Many of us are good at starting things — it’s the finishing that we need help with.
You might think that a loving partner helps keep you on track -- say, when you want to stick to your jogging or concentrate on your studies.
I've been working online full time for almost 10 years, since age 19. I've had a lot of failures and a lot of successes. There is no better way to learn how to succeed than to learn from someone who has already done it.
Worried you won't meet your goal? According to research, you'll be more likely to succeed if you make specific plans to implement it.
Do you have difficulty saying “no”? Are you always trying to be nice to others at the expense of yourself?
"Over the course of five years, I've managed to pay off over $35,000 in debt, quit my day job, and go from having nothing saved to fully funding my retirement accounts every year. In the process, I've developed a 14-point philosophy."
A survey by the Pew Foundation which found that 71 percent of Americans view small business more favorably than any other institutions, including religious organizations.
While there are some larger loan options available, many entrepreneurs -- particularly freelance, online and home-based businesses -- require only a few thousand dollars to get started. If this is the case for you, consider a microloan.
Just being in the same room as greatness can inspire you to new levels of the possible.
Too often we get stuck in inaction -- the quagmire of doubt and perfectionism and distractions and planning that stops us from moving forward.
It's hard to keep yourself going when you don’t feel the same excitement as you did in the beginning.
Creativity is often made out to be a nebulous, messy, complicated, difficult thing, and it can be. But it doesn't have to be.
Sometimes work can be a drag. You get caught up in trying to be more productive, and suddenly your life turns into a series of to-do lists.
Everyone is essentially self-employed -- and that even if you're an employee, you should think of yourself as the President of your own personal services corporation.
What if you currently live a very comfortable lifestyle and you have a lot of assets? How can you justify running off to do what truly makes you happy if it might put all your current assets at risk?
The most common problem faced by anyone trying to create something - no matter what their subject or level of experience - is lack of inspiration.
If you want to be an effective entrepreneur, you should have at least 10 good friends who are already successful entrepreneurs. Few entrepreneurs succeed in isolation, because, business is a social game.
When people feel they’ve hit a roadblock in reaching a personal goal, such as losing weight, a change in perspective...
Little research exists in the area of self-talk, although internal dialogue often influences the way people motivate and shape their own behavior.
It's a huge limiting belief to assume that going faster means you’re doing something wrong and creating too much stress.
How does someone else’s success mean anything bad for you?
Researchers had students think up solutions to problems while acting out various metaphors about creative thinking - and found that the instructions actually worked.
I make a living doing what I love, and doing what you love for a living is fantastic.
If you don’t believe you’ll succeed, then some parts of you will resist your goal, and your progress will be frustratingly slow.
I couldn't motivate myself to do anything important this morning, which is a rare thing for me. I started to doubt myself, and wonder whether anything I do is worthwhile.
Sometimes you need to become unbalanced in order to get things done. If you’re working on a book, launching a business or trying to overhaul some part of your life, you can probably relate.
We all have days when we’re just not very inspired, when we need passion and creativity breathed into us.
Do you have dreams you want to pursue, but never seem to have the time because of the twin demands of work and family?
We all know that if you’re truly passionate about something, productivity becomes largely irrelevant.
Often we're discouraged because of some tough challenge or obstacle in our way. But a shift in mindset, courtesy of a Zen proverb, can change everything: The obstacle is the path.