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How to Overcome Indecision and Doubt

I used to be caught in indecision about nearly everything in my life.

I even had a poster in my dorm room in college that was a quote from Harvard professor Harvey Cox:

"Not to decide is to decide."

I put it up as a kind of joke about how indecisive I was and my boyfriend at the time (now my husband) just rolled this eyes. (Yes, he married me anyway-I was very decisive about that one!)

The truth is, not deciding is a decision. Life keeps moving forward and if you don't make a decision, one will naturally be made for you. And that is the very thing that keeps you stuck. Stuck in a bad relationship, an unfulfilling career, unhealthy habits or destructive thought patterns. Fear of making the wrong decision is what causes people to stay in those stuck places, never living out their true potential and highest joy.

So, what can you do to make good decisions without the fear and doubt?

The answer lies with tuning in to your intuition and higher guidance. It's there for all of us, if we learn to pay attention to it.

What is Intuition?

Researchers at Leeds University say intuition is a very real psychological process where the brain uses past experiences and cues from the self and the environment to make a decision. The decision happens so quickly that it doesn't register on a conscious level. It's the way the subconscious mind communicates with the conscious mind and is a real "gut" feeling.

What is Higher guidance?

Higher guidance is your connection to your higher self, or soul-to universal wisdom. Your higher self is the authentic you-the pure expression of love, joy and wisdom. It's that larger, spiritual part of you that is eternal and connects you to the whole. You are always connected to it-you just need to pay attention to it! You can access guidance from your higher self with practice and feel confident in your decisions.

How to hone your intuition and connect to your higher guidance:

1. Create quiet time where you won't be distracted. Disconnect from your phone, computer and interruptions for 15 to 20 minutes every day. Calm yourself down by focusing on your breathing, following it with your mind's eye into your lungs, and back up and out. Allow thoughts to come up and drift away without judgement. Just "be" in the present moment. As you practice this, you'll begin to feel a sense of relief from the bombardment of "noise" that we experience throughout the day. You'll be able to quiet yourself more quickly and easily. The only way to hear the inner voice of your higher self is in stillness and silence. You can imagine your higher self as a warm, loving energy, or any image that works for you. Ask your question as you sit down, then let it go. The conscious mind, or ego, will try to answer if you are trying to "figure it out." Let go of any "efforting." You may receive an answer as you are sitting, or be led to something that is the perfect solution later on.

2. Be open to how you receive guidance. It can come in the form of feelings, words, images, or a sudden "knowing." It can be in the form of several people recommending a certain book, or a seeming coincidence. Your higher self will always feel like love, lightness, or happiness. If you are feeling tension, anxiety or fear, that's your ego talking and not true guidance.

3. Pay attention to your dreams. As you are falling asleep, ask for guidance on a question or unresolved issue you may have. Your dreams are your brain's way of processing information from the day. It's also a time when you are offering no resistance and both the subconscious and super conscious can most easily connect with you. Keep a journal and pen by your bedside so you can write down any insights immediately upon wakening, before they fade. Journaling is also a good way of gaining clarity if the dream images don't make obvious sense right away.

4. Trust your "gut" feelings. Research has shown that emotion and intuition have a physical presence in the gut. There is a network of neurons, sometimes called the "second brain" and known scientifically as the enteric nervous system lining the gut. When you get a contracted feeling in your gut that something is wrong, trust it and when you get a thrill of "This is it!" trust that.

The key is to be present in the moment and to practice the ability to become still and listen inward. However your guidance shows up for you will be just right.

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Traveling Through Transitions? These 3 Tips Help!

Our lives ask us to rise to the challenge of change on a daily basis. But step back and think about it for a second. Do you really feel prepared for each transition that comes around the bend?

Well, today I'd like to share 3 Timely Tips that can help you successfully navigate the twists and turns of your journey as you move through the transitions that your life presents.

Tip #1: Create Your Transitional Toolbox.

Each challenge is unique. So you benefit by developing varied skills and resources for new situations. I call this your transitional toolbox. Your toolbox contains both personal skills that you can call upon in times of change and practical, concrete tools and supplies to keep on hand. For example, you might keep a stash of tasty prepared meals in the freezer to keep yourself well nourished during crunch times.

Here are some general pointers to support and sustain your resilience in times of transition.

1.     Plan ahead for transitions. The larger the potential disruption, the more time you need to prepare for it.

2.     As you plan for your transition, brainstorm a list of essentials you'll want ready access to no matter what. Then separate the items on your list into categories.

