Feature entry

By Debra Morrison
EMPATHIZE - I feel very sorry for women who have been socialized that “a man is a plan” and now have to “fend for themselves” after being widowed (often at an early age) or divorced. Trying to learn about finances when one is grieving is a recipe for disaster, as grieving is surely […]

5 Es to Success

3 Strategies of What You Should Do When You Fail

By Shawn Lim

Let’s face it, the road to success is not an easy one, it is a bumpy one. Everyone is going to face a lot of ups and downs in pursuing what they want in their life. Those who can cope with obstacles successfully will become successful. While those who fail to cope with failure, they tend to blame on other factors and give up. The interesting thing is, I’m going to show you how you can cope with failure in your life so that you can turn them in to stepping stone in your journey to success.

The first thing you first must understand is that the moment you have tried something and you failed to achieve the desired result, do not call it as a failure. Instead, call it a feedback. So why do you receive feedback? It is because the strategies that you are using are not correct, there is something wrong and that is why god sends you feedback. Basically, there are only 3 ways how you can deal with feedback:

1. Give up and never to bother about achieving what you want anymore. Most people will choose this path and they will blame everything except themselves. The moment they fail in their business, they will say that they have no luck, they will give lousy excuses like the economy is bad or they will say that it is their family that caused them to fail. No matter what you do, don’t choose this path. Do not blame others and give up if you want to achieve great success in your life.

2. Try again with more efforts. The moment people receive feedback, they will do this. This is the most common path they will choose when they fail. Just like if you fail to earn more money, mostly you did not give up; instead, you try again harder and harder. However, will you achieve your desired result in the end? Not likely, because if you keep trying with the same strategies, you will receive back the same old results for sure. Don’t be crazy and hope that by doing the same thing over and over again and you will receive different results. This is not possible. Therefore, if you want to achieve your desired results, you have to…

3. Change your strategies and go all out again. This is the path that successful people will choose. They know that if they keep on trying with the same old strategies, they will receive the same feedback.

Learn New Skills, It is Never Too Late to Learn New Skills

By Valera Tkatchenko

Learn new skills, some people say that at some stage it becomes too late to learn new skills but that obviously not true. There are many successful people out there that did not start out until later in life and are now better off than some that started earlier, it is because they went out of their way and decided to learn new skills to improve quality of their life! And this is the kind of ambition that you have to have, wanting to improve the quality of your life and become more successful.

Once you decide that you want to learn new skills you have to work out what kind of new skills you want to learn first and how those new skills can impact on the quality of your lifestyle in general and your career. Don’t pick learning skills that will not improve your life, career or will make you happier in general, you might think that those skills might be useful to you but later you may find that it was a waste of time.

Picking the skill that can improve your lifestyle can be a difficult decision but once it is made correctly the quality of your life will change and it will always change for the better. Lately I wanted to improve the quality of my life and decided to learn some skills and tricks in online marketing to generate myself some extra income so then I can finally quit my job and work from home! I took the next step and started searching for some resources that can teach me marketing skills and that was a difficult task and more than half the battle to get started in learning new skills in marketing. Once I got through all the scam and garbage I found some useful resources that taught me all the new skills in marketing I was looking for!

A Movie Script For Your Life

By Dennis Harting

Could you write a movie script for your life? Is this something that you are capable of doing at this moment in time? Please ignore the fact that it takes a specialize talent to create a screenplay. The point that I am making is whether or not you have the ability to write down your life in an autobiographical way. We are not concerned with spelling, punctuation, or grammar. The only ability is to be able to put down your life from start-to-finish. Can you do this?

If we consider our life, we probably could rehash the years gone by. We can look back upon the events that stick in our mind and set them on paper. This could be done in a chronological way or we could highlight those things which impacted us. Either way, our life would be set down on paper. The biography of (insert name) would contain the early years, schooling, and work career. Perhaps we would also include the romances of our life for those who like that sort of thing. From our birth until this day is written.

There is a problem with this method. It is an unfinished work. Your life is not at the conclusion. There are still years left to live. How do we account for this? Obviously, if we were writing a Hollywood screenplay, they would pay us little for an unfinished project. They want a completed work. The same concept goes for your life. It is imperative that you make it a completed work.

How do we account for the years that are remaining? We do so by writing them into our script anyway. Instead of looking backwards, we look forward. What do we want to accomplish in the next 20, 30, or 40 years? Where do you want to be when you are on your deathbed? Who is in your life at that time? These are all items which fit ideally into the later acts of our script.

I am going to surmise that most of you lived your life up to this point without a script. This is something that was never written down. Most live each day bouncing from circumstance-to-circumstance. Life is nothing more than a revolving door extending from one day to the next. Each day is similar to the preceding while moving into the future without a clear cut direction. People often become a product of the situations they encounter. Everything is reactionary. To maximize your life experience, it is vital that you become proactive.

