Post #551
Friday Video: TED Talk – In our anxious world, we often protect ourselves by closing off parts of our lives that leave us feeling most vulnerable. Yet invulnerability has a price.

Article #548
When it’s your turn to stand up and speak to an audience, whether it is a room of five or an auditorium of hundreds, you can speak confidently and effectively when you use these eight powerful public speaking tips.

Article #547
Focus is the hallmark of highly successful people and the key to your own happiness and success. However, there are a couple of problems. Although focus is much talked about, it is much misunderstood. More importantly, the normal mind appears to be built to be unfocused. This article explains focus, what you should be focused on and how to learn a little mental discipline that will change your life.

Article #534
If you have a sense that there is a lack of vision or purpose for your life, be a detective looking for clues to your purpose. Simply pay attention over the next couple of days or weeks or months. After all, the best way to find something is to look for it. But here’s the key: set a definite date by which you will decide what your purpose is and then fully commit to it.

Article #533
There is a snowball effect: Bad mood = Worrying = Lack of Sleep = Poor Decision Making Ability. Bad moods seem to instigate negative, fearful and self-deprecating thoughts. We tend to compare ourselves to others. Work becomes even more difficult. You do not see any opportunity and often perceive that others have it easy. A bad mood can set limitations that do not really exist. Your understanding of mood can change your perception of the tasks in front you. Here are 12 ways to change your mood.

Article #530
Our ability to concentrate and focus is like a muscle that is strengthened through exercise. Jumping from one task to the next is less productive.

Article #523
Not all questions asked will receive answers, and even if they do, the answers might not interest or excite you. This article offers a matrix to help you find the missing elements in opportunities to assist you in turning them into workable business plans.

Article #520
It is so easy to over-think things. It seems so logical that constantly re-thinking or re-hashing issues in our lives would ultimately lead to the very best decisions. The reality, however, is that we risk driving ourselves crazy in the process—at which point our decision-making skills are less rooted in rational thought and instead weighted down by conjecture, fear of the unknown, or an irrational belief that we can control outcomes we really can’t.

Article #519
What is Self Sabotage? To give a short review I’ll use a definition from a dictionary. Self sabotage is “Any undermining of your own cause or priority.” Any behavior, choice action, decision that you make that gets in the way of achieving or accomplishing what you set out to do is considered to be self sabotage.

Article #517
Everybody wants to be good at what they do. Most people would like to know how to improve thinking… their way of thinking.