Maintaining an interest in the goals you pursue can improve your work and reduce burnout, according to research from Duke University.
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Procrastination, the habit of putting tasks off to the last possible minute, can be a major problem in both your career and your personal life. Side effects include missed opportunities, frenzied work hours, stress, feeling overwhelmed, resentment and guilt.
When the task at hand requires some imagination, taking a walk may lead to more creative thinking than sitting.
None of us make decisions based on reality itself. We make decisions based on our beliefs about reality.
Our attention is often pulled in too many directions, leaving us feeling overloaded, distracted, chaotic, spread thinly, without focus. So what can you do?
Here is list of 27 traits that distinguish successful people from ordinary people. If you take the commitment to apply every day each principle in your life, you’ll start to see amazing results in no time.
It turns out passion is not as elusive as we think.
Unconscious motivation plays a substantial role in how we respond to challenges. Find out how much.
We all have days when we’re just not very inspired, when we need passion and creativity breathed into us.
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!
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.
Excuses are lies we tell ourselves to avoid dealing with unpleasant truths. But as long as we buy into those excuses, we can never move past them.
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.
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Fifty years ago, an old country doctor drove to town, hitched his horse, quietly slipped into a drug store by the back door. His mission was destined to bring to the South the most far-flung benefit since the Civil War.
It’s the lack of starting that kills most tasks and projects.
Little research exists in the area of self-talk, although internal dialogue often influences the way people motivate and shape their own behavior.
Do you have dreams you want to pursue, but never seem to have the time because of the twin demands of work and family?
The people around you dictate your success. They can also forecast our failure.
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.
Following your passion can be a tough thing... but figuring out what that passion is can be even more elusive.
It's a huge limiting belief to assume that going faster means you’re doing something wrong and creating too much stress.
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.
Think big. Live to the max. Change the world. These high-flying statements are meant to encourage us to achieve great things with our lives. But, rather than being an inspiration, do such huge goals just leave you feeling overwhelmed instead?
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.
How does someone else’s success mean anything bad for you?
If it feels like one part of your brain is battling another, it probably is, according to a study published in Science.
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