·         Within each category, identify your best sources for stocking up on necessities quickly and economically. For online shopping, you can streamline your process by creating a list of links that take you straight to products you regularly reorder. Or you can create wish lists on your favorite sites, for quick access.

·         Consider stockpiling small, inexpensive items to avoid delays that cost you time and energy when you can least afford it. You could also consider automatic shipments for items you need to restock frequently.

Tip #2: Learn from Your Successes.

Overwhelm creates amnesia. Refuse to forget your triumphs in times of transition! They offer rich lessons for what look like "insoluble" challenges... but usually are not!

Make a list of transitions you've weathered successfully. From this list, pick one or two that pertain to your current situation. First, simply be with the satisfaction of having met those challenges. Feels good, doesn't it?

Now, remind yourself of the choices you made that supported you. List practical steps in one column, and inner strengths you relied upon in another. These are all tools that are currently available in your Transition Toolbox.

There are several ways you can build from here:

·         Which of these skills and attributes can help you now? Where, and how? Create some brief action steps that you can accomplish in a single setting. Schedule them in.

·         Conduct an intuitive overview. Survey your list of successful transitions to give yourself a snapshot of how you approach change when you are on your game. Validate your capability and adaptability. Feel where in your body you access the resourcefulness and flexibility you need. This is your power center - let it be your base.

Tip #3: When You Resist Change, You Lose Momentum.

Whenever you build your life on unchanging routines, you lock stress into your life. You will forever be knocked off balance by new developments. This generates more stress, leading to more inflexibility! To break this cycle, ask yourself:

·         What change are you resisting? (Be as specific as you can.)

·         What strengths do you bring, to help you open to this situation?

·         What gains can you appreciate, as you work to recognize and release the losses?

The best preparations for the unknown involve groundedness, versatility and agility. Your transitional toolbox includes your personal resourcefulness, the lessons and energy you can derive from past successful transitions, and the staples you keep on hand.

So value your autonomy, your practicality and the concrete tools you give yourself. Combined, these provide you with the strength and flexibility to move through whatever comes your way.

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Shifting Your Mind Into High Gear With Subliminal Audios

This is not a common topic to get into, and that is because using subliminals to change your life is not a normal or common thing to talk about.

That's not a good thing considering that most people could easily use audios with powerful and embedded messages hidden underneath that can literally change their subconscious thoughts for years to come.

When most people think of changing their lives that does not often include or have any connection with using music and nature sounds with something else hidden inside the audios somehow.

We just have to be far more open to the fact that subliminals work when properly made, and that this is definitely a long term thing that can help us and others reprogram our minds and brains for long term gains that don't easily fall away.

Here we just have to make that small but important mental move to go toward a new life direction and embrace a tool that can help us for years to come, or else just stay with the same old tactics and techniques.

Developing your mind is a very important though sacred activity that needs to be done far more often. When life gets crazy and hectic, but our habits and emotions get out of control, you will know and understand how subliminals can help you.

We don't even have to do very much to get the messages to change our minds and brains, and that happens because properly created subliminals have the messages that we need to release from our past lives and transcend all that holds us back.

None of this may seem reasonable to people who have never connected themselves with a proper subliminal creator, but the focus here is that very powerful subliminals can easily change your life for the better with consistent use.

Staying idle may not give us the desired results that we obviously crave and desire long term, but changing things for the better through something as simple and powerful as subliminal audios might be that next step that we all need.

One of the more unique aspects of these audios is that they don't require us to believe that they work in order for us to benefit from their use. That is not common for any other form of personal development, and it a very different aspect of properly made subliminal that others just need to understand and embrace far more.

Expand your mind and life using effective subliminals

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Self-Restraint - Vital for Personal Growth?

They say that if you want a favour done, ask a busy person. There are some people who are more willing than others to go out of their way to be helpful even though they have a lot on their plate already. I guess the rest of us are not quite so generous with our time. We like to spend our spare moments indulging our own needs and pleasures. Whether these be bodily comforts, enjoyable projects, going on trips or whatever. If it doesn't come naturally to one to give up things for others, then a question arises. Do we need to learn to curtail what we want for ourselves? Is self-restraint necessary for personal growth?

The difference between the actual and ideal self
When we think of our ideal-self we soon appreciate how far short we fall of who we would like to become. For example, altruism is often seen as a worthy aspiration: helping others instead of self-serving behaviour. Altruistic people heroically risked their own lives by giving shelter, or otherwise aiding Jews, in Nazi occupied Europe.

