The people around you dictate your success. They can also forecast our failure.
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?
If you don’t believe you’ll succeed, then some parts of you will resist your goal, and your progress will be frustratingly slow.
It’s amazing how many people I talk to who tell me they want to create a new blog, write a book, start a new business, change careers, make something new.
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.
It's a huge limiting belief to assume that going faster means you’re doing something wrong and creating too much stress.
As an increasing number of freelancers depend on the virtual workplace, how can they make themselves more attractive to potential employers?
If it feels like one part of your brain is battling another, it probably is, according to a study published in Science.
There are a lot of people who read self-improvement blogs and books, but never put them into action. Are you one?
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?
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.
When the task at hand requires some imagination, taking a walk may lead to more creative thinking than sitting.
It’s the lack of starting that kills most tasks and projects.
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.
If you don’t know how, learn how. Use that fancy brain that learned how to walk, talk, and read. It’s still capable of further learning, is it not? Of course it is!
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.
How do ideas spread? What messages will go viral on social media, and can this be predicted?
We all know that if you’re truly passionate about something, productivity becomes largely irrelevant.
Trying to resist that late-night tweet or checking your work email again?
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.
Research suggests that it is pro athlete's ability to manage his goals, as well as his skill, determination and motivation that makes him successful.
Few people know the secret of Ford's success, and those who do know are too modest to speak of it, because of its simplicity.
Even the most motivated of us can feel unmotivated at times. In fact, sometimes we get into such a slump that even thinking about making positive changes seems too difficult.
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!"
Maintaining an interest in the goals you pursue can improve your work and reduce burnout, according to research from Duke University.
None of us make decisions based on reality itself. We make decisions based on our beliefs about reality.
Creativity is often made out to be a nebulous, messy, complicated, difficult thing, and it can be. But it doesn't have to be.
Keep refreshing your goals in your mind, so you think about them often. Here are some ways to do just that.
How does someone else’s success mean anything bad for you?
How much of your day is spent doing administrative tasks, and not creating or doing other important work?