After you see the #1 habit, please scroll down for #2. They might seem contradictory, but you can't hit your creative stride until you find a way to balance both.
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.
We all know that if you’re truly passionate about something, productivity becomes largely irrelevant.
Unconscious motivation plays a substantial role in how we respond to challenges. Find out how much.
It's hard to keep yourself going when you don’t feel the same excitement as you did in the beginning.
Life would be grand if we only did what our fleeting hearts wanted to do, each moment of the day. Unfortunately, the laundry, taxes and difficult conversations would never get done.
A common mistake people make is that they’ll spend 500 hours creating a product and then 20 hours promoting it. Then they wonder why no one is buying.
The most common problem faced by anyone trying to create something - no matter what their subject or level of experience - is lack of inspiration.
Many of us are good at starting things — it’s the finishing that we need help with.
If you don’t believe you’ll succeed, then some parts of you will resist your goal, and your progress will be frustratingly slow.
Timeboxing is a simple time management technique you can use to take control of your time.
People have an easier time starting toward a goal than finishing it, but a shift in attention can make all the difference in reaching the finish line.
How do ideas spread? What messages will go viral on social media, and can this be predicted?
Starting a business is a lot of work. Anyone who tells you it's not is either lying or has never actually started one themselves.
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.
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.
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.
Some lessons that apply equally to getting buff and to building your business
Use these steps to help draw a blueprint for your business’s advertising plan. 1. Design the framework What is the...
It seems really simple: If you want to achieve something, set a goal and then make specific plans to implement it.
Do you look fondly at the past, enjoy yourself in the present, and strive for future goals? If you hold these time perspectives simultaneously - and don't go overboard on any one of them - you're likely to be a happy person.
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.
Pride in success can prevent us from taking further action toward our goals. We should not allow our brains to convince us that a failure is a success just so that we can stop trying.
Sometimes immersing yourself in the creative world of people doing amazing things can bring unexpected results.
The hardest habits to change, by far, are the ones people can’t seem to control.
Let’s say you have an agenda, and every time one of you wandered off the agenda, you forced yourself to get back on it. Would the conversation be better or worse, with a set outcome?
Life's greatest tragedy consists of men and women who earnestly try, and fail! The tragedy lies in the overwhelmingly large majority of people who fail, as compared to the few who succeed.
When asked during an interview how he managed to reach the top as a professional bodybuilder and Hollywood actor, Arnold Schwarzenegger replied with a single word: "Drive!"
Procrastination is in all of us, and one of the best ways to procrastinate is to do all the busy-work that makes us feel like we’re doing stuff -- while not doing the stuff we know we should be doing.
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.