple of tips that may help you too.
  • Three Ways To Profitably Use The Most Powerful Two Words In The English Language
    Most experts believe that it is language that has allowed the human being to far exceed all other animals on the planet. Language can also be used to enhance relationships, both personal and business. Here are some techniques to do just that for you.
  • The Two Things That Make the Highly Successful Different to the Average Person
    A few years ago some scientists set out to find the best way to predict whether a person will become successful or not. They discovered that there are two areas in which there are big differences between the highly successful and the average, and these two areas make the best predictors of success.
  • The Twelve Basic Principles Of Negotiation - Numbers 7 to 12
    This is the second article in a two part series on the principles of negotiation. The first article dealt with principles 1 to 6 and this article covers principles 7 to 12.
  • The Twelve Basic Principles Of Negotiation - Numbers 1 to 6
    Negotiation is an art that requires both study and practice. However there are some basic guidelines that can help you when negotiating. Here are the first six of twelve basic principles that, if followed, will help you negotiate well.
  • The True Cost Of Delay
    Most people have seen an illustration of the magic of compound interest. For example, if you save $50 each week for 20 years then you will have accumulated $165,747 even though you only contributed $52,000. But what if you waited a year before you started saving? What is the cost of that delay?
  • The Three Types of Investing
    In the world of investing there are many different investment vehicles and strategies but they can be split into three broad categories. The advantage of thinking from this point of view is that it makes it easier to decide which form of investing or which combination of investing will best suit you
  • The Three Essential Rules For Profitably Trading On The Stock Market
    Profiting from trading stocks is not a matter of luck. Successful traders develop a set of trading rules and diligently stick to those rules, no matter what. Here are the three essential rules that should be part of every trader's strategy.
  • The Three Enemies of Every Investor
    Every investor, whether in stocks, options, futures, property, business or any other form of investment, has the same three enemies. These enemies have caused more investment loss than all other reasons put together. I will identify these enemies for you and give you some tips for defeating them.
  • The Six W's of Residential Property Investing
    If you want to maximize your profit potential in residential property investing then you need to understand what is going on in the market place. You can do this by using the 6 W's approach to analysis.
  • The Six Key Vulnerabilities in Negotiation
    Negotiation is a mental and emotional game. Much of the result is dependent on the emotional strengths and vulnerabilities of the parties and, of course, their skills at capitalizing on these strengths and vulnerabilities.

    I will discuss six key vulnerabilities to be aware of in negotiation.
  • The Six Elements of Power in Negotiations
    One of the key elements in any negotiation is power, real or perceived. The more power you have the easier it is to achieve your objective. In this article I will discuss six elements that contribute to negotiation power.
  • The Seven Stage Wealth Building Pyramid
    The Pyramids of Egypt have stood for around 5,000 years. The reason why they have lasted so long is the basic structure of each layer being built on the strong foundation of a broader, solid layer beneath. That is exactly the way to build your wealth so it too will stand the test of time.
  • The Secret to Building Self Esteem
    Many people suffer with low self esteem. The interesting thing is that your self esteem is not dependent on the facts, it is dependent on your interpretation of the facts. Here is a simple strategy to improve your self esteem in such a way that it improves your life as well.
  • The Right Balance Between Being Process Focused and Being Results Focused
    A result is the outcome of any action or set of actions.

    A process is the set of steps you take in order to produce the result.