Forgiveness is another ideal. Who would disagree with the idea that when someone has been rotten to us and we successfully control the impulse to retaliate, then we become a source of healing rather than pain.

"Life improves by giving, and listening." (Roger Walsh, Australian scholar in Psychiatry, Philosophy and Anthropology)

But how to become our ideal?

Incongruity between feelings, thoughts and actions
Some writers take the view that personal development simply means gaining self-insight and realising one's inner potential by getting in touch with one's true self. There is a problem however with the view that awareness and understanding is sufficient for personal growth. No matter what insights we have and ideals we possess, we continue to notice some sort of contrast between habitual conduct and how we would like to be.

'It's hard to sit down and meditate after a day of lying, cheating and hurting people.' (Jack Kornfield, American teacher in Theravada Buddhism)

Our self-orientated emotions continue to affect what we think and do. No matter how much I tell myself to feel sympathy towards my rival, or show tolerance to my noisy neighbour, I cannot immediately change my negative feelings towards them.

New desires come from new behaviour and thoughts.
When someone makes me cross and upset, I cannot immediately change how I feel. But there is some good news. What I can do is change my thinking and behaviour. Instead of focusing on resentful thoughts, I might bring to mind someone's good points. And this can help moderate my anger. Likewise, instead of raising my voice and clenching my fists, I could speak more quietly and try to relax my body. In these ways my feelings can be slowly modified.

Self-restraint and dishonesty
Having self-restraint over the things we say can be important. There is an expression, "If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all." Telling exaggerated and unhelpful stories about someone not present to defend him or herself is careless speech. Another form of dishonesty is reciting small lies to protect our reputation and then bigger lies to justify the little lies. Better to control our impulse to defend ourselves.

No longer being dishonest can lead to more trust and thus authentic friendships. In other words, self-restraint in the way we conduct ourselves can affect the quality of our lives.

In a similar way, in relation to other ethical issues, we can challenge habitual ways of thinking and instead do what conscience tells us is right. This instead of automatically pursuing our natural impulses.

"The greatest thing is a strong rule, and of the greatest rulers he is best who first can rule himself." (Apollinius of Tyrana, Greek philosopher)

Gandhi and self-restraint
Mahatma Gandhi witnessed and himself suffered dreadful racial discrimination when living in South Africa. Many would have become embittered and a supporter of violence against this social injustice. Instead, he looked on his abusers as potential friends rather than foes. Rather than slander them, he held fast to the truth.

The Buddha and self-restraint
I would suggest the legend of Siddhartha Gautama (the Buddha) shows that self-restraint is necessary for enlightenment, although it can be taken too far. Siddhartha's father, the King, surrounded his son with every worldly pleasure and commanded that he be kept ignorant of sickness, decrepitude and death. But when the prince saw evidence of human vulnerability and mortality, he finally resolved to retire from the world in search of nirvana. After six years of extreme ascetic practice that proved futile, tradition says, Siddhartha finally succeeded in his quest by means of various austerities, reflection and inner struggle. It seems that extreme self-restraint does not necessarily work but nevertheless a moderate degree of it can be necessary for spiritual growth.

Christ and self-restraint
According to the biblical description, the developing spiritual life of Jesus Christ, also involved self-control in times of great difficulty. He must have had to restrain various natural emotions. For example impatience when his apostles were slow to understand Him, resentment when the religious leaders wanted to discredit Him, and animosity when people conspired to kill him. Instead he responded with patience, tolerance and forgiveness. And his anguish whilst praying in the Garden of Gethsemane is a vivid example of his inner struggle with his demons.

Self-restraint and inner struggle
To sum up, it seems that self-restraint and inner struggle are an important part of the process of spiritual development. These can occur when we experience an inner conflict between 'what I want' and 'what I want to want' - that is to say between the natural desires of our self-orientation and what we appreciate is a better way of living.

"The heart of the self-controlled man is always in the Inner Kingdom." (Lao Tse, ancient Chinese philosopher)

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Moving Into A New Future With Subliminal Audios

Moving forward and developing your life away from any past negativity and turmoil is a very challenging idea and task for most people, though it doesn't have to be this way.

We have to understand that our lives can bend and change very quickly if we use the right tools to enhance ourselves, but that does not mean that we can use just any tool to bring us back on track.

