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by Stuart Goldsmith You need to develop the habits of a winner. You want to enjoy today, but have an even better tomorrow waiting for you. To do this you must model yourself on winners – people who have achieved great things in their lives. I am talking here about …

I was just talking to a friend of mine on the telephone. She is doing a job she is not very happy with, and wishes she could be doing something else. The only problem is that she is not doing anything about it whatsoever! In fact, we have been having …

Whatever your lot in life, you doubtless consider it to be a combination of external factors: some positive and others negative. Doubtless, this is partly true. However, it may surprise you to know that at any point, barring acts of God, your future is almost entirely in your own hands. …

Brian Tracy is one of the top self-help motivational speakers and teachers, and Success Mastery Academy is one of his very best products. I own a copy of this one myself and hence can personally vouch for the fact that Success Mastery Academy is a very powerful course of self …

Often, disappointment serves to show us that we are not on the right road to begin with. We may be heartbroken at that moment, but time eventually reveals a better path; a road we might never have trodden if we had not been stopped so brutally in our path in the first place. People are disappointed in love; perhaps they find another. They are disappointed in career; maybe they find a better opportunity in another firm, or even decide to start their own business.

Self help improvement is like a process of travelling a spiral, not going round in a circle (although it may feel like that at times). The spiral widens out and we become more expansive and better over time, although sometimes it may seem like we are back at exactly the same point. You have to keep faith at times that you really are improving. You may be back at the same place in some ways, but you are seeing it differently, with a new and heightened awareness. Remember that.

Initiative. This is a word that we hear often and believe we understand. However, most people have no idea what it means in a practical sense, certainly not with reference to themselves. Passivity seems to be the order of the day. All too often, we look to others for the …