    Part of the skill of becoming successful is to strike the right balance between results focusing and process focusing.
  • The Reasons Why Some People Keep Having Problems
    Are you a person who is beset with problems? As soon as you solve one problem another one appears to take its place. Sometimes the same problem or the same type of problem keeps coming back to haunt you. I have the solution for you.
  • The Real Dangers of Television
    Every so often the newspapers run a story on whether or not watching television has a bad effect on kids. They will usually centre around violence on television or shows that depict a poor social attitude. In reality these are not the real dangers of television.
  • The Profit Power Of Spreading Happiness
    Spreading joy and happiness in the world can be one of the most financially profitable activities you can engage in, once you understand how to turn this positive habit into cash.
  • The Person Who Says It Can't Be Done Should Never Interrupt The Person Who Is Doing It
    Dale Carnegie once said that any fool can complain and criticize, and most fools do. Whenever you announce that you have set an ambitious goal all the nay-sayers will come out of the woodwork. This can be very discouraging to many people but there are ways to overcome it.
  • The Number One Asset Protection Strategy
    Asset protection is a crucial part of wealth building. There are many different aspects of asset protection and they often involve complex trust structures. Yet most people ignore the number one cause of financial loss, even though it is easy to protect themselves.
  • The Most Profitable Investment You Can Make
    Investors are always looking for better investments. Everyone wants to find an investment that will yield higher profits for lower risk. Well there is such an investment and I'm happy to share the secret with you.
  • The Money Making Power of Keeping Good Business Records
    Many people in business and in sales positions are missing out on huge profits simply become they don't know how to profit from keeping good records. In this article I will show you are few tricks that made me a lot of money.
  • The Key To Writing An Action Plan
    The most common system for success is the system of setting a goal, writing an action plan and then putting the plan into practice. It sounds simple but in reality this doesn't work, for most people, because they don't know the key to writing an effective action plan.
  • The Key to Personal Achievement
    All that you have achieved and all that you have failed to achieve is the direct results of your thoughts.

    Furthermore, all that you will achieve and all that you will fail to achieve will be the direct result of your thoughts.
  • The Hammer That Shatters Glass Forges Steel
    The title of this article is from an old Russian proverb yet it is very true today in all cultures of the world. It is not the circumstances that you are in that determine your outcome. Given the same circumstances some people thrive while others perish. Let's look at how to thrive.
  • The Golden Rule of Small Business Startups
    When you start a new small business it is easy to get confused as to what you should be initially focusing on in order to give your business the best chance of prospering. Statistics tell us that 80% of new small businesses fail in the first 12 months.
  • The Five Things That Have Put You Exactly Where You Are Today
    Where you are in life today and where you will be in the future comes down to five things that you have total control over. The way you approach these five things determine whether you are happy or unhappy in life. Let's look at them and see how you are approaching them.
  • The Five P's of Success
    The achievement of success can be broken down into five essential components. In this article I will outline what those components are and how they fit together to make success a reality in your life.
  • The Five Elements Of Business Success - Element 5: Function
    Function in a business can be analyzed and implemented around four key components. These components are; systems and internal structure, rewards, discipline and teamwork, cash flow and resource flow.
  • The Five Elements Of Business Success - Element 4: Leadership
    Leadership in business can be viewed as consisting of 5 components. These components are; application of knowledge and experience, business consistency, relationships, courage, and decision making.
  • The Five Elements Of Business Success - Element 3: The Business Environment
    The achievement of business success requires many skills. Amongst these are the skill sets to assess the business environment and to capitalize on, and risk manage, that environment.
  • The Five Attributes of Great Salespeople
    It is a fact that most people who enter the world of selling fail hopelessly. It is also a fact that most of the others are just scraping by. Yet there are some salespeople that are consistently making a fortune year in and year out. How do they do it? Read on and you will find out.
  • The First Step To Riches: Shifting Your Focus Off Money
    Money, if used properly, is the greatest of all human inventions because it has provided us with a level of freedom and control that has made most other inventions possible, but you'll find it a hard slog to try to become rich by focusing on money.
  • The Easiest Way To Write and Deliver a Great Talk
    People who aren't used to public speaking may never the less be called on at some time to give a talk, perhaps as part of their job. This can be a daunting task but there is a very easy, step by step formula for writing and delivering a great talk.
  • The Difference Between Busy Work and Profit Work
    Everyone complains these days about how busy they are, but how productively are they using their time. Anyone who has ever worked in commission sales soon discovers that there are two kinds of work; busy-work and profit-work.
  • The Crazy Motto that Doubled My Sales
    Do you run a sales team? Have you ever noticed that sales people are brilliant at coming up with excuses for why their promised sales didn't eventuate. I use a simple strategy on my sales team that stopped the excuses and doubled the sales.
  • The Characteristics Of A Great Employee
    A while ago a massive study was conducted in America, England and Australia to try to determine the most important characteristics of successful managers. They asked over 100,000 successful managers what they believed was their most valuable skill. The number one answer was hiring the right people.
  • The Best Way To Set Your Wealth Creation Goals
    When most people think of wealth creation they think of being a millionaire or a billionaire but these goals don't really mean much. Due to the effects of inflation being a millionaire is becoming less and less valuable. In fact, in 20 years time most home owners will be millionaires.
  • The Best Way to Organize Your Day
    Many people use a to-do list to help organize their day. While it is true that any to-do list is better than having none, there is a "best way" to use to-do lists to maximize your productivity.
  • The Best Way to Multiply Your Success Power
    Very few people become successful alone. The majority are members of a power group. That is a group of other success oriented, highly focused, people who help each other achieve greatness.