Most people on this earth that want to be better don't do anything physically to change and flip their life circumstances, and that is a very surprising thing because that means that everyone stays roughly the same over time.

If you want large and positive life change to happen very drastically in your life then we need to change our thinking permanently for the better, and that will not happen unless you use something like very powerful subliminal audios to help shift and change your mind.

Once you change your perception and thereby your personal world, you will see that nothing will ever be this same. We know this is immediately true because every life changing moment instantly changes the way we think about our worlds and life in a very large and drastic way.

There is nothing worse than knowing that you should be operating mentally and physically at a much higher level, but you know and understand that somehow you did not do the right things earlier in life. Now somehow you need a much greater and more intense series of changes to happen for you to get back on track.

The personal development community only vaguely knows of the power of subliminals in a very different way, and only those who have personally tried and used an effective subliminal audio long term know how intensely powerful this experience can be.

It is almost entirely based upon personal experience, and that is also how we know that our worlds and lives as a whole need a large boost. Everything has to change for the better and we can already sort of feel our lives morphing into something else very positively different.

If that is the change that we need to experience, then it might just be what we have to do going forward. Changing the past out so that we can embrace a new, stronger and more successful future does not have to be about accepting the past and present without change.

We might have a new and much stronger life waiting for us right around the corner, but we have to be the ones that reach out and embrace that new future.

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Your Habits Are Your Personality

This article is to explore and test the concept of altering the personality through changes of habitual patterns for the purpose of attaining emotional freedom from fears and inhibitions, resulting in healthy self-esteem.

This is the first article in a short series about the relationship between habits and personality, and how to effect permanent, positive changes to ones personality through working with habits. This first article will give the background on habits in respect to this principle and the relationship to personality.

The method of changing habits is perhaps the easiest and most effective way to refine and change ones life.

All good and bad in our life is due to our personality, who we are as an individual. This is because our personality determines how we behave and the resulting ways people react to us.

Your personality is a collection of habits. Most of our life experiences are limited, or expanded, by our habits. For example, if you have a habitual pattern for when you wake up, if you need to brush your teeth, have a shower, do certain things you like to do, and for that you require the comforts of your own home, then you may be reluctant to travel, or not have a good time travelling. There will be resistance to different environments, and so a fear of travel or at least a limit of where you are willing to travel to will limit your experiences and direct knowledge.

There are habits for every aspect of our life. Eating, sleeping, walking, health related, and more importantly; communication, relationships and working habits.

An example of a communication habit, which will effect your relationships, is if when having a conversation, you always cut people off in mid-sentence, always interrupting. Or you may always contradict what anyone says to show you know more than they do.

Perhaps you are always justifying your mistakes and actions, never admitting when you are wrong. Or, you are a compulsive liar.

You may communicate in a way that you never say anything about yourself, and always just ask questions because you think that makes people feel better around you, but in fact it is because you do not want to open up and make a connection. You may agree with anything anyone says, and flip flop showing no opinions of your own.

These are just some examples of habits but you will find your own as we progress in this series. Not all habits are bad. We have many good habits, but again, the point at this stage is to establish that our personality is a collection of habitual, and thus learnt and formed, behaviour. Once we openly see that we are formed, then we can change any habit.

Conversely, you may have a habit of trying new things, perhaps you travel each year to a new country so you can experience new foods and cultures. Or you may have a habit of talking to new people randomly, and making new friends.

Our life experiences are determined by our habits. Habits perpetuate fears and limitations, or they can enhance our life experiences.

Now we come to the point, which is, how to improve our personality. Everyone has some flaws in their personality that they do not like which are self-destructive or limiting, and want to change, but do not know how.

The problem is that many methods are dealing with the leaves on the tree instead of the roots. If you look at the character trait, rather than the mechanical function of how the mind works to perpetuate it, it is like cutting the leaves to kill the tree, new leaves will grow back.

My proposition is that the personality is a collection of habits, and by changing any and many habits, we can change the entire personality. The analogy is that the personality is the leaves rather than the core of our being, and the psychological function of how habits are developed and maintained is the root of the problem.

By working on the root, habits, things can permanently change. The root in our method is the basis of how humans function, which is robotically and habitually, but yet unaware of this purely mechanical function. If you don't know it's broken or what the real source is, you cannot fix a problem.

