Ideas for success

Tag: encourage

  • This method helps solve any problem

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    Brad Stanton
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    If I had one hour to save the world, I would spend 55 minutes defining the problem and only five minutes finding the solution. –Einstein, Albert Once a Toyota executive asked a large group of employees how to increase their productivity they only gave him blank stares. He decided to change the question and asked them to tell him ways to…

  • You really can do just about anything!

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    Are you facing a challenge in your relationships, career or in reaching your dreams in life? It is probably not as big a challenge as becoming the president of the USA. Cheer up, read on…. Where you finish in life isn’t determined so much by where you start as by whether you start. John Maxwell…

  • Everybody has to persuade people sometimes

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    We all want to persuade people (our kids, boss, employees, spouse) to do certain things. The Pygmalion effect (also called the Rosenthal effect) is a phenomenon that has been proven to work very well by scientists, including Dr. Robert Rosenthal of Harvard University and UC Riverside. It has been shown that when you have high expectations…

  • You’re never too far down to become successful

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    “The number one problem that keeps people from winning is lack of belief in themselves.” Arthur Williams Liz Murray is a bestselling writer and motivational speaker who started life with nothing. Through sheer determination, faith and hard work, she went from living on the streets to a very successful career. She often talks about the…

  • How to keep winning

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    Robert Ringer, author of Million Dollar Habits, explains it well: “The world is saturated with intelligent, highly educated, extraordinarily skilled people who experience ongoing frustration because of their lack of success. Millions of others spend their lives working hard, long hours only to die broke.… Success is a matter of understanding and religiously practicing specific,…