Are you afraid people might find out you’re not as capable as they may think? That's Imposter Syndrome. Here are some tips to get past it.
Maintaining an interest in the goals you pursue can improve your work and reduce burnout, according to research from Duke University.
A researcher demystifies this game of success, and shows that exceptional performance is not necessarily the direct result of special talent, experience, or sheer luck.
In this video with Bryan Elliott for "Behind the Brand," best-selling entrepreneur, marketer and author Seth Godin shares his views on taking risks, challenging the status quo, and starting a business.
For many freelancers, success and more income come from nurturing and deepening relationships they already have. Here are some ways you can do this.
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?
The people around you dictate your success. They can also forecast our failure.
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.
One of the keys to happiness -- as well as productivity and effectiveness at work -- is finding work you love, that you’re passionate about. Work you want to do, instead of just have to do.
Wishing will not bring riches. But desiring riches with a state of mind that becomes an obsession, then planning definite ways and means to acquire riches, and backing those plans with persistence which does not recognize failure, will bring riches.
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.
It is a beautiful thing to create, to produce, to go out there in the world and make a contribution. But it is just as important that we teach others to create and produce, that we encourage them...
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.
A big part of self-discipline comes from social pressure. This is how people in the military can become very disciplined, particularly in special forces. They don’t want to hold their team back, so they have to do their best.
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.
There are a lot of people who read self-improvement blogs and books, but never put them into action. Are you one?
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 reader recently asked, “How can an achievement-motivated workaholic learn to back off, relax, de-stress, and feel good about doing it? I am too driven!”
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.
For decades, it has been observed that similar people experience divergent success trajectories, with some repeatedly succeeding and others repeatedly failing.
Timeboxing is a simple time management technique you can use to take control of your time.
Looking for a good book? Stay away from the award-winning section of the bookstore or library.
The urgent desire for a successful business -- and the fear of losing business -- drives many a good person to do sleazy things.
When someone has a great idea, they hoard that idea. They don’t give it away. They shelter and protect it. They keep it to themselves in fear that someone else might take it. Why would you do that?
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.
Researchers had students think up solutions to problems while acting out various metaphors about creative thinking - and found that the instructions actually worked.
How does someone else’s success mean anything bad for you?
It's a huge limiting belief to assume that going faster means you’re doing something wrong and creating too much stress.
Contributors get noticed and attract new friends and opportunities easily, and contributing is much easier than you might assume
Happy individuals are predisposed to seek out and undertake new goals in life and this reinforces positive emotions, say researchers who examined the connections between desirable characteristics, life successes and well-being of over 275,000 people.