Many character traits are simply acquired by the process of natural human development from birth by observation and imitation. There is no negative reason behind some habits, they just form due to your being raised a certain way, such as the use of fingers or cutlery when eating, even the way which one holds ones cutlery. Or, if you are Malaysian, you use a fork and spoon but do not use a knife, for example.

There is nothing inherently wrong with using a fork and spoon and not be able to use a knife. This is an example of a neutral habit, and one that is perfect to change. Not all habits are good or bad or formed to meet some subconscious purpose.

Some habits are just cultural and form you into who you are. And this is the key, that they are formed without any conscious thought about being good, bad or relevant, and if there is a better way.

We can all change and no longer live in the limitations of outdated methods or principles to which their purpose has degraded over generations of mindless repetition. You have a choice, if you put in the effort to change what you have been formed into, you can become more than just a normal human.

Speed of Change

Children learn fast because they do not have habits. Adults learn slowly because they are full of habits. Habits limit learning because any new information has to pass through the pre-existing habitual behaviour.

An example of the limitation to learning is if one interrupts others mid-sentence, they never hear a full explanation of things, and thus only learn half, or perhaps nothing. If you do this or know someone who does, you will also know that many mistakes are made due to someone working with partial information. Ninety percent of arguments could be avoided by the correction of this single habit.

Open Your Mind

To open your mind and overcome all negative qualities, we can use the approach of eliminating all habits, right down to the way you brush your teeth or which hand holds the fork and knife.

It is actually quite a simple thing to do, merely, do anything and everything differently, as long as it does not cause harm. For example, you would not want to start driving a car with your eyes closed instead of looking around. But you may want to start paying more attention when driving to continually check the wing and rear view mirrors and not just look in front of you, so you have a constant awareness of what is near your car.

As your habits change, so will your personality. At this point, you may resist this concept with the thought that your personality may change for the worse. The answer is in the comparison of an adult to a child. Just look at people of all ages and compare the energy, facial expressions, vibrancy; which shows their overall joy for life, and you will find the younger the person, the brighter they are.

We can all have that same youthful joy through very old age by simply returning to this one difference. To have, or not to have, as many habits as possible.

The process begins with the following exercise.

For the next 2 or 3 weeks, list every habit you have.

When you notice a habit, just put it on a list. There is nothing more to do at this point, just list them.

Examples of habits are detailed above and some other examples are:

Always have a coffee first thing in the morning.

When you wake up, you have a sort of ritual, the things you do in a specific order before you do anything else.

The way you eat, any eating habits.

How do you converse? Do you interrupt people when they talk, or have any other consistent reaction during conversations?

Any tiny little habit, or big habit is to be discovered and noted.

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17 Principles of success by Napoleon Hill

This article explains the 17 principles of success and achievement, developed by Napoleon Hill in a practical way. After reading you will understand the basics of this powerful personal effectiveness philosophy.

What are the 17 principles of success

Everybody want to be successful and achieve his or her goals but what is the big secret to realize these? In 1908 Napoleon Hill conducted an interview with Andrew Carnegie, who challenged him to do research on this topic. Andrew Carnegie was at that time one of the most powerful men in the world business wise.

Napoleon Hill did on this topic his whole life research by interviewing numerous of successful people and focus on the elements of personal achievement and success.

17 principles of success

Based on his study and best-seller books Law of success (1928) and Think and grow Rich (1937), he defined 17 principles that can lead to great success and personal achievement. They are the 17 principles of success and achievement.

1. Definiteness of Purpose

For everything you do in life, you need a purpose. No matter if it is personal or business related, this is the first step in your quest for achievement and success. What do you wish to accomplish? What is your ambiguous goal? Which steps do you need to take to achieve it (plan)?

2. Mastermind Alliance

Scientific studies and practice have proven that people that work together in perfect harmony on the common goal, achieve more than one person on its own. Which partners do you need and choose to be successful and achieve your goal(s)? Cooperation and a powerful set of combined skills are a key factor for achieving success.

3. Applied Faith

The principle applied faith is the desire and plans that need to be succeeded into something tangible. Therefore you need a set of realistic goals to meet those tangible results. This is an essential principle, driven by a state of mind, attitude and confidence.

4. Going the extra mile

This principle is obvious. The more effort a partner puts in achieving a goal, the faster and better it will be accomplished. Also the law of compensation (rewards come in return for the deeds, thoughts and words) is great to incorporate in your achieving mindset.

5. Pleasing Personality

This principle can be a major asset in your everyday life. Goals and achievements can be much easier realised when you work with people (i.e. partners) who are easy to connect to and pleasant to work with. According to Napoleon Hill there are 25 characteristics of the personality that you can work on.