    In this article I will outline seven requirements of a successful power group.
  • The 5 Pieces to the Happiness Puzzle
    I believe that there are five pieces that fit together to make happiness an automatic result for you.

    You can be successful in any one or two of these areas and still not be happy but if you are simultaneously successful in all five then your happiness is assured.
  • The 10 Step Investment Process
    This is the system that I use in my investing and it is also the system that I have taught to many other professional investors.
  • Tap Into the Science of Winning
    Some people are so busy learning about success that they don't have enough time left to do what it takes to actually succeed.

    If that sounds like you then it is time that you put some science into your strategies so that you can breakthrough the confusion and get the rewards that you are seeking.
  • Talent Is Over-Rated! You Don't Need Natural Talent In Order To Become Great.
    Some years ago I had an opportunity to chat with one of the greats of the jazz guitar. I asked him if he always had a talent for music. He laughed and told me that in fact the exact opposite was true.
  • Succeeding in Your Home Based Business
    Home based business has many advantages but it also has some pitfalls. In order to succeed in your home based business you need to adopt some strategies to manage these pitfalls and ensure that you have a profitable business as well as a balance in your life.
  • Spend Time With People Who Recharge Your Spirit
    Have you ever met someone who recharges your energy just by being there? Perhaps it is the things they say or how they say them, or the way they respect and value your goals and ideas, or the example they set. These are people that you need to be around regularly to recharge your spirit.
  • Seven Tips For Giving Effective Criticism
    Here are seven tips for giving effective criticism that will generally achieve the outcome you want without harming your relationship with the person you are criticizing.
  • Seven Tips for Building Your Wealth
    Here are seven tips for you to help you achieve a success financial life. These seven strategies have been used throughout the ages by the self made rich and are being used just as effectively today by those who build their own fortunes.
  • Seven Strategies for Inspiring People To Follow You
    You can appoint a manager but leadership must be earned.

    There are, however, some strategies that can help you earn that mantle. In this article I will outline seven such strategies for you to use if you choose to.
  • Seven Reasons Why You Are Not Rich
    If you have never become rich then it is because of one or more of the following seven reasons. You can break free of them and become rich if you really want to. It starts by being brutally honest with yourself when deciding whether that reason applies to you.
  • Seven Reasons Why Great Leaders Are Not Part Of Their Team
    There has been so much emphasis, in recent years, on being a team player that many managers who work their way up through the ranks in an organization simply can't cut it as leaders. Why? Because no-one has taught them that once you are the leader you are no longer part of the team.
  • Seven Questions Every Ambitious Person Needs To Answer
    Here's a quick quiz for you to help you determine if you are on track for success.
  • Seven Keys To Personal Development
    I believe that the secret to personal development won't be found by sitting under a tree for 20 years contemplating the universe. The secret to personal development is to pursue a worthwhile goal that takes you outside your comfort zone and forces you to grow in the process.
  • Seven Habits of a Winner
    You've probably heard the saying that success leaves clues. One place that success clues can be found is in the habits that successful people have in common with each other. Here are seven such habits to give you clues to winning the success game in your own life.
  • Seven Habits of a Loser
    Clearly not everyone becomes successful in life. Know what the "losers" have in common can help you see if you have these problems and thereby give you the opportunity to remove them so that they no longer hold you back.

