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Don't Close the Door to Success!

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 Everyone has dreams and goals. There is a great possibility of that you will encounter failure so many times as you try to reach your goal. When you quit, it is like closing the door to success. If you try again there are always two possibilities: failure or success. Always try again because if you learn from your mistakes surely the next attempt might already be successful.  The most successful persons in life have encountered a lot of failures and mistakes in their life but they didn't stop there.  They have tried to learn from their mistakes and was able to reach success. Failure is indeed a part of life and how you react to failure will determine who you are and how much you wish to achieve your dreams! When you fail, don't stay on the failure.  Stand up and move on. This is the first step towards success. Remember that if you give in to your failure you made the choice to close the doors to SUCCESS.

Achieving your Goals: Identifying Patterns in Your Life

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  There are certain actions which are proven to be the best ways to be able to achieve success. These actions are repeatedly done by those who have been in the same journey as those who are trying to reach their goals. Positive actions which are repeatedly done through an identified pattern allows the person to succeed tremendously in an endeavor. The opposite is also true there are some repeated actions which are detrimental in achieving goals. Such actions are resulting from a particular pattern which you repeatedly do.  Avoiding such negative patterns can drastically change the course of your life. Some tips on identifying patterns in your life. 1. Childhood patterns.  There are patterns you really have to let go off because they don't fit already in the present situation.  Learn new things and learn how to break patterns which are not useful to your current situation. 2. Learn from experiences.  Learn from the experiences of other people.  Ident...

Achieving Success

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The best way to achieve success is to start with oneself. It begins with the way you think.  There should be a balance between your thinking and feeling.  Always start with thinking about success. These things you have to consider. 1. Define your Idea of Success.  What is your idea of success?  What is your definition of success? What is your Success Formula? People have different views regarding the meaning of success. 2. Evaluate your Idea of Success.  Compare your idea of success with other definitions of success.  You may even want to try to see if your formula really works by sharing it with someone who is already successful.  Read more books about people who became successful. Identify the similarities and differences. 3.Re-formulate your Idea of Success.  After you have defined and formulated your idea of success, you have to re-formulate it according to what you have learned.  You can always repeat this process.

Being Calm amidst Stress

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When you are doing your best to reach a goal, the journey might be difficult. Dealing with difficult situations might be very stressful. Stress will affect the way you will handle all your activities and decision making. It will also hamper your creativity because it will cloud your way of thinking. There are ways of being calm amidst stress. 1. Avoid people who are pessimistic. You need all the help you can get.  Be sure that you surround yourself with people who are very optimistic.  These are people who are really serious about helping you achieve your goal and will provide with the right suggestions instead of putting you down. 2. Take time to relax.  Relaxation time is not a waste of time.  You might just want to walk around the park or sing a song.  You might want to paint a picture or just take photos with your camera.  Relaxing gives your mind the needed rest so that you can focus again in reaching your goal. 3. Eat and exercise well....

Dealing with Changes

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You will definitely experience a certain situation in life when everything seems to be working well with the way you do things on a regular basis when suddenly in an instant life changes. If by force of circumstance you are removed from your job without any obvious negative reason, then, you will have to face this reality that you will have to deal with changes in your life. When the tides of change are forcing you to give up certain things even if they are good, remember that life always have something better in store for you.  There are better opportunities ahead of you. 1. Evaluate:  Give an honest assessment of the way you do things. You might learn something new in this process and apply it in your life. The good things you have done should still remain because this will continue to move you towards your goal in life. 2. Aim:  You must aim for another goal or set goals in your life.  The goals will make you feel stronger.  Do not entertain negative th...

Celebrating Your Success

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  Each time you are able to accomplish something in your life, you have to celebrate.  Earning a degree in your chosen field of studies, closing a business deal, solving a very difficult problem, and accomplishing the steps in achieving your goals. When you are going through several challenges in your life and you are able to deal with all of them, such an accomplishment should be celebrated.  Celebrating means acknowledging your own efforts in achieving your goals. Celebrating is totally different from bragging. A simple celebration allows you to share your experiences with others but primarily it is really giving yourself a boost of confidence which is healthy to your self-esteem. How do you celebrate success? Here are the steps in celebrating your success. 1. Celebrate your success with your special someone.  Sharing it with your wife, your best friend, or closest friends and relatives will help boost your desire to accomplish more in life.  They also a...

Squeezed, Pressed and Crushed: Essential Elements of Success

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There is no oil if the olive is not squeezed, No wine, if the grapes are not pressed, No perfume, if the flowers are not crushed... If you are undergoing the pressure of having to achieve your goals in life... it is just bringing out the best in you. 1. Squeezed :  You really have to use all your creative juices to be able to produce a wonderful idea.  In achieving a goal, you must use every possible idea so you have different options on how to reach your goal. 2. Pressed :  When you feel you can't move on because the challenges are just to great.  Allow that moment of being pressed because you will not remain forever in that position.  Afterwards, when the pressure is released, you will realize that all the effort is not useless after all. 3. Crushed :  Most of the time, the feeling of being crushed is equivalent to failure. If you have reached this point, you don't have to worry, the most successful people in the world went through failur...

Sail On

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As you sail through life don't avoid rough waters.  Sail on! Calm seas never make skillful sailors.  We learn how to deal with the challenges of reaching our goals by facing them.  The difficulties are part of learning how to reach your goals. 1. Life Skills :  You can learn life skills as you go through life.  You have evaluate your plans and organize them in order to re-align your efforts to reaching your goals. 2. Learn from other Sailors :  Other sailors have reached the shore of their goals.  Learn from their experiences.  You don't have to repeat the same mistakes of other people. 3. Face your fear.   The best way to handle the fear of going through difficulties is to face them and analyze them.  Learn how to deal with each problem one at a time.  Focus on solutions on how to overcome fear. Successful people are those who had gone through the challenges of reaching their goals.

Obstacles in Life are Tests...

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Obstacles in life are tests of who you really are.  If you don't like the results of a test, you can change your actions so the next test yield better results. Hence, we should welcome obstacles in life, especially when it seems like you want to give up.  Most of the things you have learned in life are the things you have learned in dealing with obstacles. 1.  Identify immediately the obstacle your facing .  Are the obstacles internal or external? Is coming from outside you or does it have something to do with yourself.  If the obstacle you are facing is something external the best way is to do everything possible to deal with obstacle.  You may seek the help of others.  If the obstacle is something within you and has something to do with yourself, you will have to be honest with yourself. Acceptance is the key to success. 2. Focus on solutions.   It will be a waste of time just focusing on the obstacle.  Think of ways how you can posit...