6. Personal Initiative

Each person / partner that works in an team and experiences group dynamics, is made aware that his or her responsibility is key, in order to achieve the desired goals. The individual is the starter of the initiative and it’s the challenge to complete that what he / she started. Also principle 4 is a key success factor to achieve the desired goals.

7. Positive Mental Attitude

No challenge can start without the right mindset. Positive (metal) attitude keeps your chin up and keep you powered in all circumstances. No challenge to large, objectives are clear and realistic and the right attitude to keep focus, inspire and motivate others, are key elements that are connected with this principle. The more positive everyone thinks, that are involved in the desired goals, the more likely it is to achieve success (the law of influence).

8. Enthusiasm

Enthusiasm is key to achieve success in business. Enthusiasm can work infectious; the more people are enthusiastic are about the desired goals, the more people will become that as well. It comes from within a person and is also connected to principle 3: applied faith. Success, applied faith and determination will attract more success.

9. Self-Discipline

You need to control your thoughts in order to control your needs and desired goals. This principle is all about the mastery of your own thoughts. You take possession of your own attitude, thoughts, emotions, acts, communication and so on. This is a vital principle to make the best business decisions and set the right priorities in order to achieve the desired goals.

10. Accurate Thinking

This principle is closely related to principle 9: self-discipline. This is all about mind control. Set your needed thoughts to achieve the desired goals prior and eliminate all other unnecessary thoughts. It’s also called the power of thought: “What you think, so you will become” ~ Napoleon Hill (1937).

11. Controlled Attention

This principle is all about prioritising time, energy and mindset to achieve the desired goals. This is the highest form of self-discipline (principle 9). What is the most important for you and what prioritized actions do you need, in order to sustain that focus?

12. Teamwork

TEAM is an acronym that stands for Together Everyone Accomplishes More! It is a fact, based on scientific and empirical studies, that people that work together with the focus on the same objectives, can accomplish more than one person alone. Teamwork therefore is a key asset, together with the other principles, for cooperative success and common desired goals.

13. Adversity and Defeat

This principle coffers the learning lessons from human errors and failures. You only can grow by learning by making small failures and master the experience. This is also called “temporary defeat” and it carries a seed of a (greater) benefit.

14. Creative Vision

In order to come to great and wise business ideas, imagination is the key word to stimulate creative visions. It starts with a simple idea that you can develop in small steps over time, possibly together with others. Therefore your imagination needs to be free and fearless. It comes from the sub consciousness and with mind exercises you stimulate and develop it.

15. Health

Whenever you are in business or something personal, health is key to enjoy life and achieve personal fulfilment. This principle coordinates and stimulates all principles. It also support conscious choices and giving you endurance. By eating healthy food and challenging your brain in exercising, you can benefit yourself and others of achieving the common desired goals.

16. Budgeting Time and Money

Time and money are important aspects for success. It’s important to take the time daily to understand your income and expenses in relation to your desired goals. Both precious resources need to fit in your current plan as well as your future plan (10 years from now). Prediction and decision making are key in relation to this principle.

17. Habits

Everybody wants peace in their mind, good health and financial security. Therefore, you need to have developing and positive habits to achieve it. By thoughts and deeds, you’ve established certain habits (cause – effect). Are these habits bring you peace in their mind, good health and financial security or do you need to change them in order to achieve this? What are these habits and what is your plan to change?

How to apply these principles of success?

All these principles are applicable in your live. It’s up to you what you want to do with them. If you learn how to master unpleasant situations and change them in useful and positive situations, you are on the right track of creating success for your situation.

Questions for yourself to reflect on:

• What is your blueprint for success?
• What are your principles of success and how could you in cooperate these?
• How is your success in relation to other people and achieving your goals?
• What habits do you have that you want to change, in order to live the life that you want to live?

It’s Your Turn

What do you think? Are the principles of success and achievement still applicable? And if so, how do you use it and what are your general results and learning lessons? Are the basics the same or are there new principles of success?

Share your experience and knowledge in the comments box below.

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More information

1. Hill, N. (2008, 1928). The law of success. Penguin.
2. Hill, N. (2011, 1937). Think and Grow Rich: The Original Classic. John Wiley and Sons.
3. Hill, N. & Stone, W. C. (1991). Success through a positive mental attitude. Simon and Schuster.

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