Books over TV

Did you know that one of the things that some of the most successful people in the world share in common is that they read books – mostly books on how to improve themselves in a variety of ways. If you want to follow in the footsteps of people like Warren Buffet, Bill Gates and …

Achievement Life Cycle

One of the common problems that people have when they are first starting on the road to success is seeing how a major achievement will actually work. It is difficult to see more than the very beginning and the end result – the success. We are going to take an example here, and go through …

Success Requires Prioritization

When you want to be successful, you have to prioritize. This often means that some things get overlooked and unfortunately, sometimes they are things that you don’t want to overlook. But you have to make sacrifices if you want to achieve your goals and that means deciding what is most important, and working on it …

Your Success Strengths

Imagine this scenario: A baker needs to give his wife the perfect gift. So, he goes out shopping for something to give her. He browses through jewelry at the jewelry store, but he doesn’t know how to tell what she would like. He looks at some lingerie, but he doesn’t know anything about it. In …

How to Measure Your Success

One of the questions that people often have when they start becoming serious about striving for success if how they can measure if they are successful enough or if they are doing enough to achieve their goals. This question comes because of the propensity that people have to compare themselves to others. But you never …

When is Motivation overrated?

If you are in any kind of social group like at work or in your community, your neighborhood, or your family, you may be thinking that success in terms of group dynamics is just something that happens. There is just something about certain people that ensures that they rise to the top. As you probably …

Emotional Intensity is Not Real Motivation

As I keep saying in this series of articles, people automatically believe that they are already motivated if they have goals in life. If only things were that simple. Seriously. Let’s face it, the reason why most people struggle and is unable to reach peak levels of performance is because they just go through the …

Motivation is a Mental Muscle

What if I told you that getting motivated is not much different from going to the gym and hitting the weights? You may be thinking to yourself that there is a big difference between a weight rack and getting motivated. In fact, if you’re like most people, you probably assume that you already motivated enough. …

Don’t set yourself up for failure

You are probably rolling your eyes at the title of this article. I really can’t say I blame you. I mean, come on. People forgetting how to get motivated? The absurdity of that statement really speaks to our assumptions. Most people who are trying to achieve anything with their lives automatically assume that since they …

On-demand Motivation

Let’s get one thing clear. All of us have the capacity for greatness. Seriously. We all have it in us to do amazing things. In fact, you only need to look at past instances in your life where you were able to truly achieve. Everybody has it in them to do the right things at …