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Time Management and Achievement: How to Write Four Books in Two Years
How did I write 4 books in 2 years? The power of focus, time management, and a passion for what I’m doing along with a specific goal and vision. Before I tell you how I did it, let’s get some ideas from other successful time managers to see how to best manage one’s time. A [...]
Time Management: It’s More About Managing Self Than Time
OK, you’ve got your work day all scheduled out to the last minute. You’ve gotten rid of distractions. Now it’s just matter of getting to work and getting it done. Right? If you said yes, think again. “Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work” Peter Drucker, management expert “It’s not [...]
Tapping into Your Own, Unique Self-Help Guru: How to Make the Universe Work for You
Or How to Find the Airport when You’re Lost and Don’t Have Time to Stop and Ask for Directions One day, I was rushing to get my wife to the airport on time. Since it was an international flight, the general rule-according to my wife-is to get there three hours before the flight’s scheduled departure [...]
Determining Your SuccessTypes Learning Style Type is Critical to Your Achievement
I know I sound like a broken record, but here is more critical self-understanding few high school or college students achieve or at least to the level needed for greater if not greatest achievement. For not having a thorough understanding of one’s talents, abilities, gifts, weaknesses, learning style, intelligence type(s), SuccessType, and more, how can [...]
Ten Cents and Your Bachelors Degree Will Get You a Cup of Coffee: How to Avoid Financial Trouble
Never mind that because of the influx of community colleges over the years, grades have inflated creating an influx of unmotivated students putting a downward pressure on academic standards. Never mind that most jobs don’t even require a degree, that it is more of a demarcation point for human resources. Never mind all that . [...]
Where are the Clues to Your Bigger and Better Life?
How do you know what your calling in life is? Some people know very early in life. Mozart wrote his first symphony at the age of eight; Paul McCartney wrote his first song when he was fourteen. So some have it figured out quite early. Not all of us do. Or sometimes we know and [...]
No Fear: Overcoming Fear One Fright at a Time
You’ve seen the “No Fear” clothing stickers on cars helping to coach those who want to overcome if not ignore fear. But to ignore it or to say it doesn’t exist is only healthy if you are aware of it, its purpose and need, for understanding fear and how it’s used in our lives is [...]
How Smart You Are is Based on How You Are Smart
You desire to optimize your chance for success. What do you do? To do so involves several steps. First, we discovered that to optimize one’s chance for learning is important: “Learning About Learning: The Best State of Mind in 10 Conditions” (pub. 4/21/2010). The next step is to learn how you learn or learn best. [...]
Teen Life Skills 101: A Critical Course Your Child is Missing
For most teens, they go to school and take the mandatory classes; they acquire certain knowledge: math, science, English, language, etc. And that’s nice, a nice start. However, there’s a huge something missing from the equation, actually about three-quarters or 75 percent. And it’s more than one thing, and it’s more than just life skills [...]
Career Assessment Tests and How to Choose a Career: What You Didn’t Expect
You’ve just graduated from high school or are close to it. You’ve done the career assessment tests and counseling. You’ve pondered the career choices that have been deemed best for you. But something doesn’t seem right. However, you didn’t like the fact that no one asked you how you felt about what the career tests [...]
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