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You Become Like The People You Surround Yourself With

Nov 29

Posted by Robin Bal in Personal Development | 5 Comments

business group of successful business peopleDaily Quote: “Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don’t like to do.” Albert Gray

When you set yourself new goals and determine what kind of life you would like to lead, do you ever consider that the people you surround yourself with could help you achieve this or hinder you? What effect do the people in your life have on your successes?

We tend to neglect this aspect of our goal setting. We look at ourselves and only judge what we are achieving in isolation to the environment we live in. Yet the people that surround us can help or hinder us vastly in reaching our goals.
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Just One More Step To Achieve Your Goals

Oct 17

Posted by Robin Bal in Personal Development | 1 Comment

2491908933_2eacee990eDaily Quote: “I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” Jimmy Dean

When you have committed yourself to a huge task and you cannot get out of it you often use a method to help yourself through this ordeal. And that is breaking your progress down into tiny achievable steps and small victories .

An example of this is Terry Fox. Terry was a Canadian humanitarian, athlete, and cancer treatment activist. He became famous for the Marathon of Hope, a cross-Canada run to raise money for cancer research, which Fox ran with one prosthetic leg.
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7 Steps To Take Every Day

Oct 10

Posted by Robin Bal in Personal Development | 1 Comment

WalkingDaily Quote: “Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential” Winston Churchill

How can you reach your goals? Practice the rule of seven every day. In a nutshell what that means is that you determine seven steps that you should take every day to take you closer to your goal. If you do this, over a period of time you will reach your goal.

How does this work? Every evening before you shut down your work for the day sit down and decide on seven things you need to do the next day that will seriously improve your chances of reaching your target. Of course you could make this ten steps, or if you are pressed for time only five steps.
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Improvement Is A Continuous Process

Oct 8

Posted by Robin Bal in Self Improvement | 1 Comment

creatingtheprogram5Daily Quote: “Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent” Maxwell Maltz

Don’t think that you can skip steps when it comes to improvement. There are not many times in your life where you can get away with skipping a few steps. You have to plan your progress step by step and don’t skimp on the in between steps.

It’s impossible to attend a post graduate degree course if you haven’t got a first degree. You cannot speak a language if you have not learnt new words. You can’t run a competitive race if you have not trained. And the list goes on.
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Why To Improve Upon Yourself

Oct 6

Posted by Robin Bal in Self Improvement | 1 Comment

ppl-act-029Daily Quote: “There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.” Aldous Huxley

Deciding on what to improve on could be an overwhelming thought. What of the many areas of your life do you want to have more success at? Where do you want to feel more confident?

Some people are lucky. They have one overwhelming passion and they end up spending all their efforts in improving their performance in this area. This could be anything from a hobby such as growing orchids to a professional athlete.
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Circumventing Obstacles

Oct 4

Posted by Robin Bal in Personal Development | 1 Comment

www.selfalot.comDaily Quote: “Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.” Hannah Moore

There is no such thing as a smooth ride. In all your endeavours there will be obstacles. Sometimes, if you are lucky, these will be small ones that you barely notice. Other times these hurdles may be so large that you think there is no way around them.

How do you get around these obstacles? Your first step towards jumping those hurdles is to check your attitude. Having a positive attitude is half the battle won. If you groan at the thought of these hurdles they will become twice as difficult to navigate around.
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Keep Putting The Pressure On

Oct 3

Posted by Robin Bal in Personal Development | 1 Comment

www.selfalot.comDaily Quote: “Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time.”

Persistence is most probably the most important quality that you will need if you want to be a high achiever. But even if you just want to achieve your goals for a happier life then never giving up on your dreams is the key.

This is the one area where we mostly fail. We give up far too easily. One or two small hiccups in our plans and we start wondering why we ever considered this onerous task as a goal. What were we thinking?
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What In Your Life Can You Improve On

Oct 1

Posted by Robin Bal in Self Improvement | 3 Comments

improve-your-lifeDaily Quote: “Our lives improve only when we take chances and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.” Walter Anderson.

What in your life would you like to improve on? What is there in your life that you might not be happy with? You might think that because you are in a happy relationship and your career is going good you need no further improvement.

This is of course true if you want to just relax and drift through life. If you want to increase your pleasures, get more out of your life have a higher standard of living then you might want to check what in your life could do with some improvement.
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View Improvement As A Positive Factor

Sep 28

Posted by Robin Bal in Self Improvement | 1 Comment

Lake-Bottom-Nice-sm-72Daily Quote: “Any ordeal that you can survive as a human being is an improvement in your character, and usually an improvement in your life.” Viggo Mortensen

Many people consider working on self-improvement as a constant work load rather than looking at it as the invigorator of your life. Attitude will make all the difference in your life when it comes to improvement.

Listen to the interviews of athletes who have lost a big game or didn’t achieve what they had set out to do. Very few of them say that they are fed up of not winning and are going to give up. Most of them state emphatically that this was a learning experience and they would go home and rethink their training strategy to improve on their performance.
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Are You Being Powerful When You Are Angry?

Sep 25

Posted by Robin Bal in Self Improvement | No Comments

angrycustomerDaily Quote: “Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.” Buddha

Does anger have power? Are you being powerful when you are angry? The answers to these questions depend on what you mean by power.

Certainly you can intimidate many people with your anger – especially children or others who are physically weaker than you, or people who are terrified of disapproval and rejection. Anger – other than the outrage from the loving adult that leads to taking action against injustice – is a form of control. When you succeed in making others afraid of you, it often it works to get them to do what you want. But it will never work to get them to feel what you want them to feel, and it will never lead to the sharing of love.
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