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James Delrojo's Articles in Success

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Become the Sculptor of Your Future
    Michelangelo was once asked how he could sculpt such a magnificent work of art as his famous Statue of David, he replied that you start with a block of marble then chip away everything that doesn't look like David. That's very similar to how great people sculpt their lives.
  • 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.
  • How to Succeed in Life
    Ambitious people are always searching for ways to succeed in life yet the interesting thing is that the seven step secret that reveals how to succeed is contained within the word itself. Let me reveal it to you.
  • 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
  • Five Things To Consider If You Want To Become Rich
    The world we live in is full of information, opportunity, distractions, opinions, news, and rumors. Part of becoming successful is knowing what to focus on and what to ignore. Here are five things that are definitely worth focusing on if you want to become rich.
  • 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.
  • How Your Philosophy Shapes Your Life
    Everyone has a philosophy of life whether they realize it or not. This philosophy was largely instilled into your mind when you were a child and is unlikely to be something that you stopped to weigh up as it was going in.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • Five Steps for Achieving Affluence..
    Affluence includes money but it is also broader than just money. Affluence is a flow of good things into your life. Here are five steps to help you achieve affluence in your life.
  • Five Steps for Achieving Affluence
    Affluence includes money but it is also broader than just money. Affluence is a flow of good things into your life. Here are five steps to help you achieve affluence in your life.
  • How Do You Act Under Pressure?
    How a person acts under pressure tells a lot about what that person is like. A valuable strategy is to observe yourself when the pressure is off and when the pressure is on, notice the differences and see if you can learn something that may help you become successful.
  • 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.
  • How Do Your Customers Decide Whether Or Not To Buy Your Products?
    If the customers believe that the competing products or services are equivalent to each other then they will usually buy on price. If your product is in this category then you are at the wrong end of the food chain and you may be wise to consider a better strategy.
  • 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.
  • Formal Education Will Get You a Job, but Self Education Will Get You a Life
    The main purpose of the formal education system is to prepare people for the workforce, and some will suggest that it doesn't even do that well. In order to rise above the crowd you need to embark on a journey of self education.
  • 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.
  • Discover Your Own Personal USP
    In sales and marketing you always look for the USP of the product or service that you are promoting. USP stands for Unique Selling Proposition. It is what makes your offer different from all the others in the market place. You too have a personal USP.
  • A Different Perspective On Your Job
    There seems to be a lot of focus these days on the negative side of a job. This includes unfair dismissal, strikes for increased wages, sexual harassment, unfair treatment, and so on. It seems to me that workers are seeing the employer as their enemy and their job as a painful burden.
  • 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.
  • Don't Do What You Do For the Money. Do It to Do It.
    Billionaires don't keep doing what they do in order to make more money, they already have more money than they could every need, but they still keep working. Billionaires do what they do because they love to do it. However, they do use profit as their score card.
  • How To Beat Procrastination For Good
    Procrastination is the art of putting off until tomorrow what you should be doing today. Procrastination is probably the most expensive habit that a person can develop because it costs you all the success that you could be enjoying if you were an action taker.
  • 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?
  • 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?
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • How to Coach Yourself to Success
    Coaching yourself can be difficult because it is much harder to stand outside yourself and look on impartially, than it is to coach another person.

    Here is a simple technique that can help you get around that difficulty.
  • How To Learn What Great People Know
    Whether your goal is to become a multimillionaire business owner, climb to the top of the corporate ladder, become a professional sports star or entertainer, or to be successful in any other field of endeavor, you need to learn what the greats in that field already know.
  • 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 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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 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.
  • 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?
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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!
  • A Guaranteed Success Formula
    Success is not an accident. Success is not a matter of luck. There is a five step formula that can be followed and, if you have the commitment to follow it you will reap the rewards.
  • 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.
  • How to Change Your Circumstances Now.
    I have a good friend who has an interesting saying. He says that the difference between a gardener and a dog is that the gardener can transform chaos into a beautiful garden where as the dog will turn the beautiful garden back into chaos.
  • 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.
  • How To Create Serendipity in Your Life
    Serendipity is a lucky break. It's being in the right place at the right time. But is it really a matter of luck or can you produce serendipity in your own life. You can, and I'm going to show you how.

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