Questions hold the key to our answers. Asking the right questions will unleash the power of creation. It is the one thing that will allow us to write the script that we want as opposed to being a reporter of our own life. There is a difference between reporting what occurred in our life and being the author of it. One acts as an observer while the other is a participant. This is a key distinction which I want you to make.

Most ask question like “how come this always happens to me”. These type of questions withhold the creativity which is within all of us. It stops the writing of our script. We need to design a map of how we want the future to proceed. Our results improve the more concise we get with this.

Why do I use the example of writing a movie script? This is an analogy which creates a visual for how we want to apply this concept to our life. Your life had a beginning and it will have an ending. Those two are out of your control. Unless you somehow found the fountain of youth, you will meet the same end as all of us: death. However, what we do in the middle is what makes the difference. You can be a proactive creator in your life. Consider all that you want and write it down. Starting at the end is a helpful exercise. Picture yourself on your deathbed looking back over your life. Write down all that you have and did. This will help to formulate your life path.

Get Up Early and Succeed

By Alain Burrese

One of the first lessons I wrote about with my “Lessons From the Apprentice” was titled “Get Out of Bed.” In the first season of “The Apprentice” with Donald Trump, the phone rang and the group learned that they would be leaving Trump Tower at 5:45 a.m. to meet with Donald Trump for the first week’s task. The lesson here is clear. You are not going to work for Donald Trump if you enjoy sleeping in and lounging around.

The most productive people are up early. You do not see many late or over-sleepers accomplishing much. Sure, there are articles out there by sleep analyzers that expound theories regarding sleep needs, but most people have a good concept of how much sleep they need. Many studies suggest that Americans get too little sleep. Don’t worry about the studies, worry about what works for you.
In an article titled “How to Become an Early Riser” by Michael Masterson in the Early to Rise e-newsletter, he states that the benefits of getting up early include:

• You will get more work done.
• You will accomplish more important tasks.
• You will advance your career more quickly.
• You will be more respected at work.
• You will make more money.
• You will have more time to exercise.
• You will be healthier.
• You will be happier.

I agree with Masterson that the benefits are just too great and too numerous to ignore. Many people enjoy sleep and stay in bed as much as they can. These people are not working for Donald Trump, nor are they the movers and shakers of the world. Reduce your sleep and watch your productivity jump. Try reducing your sleep by thirty minutes, or an hour, and see how much more you can accomplish. When I was in the Army, we had to get up early, you didn’t have much choice. Good thing I was actually used to getting up before dawn even before I enlisted.

Personally, I always feel the best when I have gotten up at 5:00 (sometimes even 4:00 or 4:30) and have exercised, planned the day, watched and/or read something motivational, and have worked on one or more of my goals. As a youth, I always enjoyed being the first up when we were camping. By the time everyone else got up I had already taken a walk, gathered more firewood, and had a nice the fire down to nice coals to cook the coffee, hot chocolate, and other breakfast foods. Believe me, everyone else was very grateful that I enjoyed getting up first to do this.

I do not suggest you reduce sleep to where you become less productive. Each person must find the optimal amount for his or her peak performance. If you are already limiting your sleep, maybe cutting back more is not the way to increase productivity. However, there are many people that can reduce their sleep time and notice significant improvements in productivity and no harmful effects on their health.

Top 5 Fantastic Keys to Achieve Greater Success in Your Life

By Shawn Lim

Do you want to be successful in your life? No matter who you are today, I’m sure that you want to have more money, live a healthy life, have good relationship with your love one, and so on. If you think deeply, there must be something that you want to achieve in your life. And the great news is, I’m going to show you exactly the 5 fantastic keys to achieve great success in your life.

1. Be committed in achieving what you want in your life. You have to be committed, if you are not committed, you will never achieve what you want. Are you willing to spend time reading annual reports instead of watching television? Many people want to be successful, wish to be successful, or hope to be successful, but they will never commit to be successful. And this is why most people live a mediocre life and fail to achieve what they want.

2. Constant learning and keep on improving yourself all the time. You have to grow if you want to be successful. No one in this world can achieve great success without constant learning. The moment you stop to learn, you stop to grow. Knowledge is the most powerful vehicle that can drive you to where you want in your life if you know how to make use of it.

3. Take massive and consistent action toward your goals. If knowledge is the vehicle that can bring you what you want, then action will be the fuel to drive that powerful vehicle. Without action, nothing is going to happen. It is not like one day you wake up and you have $1 million in your bank account. Many people do not even care about taking action, and that is why they are living a mediocre life. Take the necessary action today to make sure that you are moving closer toward what you want everyday.

4. Have a burning desire and know exactly what you want. If you do not know what you want to achieve in your life, you will be just like a lost sheep. You have to find out what you really want in your life. Do you find that life is boring and have no meaning? That is because you have no targets and goals to achieve.

5. Set clear and specific goals with deadline. Goal setting is a very important process that can help you in your road to success. Remember to write down your goals and paste the paper on somewhere you can see it often. Be serious and committed with your goals, do whatever it takes to achieve them.