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Don’t Let Frustrations Deter You

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  Don’t Let Frustrations Deter You Succumbing to frustrations can sink even the best of us. Many people know what to do but refuse to practice long enough to master it. They become frustrated when everything doesn’t go perfectly the first time, and they lack the determination to keep at it long enough to get it right. They let small failures and insignificant shortcomings keep them from doing great things. We have often heard phrases like: “That doesn’t work where I live. I‘ve made four offers and all I’ve done is insult people. I don’t want to keep doing that.” These people are allowing other people’s reactions to their efforts to put doubts in their minds. Get In Here For Motivational Tools To Help You Back On Track My insurance agent once told me he made over 50 offers that were rejected before finally having one accepted, he then followed up with 20 of them, and six accepted his offer. Succumbing to frustrations when success doesn’t come quickly is the best way to ensure failur...

The Best Secret Of Dealing With People

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  The Best Secret Of Dealing With People There is only one way under high heaven to get anybody to do anything. Yes, just one way. And that is by making the other person want to do it. Of course, you can make someone want to give you his watch by sticking a revolver in his ribs. You can make your employees give you cooperation until your back is turned by threatening to fire them. You can make children do what you want them to do with a whip or a threat but these crude methods have sharply undesirable results. The only way I can get you to do anything is by giving you what you want. What actually do you want? Not many things, but the few things that you do wish, you crave with an insistence that will not go unnoticed. Some of the things most people want include: a. health b. food c. sleep d.money and things money can buy e.life in the hereafter f.sexual gratification g. the well-being of our children h. a feeling of importance Dr. John Dewey, one of America’s most profound philosop...

The Skill Needed And The Ability To Stay Motivated

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  The Skills Needed And The Ability To Stay Motivated The journey to financial independence depends on 2 things: your motivation and your skills. You can’t have one without the other. Motivation is strengthened by the three Ds of success: Discipline, Dedication, and Desire. Do you have enough discipline in your life to really want to make major changes? Have you developed the discipline to keep going when the going gets tough? Do you have the dedication to see it through? Some motivational speakers would tell you that enthusiasm is all you need but that’s not true. Developing the skills to be financially independent is equally important. Without skills, you’re like the Roadrunner in the old cartoons: You’re a bundle of energy and you stir up a lot of dust, but when it all settles, you’re right where you started. So you need skills, not just motivation. If you're highly motivated and don’t have the skills, you’ll expend a lot of energy but it won’t get you where you want to go. If y...

Want To Be Rich and Successful — Overcome These Mental Barrier First

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Want To Be Rich and Successful — Overcome These Mental Barriers First Of course, saying the above is easy. But despite the clear benefit of the above strategy, a lot of people will find it difficult to have a sidelines job. The difficulty is not because of time, energy, or money constraints. The difficulty is in their heads, me included. It is because of this unsaid accepted norm in our society, that working professionals are not supposed to have part-time jobs. Today, many still cling to this belief that it is a major taboo. Many professionals still hang on to the notion that it is unprofessional to have a part-time venture on the sidelines. Why? “Because part-time jobs are for lowly paid workers only”, some may claim, even as they are secretly wishing that they could reap the multiple benefits of having a sideline income. Also, a great many folks believe that they must devote themselves to their employers. They must not only work hard but must dedicate their time and effort just to t...

Eliminating Excuses

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  Eliminating Excuses Just as desire comes from within, so do excuses, but the difference between them is huge. Desires form the building blocks of our mindset, but excuses are the termites that will devour it if you allow them to do so. The term “good excuse” may be life’s biggest conflict. There is no such thing as a “good excuse.” As long as your goals are realistic, the only reason for not reaching them is you. If your commitment is lacking, you will make up any excuse to justify failure. Most people never set goals, and the few who do are often reluctant to share them. Sharing your goals exposes you to ridicule, especially if you lack the commitment to see them through successful completion. As a result, people often start making excuses as soon as obstacles begin to appear. We believe they do this because they confuse excuses with reasons. Their excuses are nothing but face-saving ways to avoid having to admit they lack the commitment and willingness to learn how to overcome ...

Ability To Communicate And Keep Learning....

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  Ability To Communicate And Keep Learning….. I still remembered the first word I learned: “vitiate” which means to make imperfect, faulty, or impure: to spoil or corrupt. Although it has been more than 30 years, I still remember the first sentence in which I used the word. “I am going to vitiate that smile on your face if you don’t get off my back,” I said to my co-worker who was making fun of me. “Whatever,” my co-worker replied: obviously having no clue what I was talking about and too embarrassed to ask. This exchange taught me a valuable lesson about the difference between education and learning. Although I knew the meaning of the word “vitiate,” my co-worker didn’t, and it was obvious that no communication occurred. Sure, I may have momentarily impressed my co-worker with my vocabulary, but I later realized that my co-worker perceived it as a self-serving insult and a put-down, even though we have been working together for almost a year. This exchange became a defining moment...