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Nothing Beats Practice

www.selfalot.comDaily Quote: “It’s not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts: it’s what you put into the practice.” Eric Lindros

All things being equal whether talent, intelligence, creativity, ability or inclination the one thing that distinguishes people is the amount of practising they do. A football player will have similar talent to other players. What gets him to play for the big clubs and his national side is his dedication to practice.

The same applies to all aspects of your life. What will distinguish you from others in your field will be the amount of dedication you have towards making yourself expert in that area by practising at it.
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You Have To Learn To Fail To Win

www.selfalot.comDaily Quote: “I wasn’t afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.” Anne Baxter

Whatever happened to that famous saying, if at first you don’t succeed try and try again. Yet how afraid are we of failing? We do not even start on a new adventure because we do not want to fail.

Try for a different job? Oh no, can’t do that. Take a different route, cook a new meal, experiment with new seeds, learn to ride a motorbike, work out how to use e-mail. Never.  Can’t do any of that.
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Practice More Action And Less Planning

action-projectsDaily Quote – “I’ve found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.” Brian Tracy

Many people never get past their paper based planning of what they want to achieve in life. Their successes stay firmly rooted on paper and never see the light of day. If this has happened to you, be aware that you are not alone in this.

So why did you never reach your goals? You never had the courage or the energy to move past the planning stage. Successful people do more and plan less. They do not wait for the right moment to get going.
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Use The Power Of Positive Thinking To Break Down Negative Habits

PositiveAttitude-main_FullFor most people the thought of sitting and thinking positive thoughts makes no sense. Why would a silly activity like that make any difference to their unhappy life? How could thinking affirming thoughts help with their miserable state of existence?

This is a very valid consideration. How could the change of a thinking pattern affect your life. Thoughts are not able to change the circumstance of your life. If you are 100 kilograms overweight what can new thoughts do about that. The situation is that you are 100kg overweight no amount of positive thinking can change this.

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Don’t Be your Worst Enemy – Stop Sabotaging Yourself

datingquizWe sabotage ourselves all the time. It is incredible how our limiting beliefs can keep us back. We spend most of our time thinking we are not ready. We are not ready for success, ever.

Let’s see the kind of things we throw in our own way. We decide that we can’t do something because we don’t have enough money. We think we need more knowledge, preferably a degree or at the least a college education.

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10 Powerful Techniques To Use When Creating Your Affirmations

law-of-attractionFor most people the concept of affirmations is a strange one. It’s not something that comes naturally or is even considered to be a valid activity. Yet, imagining what you would like to have can really make a difference in your life.

Here are some techniques to get you going if you wish to add this activity to your goal reaching processes.

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Just How Do Affirmations Work?

abund-dance1Determine your goals, compile an action plan and create your affirmations to go with your goals. There are many ways to keep your affirmations top of mind. Here are some good ways to practice and work your affirmations to make sure they are effective.

Your unconscious / subconscious mind stores all your beliefs and values. Many of those beliefs and values were formed while you were growing up. They were influenced, or even created by, such things as the media, your school, your parents or guardians, your faith, friends and family etc.
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Listen To Your Inner Guidance System

selfalot.comYou were born with an inner guidance system. Many times your instincts have told you not to do something. When you didn’t listen life often told you that you should have. Afterwards you’ve always had a little wonder as to where that little voice came from.

Of course it isn’t easy to listen to that inner voice because it often tells you all sorts of things that confuse you rather than clear your brain for single-minded action. In fact our mind talk can be super destructive. We evaluate what we think has happened to us and we put our own spin onto it.
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Have Courage To Find Your Personal Life Purpose

selfalot.comIt is worth your while to search for your personal life purpose. If you are on purpose, your own purpose, you will find yourself in a kind of zone. You will live in your own space, your own field of happiness. But it will require courage to look for it.

You will wonder how to find it. It’s been passing you by for many many years. What will enable you to find it now. Some effort will be required, that’s for sure, but above all else you will need to stop being afraid.

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Don’t Anticipate That It Will Be Easy To Find Your Life Purpose

selfalot.comIt’s not easy work looking for your life purpose. It’s easy once you have found it because it will resonate with you. You will have the proverbial aha moment. But getting there requires a lot of patience and a willingness to dig in your mind’s archives to see what you discover.

Just because you haven’t worked out your life’s purpose up to now doesn’t mean that you have wasted your life or that you have been unsuccessful as a person. Nothing that has happened in you life so far has been bad. Everything is part of the palette of experiences that you want to acquire.
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