Self Improvement Articles

You can know all of the How-To's of Success, but if you have more Why-Not-To's of Success than Why-To's of Success – even if those Why-Not-To's exist on the Subconscious level – you will not allow yourself to succeed to your full potential, no matter how many How-To's of Success you know.

Negative reflection is exactly like a bully in your head. Loud and obnoxious. You, it’s the knowing of who you are, it’s always, they call it still small, so we have to listen, that’s the trick of the authentic self, it’s quite, it doesn’t, it’s not going to yell at you. We have to listen for it and allow it to come out and create a safe environment.

A safe haven is a loving mirror who keeps you accountable to the demands of business because here is the paradox. We human beings perform best in an environment of unconditional support when we’re being supported for who we are, not when we have to do something that we’re not.

Most people are running around on auto pilot. For example, when was the last time that you consciously tied your shoes? You don't give it a second thought.

First and foremost, what you have to understand is that we live in a universe. Every single thought, every single emotion, coupled together puts a feeling out which is a vibration. The vibration is what attracts things into your life.

Step one of giving yourself permission to succeed is find your loving mirrors and safe havens, so this is where we just find them. Let’s talk for a second about loving mirrors and safe havens.

I know that you want to be more successful in life and business. Everyone does. But what do most people do about it? Nothing.

I sometimes hear the frustration in people's voice that they've been at something for two or three months. They've been at something for 90 days and it hasn't changed. I asked James Ray to help me understand why he didn’t give in after six years.

Just because someone is listening to me, I don't assume that they got the communication that I sent. Neither should you. Rather than assuming that my perceptions about what other people mean when they say something are accurate, I've gotten into the practice of asking if what I heard was what they meant to communicate to me.

I’ve gone into organization after organization, and I know that we all have opinions and we see people getting everybody else’s opinions. But it’s not time for opinion is yet. First we need to know what we know.