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How to Stay Motivated During Adversity
You know those days when it seems like everything that can go wrong does go wrong. You sleep through your alarm, don’t have time for breakfast, miss your bus, get to work late, and things go downhill from there. Or it’s more than a bad day. You’ve had bad news, the bills are coming in, and you don’t know what’s coming next. It’s easy to stay motivated and energized when things are going well, but what about when times are tough? How do you keep going when things are looking grim? These are the times when you have a clear choice about how to react. You can bury your head…
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6 Ways Failure is Just as Important as Success
No one likes to fail. It feels bad. You might feel like giving up or blaming someone else or beating yourself up. But you might be surprised to hear that many successful people are not just grateful for their past failures, but they ascribe their present success to having tried and failed in the past. Here are six reasons to embrace your failures. 1. Failures are opportunities To see failure as an opportunity is not putting a Pollyanna spin on reality. It’s accepting that everyone fails, and you can choose to learn from your mistakes, or you can stay stuck in them. Successful people see mistakes as an opportunity to…
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Six Ways to Keep Adversity from Keeping You Down
Sometimes life seems to go downhill fast. Whether you’re naturally an optimist or a pessimist, your world can change for the worse in ways you can’t ignore. You may lose your job, lose your friend or family, have a health scare, be bullied or disliked, or the goal you’re aiming for may disappear before you can reach it. Or there may simply never be enough money to keep you and your family safe and happy. Adversity can drain your will. That makes it harder and harder to change what you can change, accept what you can’t change, and to know the difference between the two. Here are six ways to…
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Ways Naysayers Can Actually Help You Succeed
You might think that having negative people around you would be demotivating. And it’s true that having a positive support network around you will help you succeed. But you can bet your life that there will be naysayers casting doubt on your dreams, so why not take that energy and turn it around? Find out how to use those doom and gloom merchants to spur you on to greater success. 1. Use them as inspiration Proving the doubters wrong can be a powerful motivation to get off the sofa and into action. There’s nothing like an “I’ll show them” attitude to energize you and make you focus on your goal.…
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5 Tips for Staying Calm When Success is Uncertain
You might wonder how successful people do it. How do they stay the course when they don’t know if they will achieve their goal? How do they know when it’s worth persevering? Researchers have found that the capacity to stay calm under pressure has a direct effect on your performance. In other words, being able to manage your emotions and stay calm under stress is a predictor of success. Managing stress is not an innate skill, its one that anyone can learn. Here are five tips on learning to stay calm under pressure. 1. Keep your self-talk positive One of the best thing you can do to stay calm and…
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The Correlation Between Creativity and Success
Being successful seems like a lot of hard work. It seems like a lot of flow charts and graphs and dry, hard facts. These types of things can leave a creative person shuttering and running away before they ever accomplish anything of value. However, it is very important for us to be able to relax a little bit within the confines of our plans so that we can have the room we need to grow and be creative. Creation is the main source of innovation. If we are not able to be creative, then it doesn’t matter how great we are at planning and achieving our goals. We will not…
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The Importance of Flexibility For Success
A lot of people will tell you that it is important for you to plan every single detail of the process that you need to take in order to realize your goal. And while this may be true to some degree, and planning can be an essential step of creating a successful business venture, or any other successful goal for that matter, sometimes, being too rigid about the way you are going about accomplishing that goal can actually be limiting rather than helpful. Being successful means being able to survive in the face of adversity. And survival of the fittest generally depends upon the ability to adapt. Animals in nature,…
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The Importance of Patience and Trust For Success
It may seem counterintuitive to have any type of trust when it comes to business ventures. This may be especially true if you have suffered betrayal related to somebody that you once trusted implicitly. However, understanding that everybody is capable of being untrustworthy is probably a good first step to take. This type of acceptance will help you to be realistic about your expectations of working with people. Sometimes, things happen and we ultimately end up being unreliable, whether we like it or not. This does not mean that you should stop trusting people. If you are hoping to succeed in the business world, you are going to have to…
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The Link Between Communication and Success
Most people take communication for granted. We talk with our family and friends, our significant others and our children, and we don’t think much about it. It is a normal part of life, and it is a way that we convey thoughts and ideas to each other. However, we don’t always consider that everybody has a different communication style. Some people may not be able to speak using verbal words, so they communicate in other ways. People, whether they use verbal words are not, may communicate their emotions in a different way than someone else might. It is always good to check in with the people you are trying to…
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Routines for Successful People
A lot of people, in particular, those who have suffered setbacks and are in a slump, have a difficult time finding a routine and sticking with it. Depression can be a very difficult thing to battle, but when you are able to have a routine to look forward to, even depression can become manageable to some extent. The trick is in setting up a routine that will help you to get out of your slump and into a mindset that will provide you with the mental capacity that you need to focus on your future and begin to make the positive changes that you need to make in order to…
