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Setting Goals and Achieving Them
Whatever you want in life, you have far more chance of achieving it if you set a clear goal, written down, with a definite time scale.For example, if you want to lose weight, set a target weight and a realistic date for reaching this target.

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Giving Up Too Soon
So you feel beaten up and bruised and you're ready to quit. You have no support system or the one you have is pathetically inadequate for the goals you've set.

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A Proper Mission Statement Can Drive Your Life Forward
Most people measure us by our accomplishments -- what we've done. In my experience, most people compile their track record of accomplishments BY MISTAKE; that is, we don't have a plan, we simply react to opportunities as they arise.

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The Power of the Negative
The vast majority of us learn very early on that we are expected to deal with facts. In and of itself this might not be such a terrible thing.

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Struggling to Make a Decision?
Every great success story begins when a person makes a decision to do something or not to do something. They make a clear decision to make a significant change.

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Creative Visualization: How to Supercharge Your Goal Setting
Do you know the single best way to "supercharge" any goal setting program you use is through visualization?What is visualization? And how do you do it for maximum goal achievement?Actually, it's quite simple and something you do all the time.Simply create a mental picture of the end result of your goal.

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Perseverance and Success: Essential to Reaching Your Goals
"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all." - Dale CarnegieI'll venture to say that perseverance is one of the most valuable qualities you have to obtain success in any field.

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Productive Goal Setting
There's been a lot written about goal setting and there are many different approaches and methods - in fact, it's easy to get caught up in the confusion about how to set goals and not end up setting any. These simple steps will help you to set powerful goals and make goal-setting an invaluable part of your life.

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Do You Really Value What You Wish For?
I am sitting in a shopping mall, waiting for my wife to finish her Christmas shopping. Next to me is a rather pathetic-looking fountain, which contains hundreds of coins, mostly thrown in by children of irate shoppers.

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Keep a Dream Journal: Why Bother?
Want a key to unlock your inner wisdom? Try keeping a dream journal.Experts believe that our nighttime dreams deal with concerns, worries, or events that we experience during our waking hours.

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Why, When You Set Goals, Do You Fail to Reach Them?
Why is it when you set goals for yourself most of them are not realised?How is it that intelligent people, who take time out to refocus and decide what they want to do with the rest of their life, don't follow through?How is that friendly outgoing people who makes friends easily and are really good fun to be with find it difficult to keep to their own goals?How is it that people who hold down difficult and stressful jobs find it difficult to break habits that cause them so much physical, psychological and social discomfort?How is it that even though you buy numerous self help books. Even though you understand all the facts and issues you still can't stick to your goal?So what is it?What is it that bright, capable people can't grasp?What's the answer?You are working from the wrong premise.

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How To Lose Weight, Make Money and Get Women
When deciding to write this article, I decided that I wanted to show all the things that not just getting in shape, but accomplishing something extraordinary, can do for you. If you are overweight and lose weight and get in shape, many incredible things begin to happen.

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The Best Way to Quit Smoking: Fasting to Quit
Most quit smoking books, maybe all of them won't tell you what I'm about to tell you next. Fasting is one of the best methods to quit smoking, if not the best.

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How to Triple Your Productivity in 28 days - Part II
If you've been diligent in doing the past 2 concentration builders you will notice you have a considerable increase in your productivity and your power to stay focused. In fact, you have probably also noticed that you are more organized, and feel more at ease.

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Living The Real Life Beyond Goal Setting
In many of his wonderful talks the motivational speaker Zig Ziglar states "you've got to have goals." Have you ever asked yourself why?You are instructed that you need different types of goals.

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A Winner Never Uses Chance or Luck to Win
In games of chance, what separates a player from a winner and are they mutually exclusive?It takes some skill to be a good poker player. Certainly one needs to know the number of cards in a deck, how many suits in each deck and what the different hands are and which hand beats which.

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Getting To The Top By Fits And Starts
I would venture to believe that most people have the qualities to make them a success. Then why are not more of them successful? One observation is; by not following through on actions that they started with.

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The Best Goal Setting Advice
A realistic goal setting workshop:Have you ever gone to a restaurant ordering a big meal, and ended up not be able to finish the dish? Or have you ever thought of losing 20 pounds in 2 months, and ended beating yourself up? Those are the typical examples of bad goal setting.We talk a lot about goal setting, but not too many people really understand the true meaning of "goal setting", even to many professional coaches.

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The Secret of Overcoming Procrastination in 4 Simple Steps
Let's face it. Overcoming procrastination can be a challenge if you don't know what's causing it in the first place.

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The Painless Solution To Procrastination
I have a confession to make. Once upon a time, I had a bad case of procrastination.

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