6 Easy Ways to Sabatoge Your Efforts

Recently I’ve been observing the actions we sometimes take to get what we want. Some methods prove more successful than others. Some methods create ill will and resistance.

The 6 easiest ways to sabotage our efforts to gain cooperative action from others is to:

  • insult them
  • threaten them
  • yell at them
  • try to impress them
  • force and push      them
  • insist that our way is the      only way

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The Power Within

Personal power is ours for the having. The cost is simple, take responsibility for everything. Simple… but not easy.

If you want to change the negative repeat cycle in your life, then stop blaming and look within.

It’s never a question of right or wrong or us versus them. It’s always a question of what we are resisting, desiring or pretending is not real. When we look within rather outside of ourselves for the core of our challenges we increase our personal power 100 fold.

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Robert Frost on Happiness

What did Robert Frost say about  The Heights of Happiness… http://yourhappinesscafe.com/?p=550  and what you can do about it.

Robert Frost House - Hyla in Hyla Brook

Robert Frost House (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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Are You Up for a Challenge?

How do you accomplish big things? By setting goals and sharing them with another person who supports you.

There’s nothing like quite like a good old fashioned challenge
to see what we are made of, to push the boundaries and test the
limits as it’s only when we overcome these types of trials and
challenges that we reap the sweetest rewards in life.

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Happy Ground Hog Day!

Have you ever wished you had a second chance to make up for lost
opportunity?

Groundhog Day is often associated with do-overs, a chance to redeem
ourselves and recommit to our goals for the New Year.

And if you did not hit it out of the park last year, if you have
already abandoned your New Year Resolutions, and if you are not as
prosperous and fulfilled as you would like, you need to do
something differently, and you need to do it NOW.

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Do You Believe in Second Chances?

If the past year wasn’t your greatest, if you have already broken
your New Year Resolutions, and if you are not as prosperous and
fulfilled as you would like, you need to do something differently,
and you need to do it now.

Why? Because all change, all progress begins with a single decision,
a single action, a single YES!

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Recipe for Happiness

Personal power and happiness are part of each other. Grow your personal power and you grow your happiness. Grow your happiness and you grow your personal power.

Try this Recipe for Happiness and discover your power to create.

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You Only Have 2 Choices In Life…

There are two primary choices in life: to accept
conditions as they exist, or accept the
responsibility for changing them.

Those two choices may mean more right now than
at any other time in our lifetime.

There’s no doubt about it…

Things continue to be tough for many people right
now, but that’s EXACTLY why today, more than ever, you
need a little something extra. You need an edge…
you need an advantage unlike anything you’ve ever
had before.

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How to flip the “Success Switch”

Consider the implication of this idea…

What would happen if I were to follow you with a camera crew 24 hours a day 7 days a week for the first 100 days of 2013 while you went for your goals?

I bet 3 things would happen….
1) You would START doing the things you say you need to do.
2) You would STOP doing the things you know you shouldn’t be doing.
3) You would MAKE monumental performance gains and have the best year of your life.

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Predicting Your Future

I’m going to predict your future!

Forgive me in advance if this rubs a bit too close to the bone.

It’s not meant to be offensive, but it is meant to be objective. (I’ll explain in a second.)

1. You will break your resolutions by the end of January.

2. You will make the same amount of money as the average of your last 5 year’s total income.

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