    Here are the seven most common "losing" habits.
  • Seminars - Do They Really Help?
    Today you can find a seminar on just about anything that you want to learn, but do these seminars really work? Statistics show us that one person can have a life changing experience from a seminar yet the person sitting beside them will gain nothing. Let's have a look at why that is.
  • Public Speaking Tip - How to Get a Great Response from Your Audience
    Fear of public speaking is one of the strongest fears that people have. The truth is that it's not the speaking that is the source of the fear, people speak everyday. The fear comes from the perception that the audience is judging the speaker. The true fear is the fear of a bad audience response.
  • Motivation Is Just Frustration On Steroids!
    Most people try to avoid frustration as much as they possibility can, but many successful people have learned how to create frustration and then channel it into an irresistible force that drives them to the achievement of their goal. This article tells you how to do it.
  • Money is a Multiplier of Personality
    I've known people who never give to charity. They tell me that when they get rich they will give. The truth is that money tends to multiple your personality. If you a stingy person when you are broke you will be much stingier when you are rich.
  • Make Your Living Doing What You Love
    One of the sad facts about our economy is that most people hate their job. The dream of the average American is to be rich enough to quit work. Yet the people who are really rich tend to keep working and usually work long hours because they are working at something they love. For them it's just fun!
  • Looking Up the Ladder of Success Won't Make You Successful; You Have To Actually Climb It
    It's a fact of life that less that one in five of the people who talk about success are actually doing anything constructive toward actually achieving success. The more you talk without doing the stronger you reinforce in your subconscious that success should never be more than a theory for you
  • Light A Fire Under Yourself Today
    Andrew Carnegie, in his day the richest man in the world, said that people who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.
  • Life's Purpose
    At some stage in most people lives they will ask the question "what's life all about?" There are many different possible answers to this question but I firmly believe that life is about developing yourself toward becoming all you can be as a person.
  • Learn the Skills of the Wealth Game
    The first thing you do when you want to play a particular sport well is to learn both the rules of that sport and the skills required to master that particular game.

    It is interesting, however, the number of people who have not bothered to learn the skills required in the wealth game.
  • Keeping Yourself On Track For Success
    Most of us start our success journey on a part time basis. We already have a full time job and other commitments but we want more out of life. How can you balance all your commitments and still make sure that you stay on track for your success goals?
  • Is Your Business A Wealth Creation Vehicle or Is It Just Marking Time?
    Are you really on track to get rich from your business or is your business at best simply providing you with a living. In this article we are going to take a look at the basic criteria for using your business as a wealth building vehicle
  • Is The Fear Of Embarrassment Keeping You Broke
    The fear of embarrassment is a powerful influence in the lives of most people. Imagine that you slipped over in a public street, what would your first reaction be? If you are like most people you would look around to see who saw you.
  • If You Want To Be Successful Then You Have To Get Out Of The Way
    Trying to force success can actually prevent it. Successful people learn the art of getting into the right river and then going with the flow. If you fight the natural laws of success then no matter how hard you try you will not become successful.
  • If You Are Still Getting Ready To Start Then You Are Probably Going To Fail
    One of the biggest differences between winners and losers in life is that winners start immediately whether they are ready to or not, but losers want to learn everything they think they need to know before they get started. There is a very good reason why the second method is a recipe for disaster.

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