Tag Archive | Self improvement

Your Key To Success – Win Your Morning, Win Your Day

Oct18
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Do you go to bed at night with good intentions of starting your day off better tomorrow?

But then when the alarm goes off, you hit snooze again and again?

When you get up you’re in a rush and you’re grouchy because you’re late.

Then you yell at the kids and feel bad about that. You can’t find your car keys and that adds to your frustration.

Several blocks away from home you realize you left your mobile phone behind and have to turn around to get it, which makes you even later and more grouchy.

By the time you get to work, you’re late, exhausted, and have a bad attitude.

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Four Steps To Making Your Personal Finances Absolutely Awesome

Feb27

Improve your financial situation at www.xtreme-assistant.comImproving personal finances is the number five New Year’s Resolution. When you’re worried about money, either now or for your future, it makes it hard to relax and enjoy your life. The sooner you get a hold of your financial health, the sooner you’ll be able to live your life in a more meaningful way.

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Six Things To Do Instead of Multitask

Feb17

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It’s a myth that multitasking is the answer to getting more done in the same number of hours. And it’s actually creating habits that cause you to mismanage time.

Although some people can juggle a phone call and typing a report at the same time, don’t think that if you do three things at once, you’re being more productive.

Actually, you create more potential for making mistakes because your attention is divided in several ways. Nothing muddles time management worse than trying to multitask.

The human body and mind have limits, and those limits cannot be extended by multitasking. Rather than depend on multi-tasking as your strategy, look again at some of the tried and true time management principles.

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How To Use Motivation Quotes To Attract Lasting Change

Dec19
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We become what we think.  This quote has been proven over and over again.

If we perceive something bad is going to happen to us, many times it does. 

On the contrary, if we believe something good is going to happen, this often becomes true as well. 

Science has affirmed the link between positive affect and its impact on an individual’s motivation and performance.

If we expect the best or we expect the worst, we’re usually not disappointed.  Each time we perceive a positive thought, it increases our own perceptions of positive expectancy.

For motivation to last, it requires constant thinking with daily positive reinforcement.

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Increased Success With Short-Term Thinking

Feb3
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Everywhere you turn, it seems that someone is touting the benefits of long-term thinking. If you’re too focused on long-term thinking, you lose sight of the increased success that you can find when you practice short-term planning.

What’s so sad is that too many people get advised to “think about the future” instead of living in the present. It’s important to have a healthy balance of long and short-term planning.

The long-term portion enables you to dream big and shoot for the stars. The short-term efforts allow you to see immediate progress and enjoy the steps you’re taking regularly.

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